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SJ Berwin senior partner Jonathan Blake will not stand for a third term at the firm’s helm, he confirmed earlier today (3 February). Blake told partners today that he will step down from the role when his term closes on 30 April this year, ending months of [...]
SJ Berwin senior partner Blake to step down from top role in April
Former Mishcons partner jailed for role in €22m loan scam
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Former Mishcon de Reya property partner Kevin Steele has been sentenced to five and a half years in jail after being found guilty of forgery and fraud offences in a €22m (£18.5m) loan scam. Steele was sentenced by Mr Justice Wood at Southwark Crown Court earlier today [...]
Kirkland City chief Learner quits to take up US private equity role
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Kirkland & Ellis London head Jim Learner is set to leave the firm this summer to take up a role at a US private equity house. Learner, who was involved in launching the US firm’s London office in 1994 and is now responsible for all European operations, [...]
Bakers wins Europe adviser role for telecoms company Colt
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Baker & McKenzie has
been selected as FTSE 250 telecoms company Colt’s preferred legal adviser for commercial work following a three-month tender process involving more than 45 firms.
The appointment, which took effect earlier this month (1 January) and will run for an initial period of three years, [...]
Shearman’s MacRitchie set for GC role at UK Green Investments
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Shearman & Sterling London-based project finance partner Kenneth MacRitchie is set to leave the firm at the end of this month to join UK Green Investments as general counsel. MacRitchie, who was a partner in Shearman’s London office for 15 years, focuses on advising lenders in the [...]
Linklaters takes top role for Lloyds on £1.5bn retail branch sale
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Linklaters has won a role advising Lloyds Banking Group on the sale of 632 of its UK branches. The bank has been given until the end of 2013 to sell the branches by the European competition authorities and put the branches to auction earlier this year. [...]
Linklaters’ Cheyne takes consultant role in post-senior partner move
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Outgoing Linklaters senior partner David Cheyne is set to take up a consultant role at the firm when his five-year leadership term comes to an end later this month (30 September).
Cheyne, who joined Linklaters in 1972 and made partner in 1980, was elected as senior partner in [...]
Linklaters letter reveals Murdoch role for CC on hacking inquiry
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Clifford Chance (CC) is advising News International’s James Murdoch in connection with the inquiry into phone-hacking, reports The Am Law Daily.
A letter sent this Monday (12 September) by Linklaters lawyers to the select committee handling the inquiry shows that CC has been working with Murdoch since at [...]
Greenberg recruits Cadwalader M&A star Block for new senior role
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Greenberg Traurig has hired high-profile Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft dealmaker Dennis Block to take up the newly-created post of senior chairman for global M&A, reports The Am Law Daily.
Block, 69, who joined Cadwalader in 1998 from Weil Gotshal & Manges, is considered a major Wall Street dealmaker. [...]