Brushing up on your email etiquette can make you more successful and efficient February 9, 2010 LAST week, I received an unsolicited email that began, “Alright mate”. I did not read on. Email etiquette can be tricky, and it is easy to inadvertently cause offence. Lawyers, I am told, often receive emails from their superiors ending with “pls dl”, shorthand for “please deal with this”. Something which is more likely to [...]
BoA finally names insider for its top job December 17, 2009 BANK of America (BoA) has promoted Brian Moynihan as its new chief executive to be given the task of nursing the stricken lender back to health. The appointment of Moynihan – who heads the bank’s retail division – follows the retirement of Kenneth Lewis. His promotion comes after the bank posted two quarterly losses in [...]
Defender of business says a hung parliament would be disastrous February 7, 2010 HE MIGHT have parted company with the CBI four years ago, but Lord Digby Jones is still one of the staunchest defenders of the private sector. When he gives me his business card at the opening of a Vodafone store in the City, it is emblazoned with a motto that sums up his philosophy: “Only [...]
Why chartered institutes can help to boost your career November 4, 2009 SOME name changes are only cosmetic, but for the financial services industry, the transformation of the Securities & Investments Institute into the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) could improve the careers of many in the City. The body, which has over 40,000 members including stockbrokers, investment advisors, portfolio managers and wealth managers and [...]
Why chartered institutes can help to boost your career November 4, 2009 SOME name changes are only cosmetic, but for the financial services industry, the transformation of the Securities & Investments Institute into the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) could improve the careers of many in the City. The body, which has over 40,000 members including stockbrokers, investment advisors, portfolio managers and wealth managers and [...]
CPAlawyers set for riches September 13, 2009 A GROUP of 230 lawyers who control legal outsourcing firm Computer Patent Annuities (CPA) are all set to be made millionaires, as the firm gears up for a stake sale to private equity. The firm, which offers intellectual property support services, is expected to sell at least a quarter of its equity in a transaction [...]
The City lawyer who argues that banking has become even riskier November 4, 2009 T o David Morley, the phrase “it is better to travel than to arrive” must sound pretty strange, an expression invented only for those unfortunate souls who have not learnt to move at speed. For Morley, who joined top law firm Allen & Overy in 1980 and has led it as senior partner since last [...]
IMMIGRATION RULES WILL DAMAGE CITY September 1, 2009 SPEAKER’S CORNEREDWARD WANAMBWAPARTNER AT CM MURRAY LLP SINCE the UK Border Agency introduced its points-based immigration system in late 2008, employment and immigration lawyers have got used to absorbing the almost weekly changes and “fixes”. Last month, further changes were made that are likely to have a significant impact on City employers and affect City [...]
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 [...]
HENDERSON GROUP TO RID ITSELF OF ITS FALLEN NEW STAR’S LEGACY November 2, 2009 AS FUND management veteran John Duffield gets busy with his new venture, Brompton Asset Management over in Knightsbridge, having completed FSA registration for the name last week, it looks like those lording it over his old employees are preparing to eradicate his legacy for good. Duffield’s second venture, New Star, was taken over by asset [...]