CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS February 27, 2012 Berwin Leighton Paisner BLP has hired Linklaters’ former global corporate head David Barnes to its City corporate team. Barnes will join next month as a partner in the firm’s London corporate group after retiring from Linklaters last summer. Barnes left the magic circle firm after standing as one of five candidates for the senior partner [...]
CHANGING OF THE GUARD AT BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH March 22, 2012 ANDREA ORCEL Andrea Orcel’s departure will leave a big gap at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In a world where contacts and relationships matter so much, the suave late 40s banker had it all. His contacts include Santander, Danske Bank, Unicredit (where he helped BoAML take a lead role in the rights issue earlier this [...]
CHANGING OF THE GUARD AT BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH March 22, 2012 ANDREA ORCEL Andrea Orcel’s departure will leave a big gap at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In a world where contacts and relationships matter so much, the suave late 40s banker had it all. His contacts include Santander, Danske Bank, Unicredit (where he helped BoAML take a lead role in the rights issue earlier this [...]
Irish bankers prepare Royal Exchange sale February 20, 2012 THE ROYAL EXCHANGE, one of the City of London’s best-known buildings, is to be sold as part of the winding-down of the wealth management division of the former Anglo Irish Bank. The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC), formed last year by the merger of troubled Anglo and Irish Nationwide, has agreed to sell the real [...]
Business school eyes town hall for campus February 14, 2012 WESTMINSTER City Council is close to agreeing the lease of Old Marylebone Town Hall, the heritage building where former Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr both married, to London Business School. The council, which put the 1920s building on the market in 2010, said it had entered into exclusive negotiations with London Business School, [...]
N + 1 PLUS ANOTHER ONE……… March 14, 2012 Life in the City’s financial advisory sector has been full of change lately, especially at the firms which tailor their expertise to the small to mid-cap corporates. There’s been a merging of Evolution and Investec; there’s a possible merger between Canaccord and Collins Stewart to come, with likely job cuts on the cards; there have [...]
N + 1 PLUS ANOTHER ONE……… March 14, 2012 Life in the City’s financial advisory sector has been full of change lately, especially at the firms which tailor their expertise to the small to mid-cap corporates. There’s been a merging of Evolution and Investec; there’s a possible merger between Canaccord and Collins Stewart to come, with likely job cuts on the cards; there have [...]
MINT Polo In The Park: champagne, laughs and some stellar networking March 15, 2012 MINT Polo In The Park, taking place this year on 8, 9 and 10 June is London’s ultimate summer networking and socialising event. What better way to spend a Friday with clients and colleagues than in the glorious sunshine of Hurlingham Park – the crowd cheering as ponies thunder past on perfectly manicured lawns, while [...]
Recruitment slump is hitting cost of London home rentals February 12, 2012 THE slump in the City job market is dragging down the cost of renting prime residential property in London. Rents in the best areas fell 0.2 per cent, equivalent to £80 a month, according to research published today. It comes after a halving in the number of vacancies in financial services over the last year. [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS January 25, 2012 Smith & Williamson Laurence Bard has been appointed as a partner in Smith & Williamson’s accountancy and investment management group’s corporate tax team, based in London. He started his career at a Big Four accountancy firm, where he spent 15 years as a tax adviser. He then spent four years as an independent, working for [...]