Good management is paramount for law firms as clients increasingly demand a more proactive approach to data. What do you see as the most significant concerns clients currently have in relation to how their data is being managed by law firms? Nathan Hayes, IT director, Osborne Clarke: Simply put, that it is secure and that the […]
Move of the week Winston & Strawn IP head Richard Price has joined Olswang as head of IP arbitration in the firm’s London office. Price is a patent and trademark litigator and a qualified arbitrator, and joined alongside IP partner Gareth Morgan and two associates. UK London Kirkland & Ellis has hired private equity attorney […]
Leisure is hard work in the internet era, especially for Thomas Cook GC Craig Stoehr, who is helping to reinvent the traditional tour operator You might think it’s all sun, sea and sand for Thomas Cook’s first general counsel Craig Stoehr, but his success in steering the company against the tide of online competitors proves […]
When we read the headline ‘Judges behaving badly’, we naturally think of Lords Sumption and Neuberger hanging out together in a poky flat, drinking beer and occasionally trying to woo Baroness Hale upstairs with hilarious consequences. We may write the script one day, but for now you’ll have to make do with this, frankly more […]
Allen & Overy (A&O), Linklaters and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) were drafted in to advise on the £1.7bn sale of TSB, Britain’s seventh-biggest bank, to Spanish bank Banco Sabadell, which was accepted this morning (20 March 2015). A cross-border team from A&O’s UK and Spanish offices acted for Banco Sabadell. Corporate partner Richard Browne led […]
Jenny Wigley acted for the billing authority, East Staffordshire District Council, in Provincial Real Estate (Burton) Ltd v. Virk (VO) and East Staffs Borough Council in successfully defending the completion notice from challenge. In the case, the president of the Valuation Tribunal for England ruled that an appeal against the rating list cannot be used to challenge a […]
Ogier has become a member of Digital Jersey, the independent body representing stakeholders in Jersey’s digital community. Following recent changes to Jersey’s e-gaming offering, the island is the newest tier-one jurisdiction to emerge, offering lost cost, high quality e-gaming services. The strength of Jersey’s involvement in the digital sector, particularly in e-gaming, was highlighted at the […]
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co’s corporate team has advised longstanding client and AIM-quoted Ambrian plc on its merger with Consolidated General Minerals plc (CGM). The principal asset of CGM, which de-listed from AIM three/four years ago, is a clinker grinding and cement packing operation in the port of Beira, Mozambique. With an installed capacity of […]
EU and US businesses are asking their governments for urgent help in stopping the implementation of new Chinese cyber security regulations that could undermine the ability of foreign companies to participate in the banking IT market in China. Paula Barrett, partner and head of privacy and information law at Eversheds, comments: “This move can be seen […]
Law firm Eversheds has entered into a formal co-operation agreement in Cape Town with Walkers, one of the oldest law firms in South Africa’s legislative capital. Walkers is a full-service firm acting for clients such as Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Ernst & Young, Investec, Hyprop Investments, Nedbank, Old Mutual, RGA Reinsurance, Standard Bank and […]
Nabarro will delay its annual pay review for trainees, associates and business support staff until June, in an effort to more accurately assess its 2014/15 financial results. The annual review usually takes place every May but this year the firm has decided to postpone it until June and then backdate any pay increase. Nabarro took […]
The Court of Appeal (CoA) has granted permission for the Law Society to challenge a recent High Court decision over Government reforms to the criminal legal aid regime. In a decision handed down today (27 February) the CoA said the Law Society could appeal the decision of Lord Justice Laws and Mr Justice Cranston, which […]