The Walker Morris retail team will be attending the Retail Week Live Conference, held on 11-12 March. Rupert Bent and Richard Jaques will be available over the course of Retail Week Live, held at Hilton London Metropole, to discuss topical market and legal issues affecting the retail sector.
Shoosmiths has been selected by the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) to report on and register all of their landholdings, following a tender process. The firm will be required to process around 400 titles for the SFRS as a result of statutory obligation imposed by the Scottish government, agreed with the Keeper of the Registers […]
Kennedys has added local law capability in Singapore by entering into a joint law venture (JLV) with local firm Legal Solutions. The JLV, which will operate under the name Kennedys Legal Solutions, will go live in the coming months once final regulatory approval has been granted. Seven-partner Legal Solutions launched in Singapore a decade ago […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has reported itself to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over allegations that partner Peter Gray misled a court through knowingly submitting falsified evidence in a case between the Republic of Djibouti and an African businessman. In a High Court hearing before Mr Justice Flaux on Thursday (6 March), the firm apologised for […]
Olswang private equity partner Stephen Rosen is joining Cooley’s City office in the US firm’s first lateral hire since its London launch earlier this year. Rosen was a partner at Olswang for 13 years after joining the firm in 2000 from Berwin Leighton Paisner, where he spent seven years. He was a key part of […]
Novartis’s animal health division general counsel Andreas Bohrer has joined pharmaceuticals supplier Lonza as group general counsel and company secretary, after the branch was sold to Eli Lilly. In his new role, Bohrer is in charge of legal, compliance and intellectual property for Lonza, which is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. He is also a member […]
Newcastle-based motor retail company Vertu Motors has hired Muckle corporate partner Nicola Loose as its first general counsel. Loose acted for Vertu on its acquisition of Bristol Street Motors Group and its relisting on AIM in 2007 at Muckle, where she practiced corporate finance and company law with a specific focus on motor retail. As […]
Following the announcement of the Dentons-Dacheng merger, there has been a lot of speculation as to whether other similar tie-ups may follow. While I think the D-D merger may have expanded the pool of Chinese firms which may now see themselves potentially in play, it is not clear that this will lead to a new […]
Last week’s news that the SRA plans to withdraw from the Graduate Recruitment Code, which stops firms offering students training contracts before their final year of university, touched a nerve right across the profession. If the SRA’s plans go ahead, trainee recruitment is likely to become significantly more competitive. Theoretically, it means that for the […]
Firm takes the US lead with a thumping 10.8% profit leap. As the US firm financial reporting season continued last week, one of the market’s titans, DLA Piper, posted a whopping rise in profit. For some at least, it seems the good times are back. Global net profit at DLA Piper rocketed by 10.8 per […]
Just eight women hold senior management roles in the UK’s top 50 firms despite females dominating the profession at entry level. How can that gulf be closed and what career steps will make the top more reachable? We asked today’s leaders. Gender in law firms is a hot topic, and with a growing number of […]
Move of the week London-based Seddons has hired libel and defamation lawyer Mark Lewis as a partner. Lewis joined from Taylor Hampton, where he was known for his work on behalf of clients involved in the recent phone-hacking scandal. He has 25 years of experience working on libel, privacy, confidentiality, reputation management and intellectual property matters. […]