It’s an exciting time to be working in energy, and Shell general counsel Donny Ching’s interview with The Lawyer outlines how the oil and gas giant deals with risk, litigation, corporate deals and the challenge of legal fee costs. It’s an exciting time to be working in energy, and Shell general counsel Donny Ching’s interview […]
Lloyds Bank has closed its litigation teams in Hove and Cockfosters in a continuation of the redundancies to hit its in-house legal team. The regional offices will stay open but all of the lawyers have left the bank. It is understood the team closures across the two offices could affect around 12 lawyers plus a […]
King & Spalding’s London office will be the target of a protest this afternoon (30 April 2015) against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) being negotiated in Europe and the US. Global Justice Now claim that King & Spalding has represented numerous multinational corporations in controversial court cases against national governments “for making decisions that […]
Trethowans is to merge with Poole-based Dickinson Manser, creating a firm of almost 30 partners with three offices. The new firm will be called Trethowans, with current managing partner Chris Whiteley remaining in his role. The deal will allow Trethowans to operate from three locations, having established offices already in Salisbury and Southampton. The firm […]
Nabarro has announced the appointment of Clasis managing director Steven Lim as partner and head of its Singapore office. Lim has left Clasis LLC, a constituent of joint law venture (JLV) Clyde & Co Clasis Singapore, which he founded and worked as managing director. The formation of the JLV was announced in 2012 and was […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. France German-headquartered professional services firm Rödl & Partner is expanding its operations in France with the launch of a Strasbourg office. Ernst & Young France German desk head Nicola Lohrey is joining Rödl as a partner and head of the firm’s […]
Virtual law firm Excello Law has announced an alliance with US based counterpart Rimon to extend its international reach. Both Excello and Rimon are run as virtual law firms. This means the firm’s lawyers do not work in central offices but instead travel to their clients in order to keep business costs low. George Bisnought, […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has announced that Andrew Hockley will take over from David Harrison as the head of the firm’s antitrust and competition group from 1 May Hockley has worked for the firm in its competition practice since 2010. Previous to this he acted as competition counsel at BP. David Harrison will remain a […]
Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed non-executive chair in the US Ken Stewart as its global chair, effective from 1 May. Based in Dallas, Stewart takes over from Sbu Gule, whose term ends this month. Gule will continue as chair of the firm in South Africa and vice-chair globally. Stewart was previously managing partner of legacy firm […]
There has been a lot of talk about judicial review recently in the light of the coalition Government’s reforms – which could be reversed if Labour wins next week’s election. But applications are still going through the courts and last week Mishcon de Reya and Brick Court Chambers’ Richard Gordon QC won a landmark victory […]
Baker & McKenzie whas won the Platow Recht Award for the ’Best Legal Project 2014’, for its advice to Telefónica Deutschland in its acquisition of E-Plus. The jury honoured Baker & McKenzie for: “the performance of the antitrust lawyers involved, who managed to realise such a complex project within strict legal and regulatory limits achieving timely and […]
Shoosmiths acted for M Squared Lasers in a health research agreement. The firm advised laser developer and manufacturer M Squared Lasers on an agreement to develop new technologies with the University of St Andrews. M Squared explores, develops and manufactures next-generation lasers and photonic instruments for industrial and scientific applications. The patent licence agreement covers […]