Nilufer von Bismarck receives Europe Women in Business Law Award

Europe Women in Business Law Awards: 2014 winners

The best female lawyers from across the continent congregated at The London Hilton Hotel on Park Lane on June 18 to celebrate Euromoney Legal Media Group’s fourth annual Europe Women in Business Law Awards.

Caroline Carr, the EMEA head of Talent Development at Goldman Sachs, gave the keynote speech to an audience of in-house and private practice attorneys who had gathered to celebrate the achievements of
those firms setting the standard in terms of female-friendly work practices, and women leading the field in the legal sector across Europe.

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

Best in capital markets: equity
Nilufer von Bismarck, Slaughter and May

Nilufer has developed a wide corporate, commercial and financing practice, with a corporate client base ranging from large listed companies to small listed and unlisted companies. Her practice includes private and public mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, IPOs and other UKLA work, financings, equity and debt capital markets transactions and corporate governance.

She has worked in a range of industries, including financial services, telecoms, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, healthcare, infrastructure, retail and media.

Highlights include advising:

• UKFI on its disposal of approximately 6% of Lloyds Banking Group for £3.2 billion
• HM Treasury on the assessment of whether to separate RBS into a good bank and a bad bank
• Lagardère on the sale of its entire stake in EADS for approximately EUR 2.28 billion
• Investec Asset Management on the acquisition by management of a 15% shareholding in Investec Asset Management for £180 million in cash
• the Portuguese Ministry of Finance on the EUR1.4 billion recapitalisation of the Portuguese bank Banif – Banco Internacional do Funchal, S.A. as well as similar recapitalisations of three other banks (Banco Comercial Português, S.A., Banco BPI, S.A. and Caixa Geral de Depósitos, S.A.) completed by the Portuguese Republic in 2012
• Borneo on its $1 billion investment in Bumi plc (re-named Asia Resource Minerals plc) and on ongoing matters related to that investment, including the proposed acquisition of a further stake in Asia Resource Minerals for $223 million

Life During Law: Nilufer von Bismarck

There were different challenges during the downturn, you had to look to different markets. Challenges are always there and you are always after that next deal or that new client. I don’t think you could be here for 24 years without still being ambitious for that.

Working on the bailout was very intense – almost surreal, sitting in the Treasury trying to figure out how best it should be done. There was a deadline for having to announce something before the markets opened on the Monday. We all started on Saturday morning and worked all the way through to Monday morning. There were three banks we were looking at: RBS, Lloyds and HBOS, and then the Lloyds/HBOS combination. Each had a different thing to think about, they all had their own lawyers so there were three sets of documentation. The challenges faced and the creativity needed to get that off the ground were a once-in-a-lifetime thing.

Via.

http://www.managingip.com/pdfs/WIBEuropress_2014.pdf
http://www.legalbusiness.co.uk/index.php/news-review/2444-life-during-law-nilufer-von-bismarck
http://www.slaughterandmay.com/who-we-are/partners/nilufer-von-bismarck.aspx