National Grid has appointed Addleshaw Goddard, Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF), Irwin Mitchell and Norton Rose Fulbright to a slimmed-down panel, with firms including Allen & Overy (A&O) and Squire Patton Boggs losing out. The utility company’s panel review has seen it cut its advisers from 17 to 12. Addleshaws, HSF and Irwin Mitchell have joined […]
Following Bruce MacEwen and Mark Brandon’s debate over corporate structures in law firms, LOD’s Tim Bratton asks what it means for clients. The quality of a blog post can often be measured by the quality and quantity of the comments appearing beneath it. Recent articles in The Lawyer examining the most desirable structure for tomorrow’s […]
Karanović & Nikolić is supporting the Operosa Montenegro Opera Festival in August for the second consecutive year. This year’s festival, which primarily promotes young up-and-coming opera singers, will take place in the open air amphitheater of Kanli Kula Tower in Herceg Novi on August 22nd. The audience will have the chance to enjoy the performance […]
Shoosmiths has advised British chocolatier Thorntons on its sale to Italian confectioner Ferrero International for £112m. Ferholding, a British-based subsidiary of Ferrero, offered the high street retailer 145p per share, marking the first acquisition of a branded company for Ferrero, which is the fourth-largest confectionery brand in the world. Shareholders and competition regulators have now […]
CMS’s UK arm has saved around €100m (£72m) partly as a result of its move last month to new state-of-the-art headquarters at Cannon Place along with its business services deal with outsourced service provider Integreon. The cost savings have been instrumental in the UK end of CMS posting a record average profit per equity partner […]
Baker & McKenzie has posted a 4 per cent drop from $2.54bn to $2.43bn in global turnover for the 2014/15 financial year, following record figures that made it the largest firm in the world by revenue. The 2013/14 financial results saw Bakers’ turnover grow by 5 per cent from $2.42bn, and was attributed to the […]
Highways England is looking to grow its in-house legal team over 2015, after the government agency was separated from its parent department the Department for Transport (DfT) in April. As the former Highways Agency, Highways England had shared the legal resources of the DfT, with the latter having been led by general counsel Nick Olley since […]
It’s generally agreed that getting into a public spat with an employee is a bad idea. Chelsea Football Club manager José Mourinho could have used the Gateley briefing this week before he removed club doctor Eva Carneiro from her duties after shouting at her during a match. In its briefing Gateley explains just why Mourinho’s […]
Schoenherr advised Rohrdorfer group on its acquisition of CEMEX’s operations in Austria and Hungary for around €160m. The Austrian operations consist of 24 aggregate quarries and 34 ready-mix plants. The Schoenherr M&A team advising Rohrdorfer was led by Alexander Popp (partner, Corporate/M&A) and further comprised Clemens Leitner (attorney at law, Corporate/M&A), Manuel Ritt-Huemer and Florian Hutzl […]
Robert Bennett, 61 and Ronald Reeves, 38, Father and Son from Acocks Green, have both been jailed for a roofing scam, which stole thousands of pounds from vulnerable victims. Bennett was sentenced to eight and a half years and Reeves to five years, for six charges of theft, fraud and transferring criminal property. The trial […]
Scotland’s Burness Paull has again rewarded its staff with a bonus after a strong set of financial results. The firm, which saw turnover rise by 11 per cent to £51.3m in 2014/15 and profit to full-equity partners increase by 13 per cent to £21.6m, has rewarded employees with a bonus equal to 7.5 per cent […]
If your firm does not provide flexible working opportunities, perhaps it’s time to ask why? Agile working is sweeping the profession, and our top 10 stories list. Earlier this year Herbert Smith Freehills kicked off a pilot scheme extending flexible working from support staff to fee-earners. This week the firm announced that the scheme was […]