The BBC has put its scheduled panel review on hold due to a raft of external pressures on its legal team including a reduced budget, proposed cuts to services and the Government threat to abolish the licence fee. The review, which would have kicked off with assistant general counsel Peter Ranyard laying out the terms […]
Osaka-based Japanese firm Shusaku Yamamoto has formed a first of its kind business alliance with Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) to support Japan’s innovative technology start-ups. The business alliance aims to support the growth and development of Japanese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and venture companies by providing the protection and commercialisation of their innovative […]
Flybe’s general counsel and company secretary Annelie Carver has left the low-cost airline for legal service provider LawBite. Her departure in June has led aviation solicitor Kevin Bodley to fill in as interim GC. Bodley has run his own firm for some 15 years, with clients including MK Airlines and European Aviation. Prior to moving […]
A host of Canadian, US and UK firms have all won roles on Cinven’s £2.3bn sale of London-based Amdipharm Mercury Company (AmCo) to Toronto’s Concordia Healthcare. Clifford Chance advised longstanding client Cinven with a team led by global private equity partner Jonny Myers. Partner Alastair Mordaunt advised on antitrust matters, while fellow partners Rod McGillivray […]
Latham & Watkins finance partner Lucy Oddy has moved to Allen & Overy after just a year working in the US firm’s structured finance practice. Oddy moved to Latham in April 2014 from Berwin Leighton Paisner, where she had been a partner for four years. [continued] Also on TheLawyer.com: Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Freshfields […]
Offshore drilling company Transocean senior vice president and general counsel Lars Sjöbring is set to leave the company at the end of 2015 after just 18 months at the helm of the energy giant’s legal team. Sjöbring, who joined from automotive safety supplier Autoliv in March 2014, has not confirmed his next role. His replacement […]
Osborne Clarke has entered into a formal association with Hong Kong-based firm Koh Vass & Co, a year after announcing a strategic alliance with the firm. The transition from strategic alliance to formal association is the next stage of the Hong Kong Law Society’s regulatory processes, with Koh Vass & Co on course to officially […]
Linklaters, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Sullivan & Cromwell have all advised on Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance’s (MSI) £3.5bn offer for insurance company Amlin. Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom advised MSI, a subsidiary of Japanese-listed MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings. Its team consisted of London corporate partners Scott Hopkins and Robert Stirling, as well […]
Latham & Watkins finance partner Lucy Oddy has moved to Allen & Overy (A&O) after just a year working in the US firm’s structured finance practice. Oddy moved to Latham in April 2014 from Berwin Leighton Paisner, where she was a partner for four years in the structured finance practice. At Latham, she advised on […]
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Retail giant Poundstretcher has been fined £65,000 after its working conditions in one of it’s Lincolnshire warehouses was described as a “disaster waiting to happen”. No5 Chambers barrister, Tim Pole, prosecuted in this case. It was heard, at Lincoln Crown Court, an Envronmental Health Inspector from South Kesteven District Council visited the premise in June 2014 […]
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