Shoosmiths has significantly grown its national asset finance practice with a total of five lawyers leaving DWF in Manchester and Birmingham to join the team. The new head of Shoosmiths’ financial services team in Manchester, Janet Dalton, and associates Suzanne Taylor and Aleea Bhatoo will join in Manchester, while partner Roger Potgieter and solicitor Charlotte Healey […]
No5 Chambers barrister Sharon Bahia was the prosecution junior in the Kenyan abuse trial, which has resulted in Simon Harris, 55, a former British public school teacher, being sentenced to 17 years and four months in prison. Harris was convicted of three indecent assaults and five sexual assaults, and in addition was found guilty of four […]
Eversheds has advised Coalfield Resources Plc on its acquisition of 75.1 per cent of the shares in Harworth Estates Property Group Ltd that it does not already own from the Board of the Pension Protection Fund. Law firm Harworth Estates is one of the largest property and regeneration businesses across the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the […]
Eversheds has announced the appointment of leading HMRC tax and funds expert, John Buckeridge, who joins the firm as a consultant. Buckeridge joins from HMRC, where he was a policy and technical adviser on collective investments in the financial products and services team (part of the corporation tax, international, stamps and avoidance group). In that […]
David Hinchliffe of Walker Morris has been named Sports Lawyer of the Year for the second year running. The head of the Walker Morris sports team scooped the title in the Finance Monthly Law Awards 2015, following several accolades the team have recently been awarded.
Reed Smith has posted a 7 per cent boost in its year-end financial results, growing from $1.075bn to $1.15bn (£746m) in 2014. Reed Smith’s average profit per partner increased by 6 per cent, from $1.14m to $1.2m last year. Revenue per lawyer also grew, by 2 per cent to $703,000 from $691,000. The results are […]
Schoenherr advised Telekom Slovenije on its acquisition of Slovenian mobile virtual network operator Debitel Telekomunikacije from sellers ACH and Svema Trade. Telekom Slovenije is among the most comprehensive communication service providers in South-Eastern Europe. Debitel has 90,000 users, making it the fourth-largest wireless provider in Slovenia. Schoenherr partner Marko Prušnik led the team advising Telekom […]
The trend for working flexibly is gathering significant pace and as this week’s analysis of Allen & Overy’s Peerpoint reveals, for some firms it’s also a way into new markets domestically and internationally. For years lawyers who worked part time or flexibly were derided in some quarters as second rate. Now, with rapidly growing number […]
The UK Government has won a landmark victory at the European General Court in a battle with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton client, the European Central Bank (ECB), over the location of central clearing houses for euro-denominated trades. The General Court allowed an application for annulment brought by the UK over a policy adopted by […]
Enyo Law has taken over from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan as advisers to businesses and individuals planning to sue the Royal Bank of Scotland’s global restructuring group (RBS-GRG) for allegedly forcing small companies out of business. Enyo is the third firm to be instructed by the group, which originally turned to Clyde & Co (16 […]
The irrepressible Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, headlined the Global Law Summit (GLS) last week and proved as popular with readers as he did with delegates. Our report on Johnson’s speech at the GLS was the most-read story last week, heading up our coverage of the event. Other GLS-related stories which made the top 10 […]
It may have taken a while but DLA Piper has finally found a foothold in Canada after agreeing to merge with local firm Davis. Here’s how we broke the news…four years ago. [Continues] Also on TheLawyer.com: Clifford Chance loses its third Germany-based corporate partner in a month as former local corporate head Arndt Stengel quits […]