International law firm Pinsent Masons has appointed John Woolley as a partner to its Projects team in London, focusing on transactional construction work.
Simmons & Simmons has hired a new IP team to boost its offering in Italy. This is another step in the firm's strategic growth of its international IP practice, a key pillar of its sector strategy in Healthcare & Life Sciences and TMT. Stefania Bergia and Giulio Enrico Sironi joined the firm on 1 September 2018 as partners from specialist law firm Vanzetti e Associati.
Taylor Wessing has announced that it has appointed Kunal Vyas as a partner to its Private Client team in London.
Kunal joins from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner where he acted for UK and international clients across the private client spectrum including high net worth individuals, entrepreneurs, trustees, financial institutions, fund managers and funds.
DLA Piper has announced the hire of leading international insurance and reinsurance partner, Rebecca Hopkirk.
Rebecca, who will be based in London, specialises in high value complex international property, energy and heavy industrial losses and claims for insurance and reinsurance companies worldwide. She has been involved in a number of natural catastrophe losses in various parts of the world, and has extensive experience resolving and managing disputes by way of arbitration, litigation and ADR in Europe, South America, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.
Addleshaw Goddard (AG) has appointed experienced M&A lawyer James Dawson as the latest Partner to join its City Corporate Team, adding further weight to this growing practice.
James has a proven track record in M&A for large corporates and brings with him a significant volume of clients and contacts across several of the firm's key sectors including Financial Services, TMT/Digital and Energy, as well as extensive cross-border experience.
Bird & Bird boosts its international Dispute Resolution Group with the appointment of Adam Kowalczyk as partner in Warsaw.
Davis Polk is advising Lazard & Co., Limited as sponsor to Vedanta Resources plc in connection with the entry by its Indian listed subsidiary, Vedanta Limited, into revenue sharing contracts with the Government of India for the exploration of oil and gas in 41 blocks in sedimentary basins throughout India pursuant to the Indian Open Acreage Licensing Policy. This is the first major auction of hydrocarbon blocks to take place in India since 2010.
Squire Patton Boggs North American Hospitality & Leisure lead Jeff Schagren represented Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, a leader in regional amusement parks, water parks and immersive entertainment, in a successful effort to sign hotel service agreements to bring lodging to Canada’s Wonderland amusement park. The 203-room, dual-branded Hyatt Place and Hyatt House will offer both spacious guestrooms and apartment-style suites in a high-tech contemporary environment. Construction is expected to begin in the first half of 2019, with an opening date planned for late 2020.
Freeths’ specialist hospitality lawyers have advised Brunning and Price on the acquisition of Food & Fuel, operators of 11 premium London pubs.
Owned by The Restaurant Group plc, Brunning and Price has grown from a handful of sites to a collection of 64 individual pubs mainly in rural locations in the NW, N Wales, W Midlands and the South East. The acquisition of Food and Fuel secures sites in prime London locations.
Hill Dickinson's corporate team has acted for the management of a multimillion-pound turnover steel tube supplier, Boole's Tools and Pipe Fittings Ltd, on a successful management buyout by the family which founded the company who have bought it back from a listed builders' merchant.
The team working on the deal from Hill Dickinson was led by corporate partner Ian Riggs and associate Katie Somerville, with assistance from banking partner Alasdair Mackinnon and property partner Darren Hamer.