Allen & Overy has advised Neoświat PPP Projects, part of French group Bouygues, on the development of Jagiellonian University student dormitories in a public-private-partnership(PPP) deal. This is the first PPP project in Poland involving a public university and also the first such venture in the public building sector. The purpose of the project is to […]
As SJ Berwin’s combination with King & Wood Mallesons goes live today, the enlarged Swiss Verein has established a new global organisational structure aimed at installing practice and sector integration. The newly merged firm will be governed by the international management committee (IMC), consisting of 12 members in total with each of the three legacy […]
The Lawyer UK200 has been published, and it’s bigger and better than ever before. Try our cut-down free version to get a glimpse of the interactive benchmarking tool, and contact daniela.badcock@centaur.co.uk for access to the full, paid-for version, which includes a PDF report on each of the top 200 firms ranked The Lawyer UK 200: […]
Canadian firm Gowlings’ EMEA head of energy, infrastructure and mining David Shasha has left the firm (1 November). Shasha joined Gowlings in November 2010 as part of the firm’s strategy to make London a hub for its energy and infrastructure work in the EMEA region (10 November 2010). He previously worked as Simmon & Simmons’ […]
Dacheng has become the latest foreign firm to set up a base in Mongolia’s capital Ulaanbaatar. Dacheng’s Ulaanbaatar office will be led by senior partner Lu Hada, who has relocated from the firm’s Beijing head office to Mongolia. Lu is from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and is native in both Mandarin and Mongolian. This […]
French independent August & Debouzy is launching a scheme to support young entrepreneurs, inviting French start-up companies to bid for one of 10 low-priced support packages. The initiative, known as ‘Start you up’, will see 10 businesses run by entrepreneurs under 40 have access to August & Debouzy’s services for €200 a month for one […]
Surrey-based energy boutique LXL and US firm Morgan Lewis have advised on the $898m sale of Newfield Exploration’s Malaysian offshore oil and gas interests. LXL, a boutique energy firm run by former Clifford Chance energy head Alan Jones, advised buyer SapuraKencana Petroleum on the deal after pitching for the work. The oil and gas group […]
SJ Berwin senior partner Stephen Kon has spoken about how the client shift from West to East has propelled his firm to combine with Asia Pacific giant King & Wood Mallesons – which goes live today (1 November). In a video interview with The Lawyer editor Catrin Griffiths, he said: “The direction of travel has […]
The UK government has published a response to the consultation on reform of the TUPE Regulations that it carried out earlier this year. Having taken account of the 178 consultation responses, the reforms that the government is now proposing are considerably less radical than those that it was originally considering. In particular, there has been […]
By Kit Burden There is a noticeable trend for the list of ‘indemnified’ losses in IT and outsourcing contracts to be getting longer and longer. Our commercial/ business colleagues and clients see lawyers get very hot under the collar when arguing about them, and yet it can be difficult to articulate quite why this is […]
By Carlos Rodríguez Spain’s modified ‘patent box’ regime is now in effect. The most important developments — which became effective on 29 September — are as follows: The exemption on revenues from granting the right to use certain qualifying intellectual property (IP) rights has risen to 60 per cent of the net income. This exemption […]
Douglas Adams envisaged the Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as a single volume that held an abundance of data for the planet-hopping traveller, in a more useful and friendly format than the Encyclopaedia Galactica. In an age where Wikipedia now deals with terabytes of edits to its content, we can now start to appreciate […]