Lawyers from Tark Grunte Sutkiene’s Riga office have successfully represented a client in a litigation regarding trademarks. The firm ensured that the respondent changes its company name that was in breach with the trademark of the client of the law firm. The interests of the client were represented by Nauris Grigals and Matiss Rostoks.
Tark Grunte Sutkiene has appointed Hannes Vallikivi as new managing partner in Estonia, effective from 1 June 2015. The present managing partner Aare Tark has been elected senior partner. Hannes Vallikivi joined the firm in 1996. He became a partner in 2002 and currently heads the firm’s banking and finance practice. He has worked on a number of […]
Walker Morris has been shortlisted for the Legal Team of the Year award in the inaugural Yorkshire Rainmaker Awards, jointly hosted by thebusinessdesk.com and Out There Events. The shortlist, which celebrates the very best deals and leading expertise in the region’s corporate finance community, was created by discussion and debate amongst more than 20 leading advisers, investors […]
A multi-disciplinary team from Walker Morris has advised Karro Food Group, a supplier of British pork into the retail, trade and foodservice industries, on its £74m funding package from GE Capital and RBS Invoice Finance. The funding package will enable Karro to build on its recently announced £10m capital investment programme to support Karro’s UK […]
Three ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf partners taken to court by Barclays have settled out of court with the bank for an undisclosed amount, The Lawyer can reveal. Lester Charles Landgraf, Lewis Rosenbloom and Elias Farrah all reached a financial agreement with Barclays just days before the trial, which was set to begin on 5 May. [continued] Also […]
Exeter-headquartered Michelmores has given its backing to the launch of a London-based PRC firm that has been set up to cater solely for China-based clients. YangTze Law, which received ABS approval from the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority last month, has been established by Steve Ng, the Beijing-based secretary general of the TangTzejiang Legal Network, and Winston […]
Three ex-Dewey & LeBoeuf partners taken to court by Barclays have settled out of court with the bank for an undisclosed amount, The Lawyer can reveal. Lester Charles Landgraf, Lewis Rosenbloom and Elias Farrah all reached a financial agreement with Barclays just days before the trial, which was set to begin on 5 May. The […]
Eversheds instructed leading silks to drop a ‘nuclear option’ on rail trade unions RMT and TSSA if last week’s strike had gone ahead, it has emerged. Despite Network Rail making no public legal challenge to the RMT over its ballot to strike on bank holiday Monday (25 May), the rail company instructed Eversheds to prepare barristers […]
Slaughter and May continues to lead corporate client rankings, notching up more stock market clients than magic circle rivals Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. According to the latest data published by Adviser Rankings, the firm had a total of 119 stock market clients in the second quarter of 2015, a slight drop on its 122 […]
Modern Times Group general counsel Jonny Searle is set to leave his role after over 13 years after the company relocated the legal function to Sweden. Searle, who led the legal function for the owner of broadcasting group Viasat, was based in London. His destination is still unknown, but the company has already found his […]
A team of six partners led by chairman Rui Amendoeira are quitting Portuguese firm Miranda Correia Amendoeira & Associados, the firm has announced. Amendoeira is leaving the firm alongside fellow partners João Fialho, Paulo Trindade Costa, Rui Andrade, Raul Mota Cerveira and Samuel Fernandes Almeida. In a note to clients sent last week and seen […]
Life has been tough for the public sector in the past few years, with spending cuts hitting home. The pressure has seen many councils shake up the way they deal with legal issues – and in many cases has driven innovative thinking far beyond that seen in the private sector. A couple of years ago […]