City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? January 28, 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. BNP Paribas Real Estate BNP Paribas Real Estate has promoted James Carrington to lead the firm’s City investment team, which advised on nearly £1bn worth of deals last year. Taking on the position from Aidan Meynell, who has stepped down, Carrington brings more [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? March 2, 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. Mazars Audit, tax and advisory firmMazars has bolstered its London office with an audit and assurance partner. Joining from Mazars in South Africa where he was head of audit, Sanjay Ranchhoojee brings some two decades experience to [...]
London’s elite Magic Circle law firms promote record number of partners as talent war rages on May 9, 2022 London’s prestigious Magic Circle law firms have promoted a record number of partners this year, in a sign the battle for talent is raging on at the most senior levels of the UK’s top firms. London’s five Magic Circle law firms – Clifford Chance, Freshfields, Slaughter and May, Linklaters, and Allen & Overy – promoted [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? March 1, 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. Savills Savills has appointed an associate lecturer at University College London as new associate in its London planning team. Joining with seven years’ experience from across the UK and Canada, Prashanna Vivekananda will focus on both life [...]
Let lawyers take holidays without having to work, Mayer Brown managing partner says June 13, 2022 Mayer Brown’s UK managing partner has told partners in the law firm not to disturb associates on their holidays – apart from in emergencies. In an internal memo seen by The Lawyer, Dominic Griffiths, the highest-ranking partner at Mayer Brown’s London office, told the law firm’s senior lawyers not to interrupt younger lawyers’ holidays, as [...]
Wework grabs €62m from EU in Brexit deal for London office spot July 23, 2019 Office sharing giant Wework is set to net a €62m (£55.7m) windfall when it takes over the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) former London headquarters, following the body’s relocation to Amsterdam. A deal secured earlier this month will see Wework sublet 280,000 square foot in Canary Wharf’s 30 Churchill Place, creating one of the world’s largest [...]
Genocide lawsuit: Meta defends itself as Rohingya people sue for £150bn December 7, 2021 Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has defended the actions it took to prevent hate speech against Rohingya muslims during the Myanmar genocide. Rohingya muslims are claiming £150bn in compensation from Facebook over its failure to crack down on groups inciting violence against the religious minority and algorithms which amplified and promoted hate speech. Yesterday, [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? February 15, 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. Tate & Lyle Tate & Lyle appointed a food industry veteran as its new chief financial officer, who will also be posted to the board. Stepping into the role in mid-May, Dawn Allen joins from US food manufacturer Mars, Incorporated where she has been [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile? March 22, 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. Savills Savills has appointed a new head of diversity and inclusion (D&I) for its UK businesses. Joining from the Department of Health & Social Care where she was deputy director of D&I for wellbeing and culture, Chanelle [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile? May 5, 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. Kingswood Wealth and investment management group Kingswood Holdings has hired an EY veteran as a technology transformation lead to develop the firm’s recently launched online client portal. Christopher Calvocoressi, who joins from Schroders Personal Wealth, will be [...]