The personal injury (PI) legal market is consolidating rapidly with three new mergers being announced yesterday. In Cheshire, Slater Heelis has has acquired two-partner personal injury firm Tarran & Co; in Bromley, Solex Legal Services is planning a tie up with MTA Solicitors and, in the north-west, Anthony Hodari’s latest acquisition is Tandem Law. It […]
Simmons & Simmons has been granted a licence to operate in Singapore by the state’s Attorney General’s Chambers. The new office will be the firm’s first in South East Asia and joins Beijing, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo as its fifth Asia office. Simmons will share office space in the Marina Bay Financial Centre with […]
Property management company, Peverel Group, has appointed Nigel Hirst as head of legal and company secretary. Hirst joins Peverel from mobile payments company, Luup, where he was chief legal officer and responsible for corporate governance, legal, compliance and risk management. He succeeds David Edwards who has left to join non profit housing group, the Anchor […]
Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM), Macfarlanes and Mayer Brown have advised on private equity group Better Capital’s £1 acquisition of courier business City Link from Rentokil Initial. GTM acted for Rentokil, alongside an in-house team including executive director Andy Ransom, responsible for the West region and group legal and M&A functions. The GTM team was led […]
Simmons & Simmons has unveiled a reduced partnership round for 2013, taking seven partners into the fold compared with ten last year. The London office has received the biggest boost with four partners promoted. Brussels, Milan and Paris, meanwhile, all received one each. The four London partners are: litigator Navneet Juty; Michael Lorraine who focuses […]