Eversheds has advised Beech Tree Private Equity on its maiden investment in RS Fleet Ltd, a UK installer of telematics devices into vehicles on behalf of insurance companies. Beech Tree Private Equity is a new private equity firm providing capital and expertise to fast-growing businesses across the UK. Beech Tree was founded by two experienced […]
Tomas Jakubauskas and Inga Malinauskaitė from Eversheds Saladžius have participated at the conference on trademark and design protection in Lithuania and the EU. During the conference The State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania experts provided valuable information about various types of intellectual property protection, patent process and trademarks. Participants were also introduced to the concept […]
Blake Morgan is merging with London-based firm Piper Smith Watton, nearly a year after the merger of Blake Lapthorn with Morgan Cole. The merger takes effect on 1 August and will increase Blake Morgan’s number of partners by 12 to 130. It is also set to boost the firm’s annual turnover from £72m to £78m. […]
The Conservative manifesto promise to immediately scrap the 1998 Human Rights Act (HRA) on winning the 2015 general election is nearing reality as David Cameron’s party wins an overall majority. Home Secretary Theresa May first revealed in September 2013 a Conservative government would “scrap” the HRA if EU law does not change. In more detailed […]
Osborne Clarke has reappointed its international CEO Simon Beswick for a second term and its international chairman for a further two years. Beswick was appointed international CEO three years ago (9 July 2012) and is set to remain in his role until 2018. Meanwhile, Stefan Rizor has been reappointed as international chairman for a further […]
Travers Smith client Hewlett Packard (HP) has accused Autonomy executives including former CEO Mike Lynch, represented by Clifford Chance, of fraud in court filings issued to the High Court in May. In the court documents HP accused former Autonomy executives Lynch and Sushovan Hussain, the company’s former chief finance officer, of artificially inflating the company’s […]
British Medical Association (BMA) general counsel Viv Du-Feu has launched a panel of external advisers to support the work done by lawyers at newly-formed ABS BMA Law. The BMA launched the ABS to service the legal needs of its 154,000 members on Wednesday (6 May) after its licence was approved by the Solicitors Regulation Authority […]
A&L Goodbody was the first Irish firm to win The Lawyer’s European Law Firm of the Year award. Managing partner Julian Yarr reveals how the firm’s attitude to innovation has led it to success. A criticism which is sometimes made of firms headquartered outside of the UK or US is that they are slow to […]
Singers are warming up. The next Legal Harmony competition takes place at Southwark Cathedral today, Friday 8 May. Allen & Overy, Shoosmiths, Berwin Leighton Paisner, Kingsley Napley and Irwin Mitchell will compete and raise funds for Winston’s Wish, Contact the Elderly, Groundwell, Spitalfield Music and Dementia UK. Here BLP, Shoosmith, Kingsley Napley and Irwin Mitchell […]
Fewer finance directors (FDs) at the UK’s top 100 law firms are looking to expand abroad, with interest in Russia, Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa particularly falling. The data collected by Thomson Reuters found 24 per cent of FDs thought overseas expansion was likely, down from 33 per cent last year. Increased sanctions against Russia […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has announced that Nathan Willmott has been appointed as head of the firm’s financial regulatory group. Willmott replaces Sidney Myers who has headed up the group since 2009. Myers will remain as a partner within the practice and focus on client work. BLP managing partner Lisa Mayhew said: “Having worked in both […]
The legal industry is in the midst of massive disruption, at the core of which lies an apparent paradox. On the one hand is an unprecedented uptick in demand. Dodd-Frank, the FCPA/UKBA/sanctions circus, increasingly harsh and complex regulatory regimes and greater international exposure are just the tip of the iceberg. On the other hand, despite […]