Manches is close to sealing a merger with private client firm Penningtons in a move that would create a £60m firm of roughly 250 lawyers. Insiders say Manches has been scouring the market for a merger partner for months and is now in the final stages of talks with Penningtons. According to sources, partners have […]
Dentons has launched its 79th office worldwide, relocating a team of lawyers from Dallas and Washington DC to open in Houston. The Houston opening is designed to target energy clients and builds on the firm’s existing presence in Dallas. Legacy Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthald launched in the Texan city in 2007. Dentons is relocating lawyers […]
Hill Dickinson has appointed Alastair Reid as head of its Sheffield office following the death of the firm’s former Sheffield office managing partner Neil Thompson in June. Hill Dickinson launched the base in 2010 following the acquisition of 36 members of Halliwells’ Sheffield staff across the health, corporate, commercial litigation and property practices (21 July […]
Richard Humphreys QC is a member of the administrative and public law and planning and environment groups at No5 Chambers.
Americans are known for being go-getters. So when insurance giant Aviva kicked off its panel review earlier this year, you can bet it was a US firm taking a different approach. The London office of Los Angeles-based litigation specialists Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan effectively cold-called Aviva in a bid to get in front of […]
Douglas Armstrong QC is a member of the planning and environmental law group at No5 Chambers.
Satinder Hunjan QC is head of the clinical negligence group at No5 Chambers. He is also a member of the following groups: international arbitration and trade; personal injury; professional negligence; regulatory; and sports law.
Jeremy Cahill QC is head of the planning and environmental law group at No5 Chambers.
Manjit Gill QC is head of the international human rights law group at No5 Chambers. He is also a member of the following groups: administrative and public law; commercial litigation; employment; immigration; asylum and nationality; judicial review/High Court challenges; and regulatory.
Richard Jones QC is head of the banking, finance and finance regulation, commercial litigation, international arbitration and trade and technology and construction groups at No5 Chambers. He is also a member of the company and partnership, employment, professional negligence and regulatory groups.
Gareth Evans QC is a member of several groups at No5 Chambers: alternative dispute resolution; crime; criminal fraud and proceeds of crime; fradulent insurance claims; mediation; and regulatory.
Christopher Hotton QC is a member of the criminal law group at No5 Chambers.