LEGAL FIRM BROADENS RECRUITING HORIZONS August 1, 2011 CITY INTERNSHIPS are notoriously hard to come by. But not for regular readers of The Capitalist such as Ratidzo Chinyuku, who wrote to Taylor Wessing partner Martin Winter asking for a work placement after reading about his charity work in her homeland of Zimbabwe in this column on 12 April. Following her successful appeal, the [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 22, 2011 AMEC The international engineering and project management group has appointed Deloitte’s John Connolly as its new chairman, to succeed Jock Green-Armytage. Connelly will retire from his current role as chief executive of Deloitte UK and global chairman of Deloitte Touche Tohamatsu on 31 May and will join the Amex board on 1 June. Connelly is [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 22, 2011 AMEC The international engineering and project management group has appointed Deloitte’s John Connolly as its new chairman, to succeed Jock Green-Armytage. Connelly will retire from his current role as chief executive of Deloitte UK and global chairman of Deloitte Touche Tohamatsu on 31 May and will join the Amex board on 1 June. Connelly is [...]
BANK EXODUS AS TRADERS JUMP SHIP FOR HEDGE FUND MILLIONS April 25, 2011 THE BRAIN drain from the City’s leading banks has started, as The Capitalist can reveal traders at JP Morgan Chase, RBS, UBS and Lloyds have gone behind bosses’ backs to apply to a hedge fund that promises to make them millionaires within a year. The deserting bankers are on the shortlist for Mike Baghdady’s Trading [...]
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY AS CITY FIRMS RUN… AND RUN April 17, 2011 HOGAN Lovells partner Richard Tyler will be walking down the stairs sideways for the next three days after completing yesterday’s physically and mentally exhausting 26.2 mile Virgin Money London Marathon. “Towards the end of the race you end up running not much faster than you can walk because your legs wind down like a spring,” [...]
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY AS CITY FIRMS RUN… AND RUN April 17, 2011 HOGAN Lovells partner Richard Tyler will be walking down the stairs sideways for the next three days after completing yesterday’s physically and mentally exhausting 26.2 mile Virgin Money London Marathon. “Towards the end of the race you end up running not much faster than you can walk because your legs wind down like a spring,” [...]
ITV CREWS CATCH BANKERS ON CAMERA FOR NEW LEGAL DRAMA April 11, 2011 LUNCHBREAKS for the employees of Bank of New York Mellon Asset Management will never be the same again, after ITV rolled into the firm’s neighbourhood last Thursday to film its new legal drama The Jury. The ITV camera crews have been filming on location just a stone’s throw from BNY Mellon’s Queen Victoria Street HQ [...]
ITV CREWS CATCH BANKERS ON CAMERA FOR NEW LEGAL DRAMA April 11, 2011 LUNCHBREAKS for the employees of Bank of New York Mellon Asset Management will never be the same again, after ITV rolled into the firm’s neighbourhood last Thursday to film its new legal drama The Jury. The ITV camera crews have been filming on location just a stone’s throw from BNY Mellon’s Queen Victoria Street HQ [...]
Infrastructure India taps UK shareholders February 13, 2011 INFRASTRUCTURE India has become the latest Indian firm to tap the UK markets for investment cash, raising £33m in a share placing. Shares worth £25.5m at 60.5p each have been placed with existing and new investors and will start trading on AIM on Thursday, the firm said at the weekend. Specialist energy investor Guggenheim Global [...]
Taylor Wessing bolsters financial disputes group with BLG poach October 3, 2010 CITY law firm Taylor Wessing has bolstered its financial disputes practice after poaching Barlow Lyde & Gilbert’s (BLG) head of financial services. Tim Strong, who has led BLG’s financial services practice since October last year, will join Taylor Wessing within the coming months after more than a decade with the insurance-based firm. His departure from [...]