City Moves for 12 September 2013 | Who’s switching jobs September 11, 2013 Davenport Lyons The law firm has announced the appointment of Colin Sawdy as a partner in its intellectual property team. Sawdy specialises in trademarks, design and copyright. He was most recently at Edwards Wildman Palmer, where he was an associate. Prior to that, he was a solicitor at Field Fisher Waterhouse. Deloitte Real Estate The [...]
American tobacco firm buys into growing UK e-cigarette market October 1, 2013 LORILLARD, the third largest American cigarette manufacturer, yesterday took a stake in the UK’s burgeoning e-cigarette market by snapping up manufacturer Skycig in a deal worth up to £60m. “We chose to move forward with Lorillard for the exceptional resources and expertise which the company can provide to enable Skycig to further both our product [...]
City Moves for 11 September 2013 | Who’s switching jobs September 10, 2013 Covington The law firm has announced the appointment of Charlotte Hill as a partner in its London office. Hill specialises in financial regulatory matters. She was most recently a partner at Stephenson Harwood. PwC Daniel Hepburn has joined the reward team at the professional services firm, where he will advise on the design and implementation [...]
City Moves for 18 September 2013 | Who’s switching jobs September 17, 2013 KPMG The professional services firm has announced the appointment of Sean Randall as head of its UK stamp taxes group. Randall spent the past eight years at Deloitte, where he specialised in stamp taxes. JP Morgan Private Bank Antoine Massoud has joined the private bank as a senior banker in its Middle East banking team. [...]
City Moves for 27 August 2013 | Who’s switching jobs August 26, 2013 Lloyds Bank The bank’s commercial banking arm has announced the appointment of Jacqueline Keogh as director of global trade. Keogh has over 25 years’ experience in the banking industry. She was most recently at Standard Chartered, where she was managing director, and regional head of banks for Europe in its transaction banking division. B Capital [...]
City Moves for 13 September 2013 | Who’s switching jobs September 12, 2013 Aviva Investors The investment management business has appointed Andrew Davey as assistant fund manager to its Lime Property Fund. He joined the company in 2007. Deloitte Real Estate Steve Johns has joined the real estate business to head its City leasing team. Johns previously spent 17 years at Cushman & Wakefield, and was most recently [...]
Deloitte re-brands real estate unit November 22, 2012 Consultancy Deloitte is to drop the Drivers Jonas name from its real estate division as part of a restructuring which brings all its real estate units together under a single identity. From 21 January, its real estate advisory practice will be known as Deloitte Real Estate. The practice will have more than 700 real estate [...]
Public betting market to challenge Carney’s rule August 27, 2013 AS BANK of England governor Mark Carney gears up to give his first public speech today, a public betting market is being launched to challenge official predictions for unemployment and inflation. Working with bookmakers Paddy Power, the Adam Smith Institute (ASI) think tank is rolling out two betting markets, turning to UK punters for predictions [...]
Cranes fill London sky as construction soars June 24, 2013 BUILDING activity across London has more than trebled since its low in mid-2010, booming to a four-year peak, data showed yesterday. Office construction has risen eight per cent over the past six months to 9.7m square feet of space under construction, bouncing off lows of 2.7m in the third quarter of 2010. The figures, in [...]
Lloyds share price passes break even point for taxpayer as bank reports swing to profit August 1, 2013 Share prices in Lloyds Banking Group have surpassed what the City regards as the "real" break even point for the taxpayer as the group reports a swing to profit in the first half of the year. This morning, the Lloyds share price passed the 73.6p "real" break-even point, which represents the average price at which [...]