Lehman documents made public April 14, 2010 Undisclosed documents used to contribute to the 2,200-page report on the crash of Lehman Brothers were yesterday made public by US bankruptcy judge James Peck. The report by Anton Valukas, the court appointed examiner, showed that Goldman Sachs, Barclays and DRW Trading of Chicago took over the US futures and options trades of Lehman Brothers [...]
E&Y set to be quizzed over Lehman role March 15, 2010 ERNST & Young (E&Y) has said it will co-operate fully with the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) after it was asked to hand over audit information in relation to Lehman Brothers in the UK. The professional services firm was asked yesterday by the FRC to hand over any audit information regarding Lehman Brothers so it could [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 27, 2010 Linklaters The law firm has appointed Sandeep Katwala as regional managing partner of its emerging Europe, Middle East and Africa practice, effective from 1 May. Katwala succeeds Stuart Salt, who was appointed Asia managing partner earlier this year. He will continue to head up the firm’s India practice, which he has led for the past [...]
Linklaters’ Mr Tough Guy on why the next two months are key for the City September 28, 2009 THE legal profession might be going through one of its biggest slumps in a decade – but you would not know that looking at Linklaters’ senior partner David Cheyne. A small, dapper man, he is relaxed and all smiles as he sits in a tastefully furnished ground floor meeting room at the firm’s Silk Street [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 12, 2010 Shepherd and Wedderburn The law firm has elected James Will, the head of its corporate practice, to the position of chairman after over 20 years as a partner at the firm. Corporate partner Andrew Blain takes over as head of corporate, while Guy Winter has been promoted to partner in the same division. Winter joined [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS April 5, 2010 Threadneedle The asset management firm has hired George Gosden to join its Asian equities desk. Gosden spent the past eight years as a director at Insight Investment, where he was part of the international team. Prior to that, he was a director of Asian equities at Clerical Medical Investment Management. In his new role, he [...]
EU trademark ruling to hurt brand owners March 23, 2010 JUST hours after its acrimonious exit from China, Google won a landmark ruling that allows it to continue selling search terms such as “fake Louis Vuitton”. A number of firms had hoped a decision from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) would stop the web giant from selling its trademarks to firms they say are cashing [...]
OUSTED NEW STAR FUND MANAGER SET TO STRIKE OUT ON HIS OWN May 11, 2010 GIVEN Stephen Whittaker’s history at New Star, where his formerly impeccable fund performance nosedived and eventually cost him his job under notoriously hard taskmaster John Duffield, you could hardly blame the man for giving up the spotlight for good. Then again, Whittaker has never exactly been the shy, retiring type. Back at New Star, as [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 25, 2010 State Street Global Advisors The investment manager, a subsidiary of State Street, has appointed Jenya Emets and Matt Arnold to its active and enhanced European equity portfolio management teams in London. Emets, who becomes an investment manager, was previously a product engineer in the European active equity team at State Street Global Advisors. Arnold, now [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 14, 2010 Coutts Private Office Rupert Allison has joined Coutts Private Office as senior client partner from after three years with HSBC private bank as a relationship manager/ director. At Coutts, Allison will advise high-net-worth individuals whose assets top £30m and will report to global head of Coutts private office, Duncan McIntyre. Allison also spent 15 years [...]