This week Eversheds’ head of London real estate Bruce Dear shares his adventures at MIPIM Asia. The summit focuses on regional development opportunities and retail real estate trends across the Asia Pacific. “Flight closing” the board says in buzzing red letters. How did that happen? More importantly, how will we explain to our partners that […]
WHSmith has joined the raft of high street giants suing Visa and MasterCard in the High Court over allegations both companies charged retailers anti-competitive credit card fees. WHSmith has instructed Humphries Kerstetter on its dual claims against Visa and MasterCard, which will seek to claim £17.5m and £5.5m in repayments respectively, The Lawyer understands. The […]
Shearman & Sterling has made up 12 new partners worldwide, with nearly half of the promotions being made in London. Litigation counsel Susanna Charlwood joined the firm two years ago from Slaughter and May, while tax counsel Simon Letherman is also a Slaughter alumnus. Meanwhile M&A counsel Matthew Powell has been made up in Shearman […]
Former Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) corporate head David Collins has joined Dentons as head of its UK corporate group. Collins left BLP in October after losing the firm’s leadership election to employment partner Lisa Mayhew in February. He will replace Richard Barham when he takes over the corporate practice on 1 January. Barham, who was head of […]
Linklaters has hired Shearman & Sterling private equity partner Ben Rodham, three years after he left the magic circle firm as a managing associate. Rodham will rejoin the magic circle firm in the New Year. Linklaters private equity head Alex Woodward said Rodham’s arrival “will help the continued growth of our private equity practice and […]
Olswang has expanded its reach in Asia with two non-exclusive tie-ups, with Singaporean firm Holborn and Hong Kong firm Haldanes. The two associations are led by Olswang’s Singapore office, which was opened in 2011, and overseen by the firm’s Asia managing partner Rob Bratby and Asia head of corporate head Andrew Stott. Olswang’s Singapore association firm […]
High street retail giant John Lewis Partnership (JLP) has handed panel places to Burges Salmon, Dentons and Eversheds and named Slaughter and May as its main corporate adviser following a roster review. The panel review was led by JLP general counsel Keith Hubber, who joined the company in January from BG Group after the exit […]
Clifford Chance London head David Bickerton has said the recent decision to move 400 of the firm’s back office staff to a second premises in Canary Wharf was “about delivery, not money”. The magic circle firm bucked the trend of full-service firms relocating their back office and support teams to ‘nearshore’ hubs in Belfast, Manchester […]
If a lawyer is not partnership material it is in their and your firm’s best interests to make them aware of this, rather than dragging things out
Up to 10 law firms have approached the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in recent days to broach the subject of bringing deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) for their clients. Fraud office joint head of bribery and corruption Ben Morgan said news of the first DPA, approved last week (26 November), prompted a flurry of calls from […]
The capital still leads for UK and international litigation and arbitration, but Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong are becoming serious contenders
The healthcare, life sciences and pharmaceutical sector yields an enormous amount of work for lawyers, both in-house and private practice, covering an array of corporate, commercial and contentious work. The Lawyer’s market intelligence tool, LMI, has assembled all public information on these firms.