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Burges Salmon, Bristol

Burges Salmon bags new £16m Post Office contract

With the Post Office Horizon inquiry set to continue throughout the year, Burges Salmon has been awarded a new contract for advice provided to the company. The contract is valued at £16m and lasts until May 2025. This is understood to be in addition to an existing contract worth £22.5m that the firm picked up […]

London towers, office City

An A&O reunion: Cahill duo to join former colleagues at Proskauer

Having already hired Allen & Overy’s Philip Bowden, Proskauer Rose is growing its leveraged finance team even more with new recruits from the newly-merged firm and Cahill Gordon & Reindel. Leveraged finance partner Megan Lawrence is due to join Bowden at Proskauer. She was promoted to partner at A&O in 2022 having been at the […]

Edinburgh

Scotland’s Anderson Strathern shifts year-end from “out-of-kilter” August

Scottish Independent Anderson Strathern is planning to move its financial year-end from its current 31 August to 31 March, a shift that will result in a seven-month fiscal period for 2024/25. The move is the firm’s response to HMRC’s basis period reforms and is aimed at reducing the admin burden on business services staff and […]

Newcastle

Clifford Chance’s Newcastle boss exits firm

The head of Clifford Chance’s office in Newcastle has left the firm after six years in charge. Lucy Nixon left the firm last week. She joined in 2018 when Clifford Chance acquired Carillion Advice Services, the paralegal and managed legal services arm of the contractor. Nixon joined Carillion in October 2007 as an operations manager, […]

Manchester canal

BDB Pitmans leads canal company to victory in landmark sewage ruling

The Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling today, overturning decisions by the High Court and Court of Appeal to grant waterway owners the right to bring legal action against polluters for nuisance and trespass. This case, one of The Lawyer’s top 10 appeals of 2023, has been progressing since 2010 and has taken over […]

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