Eversheds has advised Carillion on its £800m landmark partnership with Sunderland City Council, which will secure regeneration activity within Sunderland and the wider north-east region. Carillion, in consortium with Igloo Regeneration, has entered into a 20-year partnership with Sunderland City Council to deliver the £800m regeneration programme. Carillion and Igloo were selected following a procurement […]
DLA Piper is advising the a2 Milk Company (a2MC) on its plans to list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The company will retain its New Zealand incorporation following the proposed ASX listing and will also remain on the New Zealand Stock Exchange. The board of a2MC considers that, as a significant part of the […]
DLA Piper has announced that Kelly Tubman Hardy, regional office head of the corporate and finance practice for the firm’s Baltimore office, and James D Mathias, chair of the Baltimore litigation practice, have received 2014 Leadership in Law awards from The Daily Record. The Leadership in Law award was created in 2001 to draw attention to the many […]
Adidas group IP general counsel Tim Behean has moved to a new role in private practice as a director for IP boutique Sipara. Behean spent 17 years at Adidas, most recently heading up the company’s IP group. Before that role, he was previously a solicitor at Slaughter and May for 11 years. Behean has not […]
Nageena Khalique, head of public law at No5 Chambers, has spoken on behalf of Action Cerebral Palsy at the House of Commons at a parliamentary inquiry on the impact of SEND reforms and the Children & Families Act 2014. She provided written submissions outlining the impact of the Children & Families Act 2014 and the […]
Three football hooligans have been spared jail after being involved in in a mass brawl in Wolverhampton city centre. Ryan Richardson, 31, Craig Green, 27, and Jordan Banks, 18, were involved with a group of Leeds United fans where the disturbances brought traffic to a standstill. Ekwall Tiwana from No5 Chambers defended Green. CCTV footage shows […]
It’s been a long time on the back burner but finally Eversheds has given the green light to its potentially transformative plans to seek a US merger partner. Three years ago the firm formed a US strategy group. Two years ago it launched its 2020 Vision strategy, which made building a global platform a priority. […]
Olswang has announced its un-audited half-year results today (20 November), posting an increase of 11 per cent in revenue to £63.9m from £57.6m at the same point last year. The half-year results follow 7 per cent growth in revenue for the 2013/14 financial year, with total turnover rising from £110m to £117.6m (4 July 2014). […]
Company directors who design and pursue a lawful transaction designed to remove from the company hefty future obligations do not conspire to defraud those who might be financially affected by their doing so. Furthermore, the High Court will not allow the exceptional procedure for preferring voluntary bills of indictment to be used when a prosecuting […]
Eversheds has the US in its sights, with chief executive Bryan Hughes confirming the firm is targeting a merger. The news today that Eversheds partners have voted overwhelmingly in favour of pursuing a US merger, with 90 per cent getting behind the plan, has been a long time in the coming (20 November 2014). Eversheds […]
Close contact between in-house lawyers and panel firms has always been seen as a good thing but for China’s state-owned energy giant China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) it has just been the cause of a mammoth fight. Both Baker & McKenzie and senior CNOOC lawyer Kang Xin suffered after the company criticised Xin for […]
Eversheds partners have voted overwhelmingly in favour of pursuing a US merger, with 90 per cent getting behind the plan. The vote took place at the firm’s partner conference in Rome in June this year (See Behind the Law). Eversheds chief executive Bryan Hughes told The Lawyer that since then he has “started looking at the […]