Addleshaw Goddard has snapped up the deputy general counsel at the Bank of England to strengthen its financial services regulation team. Tess Kelly will return to private practice after almost 11 years inhouse. She starts at the firm on 19 February. The move comes after the hire of senior financial regulation partner James Greig. Partners […]
Clifford Chance has hired a partner from Paul Hastings to bolster its private capital offering in London. Blake Jones, who makes the move having spent the last five years at the US firm, will join Clifford Chance’s global financial markets team as the firm expands its European collateralised loan obligations (CLO) practice. Jones has also […]
Pharma wars: Hampshire firm takes on Aspirin producer An IP battle has begun between Hampshire-headquartered Aspire Pharma and German behemouth Bayer after the former filed a part 7 ‘patents and registered designs’ claim on Wednesday 7 February. Bayer is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, responsible for products including Aspirin, Claritin and Rennie, […]
Seven outfits have won places on banking giant HSBC’s first-ever panel for alternative legal services providers (ALSPs). The Lawyer understands that HSBC has named Radiant Law, Cognia Law, Deloitte Legal, LOD/Syke and Ashurst Advance to its roster. Two other firms will focus solely on staff augmentation: they are Flex Legal, which was recently snapped up […]
Since The Lawyer last interviewed Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s co-general counsels James Morgan and Prabhat Kumar in 2020, the globe has witnessed enough significant events to last a few decades. Specifically highlighting Covid-19, the Russia/Ukraine conflict, high inflation and the gilt crisis, the pair have focussed on how they adapt their team to cope with […]
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has added another partner to its London office from Travers Smith, its fourth from the firm in a year. Katie McMenamin joins her former colleagues in the funds finance team. Other Travers partners to have switched this year are financial regulatory partner Stephanie Biggs, and funds duo Ed Ford and Sacha […]
Two partners from Clifford Chance – specialising in private equity and finance – have resigned to join Paul Weiss’s burgeoning London practice, The Lawyer understands. Private equity partner Chris Sullivan and finance partner Taner Hassan are both set to move to the US firm. At present, Paul Weiss has 11 partners in London but the […]
Skadden has further bolstered its leveraged finance team with a second hire this month, this time bringing in a high-yield partner from Linklaters. Noel Hughes is a high-yield partner at Linklaters and has spent almost two years at the firm. He previously spent four years at Vinson & Elkins, and has also worked at Sidley […]
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has bolstered its finance team in London with a partner hire from Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Sebastian FitzGerald is making the move, having spent seven years at Willkie as a partner. Prior to this, he worked in leveraged finance in Freshfields from 2005 and was seconded to Goldman Sachs […]
Four core firms have won places on the inaugural legal panel of Laser Digital, a digital asset business backed by Nomura. The company has named Allen & Overy, Simmons & Simmons, Ashurst, and Jones Day to its roster. Ehsan Haque, head of legal and compliance UK at Laser Digital, ran the panel process with input […]
Lesley Wan will join All Africa Capital from First Bank of Nigeria (FBN) Bank as general counsel and company secretary. The GC held the role at FBN since April 2018, and previously worked as corporate counsel at Lloyds Banking Group for 11 years. Her first move in-house was to Bayerische Landesbank in 2005. She trained […]
In-house legal functions can often be seen as an added cost to a business. Staff know that lawyers exist in their organisation, but only because of the annual GDPR training or to put out fires when crises arise. They may not really understand what they do. This perception is one that general counsel at the […]