At the start of her career, HMRC’s general counsel Gill Aitken was on the other side of the negotiations table suing the Government. The experience allowed her to glean an insight into what in-house lawyers were doing and decide to make the move to become a public servant. HMRC’s Gill Aitken exits after four years […]
Royal Mail has finished its first panel review since the company’s £3.3bn IPO in 2013, retaining DAC Beachcroft and CMS Cameron McKenna but dropping Bond Dickinson on an expanded roster. Bond Dickinson was the only previous panel adviser to lose out on a spot on Royal Mail’s first panel since its privatisation in 2013. Legacy […]
Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira has signed two agreements with the Spanish government pledging to achieve 25 per cent female presence on its board by 2020 and 33 per cent by 2024, and increase female leadership within the firm. The agreements with the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality also involve other Spanish companies who […]
US clothing company American Apparel has chosen Loeb & Loeb partner Chelsea Grayson as its new general counsel, effective 15 December. Former corporate partner Grayson has worked for 15 years in private practice, with experience in private placements of equity and debt securities for public and private companies, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and mergers and acquisitions […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Benelux Simmons & Simmons has announced plans to launch a five-partner office in Luxembourg to capitalise on the jurisdiction’s funds industry (24 November 2014). The office will be led by partner Stéphane Ober, who joins from his own firm Ober & […]
The Court of Appeal has handed down a further significant judgment in the patent dispute between British Telecommunications (BT) and ASSIA. Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co is advising ASSIA on the ongoing dispute. The court granted a final injunction, resulting in BT switching off its Next Generation Access Dynamic Line Management (NGA DLM) system at […]
Ogier’s British Virgin Islands (BVI) office has recruited partner Andrew Wanambwa to its dispute litigation team. Previously at Norton Rose Fulbright, he has experience advising major corporates, financial institutions and insolvency practitioners on a range of large commercial disputes. Wanambwa trained with Clifford Chance in London and is admitted in the UK as both a […]
The Lawyer magazine has interviewed Satinder Hunjan QC, head of the international and clinical negligence group at No5 Chambers. In the interview, Hunjan QC gives a deeper insight into the legal practice areas he specialises in. He talks about the daily issues faced and the types of cases he regularly works on.
A court has heard how Vikki Horsman, a 19-year-old nursing home worker, suffered from eight per cent burns to her body after being doused with acid in a revenge attack by her former lover, Mohammed Rafiq, 80, earlier this year. Andrew Baker and Jas Mann from No5 Chambers are defending. Rafiq, who has been described […]
The report on the intelligence relating to the murder of fusilier Lee Rigby, released by the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament, raises some complex privacy issues, says Paula Barrett, partner and head of privacy at Eversheds. She asked: ‘To what degree do we want internet and other communication service providers to be cast in […]
Liz Fitzsimons, data privacy expert at Eversheds, has commented on reports of a cyber attack on Sony Pictures. According to Fitzsimons, the reports of a further attack on Sony starkly illustrate how cyber criminals are seeking to damage corporate reputations and businesses, with financial consequences for all of us, whether though an impact on employment […]
Collyer Bristow’s Nathan Donaldson, a partner in the employment team and also an experienced governor of Ravensbourne — a college specialising in digital media and design — has provided governor appeals training to ensure that the executive of Ravensbourne had sufficient governors to call upon to hear any future grievance or disciplinary appeals. Using an interactive presentation and an […]