NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT July 28, 2011 Commuting: While Crouch End is notionally in zone three, there is no tube station and buses are the only means of transport into the centre. To get to the City you can jump aboard the W7 that runs from Crouch End Broadway to Finsbury Park tube station. From there, you can use the Piccadilly line [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS August 2, 2011 CBRE CB Richard Ellis has appointed Adam Wilton as a senior director in its UK debt advisory division, based in London. Wilton joins from Barclays Corporate, where he was a director of the bank’s real estate structured finance business. Wilton has 12 years’ experience covering real estate finance, securitisation and principal finance. His experience includes [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS August 2, 2011 CBRE CB Richard Ellis has appointed Adam Wilton as a senior director in its UK debt advisory division, based in London. Wilton joins from Barclays Corporate, where he was a director of the bank’s real estate structured finance business. Wilton has 12 years’ experience covering real estate finance, securitisation and principal finance. His experience includes [...]
Swiss Re buys life assets June 1, 2011 SWISS RE, the global reinsurance giant, agreed to take over £1.6bn UK life insurance assets from American Life Insurance Company for an undisclosed amount yesterday. Swiss Re will reinsure and administer 300,000 UK policies from Alico, a 50-country, US-based insurer. They include pension and investment bonds written before 2008 and will be managed by Swiss [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 19, 2011 Babson Capital Europe The credit fund manager has appointed Kam Tugnait as a managing director, ahead of its plans to launch a further UCITS fund focusing on European high yield, to be co-managed by Tugnait. Most recently, Tugnait was head of high yield at Gartmore, where he ran the firm’s high yield corporate bond fund. [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS May 19, 2011 Babson Capital Europe The credit fund manager has appointed Kam Tugnait as a managing director, ahead of its plans to launch a further UCITS fund focusing on European high yield, to be co-managed by Tugnait. Most recently, Tugnait was head of high yield at Gartmore, where he ran the firm’s high yield corporate bond fund. [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 3, 2011 Bibby Financial Services The invoice finance specialist has appointed Andy Leopold as sales director for the south, based in London. Leopold, who has been promoted from the role of sales director for London and Hastings, brings more than 19 years’ experience working in the financial services sector. He will be responsible for securing new business [...]
ARE YOU CONFIDENT ABOUT ECONOMIC RECOVERY? January 20, 2011 ROWAN BAMFORD | SNR DENTON “I’m more optimistic now than say six months ago. I work as an M&A lawyer and there have been more transactions going through. Confidence seems to be returning. I think people had grown tired of not doing any trades.” HUGH COLLINS| BLP “I’m broadly optimistic about recovery but we’ve not [...]
Denton votes for US tie-up June 9, 2010 Partners at City law firm Denton Wilde Sapte and its US rival Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal voted in favour of a merger yesterday that will create a business with sales of £500m employing 1,400 lawyers worldwide. The management at both firms asked their partners to vote on the tie-up that was negotiated in secret and [...]
Dentons to merge with US law firm May 26, 2010 DENTON Wilde Sapte and Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal (SNR) yesterday agreed to merge, creating a £500m law firm with over 1,400 lawyers. Management boards at both firms recommended to their respective partnerships that the two businesses be combined. The merger, if it wins approval from a partnership vote held early next month, will see the [...]