CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 23, 2011 Mayer Brown The City law firm has boosted its asset finance team with the hire of former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe European managing partner Stuart McAlpine. McAlpine focuses on cross-border asset and project finance transactions in the shipping, offshore and energy sectors. At Orrick, he spent time in the firm’s Singapore, London and Paris offices. [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS February 3, 2011 Savoy Investment Management The wealth management subsidiary of Syndicate Asset Management has hired James Bowles (pictured). Bowles will be responsible for providing tailored services for the north west of England. He was formerly with Anglo Irish Bank, where he had a similar regional brief, and Levi Solicitors in Yorkshire. The firm specialises in portfolios invested [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 15, 2010 Threadneedle Asset manager Threadneedle has hired Michael Langlois (pictured) as its head of wholesale distribution, Asia. He will begin work in January and will be working closely with Raymundo Yu. Langlois will be in charge of relationships with Asian financial institutions and also of dealings with global private banks. He joins the firm from Permal [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS October 27, 2010 Speechly Bircham The law firm has appointed Jonathan Crawford as a partner in its corporate practice. Crawford joins from Mayer Brown, where he was also a partner in the London corporate group. He specialises in the financial services sector, where he has a wealth of previous experience of large, often cross-border, transactional work including mergers [...]
PLAYBOY CLUB SET TO REOPEN IN LONDON October 19, 2010 EXCITING news for fans of the good life – Playboy, the iconic brand set up by Hugh Hefner, is reopening its private members club in London, over two decades after the original closed its doors at 45 Park Lane back in the Eighties. This time around Hef’s relocating to swanky new premises at Mayfair, and [...]
Mayer Brown transfers secretaries to TMF Group October 4, 2010 INTERNATIONAL law firm Mayer Brown has sold its UK corporate secretarial arm to outsourcing group, TMF. The move will see five secretaries, who work for the law firm’s corporate support unit in the City, transfer over to TMF at the end of the month. At Mayer Brown, the secretaries supported the firm’s corporate department by [...]
Equality Act may cause surge in Tribunal claims September 30, 2010 LAWYERS warned that the Equality Act, which comes into force today, could cause a flood of claims to hit tribunals if businesses fail to comply with the new rules. The Equality Act 2010 was introduced by Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman’s and fulfilled a 2005 manifesto commitment. The Act brings together nine different anti-discrimination laws, [...]
Clash of cultures can scupper law firms’ mergers September 7, 2010 THE Americans are coming. Hammonds has become the latest firm to announce that it is to merge with a US firm, confirming last week that it is to link up with Squire Sanders. It follows the merger of Hogan & Hartson and Lovells earlier in the year, and the announcement that SJ Berwin is talking [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS August 22, 2010 Mayer Brown The law firm has appointed Dominic Griffiths as the new head of its banking and finance group in London. Griffiths joined the firm five years ago and has been instrumental in building its securitisation and leveraged finance groups in London. He takes over from Bruce Bloomingdale, who will now focus on increasing synergies [...]
URS wins battle for Scott Wilson as trumps CH2M with a £223m offer June 30, 2010 ENGINEERING giant URS said yesterday it was offering 290p in cash for each Scott Wilson share, 18 per cent higher than Tuesday’s bid of 245p from Colorado-headquartered CH2M and 38 per cent above its original offer of 210p on Monday. The move, valuing the company at approximately £223m, ends a bidding war for Basingstoke-based Scott [...]