The Disruptive GCs: RateSetter’s Angela Yotov
After 10 years in the in-house team at mighty Barclays Angela Yotov moved into the role as head of legal at rather less mighty peer-to-peer lending start-up RateSetter.
Jonny was a reporter on The Lawyer from April 2015 to December 2016. He covered real estate, insurance and the regions.
After 10 years in the in-house team at mighty Barclays Angela Yotov moved into the role as head of legal at rather less mighty peer-to-peer lending start-up RateSetter.
VentureFounders is one of a new breed of venture capital companies using crowdfunding to allow large numbers of small investors to finance innovative start-up companies.
Despite being a small venture capital company Passion Capital has given itself a mammoth task – it is aiming to find the next Facebook or Google. To do this the company invests heavily in start-up technology businesses in the hope that one will change its market dramatically.
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) was set up in 2005 to protect people’s retirement savings when their employers go bust. When the worst happens the PPF takes over the running of the pension fund but for the past 11 years most assets have been managed externally. Now, the organisation has embarked on a three-year task of bringing back a large number of these assets to be managed in-house.
Lawyer 2B meets the lawyers working on the case behind the award-winning podcast Serial.
In 2014 Romania’s energy sector was granted a new lease of life. The discovery of oil in the Black Sea had the potential to reinvigorate the nation’s dwindling energy offering.
The National Audit Office (NAO) has announced it is reviewing its legal panel, which is valued at £750,000.
DAC Beachcroft has posted revenues up 1.2 per cent to £102m at the half-year mark.
Shoosmiths has merged with Belfast firm McManus Kearney, opening its first Northern Ireland office.
US firm Winston & Strawn has hired a second partner from rival White & Case in the Middle East.
Clyde & Co has launched a consultation to cut fee-earner roles in its London aviation practice as part of a restructuring exercise to improve profitability.
Linklaters has successfully secured planning permission for the City of London’s tallest building, 1 Undershaft, for its client Aroland Holdings.
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