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Commentary: Great lawyers don't always equal successful bankers

Given current market conditions, the number of partners leaving the law to join the world of finance are unsurprisingly thin on the ground, but last week's news that former Lovells restructuring partner Matthew French is set to join Nomura as co-head of EMEA restructuring has revived the perennial question of how successful lawyers are after moving into commercial roles at banks.
11 minute read

International Edition

Camerons advises Informa on tax shake-up and rights issue

CMS Cameron McKenna has won a major instruction for Informa as the publishing group announces a corporate restructuring that will see it form a Swiss-taxed parent company.Camerons' City-based corporate partner Gary Green led on the tax restructuring and a related £255m rights issue, which was announced earlier this month (1 May). He was assisted by a team which also included London-based partner Nicholas Stretch advising on share schemes.
2 minute read

International Edition

Norton Rose acts on Greece's first consumer finance securitisation deal

Norton Rose has advised on the closing of the first consumer finance securitisation in Greece. The firm fielded a team from its London headquarters led by capital markets partner Sandrine Sauvel.The loans, originating from Piraeus Bank, are the first consumer finance loans securitised in Greece to be covered by a major credit rating agency. The transaction, arranged by Morgan Stanley, involved €493m (£435m) in class A notes, which were rated by Moody's, and €232m (£208m) in class B notes.
2 minute read

International Edition

Commentary: Hill Dicks' Middleton merger looks to be in ship shape

If you assume that deals done off the beaten track often turn out to be the most productive, Hill Dickinson has already got off to a great start with its tie-up with London boutique Middleton Potts.The combination, which will go live on 1 July, will see Hill Dickinson take on all but one of Middleton Potts' nine London partners - handing Hill Dickinson a much increased presence in commercial and commercial litigation as well as in, most crucially, commodities trading and shipping work.
3 minute read

International Edition

Dealmaker: Michael Voisin

Linklaters' Michael Voisin on a drunken debut partner retreat, drafting from long-hand and AAA nonsense
4 minute read

Legal Week

Commentary: Hill Dicks' Middleton merger looks to be in ship shape

If you assume that deals done off the beaten track often turn out to be the most productive, Hill Dickinson has already got off to a great start with its tie-up with London boutique Middleton Potts.The combination, which will go live on 1 July, will see Hill Dickinson take on all but one of Middleton Potts' nine London partners - handing Hill Dickinson a much increased presence in commercial and commercial litigation as well as in, most crucially, commodities trading and shipping work.
7 minute read

International Edition

Nuclear specialists line up to act on £387m land auction for plants

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith, CMS Cameron McKenna and Burges Salmon have won headline roles on a £387m auction for land on which to build the next generation of UK nuclear power plants.The 30-day online auction set up by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) closed last week (29 April), with three companies picking up mandates to build three new nuclear power stations in Anglesey in Wales, Oldbury in Gloucestershire and Bradwell in Essex.
2 minute read

International Edition

A&O negotiates for BERR in £5bn reinsurance deal to back UK business

Allen & Overy (A&O) has acted for the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) on a new £5bn reinsurance scheme intended to support UK businesses. Insurance chief Philip Jarvis, assisted by corporate partner Stephen Mathews, led the A&O team on the deal, which will provide state-backed reinsurance to credit insurers providing trade credit insurance to companies.
2 minute read

International Edition

Herbert Smith sets precedent with success of retail rescue

In the same week that figures from the Insolvency Service revealed company administrations grew by more than 50% during the first three months of 2009 compared to the previous year, the rescue of troubled sports retailer JJB Sports offered a glimmer of hope for companies in difficulty.
3 minute read

Legal Week

Herbert Smith sets precedent with success of retail rescue

In the same week that figures from the Insolvency Service revealed company administrations grew by more than 50% during the first three months of 2009 compared to the previous year, the rescue of troubled sports retailer JJB Sports offered a glimmer of hope for companies in difficulty.
7 minute read

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