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Shoosmiths is pleased to announce the addition of Partner John Williams to the Construction team in Leeds, where he will focus on further developing the firm’s construction advisory and dispute management capabilities on a nationwide basis.
John joins from Pinsent Masons, where he had been a partner since 2012, bringing over 25 years’ experience in construction law to Shoosmiths
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Shoosmiths is pleased to announce the appointment of Jonathan Dunkley as a partner in its Corporate Restructuring & Advisory (CR&A) team. Jonathan is based in Shoosmiths’ London office, where he will play a key role in enhancing the firm’s CR&A capabilities.
Jonathan joins Shoosmiths from Womble Bond Dickinson, where he led the London Restructuring and Insolvency team
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Shoosmiths advises Housing Growth Partnership on £120m joint venture with Watkin JonesThe Lloyds-backed equity investor has joined forces with Watkin Jones to develop a 397-bed purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in Stratford, East London. With a Gross Development Value of £120m, the project is designed to achieve a BREEAM Excellent rating
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Shoosmiths has increased its salaries for newly qualified (NQ) lawyers, upping pay by 8% (from £90,000 to £97,000) in London and by 5% regionally in England to £63,000. In Scotland and Belfast, the firm also raised its NQ rates to £57,000 and £37,500 respectively
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Law firm Shoosmiths has advised occupational health service provider Latus Group on its investment from private equity firm NorthEdge. The investment from NorthEdge will support Latus Group's growth plan, which includes additional investment into people and the operational platform; improving commercial effectiveness; investing in customer success; and further investment into technology to support the shift to a digital health operating model
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Shoosmiths and Castle Corporate Finance Limited (“Castle”) have advised the shareholder of Lexxic Limited (“Lexxic”, and its associated companies – the “Group”) in relation to the sale of the Group to Agathos Management LLP (“Agathos”)
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London, 10 July, 2024 – Shoosmiths today announces its milestone results for the 2023/24 financial year. The firm saw a 6% jump in revenue, up to £206.7 million from £194.1 million last year. The revenue growth was a record for Shoosmiths, marking the first time it has crossed the £200-million mark. The firm’s profits also climbed to £66 million, a 5% increase from last year’s £62.7 million
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Sending a powerful statement to the industry, M&G Investments’ latest mid-year real estate outlook put forward the case that: ‘For the majority of markets, this year will likely mark the bottom of the cycle and the end of significant capital value falls.’M&G’s prediction follows one of the fastest interest rate hike periods in modern history, with the UK’s Bank rate rising sharply from nearly zero (0.1%) at the beginning of December 2021 to 5
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Law firm Shoosmiths has advised global construction chemicals company FOSROC on its conditional sale to Saint-Gobain for approximately $1.25 billion. The deal is conditional on competition and regulatory approvals and is expected to close in early 2025
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London, 1 July 2024 – Shoosmiths is pleased to announce that Adam Lambert has joined the firm as partner to lead the growth of its London employment law practice.Adam brings nearly 30 years’ experience across a breadth of sectors – covering financial and professional services, technology, publishing, hospitality, manufacturing, commodities, education, media, and real estate – to the firm
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Shoosmiths has completed the transfer of its business-to-business recoveries division (in England & Wales) to Solaris Law Ltd, part of the Azzurro Group. This transaction includes the formal merging of the two teams and a move to modern new offices in the Solent Business Park, Whiteley.The announcement is the first of a two-part transaction that will ultimately lead to Solaris Law becoming one of the largest commercial and consumer collections and legal debt recovery businesses in the UK
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Law firm Shoosmiths is advising PI Industries Limited (PI), a Fortune India 500 listed Agri-Sciences Company, on its offer to acquire Plant Health Care PLC (PHC) - through takeover by way of scheme arrangement.PI has held a leading position in the agricultural inputs industry for over 60 years and benefits from its presence across the complete value chain from product innovation to process development, and large-scale manufacturing to distribution
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Experts from Shoosmiths’s corporate restructuring and advisory team have led the restaurant group Tasty PLC through a successful restructuring plan which was sanctioned at a hearing on 4 June 2024. The plan will allow a comprehensive restructuring of the Group’s business and stabilise its future
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Law firm Shoosmiths has advised Crosstown Doughnuts on the sale of its business to Karali, a diversified multinational hospitality and real estate platform that operates franchises in the fast-food, casual dining, and hospitality sectors
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The Shoosmiths Foundation, a grant-making body managed by law firm Shoosmiths, has awarded a total of £97,500 to Energy Sparks and The Chancery Lane Project charities for projects that will advance a carbon net zero UK aligned with a just transition.National charity, Energy Sparks, helps schools become more energy efficient to fight climate change
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Law firm Shoosmiths has announced the appointment of Gauthier Broze as a Privacy & Data partner and life sciences specialist in Brussels.Gauthier joins Kiran Desai, competition partner and Head of Shoosmiths’ Brussels operation whose hire established the firm’s EU presence.
