It is now just a year until the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) launches its economic community and interest in the region is really hotting up. A raft of Southeast Asian firms have already increased their regional footprints, with the ability to offer expertise in as many of the 10 ASEAN countries as possible […]
Linklaters has inched closer to taking the crown for total FTSE 100 clients, as it closes in on market leader Slaughter and May. According to the latest data from Adviser Rankings, Linklaters has added one new FTSE 100 client – recently merged Dixons Carphone – over the past quarter. The move ups the firm’s total […]
Addleshaw Goddard, Baker & McKenzie and Linklaters are among firms to put forward new policies after legislation on shared parental leave became law yesterday (1 December) The new law, which will be enforced on 5 April, will allow parents with children due on or after that date to opt out of maternity leave and adoption leave […]
Hogan Lovells’ current chair and real estate partner Nicholas Cheffings has confirmed he would like to run for another term in April 2015. Hogan Lovells has kick-started the election process, which will determine whether Cheffings is set to serve another three years as chair of the firm’s board. Cheffings took over from previous co-chairs Claudette […]
Clifford Chance has recruited a team of five from Bingham McCutchen, led by partners Robert Gross and William Cejudo, to add to its Washington DC-based structured finance team. The new arrivals bring the number of Clifford Chance partners in the US up to 69, with Gross joining the corporate practice and Cejudo expanding the firm’s […]
Partners at Locke Lord and Edwards Wildman Palmer have voted in favour of the firms’ $675m tie-up. The deal, which is set to take effect on 10 January 2015, will create a firm named Locke Lord Edwards with about 1,000 lawyers based in 23 offices worldwide. The plan has been underway since summer 2014, when […]
DLA Piper has advised Australian Securities Exchange-listed REVA Medical Inc on the issue of $25m (£15.8m) of convertible notes and also 8,750,000 options to an international investor consortium. Headquartered in San Diego, REVA Medical is developing a bioresorbable coronary scaffold for cardiovascular disease. The device provides a temporary support and drug supply for an artery […]
Timothy Jones, a barrister with No5 Chambers, is representing a single mother of three who is heading back to court with hopes that she and her children may finally win the right to live on her own land. But this time, Romani Gypsy Charmaine Moore will have the full weight of the Commission for Equality and […]
There’s no question that Clifford Chance’s longstanding relationship with private equity group Carlyle has been on the rocks in recent years. Its go-to adviser in the US, Latham & Watkins, has been aggressively targeting Carlyle on this side of the pond – pinching Clifford Chance’s relationship partner David Walker and hiring Tom Alabaster directly from […]
Emma Edhem CC, barrister at No5 Chambers, has been invited to attend the B20 Turkey inaugural meeting by the chairman M Rifat Hisarciklioglu. The meeting, on 15 December in Istanbul, will bring together more than 250 international business leaders and global policy makers. Every year B20 brings together chief executive officers of leading companies in order […]
No5 Chambers barrister Gordon Wignall will be speaking at an event that the British Institute of International and Comparative Law is holding on 8 December 2014, which is being chaired by Mr Justice Dove. The event will examine the phenomenon of collective redress and mass claims in the environmental sphere, from English, comparative and international law perspectives.
Eversheds has welcomed five new members to the Eversheds Africa Law Institute (EALI), which the firm describes as an innovative platform designed to share best practices and promote the highest standards of legal service across Africa. The new EALI joiners are based in Uganda, Gabon, Algeria, Burkina Faso and Madagascar. Each firm will bring strong […]