Mr Justice Peter Smith has agreed to recuse himself from a £1bn air cargo price-fixing case after lead defendant British Airways claimed that he could be biased against the company. The airline, which is the lead defendant in the ongoing Emerald Supplies Ltd & Others v British Airways plc class action, requested Peter Smith J […]
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Lloyds Bank have drafted in lawyers to defend a multimillion-pound professional negligence claim brought by a Leeds car auction company. The now defunct Premier Motorauctions, represented by Hausfeld, is suing its bank and PwC on ground of misrepresentation, breach of fiduciary and other duties and conspiracy to cause loss by unlawful means. […]
Former Harbottle & Lewis managing partner Lawrence Abramson has been ordered to pay a £20,000 fine over his work in relation to the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World. News International (NI) in-house lawyer Jon Chapman saw claims against him dismissed. Abramson and Chapman were both referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal […]
Ahead of its combination with Gowlings, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co has further strengthened its intellectual property offering with the promotion of Peter Koch and Antony Craggs to Director. The new firm will be home to one of the world’s premier intellectual property practices, with over 70 partners and 200 fee-earners focusing on, among others, the life sciences, technology, automotive and […]
Specialist lawyers at Walker Morris have advised Nuremburg-headquartered Metrawatt International on the purchase of UK electrical safety testing specialist, Seaward. Seaward will now become part of the GMC Instrumentation Division, a group of separate specialist test and measurement manufacturing businesses based in Germany, Switzerland and the US with a global international sales network. Corporate partner […]
Trowers & Hamlins’ international net profit has plummeted by 96 per cent from £2.5m to £100,000 in the last financial year. The firm, which has offices in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Malaysia and Oman, revealed in financial information provided to The Lawyer that its non-UK practices generated just 0.5 per cent of its global profit […]
US technology-focused law firm Fenwick & West has added three lawyers to its Shanghai office, including former Latham & Watkins partner Karen Yan. Yan was previously a corporate partner at Latham & Watkins’ Shanghai office. She was promoted to partnership in 2012. With over 15 years of experience, Yan focuses on corporate financings, M&A, joint […]
Trowers & Hamlins’ international net profit has plummeted by 96 per cent from £2.5m to £100,000 in the last financial year. The firm, which has offices in Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Malaysia and Oman, revealed in financial information provided to The Lawyer that its non-UK practices generated just 0.5 per cent of its global profit […]
Shipping insurance mutual the Standard Club has undergone a review of its preferred legal advisory panel, with longstanding advisers Ince & Co and Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) understood to have made the cut. The marine insurance giant launched a review of its roster of advisers at the end of last year in order to ensure […]
4 Stone Buildings’ Jonathan Crow QC has been instructed by the Attorney General’s Office as an amicus curiae to assist the Supreme Court in the next stage of the long-running battle between JSC BTA Bank and its former chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov. However the question of who will pay for the cost of the case remains […]
Standard Chartered’s new chief executive Bill Winters has announced a “realignment” of the bank’s compliance and legal capabilities, handing group general counsel David Fein responsibility for corporate secretariat issues. Fein’s extra responsibilities were announced as Winters unveiled a streamlined management team in the wake of his appointment last month. Fein will form part of a […]
Standard Chartered’s new chief executive Bill Winters has announced a “realignment” of the bank’s compliance and legal capabilities, handing group general counsel David Fein responsibility for corporate secretariat issues. Fein’s extra responsibilities were announced as Winters unveiled a streamlined management team in the wake of his appointment last month. Fein will form part of a […]