Fladgate has boosted its AIM practice with two more partners from Fasken Martineau just months after hiring the Canadian firm’s employment practice group head Michael McCartney. The latest hires are corporate partners Nigel Gordon and Chris Chrysanthou who are joining Fladgate along with Fasken associate Zehra Kofturcu. Gordon, head of Fasken’s corporate practice group in […]
Foot Anstey has confirmed its revenue soared by 17 per cent in the first half of the 2015/16 financial year, with turnover for the first six months hitting £16.6m. At the same point in 2014/15 turnover was £14.2m and full-year revenue was £32m, up 16 per cent from the previous year. Managing partner John Westwell […]
Clyde & Co has expanded its Sydney team by taking five partners and at least 25 lawyers from Australian insurance boutique firm Lee & Lyons.
Two teenagers have been convicted of murdering a Polish man following an act of random violence in a street in Handsworth.
National law firm Shoosmiths has appointed Miriam Scott as a consultant in Shoosmiths’ recoveries services group.
Balfour & Manson client Trump International Golf Club Scotland, an organisation run by Donald Trump, has had its legal challenge to a planned offshore wind farm defeated in the Supreme Court. US business tycoon Trump, who is building a golf course on the Aberdeenshire coast, instructed Balfour & Manson chairman Elaine Motion to bring […]
The London Boroughs’ Legal Alliance (LBLA) has appointed 19 sets of barristers in its latest panel review, which is valued at £25m. The list of chambers includes Five St Andrew’s Hill, Pump Court, 11KBW and Doughty Street Chambers. Previously, the panel was made up of 29 sets of chambers but 63 per cent of the […]
DWF and Eversheds have won places on Tata Chemicals Europe’s (TCE) first panel review, along with Addleshaw Goddard and Clyde & Co. TCE general counsel Phil Davies launched the company’s first panel review back in October, with the panel set to run for three years. DWF and Eversheds have been appointed to advise across a […]
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has instructed Simmons & Simmons to defend a mammoth claim brought by property tycoon Glenn Maud over allegations of Euribor rigging. Scheduled for its first hearing in May 2016, the row stems from Maud’s purchase of Santander’s global headquarters through his Spanish property vehicle Marme Inversiones in 2008 for […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) has confirmed the eight contenders set to battle it out to replace senior partner David Morley and managing partner Wim Dejonghe next spring. Current managing partner Dejonghe will run for the senior partner position, comepting with dispute resolution head Tim House, banking co-head Stephen Kensall and Paris-based competition partner Michel Struys. […]
Six months after floating on the London Stock Exchange, Gateley has announced turnover has grown 10.9 per cent, from £26.7m to £29.6m. Profit before tax has also increased by 11.5 per cent to £2.9m from a pro-forma figure of £2.6m. The biggest increase in revenue came from the firm’s corporate group, which grew turnover by […]
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