Move of the week Pattie Walsh has joined Bird & Bird as a partner in its global employment group. Walsh was previously DLA Piper’s head of employment law for Asia-Pacific, a role she also held at Minter Ellison between 2005 and 2009. She is currently based in London but will be permanently based in Hong […]
In 2010 Allen & Overy (A&O) securitisation partner Angela Clist was credited with leading a landmark bond deal that restored confidence in the market after the recession. Five years on, she is still working on market firsts.
Those offering pro bono services can flourish in the new climate if they change.
A merger requiring 1,200 pages of shareholder information in 19 iterations is something Amec Foster Wheeler GC Alison Yapp takes in her stride.
GC James Jordan on the importance of client ‘kudos’, and how firms should go about being picked for a place on housebuilder Taylor Wimpey’s panel.
These days it is hard to avoid advice about how to keep your details safe online. Increasingly, we are told the perfect length of a password and frequently asked to think of a secret question, which we inevitably forget. No matter how frustrating this all seems it is designed to keep us safe and protect […]
Mayer Brown, Mishcon and Travers Smith have won top roles on the sale of service provider Easynet to cloud-computing group Interoute for £402m. Mayer Brown worked with longstanding client Interoute and its team was led by London corporate partner Peter Dickinson. He was supported by City-based tax partner James Hill, as well as anti-trust and […]
My FOMO has reached new proportions. I know that this is a mix of Japanese, Brazilian and Peruvian, pure con-fusion food. Though I know my nigiri from my sashimi, I’m not so hot on the churrascos and the anticuchos, so I have decided to plan in advance, otherwise known as looking up menu items online. […]
S Chelvan and Jessica Smeaton of No5 Chambers presented a live webinar for LexisNexis last week on ‘General Grounds for Refusal’ in immigration and asylum applications. This topic is set to be of increasing importance to applicants and practitioners as the government looks to reduce net migration. This comprehensive session gives a complete overview of the […]
Christopher Hopkins, from No5 Chambers’ regulatory and licensing group, will be delivering a short update on forthcoming changes to sentencing in health and safety prosecutions that will have a significant impact upon both defendant individuals and organisations. New guidelines are due to take effect in January 2016 for these cases which will see the threshold […]
Karanović & Nikolić participated in a business briefing hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Bosnia & Herzegovina to discuss the implications of the New Labour Law for employers in the Federation of Bosnia & Herzeegvoina. The president of the Employer’s Association of FBiH, Mr Safudin Čengić, gave opening remarks about the negotiations with […]
The UK real estate investment company Tonstate Group is suing the PBC Group and its partners for £88.5m in the UK Courts. Tonstate is represented in the UK by the law firm, Rosling King. Zohar Lande of Barnea & Co.is assisting Rosling King in the action.