John Young is a legal director at Mishcon de Reya. His early career was spent at a number of small firms before he eventually joined Mishcon in 2006. What’s your background? Why did you train where you did? The reason I chose law in the first place was primarily because I was a child of […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP)’s imminent office consolidation will enhance opportunities for the firm’s staff to take advantage of flexible working opportunities, it has emerged. BLP currently operates two offices in London but recently announced that it was relocating its teams in St Magnus House to its larger base at Adelaide House. The move will be […]
Eversheds’ contract lawyer business Agile has signed up JP Morgan as its first major client in Asia. Eversheds first launched its Agile service in the UK in 2011 and rolled out in Hong Kong and Singapore in October 2015, providing interim legal consultants to in-house legal teams on a flexible basis. Since its expansion to […]
OneSavings Bank (OSB) group general counsel and company secretary Zoe Bucknell is set to step down from her role after five years at the helm of the challenger bank.
Cathy Pitt is building CMS’ strength in the ever-changing world of funds
Negotiating billion-dollar acquisitions through a raft of Nigerian oil and gas laws and facilitating energy solutions in the face of $30 oil are par for the course for Oando’s Ngozi Okonkwo
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has hired Clifford Chance competition partner Alastair Mordaunt
On 17 February 2016 the UK Government issued guidance making it clear that procurement boycotts by public authorities are inappropriate. The guidance was expressly targeting those “town halls” who the Government described as “poisoning and polarising debate” as well as “fuelling anti-Semitism”. The Government’s response to the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” (BDS) movement, which […]
Utility giant has turned to UK, US and Canadian firms as it extends its influence around the world
Oil company Tullow has felt the full impact of the oil price crash but with a major Ghanaian find due to come onstream, group GC Rupert Rowland-Clark is quietly confident about the future
Experience shows that it is important for lawyers to engage with the referendum process
Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) has hired a team of seven asset finance lawyers from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), including two partners, in a boost for its Hong Kong and Singapore offices.