JONES DAY
Banking and finance: Starting forward again
Despite predictions that the green shoots of recovery from the liquidity crisis are growing, most financial institutions remain under pressure to increase capital reserves and clean up their balance sheets. The limited availability of financing is ...
27 Jan 2010 | 10:34 | 
Jones Day makes up London duo in 36-strong promotions round
Jones Day has promoted two new partners in London out of a global total of 36 in the firm's annual partnership round. The new City-based partners are international litigation and arbitration specialist Nicholas Cotter and Barnaby Stueck in the US f...
13 Jan 2010 | 14:30
Jones Day
Hard-nosed product of the 2003 union between a US national giant and individualistic City outfit Gouldens. Has improved on a shaky start.
14 Dec 2009 | 00:13
Litigation and regulatory team of the year
Jones Day's work advising AIM-listed Sibir Energy in relation to allegations of fraud against two former directors has attracted glowing praise from the company's board. "Under the inspired leadership of Craig Shuttleworth the tactics have been impecc...
08 Dec 2009 | 07:18
Jones Day demotes five London partners to of counsel rank
Jones Day has demoted a number of London partners over the last year, with five former partners now serving as of counsel at the firm. The demotions, first reported on legal blog RollOnFriday, equate to nearly 10% of the US firm's London partnershi...
13 Nov 2009 | 11:27
Weil Gotshal tops list of earners as Lehman bankruptcy fees near $200m
The sum total of legal fees for work relating to the collapse of Lehman Brothers is rapidly approaching $200m, according to Securities and Exchange Commission records. The ten law firms (plus an individual lawyer in the UK) involved in Lehman's Cha...
19 Oct 2009 | 12:08
Herbert Smith takes Virgin Atlantic role on BA investigation
Herbert Smith has advised Virgin Atlantic on the European Commission's investigation into British Airways' (BA's) planned transatlantic alliance with American Airlines and Iberia. Last week (2 October) the Commission published a statement of object...
07 Oct 2009 | 14:58
Macfarlanes adds partner duo with A&O and Jones Day laterals
Macfarlanes has made a double partner hire to strengthen its restructuring and litigation teams with Francis Bridgeman and Barry Donnelly joining from Allen & Overy (A&O) and Jones Day respectively. Jones Day partner Donnelly and former A&O consult...
01 Sep 2009 | 09:36
Jones Day hires City partner as construction practice head
Jones Day has made its second lateral hire in as many weeks, bringing in a partner from Dundas & Wilson's London office to head its construction practice. Hamish Lal will join the US firm at the beginning of October, bringing with him a practice en...
01 Sep 2009 | 05:43
Jones Day seals hire of Mayer Brown's London antitrust head
Jones Day has made its second lateral hire in the City this year with the recruitment of Mayer Brown competition and antitrust head Frances Murphy. Murphy will join Jones Day on 1 September as London head of antitrust. Her practice focuses on the p...
26 Aug 2009 | 14:29
Kirkland bankruptcy team defects to Jones Day
Seven Kirkland & Ellis lawyers have quit the firm's Los Angeles office to join Jones Day, reports The Am Law Daily. Kirkland's West Coast restructuring group head Richard Wynne, partner Bennett Spiegel, of counsel Erin Brady and Lori Sinanyan, and ass...
28 May 2009 | 16:23
US law firms face worst year for PEP since 1991
America's legal elite has emerged from its worst financial year since 1991 as partner profits and lawyer productivity at the US's top 100 law firms fell for the first time in 17 years.Eagerly-awaited 2008 results from Legal Week's sister title The Ame...
07 May 2009 | 17:00
Jones Day bills $18.5m on Chrysler bankruptcy
Jones Day has billed Chrysler more than $18.5m (£12.3m) during the past five months, reports The Am Law Daily. In late November the embattled car manufacturer paid Jones Day $1m (£660,000) to establish a retainer, and according to the US firm's appl...
05 May 2009 | 11:59
Jones Day bags $500m energy deal
Jones Day's London arm has landed a role opposite Clifford Chance (CC) to advise on the $493m (£333m) acquisition of power plant operator Globeleq. The US firm advised special purpose vehicle Pendekar Energy, owned by Malaysian power supplier Tanjong...
01 May 2009 | 05:06
Top firms line up on Glaxo/Pfizer AIDS treatment JV
A raft of City firms have landed roles advising pharmaceutical giants Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on a joint venture that will see the creation of a new HIV and AIDS treatment company. Allen & Overy (A&O), Slaughter and May, Clifford Chance (CC),...
17 Apr 2009 | 11:33
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