Olswang has confirmed that business development and marketing director Michelle Elstein is leaving to join Morrison & Foerster’s London office, following a series of changes in managment at the firm. Elstein had been at Olswang for almost 6 years, covering business strategy for the targeting and winning of new business across all eight offices, with […]
The former lord chief justice Lord Woolf was made a Companion of Honour on the Queen’s birthday honours list, with a number of other lawyers also recognised including former National Grid general counsel Helen Mahy. Woolf, the first lord chief justice to be president of the Courts of England and Wales, was the architect of […]
A magistrate has dismissed ex-Leeds United Football Club managing director David Haigh’s claims of human trafficking against his former employers and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Peter Gray. Haigh instructed Stephenson Harwood to bring a case against GFH Capital executives Hisham Al Rayes and Jinesh Pater as well as Gray, alleging the trio lured him […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has added to its list of clients by advising Israeli software company Adgorithms on its $125m listing on the alternative investment market (Aim). The firm gained a new client in Adgorithms, as the company called upon BLP over Israeli legal advisers Hirsch-Falk & Co. Greenberg Traurig Maher meanwhile advised the broker […]
As part of the ‘Member 2 Member’ programme organised by AmCham Macedonia, Leonid Ristev, Senior Associate and Ljupka Noveska, Associate at our Macedonian office recently held a learning session on efficient legal risk management for 16 representatives of other AmCham member companies. A comparative approach to legal risk management, determining common legal risks and finding […]
From 1 September a biocidal product cannot be supplied for distribution or use in the EEA unless the active substance supplier or biocidal product supplier is on the Article 95 List in the relevant product type. This list is on the ECHA website. It is a similar principle to Article 5 of REACH (’no data, […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer will open two further legal services sites in Asia and the US following the launch of its Manchester base this summer, it has emerged. The firm revealed plans to launch the international centres in a job advertisement for document readers. The advert states the planned hubs will provide legal services to its […]
Brown Rudnick has appointed Clyde & Co’s head of corporate Philip Rogers as head of emerging markets in London. Rogers will help strengthen the firm’s ability to handle cross-border business transactions, with previous experience of working in emerging markets such as French-speaking Africa, Russia and Mongolia. He focuses on complex cross-border M&A, IPOs and joint […]
With even more budget cuts set to fall on local authority legal teams, innovation and creativity are at a premium if councils want to continue to deliver services. Luckily for the general public, local authority lawyers are stepping up to the challenge with wholesale reinvention – and look set to challenge private practice for key […]
EY’s affiliated law firm DA Partners has been granted a foreign law practice (FLP) licence in Singapore, as part of its regional growth plan. DA Partners was established last year by two EY partners, John Dick and Evangelos Apostolou. Prior to join EY, Dick was the managing partner of Herbert Smith Freehills’ Singapore office (10 […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has confirmed the hire of Kirkland & Ellis high yield star Ward McKimm following a partnership vote. McKimm will join as co-head of Freshfields’ European leveraged finance group on 1 September. The Lawyer revealed the magic circle firm was poised to break its lockstep to bring McKimm on board earlier this month, […]
Lawyers for Gateley’s insurer QBE have instructed Hailsham Chambers’ Michael Pooles QC to defend the firm against a multi-million pound professional negligence claim brought by property developer Empirical Property Group (EPG). In April The Lawyer revealed EPG had filed a claim to sue Gateley for breach of contract and professional negligence (13 April 2015). The […]