Weil Gotshal & Manges executive partner Barry Wolf has apologised for an “insensitive” April Fools’ email sent to all fee earners in its London and New York offices on Wednesday. In the firmwide email, entitled “Important New Email Policy,” bosses announced they would be putting a block on work email and phone calls between 11pm […]
I had tried, half-heartedly to get in once before, but the combination of a massive queue and a painful karaoke screeching from the wall-mounted televisions was enough to see me off. It was Biker Barry who got me here in the end. I owed him for cat-sitting favours. Choose anywhere, I say. The Heron, he […]
Insurance giant Willis Group has found a replacement general counsel for Adam Rosman after a four-month wait – Travelers’ senior vice president and general counsel Matthew Furman. Furman is leaving Travelers after working for the company for almost eight years, and will bring his experience working as general counsel for finance and corporate at Goldman […]
Mr Justice Flaux has ruled Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and the Republic of Djibouti must jointly pay £880,000 to businessman Abdourahman Boreh for the unsafe freezing order it obtained on his assets in 2013. Further payments could be ordered by the courts pending a ruling by a costs judge. Flaux J made the ruling in […]
Following the news that Mr Justice Eder is retiring early from the bench, The Lawyer asks whether low pay and low morale in the judiciary could result in others following suit. Mr Justice Eder stepped down from the bench on Wednesday with little fanfare. After just four years as a judge at the Commercial Court, […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Benelux Simmons & Simmons has hired Peter Voorhees as a partner in its Amsterdam office. Voorhees was previously a lawyer at Linklaters. He is a US-qualified international capital markets lawyer. Central & Eastern Europe Wolf Theiss has promoted six lawyers to […]
Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire county councils have launched an ABS, known as LGSS Law, today (1 April 2015) after gaining a licence from the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA). LGSS Law will integrate the council’s legal services under the management of head of legal practice Virginia Moggeridge and head of finance and administration Keith Rudwick. LGSS Law […]
Eder J took early retirement from the bench on Wednesday (1 April) after just four years’ service, and is in talks to return to his former set, Essex Court. His return to private practice is understood to be in answer to a series of reforms to judicial processes by the Coalition Government, as well as […]
Ogier has appointed three new partners to its team in Jersey and Guernsey: Sara Johns and Jamie Bore in Jersey and Christopher Jones in Guernsey, effective from 1 April. This brings Ogier’s total number of partners to 49. In Jersey Sara Johns, who has more than 20 years’ experience in London and Jersey, has been promoted […]
Ogier has advised Sky on the sale of an 80 per cent stake in its online betting and gaming business, Sky Betting & Gaming (Sky Bet), to funds advised by CVC Capital Partners and members of the Sky Bet management team. The deal valued Sky Bet at £800m. Ogier teams provided advice on Jersey law […]
Eversheds has advised Lakehouse plc, an asset and energy support services company, on its successful initial public offering. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Romford, Essex, Lakehouse, which focuses on customers in the UK outsourced public and regulated services sectors, delivers a range of essential services through a successful model based on long term contractual […]
Specialist lawyers at Walker Morris have advised the nominated adviser and broker N 1 Singer in relation to Pinewood Group plc’s proposed share placing to raise £30 million. Pinewood Group, a leading provider of services to the global film and television industry, is proposing to place 8,000,000 new ordinary shares at a price of 375 […]