Morrisons has completed its first panel review as it prepares to double its in-house legal team by the end of the year. General counsel Mark Amsden joined from Addleshaw Goddard in Febuary and has since recruited two former colleagues to join him in boosting its legal team from four to eight by the end of […]
Freshfields corporate partner and former London head Tim Jones is leaving the firm to join England Rugby 2015 as general counsel. England Rugby 2015 was set up by the Rugby Football Union, whose general counsel is Karena Vleck, to run the international tournament when it arrives in England and Wales in three years. Jones’s role, […]
Fiji Airways has hired a local senior associate as its new general counsel, replacing the airline’s first-ever in-house lawyer Jay Shree following an “exhaustive search process”. Senior associate Cecille Sanchez will join the airline from Suva-based law firm R Patel Lawyers at the end of the month. She has been with the firm for more than […]
I’d really no business to be going to the Shard for dinner on a Sunday night after a birthday weekend of sheer piggery in Paris But because it was my actual birthday on the Sunday night, an event which, obviously, I no longer regard as something to celebrate, I could justify yet another big meal […]
Law firm partnership elections are often docile affairs; just look at Mishcon, which recently re-elected Kevin Gold with no other candidates standing. The ousting of Charlie Geffen in the top slot at Ashurst will come as a shock to many: the new chairman is litigator Ben Tidswell. Tidswell beats Geffen to new chairman role at […]
Ashurst’s newly-elected chairman Ben Tidswell plans to consolidate the firm’s current international footprint and push for profit growth as he prepares to take the helm from the firm’s current senior partner Charlie Geffen. After being revealed as the firm’s first ever chairman earlier this week (16 October 2013) Tidswell said that he intends to secure […]
London set 39 Essex Street is to set up a base in Kuala Lumpur, a move that will make it the first UK chambers to have a presence in Malaysia. 39 Essex Street has recently signed an agreement with the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA) to take up office space in the Sulaiman […]
Washington DC firm Steptoe & Johnson has drawn in BHP Billiton’s anti-corruption and trade compliance lawyer Jeffrey Cottle as a partner for its London office. The appointment, which will see Cottle join the firm’s international regulation and compliance group at an unconfirmed date, follows Steptoe’s hire of London-based Patrick Rappo, the former joint-head of bribery […]
Jones Day and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have taken lead roles on the first major Asian investment in Italy’s Serie-A football clubs. FC Internazionale Milano (Inter) and its majority shareholder Internazionale Holding, wholly controlled by Italian oil tycoon Massimo Moratti, has recently signed an agreement to sell 70 per cent stake in the football […]
West Midlands firm DBS Law is to cut staff hours after posting record growth over the last year. The Birmingham-headquartered firm said staff would benefit from a two and half hour cut to the working week. Turnover for 2012/13 stood at £5.4m, an increase by a quarter of a million from the previous year. The […]
The recent case of Torre Asset Funding v RBS reiterates that the contract is king, especially in the context of complex structured asset finance facilities. As part of a six-tiered finance facility put together by the defendant (RBS), the claimant (Torre) loaned money to Dunedin Property Industrial Fund (Holdings) Ltd to acquire a portfolio of industrial […]