Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo has emerged as the Spanish firm taking on Irwin Mitchell’s offices in Madrid and Marbella, with the two firms also signing an alliance to work together in the future. Irwin Mitchell and Cremades signed an agreement yesterday which will see the Spanish firm absorb the two offices. The announcement comes less than a […]
By Paul Eccles The Commercial Court has ruled that consequential losses arising from riots cannot be recovered from the public purse. Rioting in cities and towns across the UK in August 2011 brought into sharp focus insured and uninsured losses for businesses. The Riot (Damages) Act 1886 provides that where premises are damaged or destroyed […]
By David Nessim and Jonathan Smart There has been a lot of buzz about the Jackson reforms. Shoosmiths highlights a few considerations that demonstrate that when trying to settle a dispute, the battle still rages about which settlement mechanism (Part 36 or Calderbank) is more advantageous. The reforms have caused what is expected to be […]
But there is neither a cowardly lion nor a rusty tin man in this story. When US-born Burke steps down from his role early next year, the yellow brick road will take him to Boston private equity firm Arclight Capital Partners where he will be general counsel and COO. As the longest-serving managing partner Freshfields […]
FC Business has announced that Walker Morris has been shortlisted for the Best Professional Service Business Serving Football award in the 2013 Football Business Awards, which celebrate excellence, recognise the positive impact of football on the community and acknowledge the vital role played by the businesses that serve the game. The winners of the awards, […]
The abolition of the ancient common law right to ‘distress for rent’ has been on the cards since the enactment of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. However, we have been waiting since 2007 for the government to enact the necessary regulations that will bring the successor to distress, called commercial rent arrears recovery […]
The long-running saga of Daejan Investments Ltd v Benson and Others [2013] UKSC 54 at last reaches what should be its ultimate conclusion as far as the courts are concerned. Both landlords and tenants will have an interest in how the court has dealt with the question of costs. By way of reminder, in March […]
Just three months after the tripartite combination between SNR Denton, Salans and Fraser Milner Casgrain to form Dentons, the firm has its eye on US firm McKenna Long & Aldridge. It’s a bit like squaffling down two quarter pounders with cheese, five medium french fries and 20 chicken McNuggets before going back to look at […]
The last 12 months has proved an exceptionally busy period for employment law reform, in many cases the changes arising outside of the usual April and October dates for legislative change. The various changes can be viewed in Eversheds’ guide. This October brings fewer changes, in light of what has proceeded it, but they are […]
By Evan M Migdail Amid the intense dispute over federal spending and debt, the chairmen of the tax-writing committees in the US Senate and the House of Representatives continue their efforts to build a consensus among their members for tax reform. Both have pledged to move forward with comprehensive proposals this fall. On the House […]
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It is a well-established and universally accepted principle of competition law that a payment by one competitor to another competitor not to enter a market is anticompetitive, and in Australia since 2010 a criminal offence. In the US over the past decade, drug companies, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and class action applicants have battled […]