Last year was a slightly quieter year for insolvency lawyers than we’ve seen for a while – although not devoid of work. High-profile insolvencies included Phones4U and London Mining and, just before Christmas, that of courier business City Link . City Link’s administration handed key roles to Gateley, Macfarlanes and Mayer Brown. Macfarlanes scooped the […]
Maravela & Asociații has been shortlisted for Law Firm of the Year: Romania at The Lawyer European Awards. The firm is shortlisted for the award along with five other leading Romanian firms.
Late September saw completion of the UK’s first combined cooling, heat and power plant at a data centre in a drive by Citibank to reduce energy demand while cutting greenhouse gas emissions and energy costs. The project was led by Walker Morris client Sustainable Development Capital Ltd. Sustainable’s (SDCL) cornerstone investor is the Green Investment Bank (GIB), […]
DLA Piper has been appointed as principal external legal adviser to Heineken UK in a first for the UK brewing and pub giant. The three-year appointment will see the firm acting for Heineken across the full range of legal work in the UK, including property, litigation, intellectual property, corporate and employment law. The relationship will […]
Cooley CEO Joe Conroy talks to The Lawyer about the firm’s raid on Edwards Wildman and Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) and the plans for its London office. At 9:01 this morning, Conroy toasted Cooley’s 15 partners in the firm’s new London base in Dashwood House on Old Broad Street. For him, the London office represents “the most […]
DLA Piper has expanded the firm’s trade and government relations practice in London with the appointments of John Forrest and Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean. In response to the growing demand for sanctions and import/export controls advice, John Forrest, formerly a senior director at Dechert LLP, and one of the leading practitioners in the area, […]
The Lawyer will shortly be unveiling its top 20 cases to look out for in 2015. How many of them will be professional negligence claims? Many of 2014’s biggest claims settled, but not all; current cases involving Mishcon and Bird & Bird are still active. Nabarro, Weil professional negligence claims among raft of top 20 […]
It’s taken a while, but after almost a year of hunting West Coast US firm Cooley has finally secured the launch team for its London office – as we exclusively revealed on Friday. Cooley’s negotiations to launch in the UK have seen it talk to partners at a variety of firms, most notably Edwards Wildman. […]
Reed Smith has hired a Stephenson Harwood partner to launch a Singapore corporate practice two years after opening a base in the city-state. Matthew Gorman, who led Stephenson Harwood’s corporate team across Southeast Asia, working for clients in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Vietnam, Myanmar and Indonesia, adds to Reed Smith’s current focus on arbitration, energy and […]
Kennedys has taken over a litigation boutique and hired a partner from McClure Naismith as part of a plan to rapidly grow a presence north of the border. The firm has taken over niche Edinburgh litigation practice Francis Gill & Co and hired Edinburgh-based defender insurance liability partner Rory Jackson from McClures. As part of […]
Cooley has confirmed its London opening with the hire of 19 partners from Edwards Wildman Palmer and Morrison & Foerster (MoFo), bringing headcount up 55 fee-earners. As The Lawyer exclusively revealed on Friday (9 January 2015), the majority of partners from Edwards Wildman’s London office have made the move over to Cooley’s new Dashwood House […]
Baker & McKenzie, Allen & Overy (A&O) and Clifford Chance have the most developed networks across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) countries and as such are best placed to take advantage of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), which launches later this year. In our first-ever Southeast Asia Elite report, which is published today […]