Simon Petersen

November 02, 2011 | International Edition

Fladgate, Walker Morris and SNR Denton have all taken roles relating to the rescue of Plymouth Argyle FC from administration. The troubled football club has formally exited administration following its acquisition by Green Pilgrim, a company owned by Devon businessman James Brent, chairman and CEO of the Akkeron Group.

By Simon Petersen

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November 02, 2011 | International Edition

Burges Salmon has bolstered its litigation practice with the hire of sports specialist partner Mark Gay from DLA Piper. The London-based DLA partner joined Burges Salmon's Bristol office earlier this week (31 October), bringing the total number of partners at the firm to 71. He joined DLA from Denton Wilde Sapte in 2005 as part of an 11-partner media team, after training at Linklaters and joining Herbert Smith in 1991, where he made partner in 1995.

By Simon Petersen

2 minute read

October 31, 2011 | International Edition

DAC Beachcroft has announced its line-up of sector and practice group heads as the newly-merged law firm goes live today (31 October). Legacy Beachcroft partners have received the bulk of the management roles, with just two of the 13 positions taken up by legacy Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) partners.

By Simon Petersen

3 minute read

October 28, 2011 | International Edition

Bevan Brittan is set to agree a business process outsourcing deal with Intelligent Office UK that is expected to see 75 of the law firm's staff joining the outsourcer. The Bristol firm is in detailed discussions about outsourcing back office services including secretarial, document production, print and mail room, records management, front of house and specialist procurement to the company.

By Simon Petersen

2 minute read

October 28, 2011 | International Edition

Eversheds has renewed its IT services outsourcing contract with Computacenter for a further five years. The new deal, which will take effect from 1 January next year, will see the IT infrastructure company continue to provide various core support functions for the firm, including helpdesk, infrastructure and training.

By Simon Petersen

2 minute read

October 28, 2011 | International Edition

DLA Piper has acquired a minority stake in LawVest, a holding company set up to take advantage of opportunities presented by the Legal Services Act. The deal also sees DLA managing partner Nigel Knowles become non-executive chairman of the Wirral-based company, which is planning to enter the alternative business structure (ABS) market next year.

By Simon Petersen

2 minute read

October 27, 2011 | International Edition

Garrigues has completed an overhaul of its partnership structure as the firm reports a marginal increase in revenues for the 2010-11 financial year. The results, which were announced at a partner meeting on Tuesday (25 October), have seen the leading Spanish firm grow turnover for the fourth consecutive year, rising to €355.2m (£309.4m) for the year ending 31 August.

By Simon Petersen

2 minute read

October 27, 2011 | International Edition

A five-partner corporate and financial services team has left Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York to join Bloomberg's in-house legal department. Partners Dick DeScherer, Dan Grossman, David Levine, Carol Mascera and Sarah Osborne will join Bloomberg on 1 January next year, with DeScherer becoming the media company's chief legal officer.

By Simon Petersen

3 minute read

October 27, 2011 | International Edition

Clifford Chance (CC) and Jones Day are among a trio of major firms to have won roles on the $1.5bn (£938m) sale of Alcatel-Lucent's Genesys business to European private equity house Permira. Alcatel-Lucent announced last week (19 October) that it has received a binding offer for its call-centre software company Genesys from Permira.

By Simon Petersen

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October 26, 2011 | International Edition

DLA Piper could look again at full financial integration between its US and international profit centres, three years after backing away from plans to move in this direction. The firm's UK regional managing partner David Bradley confirmed that it will look at whether it should bring the two arms closer together as part of its current three-year business plan.

By Simon Petersen

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