Topic: Banking & finance
Maples taps insolvency partner for British Virgin Islands role
Maples and Calder has hired a new British Virgin Islands partner with experience advising on the cross-border restructurings of China’s Luckin Coffee and Brazilian oil group Constellation.
15 September 2021
Czech bankruptcy trustee seeks recognition in Florida
The Czech trustee of a bankrupt real estate manager who fled to the US last year has sought Chapter 15 recognition to block litigation launched against him in Florida.
13 September 2021
PwC hires senior adviser with private equity focus
PwC has hired a new senior adviser for its business restructuring services team in the UK, from private equity firm Better Capital.
09 September 2021
Reed Smith hires partner from Arthur Cox in London
After more than two decades with Irish firm Arthur Cox, Kathleen Garrett has joined Reed Smith’s financial industry group in London.
08 September 2021
Haynes Boone hires veteran US Supreme Court lawyer
Appellate lawyer Daniel Geyser, who argued in the precedent-setting bankruptcy discharge violation case of Taggart v Lorenzen, has joined Haynes Boone as the chair of its US Supreme Court practice in Denver.
03 September 2021
FRP hires valuation specialist from Alvarez & Marsal
Advisory firm FRP has appointed valuation specialist Jim Davies as a partner in its corporate finance team in London.
26 August 2021
PJT Partners hires Anchorage’s former restructuring head in New York
Charles Tauber, the former head of restructuring at US hedge fund Anchorage Capital Group, is joining PJT Partners as a partner in September.
24 August 2021
Germany’s Grub Brugger hires eight-person team in Stuttgart
German law firm Grub Brugger has hired an entire insolvency team from Stuttgart’s Menold Bezler, including a group of partners who completed one of the first German restructurings under the new StaRUG tool.
23 August 2021
Cassels snags Norton Rose partner in Toronto
Canadian law firm Cassels Brock & Blackwell has hired the chair of Norton Rose’s Toronto litigation group, Alan Merskey, who has credits on the Nortel Networks and Sears bankruptcies.
20 August 2021
Oon & Bazul and Withers bolster Singapore restructuring offerings
Withers has hired the former co-head of White & Case’s banking and restructuring practice in Asia, while Singaporean firm Oon & Bazul has announced a new restructuring co-head of its own.
18 August 2021