Plexus Law has lost a team of 13 lawyers from its travel law practice to insurance firm Kennedys, including senior partner and head of the practice Claire Mulligan and partner Justin Collins. Mulligan will now head up the travel group at Kennedys in London, specialising in personal injury, after 14 years at Plexus. Collins joins […]
Planning Magazine has published its Annual Planning Legal Survey, in which No5 Chambers member Martin Kingston QC has taken the number one spot for Top Rated Planning Silks 2015. The list of top 50 silks also includes three other No5 members: Jeremy Cahill QC (7) Richard Humphreys QC (33) and Clive Newberry QC (46). Jeremy Cahill […]
Karanović & Nikolić has advised the Deposit Insurance Agency, who represented the Republic of Serbia, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Finance Corporation on their joint sale of shares in Serbian Čačanska Banka. This was the first joint sale of this type in Serbia, and may set a precedent for the privatisation model for the upcoming […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman provided Bermuda legal advice to James River Group Holdings on its $231m IPO on Nasdaq. James River is a Bermuda-based insurance holding company whose subsidiaries specialise in underwriting specialty insurance and reinsurance. Michael Frith, Carol Clarke and Alexandra Macdonald advised on the matter, working alongside Bryan Cave LLP.
Scotland-headquartered Maclay Murray & Spens has bolstered its Aberdeen oil and gas practice with the hire of Dana Petroleum general counsel Jill Reid. Reid, who previously spent 15 years in the legal department at oil giant Shell, will lead the firm’s oil and gas team in the granite city. The hire comes after Maclays sought […]
Slater & Gordon is poised to buy insurance outsourcer Quindell’s professional services arm for around £700m overnight on Monday (30 March) before the exclusivity period on its acquisition right expires. The deal will see the Australian law firm hand over £637m for 90 per cent of the group, which include Quindell’s core road traffic incident […]
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has replaced Clifford Chance as principal legal adviser to the AA following a corporate panel review that took effect on 1 January. The contract is worth a “seven figure sum,” revealed AA general counsel Mark Millar, who said the company’s full fee for its external legal and non-legal advisers is […]
RB (formerly Reckitt Benckiser) is set to roll out its in-house compliance platform across the company in a bid to cut the time the in-house team spends on routine legal work. The platform, named i-Legal, was created to reduce the amount of time that RB’s in-house legal team spends on formulaic processes and allow company […]
DWF has reported that its success ratios on client tenders has dramatically improved over the past three years and are now at their highest point in the firm’s history. Data released by the firm has revealed that DWF currently has a 72 per cent conversion ratio on tender bids when measured by value and a […]
The specific issues that in-house legal counsel face mean their choice of outsourcer is not a straightforward matter of cost. I was chatting to a general counsel recently, seeking to persuade her of the benefits of using LOD* (*other alternative legal services are apparently available) and to start with she shared the usual in-house story: […]
Move of the week Paul Hastings has added real estate partner Mark Shepherd to its London office as a partner. Shepherd joins from DLA Piper , where he was a legal director for nine months. Prior to that, he was at legacy SJ Berwin for 11 years, where his last role was as senior associate. […]
RB’s in-house team no longer have to spend valuable time on commoditised legal work thanks to Bill Mordan’s in-house compliance platform i-Legal While other in-house legal teams struggle with an increasing workload and dwindling resources, RB vice-president and group general counsel Bill Mordan is busy implementing a solution. During his 13-year tenure as the consumer […]