The Lawyer’s Briefings section hosts thousands of papers from law firms on the latest legal developments, all free to download. Last week many of them responded to the Budget. Here’s a selection, ranging from digital currencies to oil and gas. For more, sign up to our weekly Briefings email BP Collins: Budget boost for first-time […]
Commercial and technology lawyers at law firm Walker Morris advised PROACTIS on its collaboration agreement with Inspired Capital plc to develop an accelerated payment facility for UK SMEs. Wetherby-based PROACTIS is a global spend control and e-procurement specialist. The collaboration agreement with Inspired will enable the parties to work together. Mike Stevens and David Laville, […]
Ecotricity has turned to Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co for its £68m strategic financing deal with Aviva. This is the first time that Ecotricity has worked with Wragges. The firm’s team was led by partner Kieron Dwyer in London. Ecotricity’s panel firm TLT also advised alongside Wragges, with Bristol-based energy partner Maria Connolly representing the company […]
The museum at Wimbledon has been revealed as the mystery buyer of the white mini-dress worn in the iconic Athena Tennis Girl poster. And when the home of tennis unveiled the handmade dress as its latest exhibit the guest of honour was No5 Chambers’ Carol Knotts, who actually made it all those years ago. As a […]
Recent unwanted attention on Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in light of the Djibouti falsified evidence case will do nothing for the firm’s hard-won reputation in the world of anti-corruption and combating fraud. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is feeling the heat this week as Dubai partner Peter Gray awaits a costs and consequences hearing after being […]
OneSavings Bank (OSB) has appointed a new head of legal as it names 12 firms to its first formal legal panel of external advisers. Former SJ Berwin associate Sam Roberts will report to general counsel and company secretary Zoe Bucknell when he takes on the role on 1 April. He is currently senior legal advisor […]
The Treasury Committee has criticised the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for not addressing the failings identified by Clifford Chance partner Simon Davis in his report into a market leak last year. The incident, in which The Telegraph was informed about a probe into the pensions market, wiped billions of pounds off the value of life […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner managing partner Neville Eisenberg has been appointed in an uncontested election to a four-year term as the firm’s senior partner, effective from 1 May. Eisenberg has been chosen to replace senior partner Harold Paisner, whose fifth term is due to come to an end 16 years after first stepping into the role […]
Sharp-eyed readers will almost certainly have spotted by now that there is something different about today’s issue of The Lawyer Management. In short, it’s no longer The Lawyer Management. As we highlighted this week, the growing pace of operational developments in the legal market over the past few months have convinced us that the time […]
Chambers Global 2015 has recognised law office Eversheds Ots & Co for outstanding work in the field of corporate law and dispute resolution. In its latest edition are highly ranked and recognised individuals partners Maivi Ots, Toomas Pikamäe and Raiko Lipstok. The highest recognition (Band 1) has received managing partner Maivi Ots, being the leading […]
Paula Barrett, partner and data protection expert at Eversheds, has commented reports from the ECJ hearing yesterday on the Max Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner case. Barrett said: “While negotiations between the US and EU to restore confidence in safe harbour have continued, somewhat slowly, the reported line of questioning from the ECJ in Luxembourg yesterday […]
With just weeks until the general election the Government has managed to squeeze in some 11th hour changes to UK employment law, changes which are hugely diverse in nature but the individual and collective effects of which will be potentially far-reaching for employers. Shirley Wright, partner at Eversheds has commented. Wright remarked that a number […]