Representation and warranty insurance and directors’ and officers’ insurance was the topic of a recent event organised by the Serbian Private Equity Association together with the Serbian Chamber of Commerce. Presenters included Peter Warburton, founding partner of Vista Insurance Brokers and management board member of MAI CEE Insurance Brokers from the UK, as well as and Zoran Ivanović, […]
Alan Gourgey QC and Lexa Hilliard QC have taken over as heads of chambers at 11 Stone Buildings. Outgoing head of chambers Edward Cohen, who continues in practice, held the role for 10 years.
Susan Monaghan, member of No5 Chambers regulatory and licensing group, is speaking at an MBL seminar entitled The Regulator & Complaints Handling for Accountants, to be held on 30 April in London and 8 May in Manchester. The seminar will enable delegates to deal with complaints and if necessary, the regulator. It will also cover how to […]
Marcus Marcussen, a 91-year-old retired teacher who worked at a Birmingham school has been found guilty of 25 counts of indecent assault on boys. A jury at Birmingham Crown Court heard that pupils were abused during and after PE lessons, and at a swimming club, when Marcussen worked at the school between 1945 and 1983. The investigation […]
Hogan Lovells has posted a 3.6 per cent rise in global revenue to $1.779bn (£1.16bn) in 2014 in its year-end firm-wide results. The rate of growth spurt is slower than the year before, when Hogan Lovells’ revenue jumped by 5.2 per cent to $1.718bn. Average profit per equity partner (PEP) increased by 0.8 per cent […]
William Fry has emerged as the winner of the Irish Department of Finance’s tender to appoint a legal adviser to work on the potential capital restructuring of Ireland’s investments in Allied Irish Banks (AIB). The department carried out a mini tender competition earlier this month among the members of its legal advisory panel. That was […]
The Supreme Court has granted an appeal against the new rating system for criminal barristers introduced by the Legal Services Board (LSB). This decision marks the next step in a long-running fight between regulators and advocates to implement a new competency assessment for criminal barristers, known as the Quality Assurance Scheme for Advocates (QASA). The […]
It’s been a tough few years for Shepherd & Wedderburn’s CEO Stephen Gibb. The firm’s turnover stagnated in and around the £30m markand the ‘Scottish big four’ group dissolved when Dundas & Wilson and McGrigors merged. But while market commentators were predicting doom and gloom, Gibb had no doubt that the firm was in good […]
Nicky Richmond is surprised and delighted by the Michelin-starred treats on offer at Pied à Terre. We’d booked to go to Atelier de Joel Robuchon as a birthday treat for J, son of C. I ask whether J, whose taste in food tends towards the adventurous might not prefer something a little more down with […]
It’s been a difficult few years for Shepherd & Wedderburn, what with turnover stagnating and the ‘Scottish big four’ group it formed a nominal part of disintegrating when Dundas & Wilson and McGrigors were taken out by merger. Like its last remaining big four counterpart Maclay Murray & Spens, the firm ran the serious risk […]
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has posted a 12.3 per cent revenue boost, with turnover rising from $575m in 2013 to $646m (£478m) in 2014. The US tech firm’s financial results show a 4.2 per cent increase in revenue per lawyer, with a boost in figures from $925,000 to $964,000. Profit per partner has also […]
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co’s life sciences team has advised GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on the sale of its shareholding interests in biopharmaceutical company Convergence Pharmaceuticals to NASDAQ-listed Biogen Idec. The $675m deal takes place just four years after the team advised GSK on the spin-out venture, which created Convergence. The deal sees Biogen Idec pay Convergence […]