As we reported earlier this year, the Polish legal market is saturated with strong local firms as well as a number of foreign players. That means fees are pushed and competition for work is fierce. Competition for people is fierce too, as White & Case is finding out. The firm’s former Polish disputes head Pawel […]
Baker Botts is opening an office in San Francisco, giving the firm a second base in California and taking its number of global offices to 15. The new office will be headed by real estate partner Patricia Stanton, who is currently the partner-in-charge of the firm’s Dallas office. She will be replaced by Dallas head […]
No5 Chambers were announced as winners in the Regional Chambers of the Year 2015 category at the Chambers UK Bar Awards, held last night at Old Billingsgate Walk in London on Tuesday 27 October. The Chambers UK Bar Awards exclusively highlights the excellence of members of the UK Bar, recognising the most outstanding achievements by chambers and their […]
Latham & Watkins has held on to its position as the largest overseas-headquartered firm in the UK market despite Baker & McKenzie posting an increase in its UK revenue to $220.25m, this week’s UK 200: the Top 100 reveals. Partly as a result of a concerted lateral hiring campaign, but also off the back of […]
No5 Chambers’ barristers John Butterfield QC and Phil Bradley have defended in a trial of an unlawful killing of a man who jumped out of a moving car. Ross Gill, 24 from Tamworth, pleaded guilty to unlawfully killing Jason Grice on May 3 this year after Mr Grice jumped out of a moving car during […]
A number of Lloyds Bank investors bringing claims against RBS in its mammoth £4bn shareholder battle have splintered away from the principal claimant group run by Signature Litigation. The shareholders have instead turned to Mishcon de Reya partner Richard Leedham on their £420m claim for damages for nine pensions and investment management subsidiaries. Leedham came […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Central & Eastern Europe Binder Grösswang has appointed Martina Rommer as an attorney-at-law in its banking and finance team. Rommer previously worked at Wolf Theiss and DLA Piper. Polish firm Hansberry Tomkiel has hired competition expert Grzegorz Materna. Materna was previously […]
Political pressure in the healthcare sector means Spire GC Dan Toner is shifting his focus away from corporate and towards culture and process. The past few years have been a whirlwind for the Spire Healthcare general counsel and company secretary, who has had to contend with a stock market flotation as well as the fallout […]
Morrisons has instructed DWF to defend a group claim by 2,000 of its employees over a massive breach of data security. The leak by a former staff member, Andrew Skelton, led to salary, bank account and National Insurance details for 100,000 of its staff being published online last March. Skelton was jailed for eight years […]
Travers Smith has advised Hellman & Friedman portfolio company Hostelworld on its £177m listing on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE), with Herbert Smith Freehills and Irish firm McCann FitzGerald also working on the flotation. Online booking platform Hostelworld turned to Travers Smith corporate finance partner Adrian West and private equity head […]
Wood Group has started a search for a new general counsel and company secretary to replace outgoing legal head Robbie Brown. Brown is due to leave the energy services company at the end of this year, having replaced former GC Ian Johnson five years ago. A spokesperson said he is “currently reviewing his options to […]
Hausfeld will become the latest US firm to open in Germany following a €30m (£21.6m) investment from litigation funder Burford Capital. Burford will put up the multi-million pound pot to fund a raft of German claims for the firm with a focus on competition litigation. The Berlin office will open on 1 January 2016. Hausfeld […]