Anna Reynolds

January 17, 2014 | International Edition

Macfarlanes has taken a lease out on new office next door to its current City headquarters. Moving into the new development, which will not be ready for occupation until 2017, will help consolidate the firm's offices around one location.

By Anna Reynolds

2 minute read

January 16, 2014 | International Edition

Ashurst and Berwin Leighton Paisner have announced their trainee retention rates for the first intake of 2014, with both firms keeping on more than 80% of qualifying lawyers.

By Anna Reynolds

2 minute read

January 16, 2014 | International Edition

Katten Muchin Rosenman has hired Hogan Lovells private equity partner Philip Watkins along with two associates to boost its London corporate practice. Watkins joined legacy Hogan & Hartson from Latham & Watkins in 2008. Prior to Latham, Watkins worked as cultural adviser to the foreign office of the Japanese Government in Tokyo. He regularly advises on mergers and acquisitions, takeover offers, joint ventures, and public and private securities offerings in the UK and internationally.

By Anna Reynolds

2 minute read

January 16, 2014 | International Edition

XXIV Old Buildings has appointed Withers litigation partner Sue Medder as its director of chambers. Medder joined Withers in 1998 and became a partner in 2008 in the firm's contentious trust and succession group. She specialises in all types of offshore and domestic trust and probate disputes.

By Anna Reynolds

2 minute read

January 15, 2014 | International Edition

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has become the first magic circle firm to break into the top 100 UK employers for LGB staff, according to the charity Stonewall's annual index.

By Anna Reynolds

2 minute read

January 15, 2014 | International Edition

Hogan Lovells has opened its second Brazilian base after launching a new office in São Paulo. The office will be headed by former Clifford Chance capital markets partner Isabel Costa Carvalho.

By Anna Reynolds

1 minute read

January 15, 2014 | International Edition

US private equity house Apollo has carried out a review of its UK legal advisers, with Travers Smith on the roster for the first time alongside Slaughter and May, Ashurst and the London arm of Sullivan & Cromwell.

By Anna Reynolds

2 minute read

January 14, 2014 | International Edition

It was the moment when Macfarlanes' idiosyncratic international strategy paid off – and when Linklaters surprisingly lost out on a role on one of the biggest M&A deals of the decade. Vodafone's $130bn (£79bn) sale of its stake in Verizon – not only by far the biggest deal of the year but also the largest US-based corporate transaction since 2001 – was always likely to be a feeding frenzy for law firms. Accordingly, a number of the usual suspects landed roles on both sides of the Atlantic. Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Debevoise & Plimpton acted for Verizon in the US, while Simpson Thacher & Bartlett took the Vodafone mandate.

By Anna Reynolds

8 minute read

January 10, 2014 | International Edition

Slaughter and May, Clifford Chance and Herbert Smith Freehills have landed the starring roles on Cineworld Group's £504m acquisition of Poland-based Cinema City International (CCI).

By Anna Reynolds

2 minute read

January 09, 2014 | International Edition

Herbert Smith Freehills has turned to the Bar for its latest partner recruit, hiring Tom Leech QC from Maitland Chambers to join its London advocacy group.

By Anna Reynolds

2 minute read