IT’S A GAS FOR CLARE AT BANKER BRIEFING April 20, 2011 HOW can money be the same as gas? It’s a good question, and one that bankers were giving serious thought yesterday at a lunchtime talk at Clifford Chance by Clare Spottiswoode, member of the Independent Commission on Banking. The former gas regulator had been briefed to update 34 high-powered bankers, including Antony Jenkins, group chief [...]
IT’S A GAS FOR CLARE AT BANKER BRIEFING April 20, 2011 HOW can money be the same as gas? It’s a good question, and one that bankers were giving serious thought yesterday at a lunchtime talk at Clifford Chance by Clare Spottiswoode, member of the Independent Commission on Banking. The former gas regulator had been briefed to update 34 high-powered bankers, including Antony Jenkins, group chief [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 10, 2011 City Asset Management Independent discretionary investment manager City Asset Management has appointed Chris Green, formerly of Optimal Wealth Management, to its financial services team as a financial wealth planner. The appointment is part of City Asset Management’s ongoing expansion. Green brings more than 20 years’ experience as a pension and investment specialist to the role. [...]
Dresdner bankers set for bonus case March 8, 2011 COMMERZBANK faces a high-profile lawsuit from 104 of its investment bankers over a bonus dispute, after the Court of Appeal yesterday rejected the bank’s request to dismiss the case. Current and former bankers, who worked for Dresdner Kleinwort before Commerzbank took it over in 2009, are suing to recover €52m (£44.7m) in bonus payments from [...]
Dresdner bankers set for bonus case March 8, 2011 COMMERZBANK faces a high-profile lawsuit from 104 of its investment bankers over a bonus dispute, after the Court of Appeal yesterday rejected the bank’s request to dismiss the case. Current and former bankers, who worked for Dresdner Kleinwort before Commerzbank took it over in 2009, are suing to recover €52m (£44.7m) in bonus payments from [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 14, 2011 SJ Berwin The international law firm has appointed Tony Angel, chief executive of healthcare technology group Vantage Diagnostics, as a non-executive director. As managing partner of Linklaters from 1998 to 2007, Angel presided over a 57 per cent turnover increase and a 108 per cent profit increase. In 2008, he joined ratings agency Standard & [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS December 5, 2010 Linklaters Linklaters, the global law firm, has appointed Anne Byrne as UK head of real estate, based in London. Byrne, a partner since 2001, previously worked for Capital Shopping Centres and ProLogis and recently acted for UBS on its new European headquarters building at Broadgate. Linklaters also hired Yves Moreau as the global head of [...]
Legal eagle: how London’s top law firm retained its grip on the City February 20, 2011 The head of law firm Slaughter and May is two minutes late for his interview with City A.M., for which he immediately apologies. The first thing is surprising; the second is not. The partners in this blueblooded City institution have spent a lifetime doing things correctly. Even among other Magic Circle outfits, this firm manages [...]
CITY GOES FOR GREEN AS PUBS VIE WITH BANKS TO WIN ECO AWARDS January 30, 2011 AN eclectic mix of London City stalwarts and independent businesses will come together on Thursday to celebrate their green credentials, at the City of London Corporation’s annual Sustainable City Awards. Competing across 12 categories are banks, asset managers and construction groups – alongside a slew of smaller enterprises that make up more than half of [...]
CITY GOES FOR GREEN AS PUBS VIE WITH BANKS TO WIN ECO AWARDS January 30, 2011 AN eclectic mix of London City stalwarts and independent businesses will come together on Thursday to celebrate their green credentials, at the City of London Corporation’s annual Sustainable City Awards. Competing across 12 categories are banks, asset managers and construction groups – alongside a slew of smaller enterprises that make up more than half of [...]