Osborne Clarke scooped the top prize at The Lawyer Awards last night after it secured the Law Firm of the Year award. Law Firm of the Year, sponsored by the event’s headline sponsor Travelers, is the top award of the night. Osborne Clarke was recognised for its energy and momentum as well as its client-centric […]
European management changes at Bird & Bird have opened the door to put non-lawyers in management, Bird & Bird CEO David Kerr has revealed. In his recent leadership interview with The Lawyer, Kerr talked about the management changes at the firm’s Sweden and Germany offices (12 June 2015). These switches, which he says were a […]
The Berlin office of Swedish firm Magnusson has split off into an independent boutique, just two years after forming. The boutique, tkslegal, will be led by Magnusson’s Berlin managing partner Thomas Kaiser-Stockmann. He is taking eight members of staff, including a lawyer, trainees and paralegals with him to the new venture. Kaiser-Stockmann moved from Swedish […]
Weil Gotshal & Manges has revealed that it will keep 100 per cent of its autumn 2015 qualifying trainees in newly-qualified positions. The cohort of nine will join practice areas including banking, corporate, private funds and tax. All nine will join the London office and none are on short-term contracts. [continued] Also on TheLawyer.com: Sullivan & […]
Eversheds has announced it is launching Agile, its contract lawyer service, in Hong Kong and Singapore. Initially Agile’s Asian practice will have a pool of between 20 and 30 lawyers. A particular focus for the firm will be in the financial institution sector where the team will carry out regulatory compliance and banking transactional work. […]
James Dixon appeared on behalf of Nathan Roberts in an out of time appeal against in IPP sentence. The sentence was imposed in 2006 for robbery. The minimum period of 12 months expired in 2007. The court gave judgment on 19 June 2015 and quashed the IPP. Dixon was instructed to deal with parole but identified […]
Karanović & Nikolić has advised Air Serbia, the Serbian flag carrier, in negotiations and the conclusion of the first collective bargaining agreement to be signed in the last 20 years. The negotiations, which lasted for more than three months, involved numerous meetings and various drafts being circulated. A mediator from the Agency for Peaceful Settlement of […]
Ogier Guernsey has acted for Nomad Foods Ltd, a BVI special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), in its acquisition of Iglo Foods Holdings Ltd, a European frozen food company. Nomad agreed to acquire Iglo for €2.6bn. The Iglo Group, which was previously owned by private equity group, Permira, has a 30 per cent share of the […]
For the second year in a row, Tark Grunte Sutkiene has experienced success at the European Women in Business Law Awards and won the Baltic Law Firm of the Year award. The Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Europe Women in Business Law awards recognise law firms for their efforts in helping women advance in the legal […]
Commercial firm Thrings has announced a 10 per cent increase in turnover for 2014/15, from £25m to £27.5m. The firm, which has offices in Bristol, Bath, Swindon and London, has acted for a number of major clients over the year including Reckitt Benckiser, Halfords and Links of London. The firm’s turnover has risen steadily in […]
EnergySolutions general counsel Simon Stuttaford has joined DWF’s corporate team as energy partner after four years at the global nuclear waste disposal business. His appointment will boost the firm’s national nuclear energy team from its Bristol office. In his role as general counsel and senior vice president at EnergySolutions, Stuttaford was the company’s only legal […]
Europe exchange-traded products provider Source UK Services has appointed Citco Financial Products’ Katy Walton Jones as its general counsel and a member of the management committee. Walton Jones was the general counsel at Citco for over nine years, where she also filled the role of director. Prior to that, she was a corporate associate at […]