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  • February 3, 2020 | International Edition

    In Pictures: January's In-House Moves and Panel Reviews

    Moves this week for Superdry, the FCA, Transferwise and others.

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  • June 13, 2017 | International Edition

    Former Linklaters Asia chief leaves King & Wood Mallesons after less than two years at firm

    King & Wood Mallesons China co-chair Zili Shao leaves to set up new investment fund

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  • January 28, 2015 |

    CSR Best Legal Advisers: Blake Morgan

    Blake Morgan celebrates the merger between Morgan Cole and Blake Lapthorn that created the firm in July 2014 by ranking as a top UK firm

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  • January 4, 2011 |

    CC, Mayer Brown act on £495m sale of former Lehman HQ to JP Morgan

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Mayer Brown have taken lead roles on JP Morgan's £495m acquisition of Lehman Brothers' former London headquarters. The 25 Bank Street building in Canary Wharf will now serve as JP Morgan Investment Bank's new European headquarters, with the bank granted a 999-year lease on the building, which has more than one million sq ft of floor space. The building's current tenants include the Financial Services Authority, NYSE Euronext and Jones Lang LaSalle. However, it will be completely vacated by March this year and will then be occupied exclusively by JP Morgan.

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  • December 16, 2010 |

    CC and BLP win lead roles on sale of A&O headquarters to JP Morgan

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) have won lead roles on a major City real estate deal which has seen the ownership of Allen & Overy's (A&O) City headquarters change hands. CC advised Hammerson and Oman Investment Fund (OIF) on the deal, which saw the pair sell their 25:75 joint venture - whose principal asset is the long leasehold interest in the Bishops Square offices in London's Spitalfields - to JP Morgan Asset Management.

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  • June 3, 2010 |

    CC takes lead role as FSA hands out record £33m fine to JP Morgan

    The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has handed out a record £33.32m fine to JP Morgan in the latest sign of a tougher regulatory stance from the City watchdog. The penalty, which was announced today (3 June), was handed out after JP Morgan failed to protect client money by keeping it with its own money for almost seven years between 2002 and 2009 following the merger of JP Morgan and Chase Manhattan.

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  • November 23, 2009 |

    Linklaters Asia chief quits to take up China role for JP Morgan

    Linklaters' Asia managing partner Zili Shao is to leave the firm to become chairman and CEO of JP Morgan's China businesses at the end of January. Shao has held the Asia managing partner role since May this year, when he was voted in as a replacement for Giles White, who left the firm to become general counsel at Hong Kong conglomerate Jardine Matheson.

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  • February 4, 2009 |

    Back in the game

    On 23 July the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation's general counsel, Robert Bostrom, rang Randall Guynn, head of the financial institutions group at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Davis Polk was not one of Freddie Mac's outside law firms - Covington & Burling did its regulatory and disclosure work, and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft did its routine corporate work. But Bostrom needed an equity products specialist. Regulators, concerned about the lender's massive exposure to the US mortgage market, had demanded that it shore up its core capital. But with Freddie Mac shares trading at gutter levels, issuing billions of dollars in new equity could backfire.

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  • October 25, 2005 |

    Davis Polk rainmaker quits for House of Morgan

    By Antony Collins

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  • May 3, 2004 |

    Sullivan & Cromwell pips NY rivals to the post as it tops first quarter M&A

    As New York's elite see the most active three months of M&A since the third quarter of 2000, Sullivan tops the Thompson Financial tables

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