Ogier has been promoted to a top-tier firm in Guernsey and continues to hold top slots in Jersey in the Chambers UK 2014 rankings. Ogier in Guernsey has seen its corporate and finance practice (including investment funds) promoted to Tier 1 and Ogier in Jersey remains a Tier 1 firm in corporate and finance and offshore trusts and […]
Wragge & Co has advised the founder of Mountain Warehouse on the £85m acquisition of the outdoor clothing and equipment retail business. The buyout of minority shareholder LDC means the management team, led by founder and chief executive officer Mark Neale, takes full ownership of the 169-strong retail chain. It follows the decision by LDC to sell […]
Dormant pots carry a significant administration and cost burden for pension schemes. The bad news is that the number of dormant pots that schemes have to manage could increase quickly once the power to make short service refunds from defined-contribution (DC) schemes is abolished (expected in 2014). Even when the government’s proposed automatic transfer system […]
By Michael J Legamaro, Witold Jurewicz and Michael Greenberg The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Notice 2013-69, including a draft FFI agreement and several intended updates to the existing Treasury Regulations implementing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA). The draft FFI agreement outlines the obligations of foreign financial institutions (FFIs) that will register […]
LPO provider Exigent’s acquisition of mLegal this week gave me the chance to speak to CEO David Holme. It’s fair to say he had some seriously pithy comments to make about law firm process and re-engineering. Simply put, there isn’t any. Holme describes his company’s deal as “the next step to aligning the delivery of […]
A former partner in Cobbetts’ Birmingham office is launching a boutique firm close to Frankfurt in Germany. Jan Becher was a partner in Cobbetts’ commercial team in Birmingham between 2005 and 2011, running the firm’s German desk (18 January 2005). More recently, he spent a year and a half as corporate counsel at watchmaker Swatch […]
By Bukola Aremu The Prevention of Social Housing Fraud Act 2013 (the Act) came into force on 15 October 2013. The Act aims to address the overwhelming statistics relating to unlawful subletting and housing fraud. The Act introduces unlawful profit orders and the permanent loss of security of tenure for assured tenants who unlawfully sublet […]
By Jessica Ready We tend to focus on the risks to a landlord of a tenant remaining in occupation beyond the expiry of a contracted-out lease. However, the recent case of Barclays Wealth Trustees (Jersey) Ltd v Erimus Housing Ltd [2013] serves as an important lesson to tenants of a contracted-out lease. The tenant occupied […]
Fairsail, the leader in Global Workforce Collaboration, today announced it has been selected by Keoghs, the UK’s leading provider of claims-related legal services to the insurance sector , to manage the core Human Resource (HR) and Human Capital Management (HCM) functions of its rapidly growing business. Over 40 years, Keoghs has built its reputation as […]
Jaywing has been appointed to provide Business Intelligence support for Irwin Mitchell, one of the UK’s largest law firms. Initially, Jaywing will lead a programme of change in order to streamline the company’s reporting, ensuring that Irwin Mitchell’s data management processes deliver information to stakeholders efficiently and with pinpoint accuracy. Jaywing’s consultants will become part […]
In 2012 Herbert Smith and Freehills, both long-standing Aderant clients, merged forming Herbert Smith Freehills LLP. Herbert Smith Freehills is now a leading international law firm with 29 offices (including associated offices) across Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. The firm currently has 5,500 employees, including 2,800 lawyers. The newly merged […]
Aderant, the world’s largest independent legal software company, announced today that Afridi & Angell has selected the Aderant Expert practice and financial management system. With the move to Aderant Expert, the firm will be better positioned to meet both internal and client demands by improving key processes, increasing overall productivity, and expanding staff involvement. Afridi […]