Ashurt Morris Crisp advised Critchley Group in a rights issue to raise £11.4 million net of expenses. Ashursts also acted for Hoare Govett Corporate Finance on its private placing of shares in Bioglan Pharma for a total subscription price of £10 million. Norton Rose acted for Bioglan Pharma.
Barring further delays, practitioners should get a chance this week to read the long-awaited legal aid White Paper. Although the White Paper working party at the Lord Chancellor’s Department has been disbanded, no team has been put in its place to consider a Bill. And if one is planned, it is being left rather late, […]
Barbara Hewson is a barrister at 12 Gray’s Inn Square. On 5 March, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled in two article 177 references, Brasserie du Pecheur SA v Federal Republic of Germany (case C-46/93) and R v Secretary of State for Transport (case C-48/93, known as Factortame III). In both cases damages were […]
FOR the few lawyers in the UK who practise contentious farming law the latest BSE scare has brought a deluge of enquiries from those involved in the meat trade. Farmers, livestock auctioneers and food companies have already asked lawyers to seek legal aid to enable counsel to explore possible courses of action against the Government. […]
Media and reputation firm Schillings has opened its first European office outside of the UK by launching in Dublin. The office will offer advice in crisis management, risk mitigation and “opportunity harnessing” with further service lines in “intelligence, law, communications, diplomacy and security to handle high stakes situations”. Schillings CEO David Imison said of the […]
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Stephenson Harwood has introduced a tech product to its generative AI toolkit, acting as an alternative to another well-used provider, Harvey. The firm is partially rolling Curvestone AI’s Workflow GPT to its legal and support staff, with a larger rollout planned. Curvestone AI is an addition to Stephenson Harwood’s suite of products, with the firm […]
Morrison & Foerster and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom are leading for longstanding client Visa in its acquisition of Cambridge-headquartered fraud-fighting outfit, Featurespace. MoFo is leading for Visa on the corporate side of the deal, while Skadden is advising on antitrust matters. Wilson Sonsini is acting as lead counsel for the target, Featurespace. The team […]
Litigation boutique Candey has today been cleared by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) of anti-money laundering (AML) failures regarding a £24m deal for a Northumberland country estate in 2015. Managing partner Ashkhan Candey said in a statement that it was “regrettable” that the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) “did not engage with us on the substantive […]
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Freshfields’ new branding, revealed this week by The Lawyer, has attracted plenty of attention for the deletion of its German heritage. But it’s also provoked deep scepticism. Lawyers who can barely use clip art are saying they could do better themselves, which is about as good an idea as getting graphic designers to draft an […]
Of the Top 10 fastest growing firms in The Lawyer’s Global Litigation 50 2024 (GL50), seven have headquarters in the UK. Given that there are only 10 UK firms in the GL50, which ranks the world’s 50 largest litigation practices, that’s not bad. Add to that, the fastest growing firm in the list, disputes giant […]
Major firms are redefining what it means to be a full equity partner
The Brits are back. We don’t mean the annual popular music jamboree at which microphones are dropped, singers’ bums are bared and popstars challenge each other to punch-ups. We mean UK-headquartered firms and their financial fortunes. For years, the contrast with their oppos from across the Atlantic, most of which have been beavering away driving […]
Slaughter and May, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Jones Day head to court today (27 September) in a case brought by Standard Chartered against its own investors, in the first case arising from the termination of Libor. The legal battle, led by One Essex Court’s Kenneth MacLean KC, will play out at the London’s […]
The former Solicitor General in England and Wales, Michael Tomlinson KC has returned to his former career at the Bar at his old set 3 Paper Buildings (3PB). Tomlinson was one of 13 barristers to lose his seat in the July General Election, with his Liberal Democrat opponent in Mid Dorset and North Poole wiping […]
Sanctioned Russian billionaire Andrey Guriev has prevailed in the $1bn showdown between him and his former friend Alexander Gorbachev, addressing the decade-long battle between the pair over ownership of the global chemicals company PhosAgro. The dispute saw Essex Court’s Paul Stanley KC and David Scorey KC, instructed by CMS, go head-to-head with Brick Court’s Helen […]
The announced merger between South Coast firm Lester Aldridge and London’s Mackrell Solicitors has been called off at a late stage, The Lawyer can reveal. The two firms announced a tie-up in May, with the deal set to complete in September 2024. Lester Aldridge had a strong 2023/24, with revenue up 12 per cent from […]
Pump Court Chambers had £2.75m stolen from its accounts by its own former credit control manager, according to a judgment released today. Gillian Goodfield, who had held her position at the chambers since 2015, was found to have committed the alleged fraud, with the money “spent on her lifestyle”. 4 New Square’s Saaman Pourghadiri appeared […]