Karanovic & Nikolic partners Stevan Dimitrijević, Miloš Vučković, Dejan Nikolić and Patricia Gannon have attended the International Bar Association (IBA) annual meeting in Boston. With more than 6,000 lawyers from all over the world, the IBA conference is the largest gathering of lawyers practising international law.
Eversheds lawyers attended the inaugural ICSC European Law Forum on 24 September 2013 in Brussels. The lawyers, from Sweden and the UK, for example, came together with in-house counsels of several of the industry leaders from the UK, continental Europe and the Nordics. The event was addressed to shopping centre management and leasing experts involved […]
The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has issued a statement about the costs of a judicial review into the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA) following widespread outrage and confusion on Twitter. Earlier this week The Lawyer reported that Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) had submitted a £400,000 cost estimate for defending a judicial review against the […]
This briefing document provides a summary of the key requirements for the admission of equity securities of a trading company to a listing on the Channel Island Stock Exchange, LBG (CISX). The CISX offers: a fast document turnaround time (often same day) and an efficient personal service; competitive pricing (initial listing fee of £5,500 for […]
Ogier in Guernsey has advised on the launch of a new investment vehicle, DP Aircraft I, which has raised $113m (£70m) through a placing and whose shares have been admitted to trading on the Specialist Fund Market of the London Stock Exchange and to the Official List of the Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISX). DP […]
Merger talks are rumbling on between Manches and Penningtons as the private client firm confirms it is “optimistic” that a deal will be done to create a £60m firm of roughly 250 lawyers. Sources at Manches also confirm that the merger is “still on track” with partners being updated on the potential tie-up in regular update […]
Philadelphia’s Morgan Lewis & Bockius will be run by a woman for the first time next year, with litigation chief Jami McKeon elected to replace longstanding chief Francis Milone. The news was announced earlier this month after the firm voted McKeon in to replace Milone, who has led Morgan Lewis since 1999. McKeon, who joined […]
Quadrant Chambers’ chief executive has defended the bar’s recruitment processes following revelations that former chambers member Tom O’Riordan had lied about his qualifications. Tom O’Riordan was forced to leave Paul Hastings last week after it was discovered the former Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft partner and Quadrant Chambers and Gray’s Inn Square Chambers barrister had falsified […]
Pinsent Masons’ freshly-installed projects team are taking forward the Transport for London (TfL) tube mandate they won while at Bircham Dyson Bell (BDB) after their move last month. Pinsents’ infrastructure, planning and government affairs group head Robbie Owen will lead his old BDB team when the public enquiry into the extension to the Northern Line […]
WSP Group, the structural engineers behind central London’s Shard tower, has hired the legal director of Derby-based train-maker Bombardier. The group’s contracts and legal director Jane Mee, who advised on Bombardier’s bid for a multi-billion pound Crossrail project earlier this year, became WSP’s UK head of risk and contracts this week. She will be responsible […]
There are over 70 CVs piled up in Mayer Brown’s London office. Chairman Paul Theiss explains why the City is en vogue. “I have a question,” starts Mayer Brown chairman Paul Theiss when asked why there’s been so much movement in London. “Why does The Lawyer have to focus so much on who has left […]
Taking the morning off at short notice, my thoughts turned to food. For a change. I decided to go and have breakfast at Honey & Co. On entering, I see a well-known food-blogger on his own and also Nicholas Lander, having breakfast. I feel vindicated. Clearly turning into my mother and the sort of person […]