Watch: Pimlico Plumbers’ Charlie Mullins shows off his posh terrace and fluffy robe September 23, 2014 Charlie Mullins, chief executive of Pimlico Plumbers, lives the high life. And like anyone would be, he’s keen to show this off. A new video made with Mullins and two other high-profile business names, perfume doyenne Jo Malone and advertising whizz Mark Denton, has been made to illustrate the importance a single phone call can [...]
City Moves for 06 October 2014 | Who’s switching jobs October 5, 2014 Camarco The recently launched financial and corporate communications consultancy has announced the appointment of Ginny Pulbrook as partner and head of industrials and support services. She joins from Citigate Dewe Rogerson, where she has worked since co-founding the business in 1988. Pulbrook began her career in corporate finance at NM Rothschild and Bankers Trust. [...]
UK’s top 100 law firms see profits soar above £6bn August 31, 2014 Profits at the top 100 law firms in the UK have soared to well over £6bn in the latest financial year, with more than 1,000 partners now earning over £1m annually. The top 100 law firms in the UK, comprising over 65,000 lawyers, saw revenue rise to over £20.8bn, up from £19.1bn in 2013, [...]
City Moves for 17 September 2014 | Who’s switching jobs September 16, 2014 Killik & Co The stockbroker has appointed Jon Simmons as business development manager. He joins from Schroders, where he was sales manager in its financial institutions and strategic accounts team. Simmons has also held roles at Cazenove Capital Management and Invesco Perpetual. M&G Real Estate Lucy Williams has been appointed director, institutional business for UK [...]
The sanction spiral: Russia and Europe may fall into recession July 21, 2014 A trade “tit-for-tat” would hit both sides extremely hard EVEN before the tragic Malaysia Airlines plane crash in Ukraine last Thursday (allegedly the work of Moscow-backed separatists), Russia was already reeling from the US’s tightening of the screws. The country’s Micex stock index tumbled 2.3 per cent to 1,440.63 last week after news that financial [...]
City Moves for 01 August 2014 | Who’s switching jobs July 31, 2014 Deutsche Bank Tiina Lee has been appointed UK chief operating officer at Deutsche Bank. She will become vice-chair of the UK executive committee, and will continue to chair the UK regional governance board. Lee was most recently head of UK regional governance at the bank. Bovill Fiona Richardson has been appointed head of technical at [...]
Targeting Russian oligarchs with EU sanctions won’t work say lawyers July 24, 2014 Lawyers have cast doubt on the plausibility of directing EU sanctions at Russian oligarchs, as politicians look to freeze the assets of figures close to President Putin. Europe is in the process of agreeing tougher sanctions on Moscow, following the downing of Malaysian airlines flight MH17 over separatist-controlled Ukraine last week. Last night, EU members [...]
Mixed results for Dentons and Travers July 18, 2013 LAW FIRM Dentons unveiled its first set of financial results since its merger yesterday, securing its place among the top 20 law firms in the world with revenues of £829.7m. Dentons, which was born out of a merger between SNR Denton, Canadian firm Fraser Milner Casgrain, and Salans, posted net income of £225.2m, but did not provide [...]
City Moves for 27 May 2014 | Who’s switching jobs May 27, 2014 Strategy& London Strategy&, the management consulting firm and part of PwC, has announced the appointment of James Walker as a partner for leading demand analytics in Europe. He has over 25 years’ analytics experience in marketing consulting, technology, and big data analytics. Walker was most recently at Prophet, where he created its data and analytics [...]
Scotland ring changes for Italy trip February 18, 2014 RUGBY UNION: Scotland head coach Scott Johnson has made three changes for Saturday’s Six Nations visit to Italy. Scott Lawson replaces Ross Ford at hooker, Richie Gray replaces Tim Swinson in the second row and Johnnie Beattie is preferred at No8 to David Denton.