Taylor Wessing managing partner Tim Eyles was recently elected for a third term at the helm of the firm. His next step? International expansion. With two terms under his belt already, Eyles was re-elected this year after running uncontested as managing partner for the firm, giving him a lease of life until 2018 to continue […]
Profit and pay were at the top of the most-read list this week, with big litigation also featuring highly. There is little that attracts readers like money, and this week’s top 10 list proves the point. The most popular story last week was the revelation that Trowers & Hamlins’ international net profit had dropped by […]
Taylor Wessing managing partner Tim Eyles was recently elected for a third term at the helm of the firm. His next step? International expansion. With two terms under his belt already, Eyles was re-elected this year after running uncontested as managing partner for the firm (10 July 2015), giving him a lease of life until […]
Bircham Dyson Bell has instructed RPC to defend a professional negligence claim brought by property developer client Harding Homes. The details of the claim, which reached its seventh day of hearing today (24 July), are not yet known. RPC partner Nick Bird is leading for Bircham Dyson Bell, instructing Hailsham Chambers’ William Flenley QC and […]
Dispersed firm Keystone Law has made 20 lateral partner and senior lawyer hires in recent months, including a team from Hogan Lovells and former practice heads from firms including Pinsent Masons and Sheridans. The hires include six practice group heads such as Sheridans’ head of sports Morris Bentata, Pinsent Masons life sciences head Paul Ranson, […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have advised on the £844m deal to sell the Financial Times group to Japanese media firm Nikkei. Freshfields corporate partners Simon Marchant and Oliver Lazenby represented Pearson in the deal. Skadden fielded a cross-border team of lawyers led by Mitsuhiro Kamiya in Tokyo and Scott […]
Ince & Co has announced that its turnover has fallen by 8 per cent, from £86.7m to £79.4m last year. The results are a continuation of the firm’s declining revenue, which fell 7 per cent during the previous year from £93.2m in 2012/13 (4 April 2014). The firm’s average revenue per partner (RPP) last year […]
A month after Olswang announced it was splitting off its Berlin office, the firm’s team of 50 lawyers and staff have found a new home at US firm Greenberg Traurig. Greenberg Traurig is the latest firm to enter the already-crowded German market, and the latest to do so with a team from a firm slimming […]
Barclays managing director of litigation and investigations Jonathan Peddie and former Standard Chartered group head of legal David Brimacombe are set to join Baker & McKenzie’s global investigations practice as partner and consultant respectively. Peddie, who also filled the role of global head of financial crime legal and had been at the bank for 11 […]
Alberto Casiroli has admitted to killing Francesco Leccese, who worked in China Town’s Genting casino, at a home they shared in Ladywood. Casiroli, 20, pleaded guilty to manslaughter. His not guilty plea to murder was accepted by the prosecution at Birmingham Crown Court. Adrian Keeling QC, prosecuting, said his plea was on the grounds of […]
A man from Worksop, Nottinghamshire, has been jailed for life for killing his parents. Michael Burrows QC prosecuted. Kamil Dantes, originally from Poland, admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was jailed for 19 years. His parents were both found dead in their bedroom on 21 April 2014. Mr Dantes had more than 20 […]
The Mirror Group phone hacking Case Management Conference that took place on 8 and 9 July was a great success from our clients’ perspective. The Judge has ordered Mirror Group to provide claimants with early disclosure of the following documents: All the call data they hold about phone hacking claimants and all the call data […]