CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 16, 2011 Legal & General Property Charlie Walker has been promoted to director of the property fund manager and appointed to the LGP Board. Most recently, Walker was senior fund manager to the UK Property Income Fund. In his new role, he will continue to oversee the fund, which this month secured a further £100m of equity. [...]
HARLAN’S LICENCE TO THRILL HIS CITY FANS April 3, 2011 NEVER mind capital markets – when clients meet Craig Coben, head of equity capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, they are far more interested in talking about when his famous brother, the US author Harlan Coben, is publishing his next novel. “A lot of the bank’s corporate and private equity clients – ranging [...]
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 [...]