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LG secures latest hotel instruction as two prime properties sold for £192m
LG and Hogan Lovells have advised on the sale of London’s Sanderson Hotel and St Martins Lane Hotel to Middle Eastern investor Capital Hill Hotels for £192m. LG advised Capital Hill on the sale, with London corporate partner and hotel sector hea...
03 Feb 2012 | 00:00
LG rebuilds City finance practice with hire of Stephenson Harwood team
LG has moved to rebuild its City finance practice with a team hire from Stephenson Harwood. Real estate finance consultant John Fox and senior associates Matthew East and Simon Elphick will all join LG as partners in March.
16 Jan 2012 | 09:17
LG LLPs reveal loan reduction as firm eyes international expansion
LG repaid almost half of its £9.6m worth of loans during 2010-11 due to "continued positive cashflow", according to the firm's latest limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts. The Companies House filings show that LG paid back £4.1m of its lo...
10 Jan 2012 | 09:00 | 
LG sees two more partner exits as tech and private client duo depart
LG commerce and technology partner Richard Marke has left the firm to join Bates Wells & Braithwaite, with news of his departure coming as it emerged that the firm has asked private client partner Caroline Garnham to leave the partnership due to a con...
12 Dec 2011 | 15:12 |
Trio of LG partners join Pinsents as spate of City exits continues
LG is to lose a trio of finance and restructuring partners to Pinsent Masons, taking the number of London partners to hand in their notice since September to eight. Head of finance and restructuring Nicholas Pike, head of restructuring and insolvency ...
07 Nov 2011 | 10:49 |
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Dechert continues recent recruitment with hire of rated LG finance partner
Dechert is to further bulk up its City arm with the hire of LG banking and finance partner Charles Malpass, with the recruitment marking Dechert’s fifth partner hire in London since April. The highly-regarded partner is set to join Dechert’s Lo...
03 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
SJ Berwin and LG secure lead roles as Debenhams signs up for new HQ
SJ Berwin and LG have picked up lead roles as high street retailer Debenhams signed up to space from British Land for its new London headquarters. British Land has agreed to pre-let 145,000 sq ft of office space to the retailer in a new office buil...
13 Oct 2011 | 00:00 |
LG IP practice chief departs to Brown Rudnick
Brown Rudnick has bulked up its London arm with the hire of LG intellectual property (IP) and media head Georgie Collins. Collins joined the firm last week after three years with LG, where she has been a partner since 2010 and practice head since 2...
13 Oct 2011 | 00:00 |
LG boosts finance with Squire Sanders Hammonds partner hire as litigation trio exit
LG is expanding its finance practice through the hire of Squire Sanders Hammonds partner Iain Shurwood, with the addition coming as the UK firm prepares to lose a trio of litigation partners. Shurwood will join LG next month, having been a partner ...
29 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
Trio of LG financial litigation partners quit to join DLA Piper
LG is set to lose a trio of financial litigation partners to DLA Piper in London. Jeremy Andrews, Jean-Pierre Douglas-Henry and James Curle handed in their notice earlier this month and are set to join DLA Piper after serving out some or all of the...
28 Sep 2011 | 14:00 |
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BLP, LG and Macfarlanes head up £139m sale of Pinsents’ London base
LG and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) are among a number of firms to have taken roles on the £139m sale of Pinsent Masons’ City headquarters. BLP advised the purchaser, German fund manager Hannover Leasing, with a team led by commercial real esta...
15 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
LG wins high-profile role on Stanford Bank liquidation
LG has won a high-profile role to advise the newly-appointed liquidators of Stanford International Bank (SIB) following its 2009 collapse amid a billion-dollar fraud scandal. The UK law firm is acting for accountancy firm Grant Thornton, which w...
04 Aug 2011 | 00:00 |
RPC and Gateley break into UK top 50 revenue rankings as LG exits
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) and Gateley look set to enter Legal Week’s 2010-11 rankings of the top 50 UK law firms by revenue. Gateley will make its debut in the table, which will be published in full in the next edition of Legal Week (21 J...
14 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
Bird & Bird brings in tax partner from LG
Bird & Bird is set to target standalone UK tax advisory work after sealing the hire of a second City tax specialist. The law firm has recruited LG partner Julian Hickey to practise alongside UK tax head Mathew Oliver – currently the firm’s only...
09 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
LG tightens real estate connections with two client wins
LG’s real estate team has tightened links with two key clients, winning a sole advisory appointment for pension fund PAT and a first-time mandate from hotel group Malmaison. The firm was named as sole real estate adviser to PAT, the trustee respo...
02 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
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