CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 24, 2010 Hogan Lovells The law firm has boosted its banking team by hiring Stuart Brinkworth from rival SJ Berwin. Brinkworth is a partner at SJ Berwin, where he specialises in leveraged buy-outs, public bids, trade purchases and recapitalisations. He recently acted on key deals including advising lenders to Manchester City FC in connection with the £210m [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 24, 2010 Hogan Lovells The law firm has boosted its banking team by hiring Stuart Brinkworth from rival SJ Berwin. Brinkworth is a partner at SJ Berwin, where he specialises in leveraged buy-outs, public bids, trade purchases and recapitalisations. He recently acted on key deals including advising lenders to Manchester City FC in connection with the £210m [...]
THE LONDON REPORT February 9, 2010 BRITAIN’S top share index closed up yesterday, led higher by miners and banks, but lingering concerns over Europe’s fiscal problems weighed on sentiment. The FTSE 100 ended 19.51 points or 0.4 per cent ahead at 5,111.84, having hit a session high of 5,132.93. Metals prices regained some ground after sharp falls last week, helping mining [...]
KILLING KITTENS ORGY ORGANISER WHIPS HER BUSINESS UP A NOTCH July 26, 2010 THOSE Londoners with a persistent naughty streak have probably heard of Emma Sayle, the founder of sex party organising firm Killing Kittens. Up until now, Killing Kittens has specialised in what Sayle likes to describe as “eyes wide shut orgies”, with club members – vetted for attractiveness – gathering in private townhouses to get to [...]
KILLING KITTENS ORGY ORGANISER WHIPS HER BUSINESS UP A NOTCH July 26, 2010 THOSE Londoners with a persistent naughty streak have probably heard of Emma Sayle, the founder of sex party organising firm Killing Kittens. Up until now, Killing Kittens has specialised in what Sayle likes to describe as “eyes wide shut orgies”, with club members – vetted for attractiveness – gathering in private townhouses to get to [...]
Lloyds axes 350 call centre staff November 30, 2009 MORE than 350 jobs are being axed at a Lloyds Banking Group call centre in Brighton, taking the bank’s total staff reduction plan to 15,000. In the latest plans for job cuts, Lloyds said it was planning to close its Sussex House contact centre in May next year and transfer work to other sites around [...]
City keen to recruit from Ireland May 11, 2010 City banks are now turning to Ireland in a bid to fill vacant roles, according to recruiter Hays. The group said London’s banks have started to recruit Irish accountants because of skills shortages in the sector. Top City accountants are exacerbating the shortage due to their reluctance to move roles, according to Hays. “This isn’t [...]
NAB sticks to its guns on UK bank strategy June 7, 2010 NATIONAL Australia Bank (NAB) is comfortable with its UK operations and is under no pressure to sell or bulk up, a spokesman said yesterday, but investors say NAB will have to choose one way or the other soon. NAB, which has more than 300 branches in the UK, was tipped to be a player in [...]
Strong Barclays results help FTSE to chalk up solid gains February 16, 2010 BRITAIN’S top shares closed sharply higher yesterday as Barclays led a banking sector rally after its 2009 forecast-beating results, and oils and miners were buoyed by firmer commodity prices. The FTSE 100 ended up 76.59 points, or 1.5 per cent, at 5,244.06, extending gains into a second consecutive session after closing 0.5 per cent higher [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 23, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES NISSAN’S GHOSN TOPS JAPAN PAY LEAGUE Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn has taken top spot on a list of Japan’s best-paid executives after the carmaker revealed it paid its Brazil-born chief executive Y890m ($9.9m) last year. Nissan and other quoted Japanese companies are being forced to report the compensation of individual executives for the first [...]