Lawyers from around Europe are gathering in London today and tomorrow (11 and 12 March) to unpick the key elements in forging successful referral relationships for cross-border work. Delegates at The Lawyer’s inaugural European Legal Networks Summit will hear from a range of speakers, including BT Global Services general counsel Liz Walker, Travers Smith managing […]
Latham & Watkins has named finance partner Jay Sadanandan as its first female London managing partner following the decision of previous incumbent Nick Cline to step down. (continues) Also on www.thelawyer.com: Cooley has advised UK shale gas business IGas Energy (IGas) on a £168m farm-out deal with Swiss company Ineos in its first high-profle closing […]
A detailed concept development is under way for two sites in Ancoats and New Islington, which will complement existing community facilities and transport investment. A local community engagement event was held on 5 March to share initial plans to sympathetically develop Murrays’ Mill, one of the oldest surviving steam powered cotton mills, into high quality […]
Cooley has advised UK shale gas business IGas Energy (IGas) on a £168m farm-out deal with Swiss company Ineos in its first high-profle closing since launching in the City in January. Corporate partner Ed Lukins brought the relationship with IGas with him from Morrison & Foerster after joining Cooley along with four of his colleagues […]
Karanović & Nikolić has been shortlisted for the Chambers Europe Awards 2015. The firm has been nominated in the category of South East Europe Law Firm of the Year.
Eversheds’ international arbitration group has been ranked among the top 15 firms in Global Arbitration Review’s ‘GAR 30’, which lists the most active arbitration practices worldwide. Cases include a tremendous result for Iran in 2014, helping the state win its first-ever investor-state arbitration under an investment treaty. Another success saw a team from the London and […]
Prager Dreifuss has advised Evatec AG on the acquisition of the Advanced Technologies Segment of the Oerlikon Group as well as throughout the financing process of the transaction. Evatec AG operates in the production of process solutions for the manufacture of LEDs, lasers, power chips and high-performance optical, optoelectronic and semiconductor components. Furthermore, Evatec AG […]
Welcome to MIPIM 2015. The 26th gathering of the world’s leading real estate professionals officially opens this morning in sunny Cannes. Yet again it’s set to be an impressive turn out with well over 20,000 people registered. Amongst them, leaders from 93 countries across the world and from every segment of the industry. Innovation, digital […]
Just a single glance at the overstuffed diary makes me feel a little anxious. I work out that this is my 19th MIPIM, and that we were in another century when I first started my annual pilgrimage to the Croisette. Things were very different back then in 1996, when my target market was out in […]
Gateley has expanded its regulatory team with the appointment of two new lawyers. Pauline Munro has been appointed as legal director and Kate Oliver as a senior solicitor. Munro joins from Pinsent Masons with more than 20 years’ experience of working for clients facing regulatory intervention and covering a range of areas including health and […]
TV programme The Sheriffs Are Coming is returning to BBC One on Friday 20 March. The programme follows enforcement agents from The Sheriffs Office as they enforce High Court writs on behalf of creditors who have won a judgment in court, but still not been paid and commercial landlords beleaguered by squatters. There are five […]
Supreme Court justice Lord Sumption has criticised “the distortion of history” over Magna Carta in a speech to mark the document’s 800th anniversary, saying claims over its significance are being made to “serve an essentially modern political agenda”. In a speech at the British Library yesterday (9 March 2015), Sumption said views of Magna Carta […]