Justin Cash

September 23, 2014 | International Edition

Addleshaw Goddard's fraud, regulatory and corporate crime team head Ian Hargreaves is set to join King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (KWMSJB), making him the fourth sector head to depart the firm in the space of seven months.

By Justin Cash

2 minute read

September 23, 2014 | International Edition

CMS has for the first time unveiled details of its new City offices, which will operate with no landline telephones, as the firm prepares to move early next year.

By Justin Cash

3 minute read

September 23, 2014 | International Edition

Linklaters, Allen & Overy and CMS Cameron McKenna have taken the advisory roles on Vodafone's purchase of 140 Phones4u stores from administrator PwC in a deal expected to save 900 jobs at the mobile phone retailer.

By Justin Cash

2 minute read

September 22, 2014 | International Edition

As news broke late on Friday that Fried Frank senior partner Valerie Ford Jacob, was heading to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's New York office, any remaining doubts about the magic circle firm's determination to build a meaningful transactions practice in the US should have been erased.

By Justin Cash

5 minute read

September 22, 2014 | International Edition

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has been called in by Tesco to review accounting failings which led to the supermarket chain overstating its profit forecasts for the first half of 2014 by an estimated £250m.

By Justin Cash

2 minute read

September 19, 2014 | International Edition

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has poached a capital markets partner trio from Fried Frank, including senior partner and practice head Valerie Ford Jacob, as it continues its US hiring spree.

By Justin Cash

3 minute read

September 19, 2014 | International Edition

Leading law firms have urged clients to be wary of future tax and property law changes after Scotland voted decisively against independence this morning.

By Justin Cash

3 minute read

September 18, 2014 | International Edition

Latham & Watkins has lost a team of six finance lawyers from its Milan office, including banking and finance group chair Riccardo Agostinelli, to Italian boutique Gattai Minoli & Partners.

By Justin Cash

2 minute read

September 17, 2014 | International Edition

Pinsent Masons is facing three employment tribunal claims from a former partner, senior associate and associate relating to redundancies in its employment practice in 2013.

By Justin Cash

2 minute read

September 16, 2014 | International Edition

Allen & Overy, Linklaters and Jones Day are understood to have won advisory roles on the three-way battle for control of Europe's largest breweries.

By Justin Cash

3 minute read