PwC hires half of GE’s tax team in groundbreaking deal
PwC has struck a five-year deal with GE to provide tax services to the company using more than 600 of its own tax team. Under the terms of the deal around half of GE’s tax team will join PwC. The...
View ArticleThe Lawyer European Awards 2017: The winners
Swiss firm Niederer Kraft & Frey was crowned European law firm of the year at The Lawyer’s European Awards 2017. This year’s glittering ceremony was held at The Grange St Paul’s hotel in London,...
View ArticleGoodwin appoints real estate finance duo to lead London
Goodwin has appointed two new London co-chairs to replace longstanding City boss David Evans. Private investment funds partner Samantha Lake Coghlan and finance partner Paul Lyons will jointly take on...
View ArticleAderant’s new London address
The London office of legal software specialist Aderant has a new address from which it will be conducting business. After 13 years at Ciena House Aderant will now call 8 Lloyds Avenue its UK base of...
View ArticleBig promotions at BP Collins
B P Collins has made two major promotions. Simon Deans – who has been with the firm for 20 years and is currently practice group leader of the Corporate and Commercial team – will be promoted to senior...
View ArticleThe Mariana Pinto inquest
Debra Powell QC represented the husband of a 32 year old woman who died after jumping from their third-floor roof terrace while suffering from mental illness, less than 24 hours after being sent home...
View ArticleOgier succeeds in planning appeal for Housing Trust development
A Housing Trust has won a planning appeal to give the go-ahead to the construction of 31 social housing units in Minden Place, after an independent expert recommended that the development should go...
View ArticleStewarts Law calls off Enyo merger
Stewarts Law has called off its merger talks with fellow litigation boutique Enyo, scrapping a deal that would have added £20m to its top line. The firms confirmed: “Following very preliminary and...
View ArticleNo5’s Susan Monaghan appointed legal assessor to the Royal College of...
Susan Monaghan has been appointed as legal assessor to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Disciplinary Committee (RCVS). Monaghan is a member of the regulatory & licensing group at No5...
View ArticleThe changing asset-tracing landscape
Ogier partner Rachael Reynolds is speaking about cross-border investigations and asset-tracing at the INSOL conference for restructuring and insolvency professionals in Sydney on Sunday. INSOL – the...
View ArticleNo5’s Tim Jones assists in worldwide inter-university arbitration moot
For the fifth year Tim Jones has assisted in the William C Vis Arbitration pre-moots (practice moots). On this occasion it was in the Bulgarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Sofia. Jones acted as...
View ArticleSTAR conference, Milan
The excellence of Italian Companies meets global investment standards: transparency, liquidity and governance. Our firm will be there Palazzo Mezzanotte, Piazza degli Affari 6 – Milan Tuesday 21 and...
View ArticleKhaitan advises Ascendas on Flagship shares purchase
Khaitan & Co advised Ascendas India Trust and its affiliates in relation to purchase of 100% issued and paid-up share capital of Flagship Developers Private Limited, along with issuance of...
View ArticleKhaitan advises Lakshmi Vilas Bank on QIP
Khaitan & Co acted as the sole legal counsel and advised The Lakshmi Vilas Bank Limited (LVB) in relation to its Qualified Institutions Placement (QIP) for approximately $25m. This is a maiden QIP...
View ArticleMaravela & Asociatii teams up with National Antifraud and Anticorruption...
Maravela & Asociatii has signed up to be a strategic partner at the third edition of the National Antifraud and Anticorruption Conference, organised by the Romanian National Internal Control...
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Mipim: the show’s over and Bruce Dear is suffering
By Bruce Dear, head of London real estate, Eversheds Sutherland My head feels like it’s been hit with a bag of concrete lemons. The rest of me feels like a dead rat with flu. Yes, gentle reader, I have...
View ArticleConyers recognised as top tier by Chambers
Chambers & Partners has released their Global rankings for 2017 and Conyers has been recognised as top-tier across several categories. 2016 was an active year for the firm globally. We advised on...
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TWM wins as Law Rocks smashes into 2017 with Six of the Best
TWM kicked off this year’s Law Rocks season in style last night with a barn-storming performance that electrified the massed ranks at a packed-out 100 Club. In the first of five bands all fronted by...
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Mipim day 3: DLA’s yacht perspective
By Antoine Mercier, DLA Piper head of real estate, France Networking and doing business by a sunny seashore is a privilege of being part of the real estate world. Antoine MercierWith over 23,000...
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The mid-tier is right to fear PwC
You can’t fault PwC’s chutzpah. Last week it announced that it was taking on half of GE’s worldwide tax team in a managed services deal that was described by Harvard Law’s David Wilkins as another...
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