Pennon Group is a giant when it comes to the water industry. Encompassing South West Water (SWW), Bristol Water, Pennon Water Services and Bournemouth Water, it boasted a 2020/21 revenue of £624m and is the largest private sector employer in the south west. But with all that grandeur comes a lot of responsibility and scrutiny. […]
Kirkland & Ellis is set to plant the flag in the capital of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with three partners spearheading the launch. The Lawyer has learnt that Kirkland has hired corporate partner Noor Al-Fawzan from Latham & Watkins. She is set to join the firm alongside two local partners from White & Case: […]
Residential property giant Annington Homes has had its case against the UK Government, represented by Slaughter and May and Forsters, thrown out by the High Court. In a judgment published today following a five day hearing in February, Mr Justice Holgate ruled in favour of the Secretary of State for Defence dismissing Annington’s private real […]
A year and a half since talks began, Bevan Brittan has closed the merger of housing associations Catalyst and Peabody Group, creating a single non-profit organisation called Peabody. Bevan Brittan has worked with Catalyst on all of the organisation’s recent mergers including ones with Aldwyck Housing Group in 2019 and the Rosebery Housing Association in […]
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is advising Blackstone on its £700m takeover of UK multi-let industrial estates property company Industrials REIT. Terms of the offer would give Industrials REIT shareholders 168p per ordinary share in cash – up 42.4 per cent from the company’s closing on 31 March of 118 per share. An official announcement of […]
Freeths has swiped two partners from Addleshaw Goddard to open an office in Glasgow, The Lawyer has learnt. Real estate partners Paul Ockrim and Nick Taylor will kick off the Scottish venture, having spent the last six years at Addleshaws after joining together in 2017. Prior to that, Ockrim and Taylor worked at HBJ Gateley for two […]
In 2021, UK top 100 firm Howard Kennedy set a three-year plan to reach an annual revenue of £80m by 2024. With growth of 6.3 per cent over 2021/22, the firm netted just over £60m, meaning it has two sets of financial results to go before unveiling whether it’s delivered on its promise. Finding the […]
Paul Hastings is ringing in the New Year with another set of partner hires, recruiting a corporate and finance infrastructure duo from Linklaters. The US firm’s London office is bringing in Linklaters’ co-heads of infrastructure Jessamy Gallagher and Stuart Rowson. Gallagher specialises on M&A transactions, while Rowson leads on financing advice. Their practice focuses on […]
Big Four giant Deloitte has swiped a four-partner team from Shoosmiths to introduce real estate to its legal offering. Vaqas Farooq, Wayne Nash, Lisa On-Iam and Dan Hargreaves have joined Deloitte Legal as of today, coming over from Shoosmiths where they were all previously partners. All four will be based out of Deloitte’s Manchester office, […]
South East firm Birketts has announced a tie-up with Batchelors Solicitors, a 40-strong firm with offices in Kent and London. The merger deal sees Birketts operate in Kent for the first time. The majority of Batchelors’ team is based in Bromley, but it will move over to new space taken up by Birketts in April […]
Tom O’Neill has joined infrastructure investment firm Basalt Infrastructure Partners as its new general counsel. O’Neill trained as a solicitor at Slaughter and May, qualifying into corporate and M&A. He spent over six years at the firm before moving in-house to private equity business Pollen Street Capital, where he worked his way up to legal […]
Gowling WLG has hired a team of real estate lawyers from Womble Bond Dickinson’s (WBD) Leeds office to kickstart the firm’s entry into the city, The Lawyer can reveal. Seven lawyers have been hired by Gowling to bolster the firm’s housing development and regeneration (HDR) practice and better serve its national and northern-based residential development, […]