With a strong focus on building a robust EU capability post-Brexit, Shoosmiths recognised the need to enhance its expertise in Privacy and Data to serve multi-jurisdictional international clients effectively
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Law firm Shoosmiths has announced the appointment of Gauthier Broze as a Privacy and Data partner and life sciences specialist in Brussels.Gaulthier joins Kiran Desai, competition partner and Head of Shoosmiths’ Brussels operation whose hire established the firm’s EU presence.
With a strong focus on building a robust EU capability post-Brexit, Shoosmiths recognised the need to enhance its expertise in Privacy and Data to serve multi-jurisdictional international clients effectively
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Law firm Shoosmiths announces the appointment of partner, Graham Burnett-Hall from Marks & Clerk Law.Graham joins Shoosmiths' Intellectual Property (IP) team, enhancing the firm's capabilities in patent litigation and supporting its strategic ambitions for growth in key sectors and in the London IP market
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Shoosmiths has strengthened its planning practice with a strategic new hire. Karen Howe has joined the law firm as legal director, bringing 40 years of private and public sector planning experience. She arrives from DAC Beachcroft, where she helped expand the firm’s planning department and advised on complex infrastructure matters for developer clients
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Shoosmiths' public markets team, led by partner Nick McCarthy from the firm’s London office, continues to be at the forefront of major public to private deals as it advises Hipgnosis Songs Fund (Hipgnosis) on its latest takeover bid. Having only recently advised Hipgnosis on the initial $1.4 billion offer from US investment group Concord, all eyes are on the latest deal on the table from US private equity investor Blackstone valuing the fund at around $1.57bn (£1
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Shoosmiths has appointed Shama Perera as the new director of business development & marketing. This follows a string of hires across the partnership and business services functions, as the firm seeks to deliver its dynamic 2030 ambition.Shama will drive the firm’s client-led growth strategy across the firm’s core practice areas of Real Estate, Corporate and Litigation and five sectors of Energy and Infrastructure, Mobility, Financial Services, Living and Technology
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Law firm Shoosmiths is advising Hipgnosis Songs Fund on its $1.4 billion cash takeover offer from US-based music rights owner Concord.The FTSE listed company and British music royalties fund Hipgnosis owns rights to songs by artists from Beyonce to Neil Young
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Law firm Shoosmiths has advised leading technology industry experts Amir Nooriala and Daniel Cardenas-Clark and their search fund Aurias on the acquisition of IT security services provider – Saepio Information Security (Saepio). Alongside the acquisition, the duo will take on the new role of co-CEOs as the technology firm looks to increase its international presence and awareness, reduce its risk and improve its security against a backdrop of an evolving cyber threat landscape
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Shoosmiths’ real estate investment group has started the year robustly, completing transactions totalling more than £400m in Q1 2024.There was increased activity across the office, industrial and logistics markets, as well as in the living sector where the firm acted for Berkeley Care Group on a deal involving a £207m care home portfolio
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Shoosmiths has advised Berkley Care Group on a deal involving a £207m care home portfolio.The sale-and-leaseback transaction sees Clariane SE, a French care home group and previous owner of Berkley Care, sell its UK care home portfolio to Elevation Healthcare Properties. The portfolio spans 12 care homes located across England – providing a combined 805 beds
