British Telecom has one of the FTSE100’s largest and most dynamic in-house legal functions. The team comprises around 100 lawyers with diverse specialisms tailored towards serving a fiercely competitive international market. The team’s legal function has some unusual elements, not normally found in-house, but which are necessary for handling the diverse range of interests and […]
The London and Warsaw offices of Baker & McKenzie have acted in the largest domestic offering and listing of shares in Poland, doubling the market capitalisation of the Warsaw stock exchange. The u530m offering of shares and GDRs of Polish telecoms giant Telekomunikacja Polska SA (TPSA) also involved a London Stock Exchange offering and listing. […]
Osborne Clarke senior associate Andrew Gowans led a team advising on one of Thames Valley’s largest ever private company deals – John Madejski’s £260m sale of Hurst Publishing, the publisher of top-selling magazine Auto Trader. Gowans hailed the deal as vindication of the firm’s decision to open a Thames Valley office in Reading last January […]