As the US government shutdown grinds on, the impacts are being felt in Washington DC, across America, and around the world. Both houses of Congress remained in session on Wednesday (2 October), mostly debating familiar talking points. Congressional leaders met at the White House with President Obama, but no major visible progress was made. While […]
DLA Piper has advised Coca-Cola Icecek, the Turkey-based international Coca-Cola bottler, in its inaugural offering of five-year bonds worth $500m. Coca-Cola Icecek is one of the six largest bottlers in the global Coca-Cola system, and one of about 250 bottlers owned by the corporation globally. In addition to Coca-Cola itself, the group bottles other drinks […]
Clifford Chance partners have re-elected Jeremy Sandelson for his second term as global head of the firm’s litigation and dispute resolution practice. Sandelson became partner at Clifford Chance in 1988, and was elected managing partner of the firm’s London litigation practice in 2003. In 2005 he scooped the role of regional managing partner for Clifford […]
Pinsent Masons has scooped the mandate to be the sole legal provider for Eon over 40 other firms, taking on responsibility for the energy company’s day-to-day work on a fixed-fee basis. The news comes months after Pinsents won an instruction to carry out all the business-as-usual legal work for construction giant Balfour Beatty (25 March […]
David Aitman was once told he’d never make it big in the law. Almost half a century later, the new global managing partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, would – very politely – beg to differ. At one time it certainly looked like he would take a very different path. In 1978 the softly spoken Aitman […]
The Master of the Rolls Lord Dyson is expected to decide whether the former chief whip, Andrew Mitchell MP, can break a costs order restricting his legal spend on a defamation claim against The Sun to £2,000. Mitchell was told in June that his legal spend for a defamation claim against The Sun publisher News […]
The Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels (HSH), the owner and operator of The Peninsula Hotels has promoted senior legal counsel Nadine Maurellet to be the group general counsel. Maurellet, dual qualified in England and Wales and Hong Kong, will head a five-strong in-house legal team of the HSH, a Hong Kong-listed company. She joined the company […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Benelux Field Fisher Waterhouse of counsel Thierry van Innis has quit the firm to launch a IP boutique with a former colleague from Allen & Overy (A&O) (2 October 2013). Van Innis has teamed up with A&O senior associate Dieter Delarue […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is on the charm offensive. Since the firm was joined by former South Square barrister Stuart Isaacs QC it has been on a mission to build an in-house advocacy unit capable of competing with the bar. BLP is not alone in this aim. A number of US firms have landed in […]
Can the in-house advocacy unit at Berwin Leighton Paisner really compete with the independent commercial bar? Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) litigation team is in growth mode. Since hiring silk Stuart Isaacs QC from South Square in October 2011 the firm has been working hard to secure instructions by selling itself as practice that can offer […]
By Wouter J L de Clerck While it would be too bold to rank the Netherlands as a place of international arbitration among established seats such as France (Paris), the UK (London) and Switzerland (Geneva), particularly its parliamentary capital, The Hague, is firmly on the international arbitration map as a valid alternative seat. Home of the […]
In an effort to turn its fortunes around, structural steel firm Severfield-Rowen, the business that provided steel for London’s Shard building and the 2012 Olympic stadium, has added a lawyer to its revamped boardroom. Here’s some context: Severfield-Rowen has had a rough old time in recent years, issuing three profit warnings between November and February. […]