Squire Sanders has formed a strategic alliance with seven-partner Indonesian firm Melli Darsa & Co in a bid to tap into one of the world’s fastest growing emerging economies. The US firm has been considering the move as far back as 2010, when presence in the Pacific Rim, including Indonesia, was discussed during merger talks […]
Harper Macleod has made a swoop for former Burness managing partner Ken Ross as the firm continues to strengthen its Edinburgh office. Ross, who joins as a commercial partner from Balfour and Manson where he headed the commercial team, was managing partner at Burness from 1997 to 2000. The hire of Ross is part of […]
The forthcoming year will see some of the largest value trials to date hit the High Court. If 2013 was the year that credit crunch litigation broke through the surface, 2014 will take financial disputes to an all-new level. In total 14 of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases are valued above £100m, with two claims […]
What happened to 2013’s cases to watch? Of the 20 cases listed as ones to watch by The Lawyer in January 2013, eight received judgment, five are ongoing and seven settled. Here’s a snapshot of the corkers. The multimillion-pound dispute between Britain’s richest man Lakshmi Mittal, CEO of ArcelorMittal, and rival Manmohan Varma saw the […]
(1) JP Morgan Chase Bank plc (2) JP Morgan Securities Ltd v (1) Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) Anstalt öffentlichen Rechts v Clifford Chance Partnerschaftsgesellschaft von Rechtsanwälten, Wirtschaftsprüfern, Steuerberatern und Solicitors When? January 2014, 40 days. Where? Commercial Court, Judge TBC JP Morgan is pursuing a $210m (£130m) claim against Berlin’s public transport provider BVG in one […]
Freezing orders are known as the ‘nuclear’ option, so be well-prepared before applying for one The successful application to the English High Court for a worldwide freezing order against Syrian businessman Tarif Akhras has sparked interest in the legal community, partly because of its size (it relates to an outstanding payment on two large commodities […]
GC rewards outpace private practice as competition for top lawyers intensifies Everyone likes to pipe up when it comes to money so, following the news that Davis Polk & Wardwell is breaking into the London trainee market with a scheme that will offer a newly qualified salary of £100,000, let’s poke our noses in-house. According […]
Graduate recruitment campaigns are moody and minimal this season Law fair season is here and graduate recruitment teams across the UK are grudgingly getting up at ungodly hours to schlep off to Exeter and other far-flung university towns to pimp their firms to the nation’s students. Success largely depends on how firms brand themselves, but […]
Jonathan Robinson is the business development manager at Mundays. He recently joined from Bindmans, where he was head of marketing. Is marketing’s role in the legal sector changing? Yes, it’s always been changing. From the original focus on sponsorship and brochure production to today’s broad spectrum of comms, PR, website development and event organisation, all these […]
X Factor finalists vote on which lawyers will represent them Contestants on hit reality TV show The X Factor and its BBC rival The Voice are not used to playing judge. Music hopefuls have to battle to impress in the final rounds, but the tables turn when the time comes to pick their own lawyers […]
Few topics get tabloid blood racing like immigration, but are heart rates running quite so high among lawyers practising in this area? Certainly, many recruitment consultants agree that immigration is a particular hotspot right now although, they add, this zippy pace is nothing new. “The immigration market has been busy since the points-based system was […]
Lawyers can get involved in the fight against poverty by supporting pro bono initiatives Imagine you are a child and your diet is almost exclusively made up of maize, so you do not eat enough protein, fats or micronutrients. You are at risk of anaemia, vitamin A deficiency and stunted growth. You are malnourished. You […]