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  • September 18, 2009 |

    Slaughters and Freshfields take roles on major Hong Kong IPOs

    Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are among a number of international law firms to have picked up mandates on two major Hong Kong Stock Exchange listings which closed this week. China's largest pharmaceutical company, Sinopharm, raised HK$8.73bn (£688m), while Metallurgical Corp raised HK$18.2bn (£1.4bn) from the listings, which together dwarfed the initial public offering (IPO) activity to have taken place on the Hong Kong exchange so far this year.

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  • September 16, 2009 |

    1,000 clients sign up to join Legal Week LinkedIn group

    Legal Week has attracted more than 1,000 members to its LinkedIn group for in-house lawyers, making it one of the largest online networking groups for lawyers in the world. The group, which was set up in April this year, was established to enable lawyers with an interest in the in-house world to exchange information and forge working relationships on the popular business networking site.

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  • September 1, 2009 |

    Macfarlanes adds partner duo with A&O and Jones Day laterals

    Macfarlanes has made a double partner hire to strengthen its restructuring and litigation teams with Francis Bridgeman and Barry Donnelly joining from Allen & Overy (A&O) and Jones Day respectively. Jones Day partner Donnelly and former A&O consultant Bridgeman will both join Macfarlanes' partnership later this month (10 September), with the firm predicting an increase in litigation and restructuring mandates in the wake of the credit crunch.

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  • September 1, 2009 |

    US Briefing: Talkin' revolution

    Jeffrey Carr is sick of talking about alternative fee arrangements. The general counsel for Houston-based FMC Technologies has been using alternative fee structures - arrangements with outside counsel that are not based on billable hours - for "well over a decade". But Carr (pictured right) says his efforts over the years to promote these billing models among his counterparts at other companies fell largely on deaf ears.

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  • August 27, 2009 |

    America – another country, legally another world

    I guess it's the same whatever industry you work in, but it's amazing the extent to which...

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  • August 21, 2009 |

    SJ Berwin

    An energetic mid-market player that divides opinion among the market over its uncompromising approach.

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  • August 17, 2009 |

    Greenberg recruits White & Case partner duo as City growth continues

    Greenberg Traurig Maher is set to bring in two more partners from White & Case in London as the US firm continues its push in the City. Banking and capital markets partners Andrew Caunt and Andrew Croxford are both set to join Greenberg over the next few days. Their appointments come only weeks after Legal Week reported that Greenberg was launching a capital markets practice in the City with the hire of fellow White & Case partner Tim Jeveons.

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  • August 10, 2009 |

    Linklaters takes top spot in Euro debt and equity capital markets rankings

    Linklaters has topped the Thomson Reuters European debt and equity capital markets rankings, advising managers on twice as many equity deals over the first half of 2009 as its nearest rival and overtaking Allen & Overy (A&O) in the debt rankings. The magic circle firm advised underwriters on 21 European equity capital markets (ECM) deals worth $36.9bn (£22.2bn) during the first six months of this year, with key deals including a role advising JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs on HSBC's £12.5bn rights issue - the largest so far this year.

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  • August 4, 2009 |

    Weil Gotshal and Bakers lead on €250m private equity sell-off

    Weil Gotshal & Manges and Baker & McKenzie have taken lead roles on the €250m (£212.2m) private equity disposal of two European food distribution companies. South African trading and distribution company Bidvest is to acquire the Czech Republic's Nowaco and Poland's Farutex from funds associated with JP Morgan, and managed by CCMP Capital Advisors, and from Bancroft Private Equity.

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  • August 4, 2009 |

    Mayer Brown partner seconded to Merrill Lynch

    Mayer Brown London finance litigation partner Ed Sautter has gone on secondment to longstanding client Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Sautter, who sits within Mayer Brown's City financial institutions group, is currently the only Mayer Brown partner on secondment to a bank and will remain with the client for almost five months until November 2009.

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