City Moves for 20 January 2016 | Who’s switching jobs January 20, 2016 Like Minds Sarah Hollingworth has been appointed a senior consultant at employee communication specialists, Like Minds. She joins from Punter Southall, where she was a senior consultant in the DC Consulting Group and leader of its employee and member communication team. SalaryFinance Fintech platform SalaryFinance has announced the addition of Benefex founder and chief executive [...]
What George Osborne’s Budget means for you: Five case studies including an entrepreneur, an apprentice and a chief exec March 16, 2016 Accountants from BDO ran the numbers for City A.M. to see the effect George Osborne's 2016 Budget will have on people with a variety of different incomes, living situations and responsibilities. THE BUSINESS WOMAN Catherine Gannon, chief executive at Gannons Commercial Law Gannons Commercial Law continues to perform well as profits and earnings increase on last year. [...]
Exclusive: Taylor Wessing launching British tech network to spur US funding January 28, 2015 CITY law firm Taylor Wessing will tonight launch an invitation-only tech community aimed at linking the UK’s most promising high-growth firms with Taylor Wessing’s venture capital and private equity clients in the US and beyond. Taylor Wessing will announce the community, known as Tech Focus 100, during its annual tech predictions event this evening where [...]
City Moves for 2 December 2015 | Who’s switching jobs December 1, 2015 TAYLOR WESSING The law firm has appointed Emma Jordan as head of contentious trusts in its private client practice. She joins from Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co, where she was a contentious trusts and litigation partner. Jordan has a particular focus on advising and representing trustees and high net worths in litigation. LV= The insurance, [...]
Photography review: Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize November 14, 2014 National Portrait Gallery | ★★★★☆ The National Portrait Gallery’s immensely popular Taylor Wessing portrait prize exhibition is back. This week it was announced that the winning image was fashion photographer David Titlow’s atmospheric portrait of his baby son interacting with a dog. The judges selected the image from over 4,000 submissions from 1,793 photographers. [...]
What does the Autumn Statement 2015 mean for you? November 26, 2015 THE SINGLE PARENT CATHERINE GANNON, MANAGING PARTNER OF GANNONS LAW FIRM Gannons Commercial Law continues to perform extremely well as profits and earnings increased on last year. She is commercially savvy and has restructured the business from an LLP to a Limited Company due to the recent legislation covering LLPs. This illustrates that Catherine is [...]
City Moves for 13 October 2015 | Who’s switching jobs October 12, 2015 CITY NOBLE The pensions and investment advisory firm has appointed Mike Webb as associate in its advisory business. He was previously head of distribution and marketing for the Axa corporate investment platform, and senior business development manager in Standard Life’s corporate pensions division. CBRE The commercial real estate services and investment firm has appointed Milan [...]
City Moves for 23 September 2015 | Who’s switching jobs September 22, 2015 TAYLOR WESSINGThe law firm has announced the appointment of David McCluskey as a partner in its disputes and investigations team. He joins from Peters & Peters, where he was a partner in its business crime team. McCluskey acts for professional and corporate clients in business crime and regulatory investigations, and he recently successfully defended Fergus [...]
Boxing for Buhinga: City lawyers from HSBC, Credit Suisse, Taylor Wessing, EDF and Baker & McKenzie don gloves for charity match November 23, 2014 Lawyers are known for their ferocity inside the courtroom, but rarely do we get to see them bare their teeth outside. Well, thanks to Baker & McKenzie senior associate Matt Totman, now we do. Saturday night saw the Boxing for Buhinga event take place at The Brewery and with it, 16 City lawyers pulling [...]
City Moves for 20 July 2015 | Who’s switching jobs July 19, 2015 Valad Europe The real estate investment management firm has appointed Claire Treacy as chief financial officer. She was previously head of tax and risk at Valad. Before joining, Treacy was a senior tax manager in KPMG’s real estate group, specialising in European fund structuring. PwC Stephen Soper has been appointed senior pensions adviser in the [...]