What was your first-ever job? Odd jobs at a college, starting wage: 12.5p per hour. Where’s the best place to go if you want to find out what’s really going on in the office? On a long train trip with one of the practice managers or on the chambers ski weekend. What do you do […]
Nigel Spencer, global director of learning and development Nigel Spencer is global director of learning and development (L&D) at Reed Smith. He joined the firm in 2011 from Simmons & Simmons, where he worked in a similar role for more than seven years. How do you decide what is important for staff to learn? For […]
A draft EU report due out imminently confirms a commitment to examine more closely the use by some member states of pay between assignment contracts. Martin Warren, head of employment law at Eversheds, has commented. Warren said: ‘In September 2013, the TUC formally lodged a complaint with the European Commission, alleging that the UK has […]
DLA Piper has announced that Ann Ford, Claudia Frost and Lisa Haile have been named on Managing Intellectual Property’s annual list of ‘Top 250 Women in IP’, which recognises the top female intellectual property (IP) lawyers in the US. Part of the inaugural edition of IP Stars, a supplement to Managing Intellectual Property magazine, the ‘Top 250’ […]
The recent amendments to Ukrainian banking legislation stipulating additional requirements for the sale of proceeds by residents and non-residents in foreign currency have come into force. Previous banking rules established a requirement for the mandatory sale of foreign currency proceeds in the amount of 50 per cent of the proceeds from the sale of goods under foreign trade […]
Solar photovoltaic (PV) is one of the eight key renewable energy technologies put forward by the government as part of the solution to create a clean, balanced UK energy mix. Solar projects can be developed and installed very quickly, and the fuel (solar radiation) is free. Recently, solar received the highest public-approval rating of all […]
An announcement opened the prospect for more UK public hospital mergers. Stephen Rose, partner and expert in competition law at Eversheds, has commented in response to a joint statement from the Office of Fair Trading, the Competition Commission and Monitor. He said that the timing of the joint statement is ‘designed to draw fire’ from […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has advised Dong Fang Container Finance (SPV), a BVI restricted-purposes company, on its $200m (£120m) Series 2013-1 asset-backed notes offering. The Conyers team was made up of Anton Goldstein and Patrick Ormond.
Łukasz Jankowski and Jakub Kasnowski joined Wierzbowski Eversheds in Poland in mid-October and are hoped to strengthen and develop the energy law practice. Jankowski specialises in energy law, including regulatory and competition law issues related to this sector. He has many years of experience in providing legal advice to companies from the electricity and gas sectors, […]
James Batham, partner and head of retail at Eversheds, has commented on the news that UK retail sales increased in September 2013. Batham said: ‘Today’s retail sales figures come as some reward to UK retailers who continue to work hard for every sale across all channels. The picture is not uniformly rosy but the wider underlying […]
London 2012 was the first of a trio of events that were aimed at putting Britain on the international sporting map. Next on the agenda is Glasgow 2014 and then, in 2015, the Rugby World Cup arrives on home turf. Freshfields former corporate and London head Tim Jones must have thought that London 2012 was […]
Ashurst partners have voted legacy Blake Dawson chairman Mary Padbury into its vice chair position, just days after litigator Ben Tidswell emerged as the firm’s new chairman (16 October 2013). Padbury, who currently holds the position of chairman at Ashurst Australia, was first elected into the leading role at Blake Dawson in 2005. She has […]