Slater & Gordon is to take over niche industrial disease firm John Pickering and Partners, the Australian firm’s fourth acquisition since August. The acquisition of eight-partner John Pickering, one of the largest asbestos and industrial disease specialist claimant firms in the UK, will add a headcount of around 27 to Slater & Gordons’ UK operations […]
Former Freshfields London head Tim Jones has just landed his dream job as general counsel at England Rugby 2015. He joins a number of other legal luminaries in the sport, the most prominent of whom is Karena Vleck, GC at the RFU. Vleck was in our Hot 100 earlier this year; check our our video […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) finance and restructuring partner Trevor Wood has become the latest partner to leave the firm after being hired by Mayer Brown. Wood will join the firm’s banking and finance team alongside White & Case senior associate Mayank Gupta, who will also be made partner. The arrival of the pair means that […]
Mr Justice Popplewell last week threw out a series of claims against five former Madoff Securities International (MSI) directors, slamming the claimant Grant Thornton for bringing a “unfounded claim” that verged on public humiliation. In dismissing a multi-million claim against the directors of Bernard Madoff’s European operations Mr Justice Popplewell had some stern words for […]
Litigation funder Vannin Capital has stepped up to fund a High Court battle between the owner of the largest oil and gas project in Azerbaijan and Credit Suisse International (CSI). Private equity-backed Vannin is pumping some of its £100m litigation fund into the case launched by Dr Zaur Leshkasheli’s against CSI – a subsidiary of Credit […]
Christian Bayart and Ilse Bosmans of Allen & Overy have written a chapter on employment issues in the compilation International Outsourcing Law and Practice, edited by Herald Jongen and published by Kluwer Law International. The chapter deals with the HR and employment law compliance issues triggered by an outsourcing and the legal boundaries of the […]
Paula Barrett, head of privacy and information law at Eversheds, has commented on the vote of the European Parliament Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee to back a package of changes to EU data protection rules. Barrett said: ‘Those in favour of the draft EU data protection regulation will be breathing a sigh of relief […]
Michelle Davies, partner and head of the clean energy and sustainability group at Eversheds, has commented following reports from the Climate Policy Initiative think tank showing that global investment in renewables fell by one per cent last year. Davies said that the Climate Policy Initiative figures are ‘not surprising’ and are probably the result of […]
Jones Day has objected to the “excessive” fees submitted by Proskauer Rose and legacy Dewey & LeBoeuf during the administration of collapsed brokerage MF Global. According to yesterday’s filing from the Southern District of New York bankruptcy court, the fees requested by the two firms, a total of $8.7m, are excessive and should be blocked. […]
Brian Dean from No5 Chambers has defended in a prison murder trial. Adnan Rafiq, a prisoner at HMP Hewell, died in January after an attack by two other inmates. Barry Mundle, Jermaine Christie and Jahnel Faure all deny murder. It is alleged that Rafiq was accused of theft and assaulted by Mundle and Christie. Faure […]
In case you haven’t noticed, this season’s must-have is a private equity partner. White & Case proved it was on trend last week with the hire of Richard Youle and Ian Bagshaw, weeks after Jones Day got in on the action by hiring Michael Weir from BLP and Latham & Watkins snapped up Tom Evans […]
By Emma Thomas The EU parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE) has approved a compromise set of amendments to the EU Data Protection Regulation that moves the parliament’s position to the left. Two earlier proposals, from the European Commission and the EU Council of Ministers, were rejected by the committee. It is thought that fallout from […]