The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has appointed Deborah Wilkie to the newly created role of director of Civil Cartel Enforcement. Wilkie, who was until now the assistant director in the CMA’s civil cartel enforcement team and represented the CMA in the Cartels Working Group of the European Competition Network, has been promoted to work […]
DLA Piper has added a second corporate partner in Australia in a week, as the firm tries to boost its corporate practice in the country. Minter Ellison’s Sydney M&A head James Philips has joined DLA Piper’s Sydney office as a partner. His appointment was announced in the same week that Corrs Chambers Westgarth corporate partner […]
A litigation team from Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co (WLG) has secured a landmark result for its clients, the Federal Republic of Brazil and the Municipality of São Paulo, and established new law in both England and Jersey. The Privy Council has handed down its judgment in The Federal Republic of Brazil & Anor v […]
Kirkland & Ellis Beijing co-founding partner Ya-Chiao Chang has left the firm to join Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe. Chang has joined Orrick in its intellectual property practice as a partner and will be based in the firm’s Beijing office. Chang’s practice focuses on complex IP matters, particularly on US patent litigation and he is dual-educated […]
I’m writing this at home, largely as a result of today’s Tube strike. How many Clifford Chance lawyers will also be working from home today, taking full advantage of London managing partner David Bickerton’s pledge to encouraging partners to work from home whenever possible in a bid to increase flexible working? And across the City, […]
Hilton Worldwide general counsel Kristen Campbell talked to The Lawyer in this week’s in-house interview about mending bridges in the legal team following the company’s sale to Blackstone four years before she joined. Campbell saw “a lot of untapped potential” in her team. After restructuring the team and putting in place strategic pillars to integrate […]
Addleshaw Goddard’s top of equity has soared 67 per cent, from £560,000 to £936,000, after strong results gave the firm more freedom to reward its partners. The firm’s equity spread last year ranged from £246,000 to £936,000. In the 2013/14 financial year it ranged between £220,000 to £560,000. The rise is due in part to […]
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has instructed Baker & McKenzie in the unprecedented judicial review against accountancy firm KPMG, ditching plans to manage its role in the dispute in-house. Mishcon de Reya secured permission to bring a judicial review against KPMG for its client nursing home operator Holmcroft Properties in April. The hearing has been […]
Beijing-headquartered Jun He has undergone the most significant remuneration structure shakeup since its establishment in 1989, as the firm recently started a three-year trial run of a new modified lockstep. Slaughter and May’s Chinese best friend previously operated on an almost entirely merit-based remuneration system since it was founded in 1989. Although seniority points were […]
Olswang has turned down an instruction on a multimillion-pound group claim against Google, despite representing the claimants in a similar test case against the technology giant. Google Action Group, which is made up of 5,000 individuals, has instead turned to Hausfeld for its claim that Google breached its duty of confidence to Safari users by […]
Osborne Clarke may have scooped up the top prize at The Lawyer Awards, in association with Travelers, after it secured the Law Firm of the Year award, but other attendees had plenty to celebrate as our video of the night shows. The event saw over 1,200 legal professionals – the biggest cross-section of the market – […]
Ropes & Gray has won mandates on two multi-billion dollar pharma deals, as Shire makes a $34bn (£21.8bn) offer for Baxalta while the EU approves Pfizer’s $17bn (£10.9bn) acquisition of Hospira. The firm recently represented Dublin-based Shire in its proposal to merge with Baxalta, with a team led by US corporate partner Christoper Comeau. He […]