If you faced the Underground strike on Thursday (non-London readers: please wipe the smug look off your faces) then depending on your personal point of view you’ll either have been cursing the lazy feckless Tube drivers and their overmighty union bosses or cheering the workers’ heroic stand against an uncaring and greedy organisation. You may […]
You will not be surprised to learn that I go out to eat quite a lot. Sometimes I forget to concentrate and can’t remember enough about the food to write a sensible review. Sometimes the food isn’t that interesting and sometimes I’m having such a good time with my companions that it seems rude to […]
Walder Wyss has advised Laufenburg-based Energiedienst Holding AG on its establishment with the TRITEC Group of a new enterprise – TRITEC AG. With company headquarters in Aarberg (Canton of Berne), the enterprise will operate in the future in Switzerland and in Germany as a system provider for decentralised generation systems – inter alia, photovoltaic systems, electrical storage devices […]
Walder Wyss has advised Cleanwood First Ltd, which acquired from the Swiss private equity company Invision its participation in Boost Holding Ltd, on its refinancing. Cleanwood First Ltd is an investment vehicle of the entrepreneur Michael Reinwald. The Boost Group is a leading provider of point-of-sale marketing services and loyalty programs with 260 employees, activities […]
Agile working was very much the theme of the week on TheLawyer.com with several stories examining alternative ways of working. The news that Clifford Chance’s London managing partner David Bickerton is trying to encourage partners to work from home, in a bid to lead the way when it comes to flexible working at the magic […]
By staying true to its traditional model, Travers Smith is not known for reinventing itself. But in the midst of an office refit and total rebrand, the firm is adopting a bolder approach, says new managing partner David Patient. Patient took over from Andrew Lilley earlier this year, having headed up the firm’s only foreign […]
It has been one of the largest acquisitions made by a firm to date, but this week Slater & Gordon (S&G) sought to put some distance between it and the historical accounting practices of Quindell as the latter came under investigation from the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Quindell marched into the legal market in December […]
Clifford Chance is advising pharmaceutical company Pfizer on allegations made by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that it charged “excessive” prices for an anti-epilepsy drug. The CMA investigation into sales of the drug Phenytin Sodium to the NHS by Pfizer and Flynn Pharma was announced on Thursday (6 August). The organisation has accused the […]
Over the last few years all of Portugal’s largest firms have been focusing on diversifying their practices into the lusophone countries of Africa, principally Angola and Mozambique but also other developing jurisdictions. The pioneer was Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados, whose Miranda Alliance now spans 11 African jurisdictions and is widely seen as one of […]
US IP and litigation specialist Fish & Richardson has hired a team of five from Olswang’s Munich office including Herbert Kunz, head of the UK firm’s IP patent prosecution team. Kunz, a former legacy Hammonds and Heisse Kursawe Eversheds partner, joined Olswang in May last year with five other lawyers from his boutique, Dr Kunz […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Benelux Allen & Overy has appointed Zhang Shaohui as counsel and head of its Luxembourg China desk in its Luxembourg office. Zhang was previously a partner at De Wolf & Partners. Central & Eastern Europe Romanian firm TSAA Attorneys at Law […]
DWF has posted a 1 per cent growth in revenue to £191m for 2014/15, a significant slowdown in the rate of increase in the firm’s top line after several years of merger-fuelled expansion. The increase is on last year’s audited figure of £189m. Last July The Lawyer reported DWF’s unaudited results as £191m. This year’s […]