Margie Breugem specialises in commercial contract law and commercial litigation. She has experience in drafting and assessing agreements, advising on various civil (procedural) law-related matters and assisting in civil litigation. Before joining Rutgers & Posch, Breugem practised law at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. Click here for more information. This information was sourced from the Rutgers & […]
Aladár Bleeker is responsible for client relations and business development and he manages a carefully selected group of attorneys and lawyers to be engaged by clients on a flexible basis. This group enables clients to retain specific legal expertise for a shorter or longer period of time to support contract management, execute preparatory work, solve […]
Rik Analbers advises and litigates in the areas of property rights and insolvency law as well as the areas of liability issues in relation to professionals and directors. Rik also has experience in the fields of structured finance, restructurings and derivatives. Analbers joined Rutgers & Posch from Stibbe. Before that, he was an attorney at Clifford Chance. […]
Irwin Mitchell and DAC Beachcroft are among the top firms cashing in on NHS negligence cases as damages and costs paid to patients who have suffered harm continue to rise. Between April 2010 and the end of 2014 Irwin Mitchell received £107.5m in payments from the NHS while DAC Beachcroft was paid £75.4m. These payments […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) client 888 Holdings has won the bidding war for gaming operator bwin.party , represented by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Earlier this month, GVC Holdings submitted a proposal to buy bwin.party for £900m, with Addleshaw Goddard acting for GVC. However, this proposal was rejected by Freshfields’ client bwin.party who chose to side with […]
Lawyers for 6,000 Lloyds Bank shareholders will go before the High Court this week to seek disclosure of sensitive documents and agree costs in the mammoth lawsuit over the acquisition of Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBoS). The claimants, made up of 300 corporate entities and around 5,700 private investors, claim they lost £400m through the […]
Ashurst and Linklaters have won top roles on the £1.3bn reverse takeover of engineering software company Aveva Group by French-based Schneider Electric. In the reverse takeover, Aveva has agreed to acquire Schneider’s industrial software unit, with £550m of new Aveva shares then being to issued to the French company. Schneider will own 53.5 per cent […]
City firm Bates Wells Braithwaite (BWB) has posted a 12 per cent increase in turnover from £18.26m to £20.38m in the 2014/15 financial year. The firm’s corporate and commercial practice saw the most growth during the financial year, particularly within the technology, financial services and digital media sectors. The firm’s employment, real estate and charity […]
The UK’s property market is overheating, particularly in Central London. With ever more law firms moving into the City, how can they make good use of the space available? And which firms are being the most creative? Property prices through the roof: how to get the most out of your space Rental arithmetic: how the […]
Linklaters is poised to break its traditional managing partner voting process to ensure a permanent head is in place before current managing partner Simon Davies leaves for Lloyds Bank in January. The firm’s partnership board, headed up by senior partner Robert Elliott, has consulted on the timings of the election and will hold a firmwide […]
Stephenson Harwood has launched a new investigation service to enable companies to deal with cyber-attacks and the litigation that follows. The new team is dedicated to investigating cases where criminals have attempted to steal sensitive data, damage a company’s infrastructure or hold it to ransom. Commercial litigation partners Mike Pullen and Tony Woodcock and criminal […]
Harneys is understood to be the latest multi-jurisdictional offshore firm planning a Bermuda launch, following in the wake of rival Walkers. Walkers announced plans to launch in Bermuda earlier this year, but is yet to confirm the team it is opening with (21 May 2015). Meanwhile Canadian firm Bennett Jones also opened a Bermuda office […]