No5 Chambers’ Richard Kimblin has acted for the secretary of state in Oxfordshire CC v Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, in which the council challenged an inspector’s finding that a monitoring fee was not compliant with regulations. In a detailed consideration of the origin and operation of Regulation 122 Mrs Justice Lang dismissed the […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided Bermuda legal advice to Valeant Pharmaceuticals International on its $1bn bond offering of 5.5 per cent senior notes due 2023. The bookrunners are Barclays Capital, Deutsche Bank, DnB NOR Bank, HSBC, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, Morgan Stanley and RBC Capital Markets. Marcello Ausenda, Kathleen Moniz and Alexandra Macdonald from Conyers’ Bermuda […]
Commenting on the news that the EU is set to establish a tax avoidance committee, Ben Jones, tax partner at law firm Eversheds, says: “The EU has become increasingly active on the issue of multinational taxation over the last couple of years, following the wider international actions being proposed by the OECD to modernise the system […]
Ahead of its move to new premises in Fenchurch Street in March, BLM has confirmed that it is formalising a flexible working programme that will make it possible to house 350 staff in an office with capacity for nearer 300. BLM, not generally known for its tendency to break with tradition, says the move was […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is planning to join City rivals with the launch of a low-cost shared services hub in Manchester, it has emerged. The magic circle firm is undergoing a consultation to move a number of its legal and support services from Fleet Street to Manchester city centre, with a number of landmark properties under […]
Ashurst has bolstered its Tokyo practice by moving two partners including its Asia head from Singapore to the Japanese capital. Asia managing partner Matthew Bubb and partner Dominic Gregory have both relocated in a move designed to strengthen the firm’s energy, infrastructure and finance practices in Japan. Energy and infrastructure finance specialist Bubb began his […]
Dentons CEO Matthew Jones has told the firm’s UKMEA board that he will not seek reappointment when his four-year term ends in March 2015. According to the firm, Jones said that after Denton’s recent merger with Chinese firm Dacheng (22 January 2015), the “time is right for a new UKMEA CEO to take the helm” […]
Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) partners have elected Marcus Bowman as managing partner effective 1 April, replacing George Eddings after just two years in the role. The Lawyer revealed last week that Eddings was to face a challenge to his position, at which point the firm said an election would be held in March (2 February […]
DLA Piper has continued to rebuild its depleted Asia practice with the addition of a Hong Kong corporate partner from US firm Morrison & Foerster (MoFo). Melody He-Chen, who joined MoFo from legacy Herbert Smith in November 2011 (2 November 2011), has come on board two weeks after DLA Piper bolstererd its Singapore team with […]
BLM is offering a flexible working programme for all its staff in London as the firm consolidates its two offices into one location. BLM will reduce the space it occupies in London with the combination of two offices into a single City location on Fenchurch Street in a move scheduled for between 6 and 10 […]
The recent success of a bankrupt company that successfully claimed a typo in a Companies House filing could lead to copycat claims, it has emerged. Last month the High Court found in favour of Clyde & Co client Philip Sebry, managing director of now defunct Taylor and Sons, after Companies House registered a winding up […]
White & Case has entered a strategic partnership with Cass Business School’s Mergers and Acquisitions Research Centre (MARC). The partnership, which launched on 1 January, saw White & Case become the sole law firm appointed as a senior sponsor to Cass – alongside Credit Suisse, EY and private investment company Ardian. The deal will see […]