CAT to consider new funding agreement for class action The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) will consider a revised funding agreement in the class action brought by the Road Haulage Association (RHA) against a group of truck manufacturers on Thursday (18 July) for one day. Originally, claims were brought by the RHA, represented by Addleshaw Goddard […]
The long-running dispute between business partner adversaries Vladimir Chernukhin, represented by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, and Oleg Deripaska, defended by Quillon Law, has finally ended, with Quinn failing to get Deripaska sent to prison for contempt of court. The Court of Appeal on Tuesday (9 July) refused to grant Chernukhin, the former Russian deputy […]
A turbulent election and the upcoming Paris Olympics: there’s plenty of eyes on France this summer. As its people gear up to celebrate la Fête Nationale Française, Bastille Day, this Sunday, we turn our attention to Bredin Prat and the French disputes market. The market: With a seat of the Unified Patents Court (UPC) and […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, we break down a brutal costs decision, bring you another example of just how big competition litigation is now, and tell you which judgment of the year’s biggest cases is expected as soon as today. A costs […]
CAT to consider new funding agreement for class action The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) will consider a revised funding agreement in the class action brought by the Road Haulage Association (RHA) against a group of truck manufacturers on Thursday (18 July) for one day. Originally, claims were brought by the RHA, represented by Addleshaw Goddard […]
The long-running dispute between business partner adversaries Vladimir Chernukhin, represented by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, and Oleg Deripaska, defended by Quillon Law, has finally ended, with Quinn failing to get Deripaska sent to prison for contempt of court. The Court of Appeal on Tuesday (9 July) refused to grant Chernukhin, the former Russian deputy […]
A turbulent election and the upcoming Paris Olympics: there’s plenty of eyes on France this summer. As its people gear up to celebrate la Fête Nationale Française, Bastille Day, this Sunday, we turn our attention to Bredin Prat and the French disputes market. The market: With a seat of the Unified Patents Court (UPC) and […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week, we break down a brutal costs decision, bring you another example of just how big competition litigation is now, and tell you which judgment of the year’s biggest cases is expected as soon as today. A costs […]
O’Melveny & Myers files fresh claim for sheet music publisher Hal Leonard O’Melveny & Myers has brought a new breach of contract claim on behalf of sheet music publisher Hal Leonard Europe against classical music publisher Wise Music Group and its subsidiaries. The claim comes just two months after Wise Music Group, which The Lawyer […]
And just like that, the Olympics are coming to an end. A bit of a comedown for many, but not for the sports lawyers of Northridge Law. Within the space of two Olympic cycles, the sports boutique has cemented itself as, just possibly, the most heavyweight sports team in the country, hop, skipping and jumping […]
An old-school Lincoln’s Inn firm with royal connections. A media-savvy employment specialist. And a full-service regional outfit with a non-lawyer CEO. The similarities aren’t immediately apparent but Farrer & Co, Lewis Silkin and Birketts all passed £100m in revenue in 2023/24, leaving rivals trailing in their wake. That’s what’s so impressive about these three firms. […]
In recent years, Leeds has become a hotbed for new players in the legal arena. And so the burning question old-timers have been asking is: what are their ambitions and how’s that going to affect us? Well, Gowling WLG appears content with its real estate team from Womble Bond Dickinson and has no major expansion […]
The Lawyer’s UK200 has relatively few truly specialist firms. There are a handful of big litigation, personal injury and insurance beasts, like Stewarts, Digby Brown and Keoghs. Sackers focuses on pensions; Stowe and Vardags on family, but the bottom end of the annual ranking of the UK’s largest firms is dominated by regional independents doing […]
Chances are, when asked to name a private equity law firm in the City your first thought would turn to Kirkland, Latham or Simpson Thacher. Hands up who said Sidley? Thought as much. But here’s a data nugget for you. Over the past decade, Sidley’s global private equity-related fee income is thought to have risen […]
Two former directors of retailer BHS have been found liable for over £110m in a judgment handed down yesterday (19 August) by Mr Justice Leech at the High Court. This comes as part of one of the largest insolvency litigation set pieces that went to trial through the end of last year and the beginning […]
Linklaters has made its first lateral hire in Sweden for two years, recruiting a new head of its banking and finance practice from White & Case. Magnus Wennerhorn joins the magic circle firm having previously been co-head of White & Case’s debt finance practice in the Swedish capital. Wennerhorn spent almost two decades at his […]
The cash boom that many firms enjoyed during the Covid-19 pandemic has been replaced with a surge in borrowing as costs rise and firms ready themselves for equity partner tax reforms. Early analysis of 2023/24 reveals that at least 20 per cent of the UK200 firms (43 of 200) increased their borrowings last year, while […]
The CEO of Danish big five firm Bech-Bruun is set to leave the firm later this year, marking the latest in a number of exits the firm has seen in 2024. Christian Ejvin Andersen formally resigned from the firm this month and will see out a six-month notice period. He joined Bech-Bruun in 2014 from […]
A Clifford Chance partner is one of those feared missing after a British yacht sank off the coast of Sicily. Clifford Chance partner Chris Morvillo is among the passengers missing along with former DWF chairman Jonathan Bloomer. The superyacht Bayesian was hit by a powerful storm in the early hours of the morning of Monday […]