Wendel to pay off debts with €1.5bn Deutsch sale November 30, 2011 SHARES in French investment firm Wendel rose 16 per cent yesterday after it said it was in exclusive talks to sell its Deutsch Group electronics business to TE Connectivity for €1.55bn (£1.3bn). Wendel is selling the firm it bought in 2006 to help cut its debt pile, which stood at almost €5bn in August. The [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS November 9, 2011 DLA Piper Tony Angel, the former firm-wide managing partner of Linklaters, has joined DLA Piper as global co-chairman and senior partner of the international law firm. He will serve alongside global chairman Francis B Burch Jr and work with the firm’s chief executives Sir Nigel Knowles and Lee I Miller. Following his tenure at Linklaters [...]
LAW FIRM | OF THE YEAR September 21, 2011 FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER Freshfields has broken Linklaters’ and Slaughter & May’s stranglehold on the FTSE 100 over the last year, taking second spot in the adviser rankings with 23 of the UK’s top listed firms, compared to Linklaters’ 22. SHORTLIST Baker & McKenzie DLA Piper Linklaters Slaughter & May
LAWYER | OF THE YEAR September 21, 2011 DAVID CHEYNE LINKLATERS Linklaters’ David Cheyne, “one of the last of the City’s true corporate legends”, is this year’s top legal brain. Cheyne stepped down as senior partner on 11 September, marking the end of an era at the magic circle firm. SHORTLIST Stephen Griffin, Linklaters Maria Da Cunha, British Airways Sir Nigel Knowles, DLA [...]
LLOYD BLANKFEIN GETS HIS JUST DESSERTS FROM BUSINESS ELITE November 6, 2011 THERE WAS only one sour note at the Goldman Sachs and Financial Times Business Book of the Year awards – the Roquefort-flavoured ice-cream, which went down about as well as sovereign debt exposure at MF Global. “I’m not sure about this,” said Jonathan Taylor from HM Treasury as he laid down his spoon with a [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS September 26, 2011 Linklaters David Cheyne will stay on at the law firm as a consultant in an active client-facing role, after his term as senior partner comes to an end on 30 September. Cheyne joined Linklaters in 1972 and became a partner in 1980. He was global head of the firm’s corporate department from 2000 to 2005, [...]
Journalist to lawyer to two-time entrepreneur November 20, 2011 DANA Denis-Smith is accustomed to starting new careers. She began professional life as a journalist, before changing tack and training as a solicitor with Linklaters in 2005. Just three years later she left to set up her own business and then three years after that she set up another. “I left journalism because I often [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS November 23, 2011 Intandem Films The London-based international film group has appointed Robert Mitchell as a non-executive director and as a member of the company’s film financing committee. Mitchell previously worked at Walt Disney, where he set up the distribution company Buena Vista in 1992 and rose to the position of managing director of Walt Disney UK. Prior [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS October 10, 2011 Man Group Man Group, Europe’s largest hedge-fund, has appointed Nina Shapiro as non-executive director. Shapiro previously held senior roles within the World Bank and was Vice President, Finance and Treasurer of the International Finance Corporate from 2000 to 2011. After joining the World Bank in 1978, Shapiro held posts including director of project finance and also [...]
RISING STAR | OF THE YEAR September 21, 2011 ALEX HAM NUMIS Numis star Alex Ham, 28, is “quick on the phone and suppies a lot of background information”. He ran the broker’s involvement in the Horizon and Betfair IPOs and advised Investcorp on its bid for Opsec. SHORTLIST Sam Smith, Finncap Billy Clegg, Financial Dynamics Oliver Holbourne, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Leanne [...]