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Weil Gotshal secures key client payouts in MF Global case
Weil Gotshal & Manges and KPMG have reached a groundbreaking agreement in the MF Global administration that will see money returned to clients without the need for a court order. Weil Gotshal is advising administrator KPMG on the high-profile insol...
10 Feb 2012 | 00:00
Slaughters takes MF Global dispute role; court docs reveal hourly rates
Slaughter and May has been called in to advise on a multimillion-dollar dispute relating to the high-profile liquidation of US broker MF Global. An application by MF Global's trustee, James Giddens, to retain Slaughters as UK counsel was made in th...
31 Jan 2012 | 11:25
A&O, Hogan Lovells and DLA score roles on Peacocks collapse
Allen & Overy (A&O), Hogan Lovells and DLA Piper have all picked up roles in relation to the latest problems on the high street - acting on the administration of Peacocks and associated sale of Bonmarche. A&O is advising collapsed fashion chain Pea...
25 Jan 2012 | 11:03
Stayin' alive (just) – high street woe looks set to shake restructuring market out of relative calm
With budget fashion retailers Peacocks and Barratts this week looking set to join a growing list of high street casualties in the latest round of economic turmoil, 2012 should – in theory – shape up to be a busy year for City restructuring and ins...
20 Jan 2012 | 00:00 | 
What doesn't kill you... how much medicine can Linklaters take?
"Linklaters has been through five overhauls in a decade – four of them in the last five years. This level of upheaval contradicts the received wisdom about how aggressively you can manage a major law firm before things start falling off the wagon.....
20 Jan 2012 | 00:00 |
Linklaters shake-up hits uncharted territory
Friederike Heine assesses Linklaters’ high stakes bid to reshape its practice to secure world-beater status...
20 Jan 2012 | 00:00 |
Squire Sanders takes Barratts and Past Times administration double
Squire Sanders has taken two high-profile administration roles after Barratts and Past Times became the latest casualties to hit the high street. The newly rebranded firm advised administrators Deloitte on the Barratts collapse, fielding a team led...
18 Jan 2012 | 11:34
Halliwells to be liquidated with BDO appointed to handle process
BDO's Dermot Power and Shay Bannon have been formally appointed as liquidators of Halliwells, as the winding-up of the failed Manchester law firm continues. The pair applied to be appointed as Halliwells' liquidators before Christmas, with CMS Came...
17 Jan 2012 | 12:12 | 5 comments
20 Essex Street recruits specialist duo in bid to push into insolvency
20 Essex Street has taken on respected South Square silk Stephen Atherton QC and counsel Blair Leahy as the chambers looks to expand into new areas of work. Atherton and Leahy, who will join 20 Essex Street on 16 January this year, have both spent ...
13 Jan 2012 | 00:00 |
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Blacks and La Senza: aggression vs seduction?
This week has seen the first of what will most likely be a wave of pre-pack administrations of high street names this year, with both Blacks Leisure and La Senza going into administration and immediately thereafter their businesses (or at least the pr...
11 Jan 2012 | 10:53
UK law firm quartet line up on Blacks and La Senza administrations
Addleshaw Goddard, Travers Smith, Linklaters and SJ Berwin have all taken roles on the pre-pack administrations of Blacks Leisure and lingerie chain La Senza, in the latest retail collapses to hit the high street. Travers took the lead role for Bla...
10 Jan 2012 | 13:35 |
Gateley launches in Leeds with double Cobbetts partner hire
Gateley has opened a new office in Leeds with the hire of Cobbetts partners William Ballmann and Rob Payne. Ballmann will head up the new office, which is the top 50 firm's eighth UK base and comes after it opened in Manchester 18 months ago.
09 Jan 2012 | 13:25 |
Skadden recruits restructuring partner in London with Weil hire
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has strengthened its corporate restructuring practice in London with the hire of partner Dominic McCahill from rival US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges. McCahill, who will become the sixth partner in Skadden's London re...
05 Jan 2012 | 13:04 |
A&O, Bingham and CC among firms on €1.3bn Quinn restructuring
Allen & Overy (A&O), Bingham McCutchen and Clifford Chance (CC) are among a raft of firms to have advised on the €1.3bn (£1.1bn) restructuring of business conglomerate Quinn group. A&O advised Quinn led by London restructuring managing partner E...
09 Dec 2011 | 11:54 |
Banking, Finance or Restructuring Team of the Year: Ashurst
Ashurst has played a potentially defining role in the ongoing saga relating to the future of the Battersea Power Station site in London by advising on the restructuring of the property holding. The judges were impressed both by the complexity and sens...
08 Dec 2011 | 00:00 |
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