City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? February 18, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Quadrant Real estate asset management and development company Quadrant has appointed a new associate partner from CBRE. Onder Atasayar joins from CBRE where he was responsible for developing the company’s portfolio valuation models and overseeing quarterly valuation of [...]
City Moves for 30 August – Who’s switching jobs at KPMG, Queensberry and Fieldfisher? August 30, 2019 Today’s City Moves includes KPMG, Queensberry and Fieldfisher. KPMG KPMG has hired two new Partners to further strengthen its legal services offering. Kate Eades was previously a corporate partner at Greenberg Traurig and Usman Wahid was previously a commercial and technology partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. Both partners will start in September and will [...]
All eyes on Prince Andrew after Maxwell conviction: ‘Ghislaine did not act alone. Others must be held accountable’ December 30, 2021 Attention is shifting towards Prince Andrew following the conviction of Jeffrey Epstein confidante and socialite Ghislaine Maxwell yesterday. Maxwell, 60, who was labelled “dangerous” by the prosecution, faces the rest of her life in jail for helping to entice vulnerable teenagers to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s various properties for him to sexually abuse between 1994 [...]
Fieldfisher merges with Irish firm McDowell Purcell in Brexit-related expansion April 25, 2019 City law firm Fieldfisher has struck a merger deal with Irish firm McDowell Purcell as it looks to secure a route into the EU market post-Brexit. The deal gives Fieldfisher a Dublin office and 16 new partners and 50 lawyers. A string of UK and US law firms have established Dublin bases following the 2016 [...]
City Moves for 7 March 2019 – Who’s switching jobs at Oliver Wyman, Croud and Fieldfisher? March 7, 2019 Today's City Moves include Oliver Wyman, Croud and Fieldfisher. Oliver Wyman David Gillespie has today been appointed head of UK and Ireland at global management consultancy Oliver Wyman. In his new role, reporting to Davide Taliente, head of EMEA, Gillespie will lead the firm’s UK businesses while continuing to head up its established UK banking [...]
City law firm Fieldfisher acquires Mayfair boutique in bet on London’s hedge fund sector January 17, 2019 City law firm Fieldfisher has acquired a specialist Mayfair boutique in a bet London’s hedge fund sector will thrive post-Brexit. The City firm has acquired West End boutique Cummings Law and hired two senior partners from rival firms to launch Cummings Fisher, which will specialise in funds, derivatives, financial services regulation and fund formation work. [...]
World’s largest law firm Dentons set to launch in Ireland January 8, 2020 The world’s largest law firm Dentons is poised to open its first office in Ireland. Dentons has hired banking partner Peter O’Brien from Irish firm Matheson to spearhead its expansion into the market. Since the Brexit vote in June 2016, Ireland has been targeted by UK and international law firms looking to set up operations [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? June 2, 2021 City A.M.‘s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every Wednesday afternoon. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Brown Advisory expands London office with senior hires Investment management firm Brown Advisory has bolstered its London office this week with two senior hires as its collection of assets hits $15bn. [...]
City Moves for 10 September 2018 – who’s switching jobs at ING, Fieldfisher and Stonehage Fleming? September 10, 2018 Today's City Moves cover finance, legal eagles and wealth management. Take a look at these movers and shakers: ING ING has appointed Sachin Shah as director in the DCM SSA (sovereign, supranational and agency) Origination team, based in London. Sachin will focus on the Agency and Supra issuers to strengthen the bank’s presence in the [...]
UK’s top 100 law firms report strong year despite final quarter slump July 1, 2019 The UK’s top 100 law firms grew fee income seven per cent in the year to 30 April, according to data published today. The strong performance is a slight dip on last year’s average fee income increase of 7.7 per cent, according to audit firm Deloitte’s quarterly legal sector survey. Jeremy Black, partner in Deloitte’s [...]