Milbank has announced the results of its 2015 promotions round, with the firm set to increase organic growth in London with two partner appointments. The firm promoted a total of nine associates, effective on 1 January 2015. Of those, two were promoted in London – corporate, commercial, IT and outsourcing lawyer Joel Harrison and leveraged […]
If there’s one thing you learn when writing for a living – or indeed just hanging around on internet forums – it’s that if someone can misinterpret something you’ve put down in black and white, they will. The winky-face has gone some way to help alleviate sarcasm-related misunderstandings, but it’s often hard to use in […]
A court in Warwick hearing a kidnap trial heard that the victim was seized by a gang from the street at gunpoint in broad daylight and had one of his fingers cut off to back up their ransom demands to the victim’s family. Tom Schofield, criminal barrister at No5 Chambers, is defending. A gang was […]
Stephenson Harwood has earned £46,000 from the liquidation of Coventry City Football Club according to recent insolvency filings with Companies House. Stephenson Harwood partner Stuart Frith was instructed by joint liquidators Stephen Katz and Paul Appleton of David Rubin & Partners, taken on when Coventry was placed into administration in March 2013. The Liquidator’s Progress Report shows […]
Addleshaw Goddard has decided to step away from the $6bn embezzlement fight against Kazakhstan’s JSC BTA Bank chair Mukhtar Ablyazov, we reveal today. The firm is the third to disentangle itself from the long-running litigation. Clyde & Co was originally instructed in 2009, followed by Stephenson Harwood, which was brought in later that year. Addleshaws […]
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has hired former Eversheds London managing partner Cornelius Medvei, along with two of the firm’s structured real estate partners. Medvei will be joined in the move to KWM by Eversheds’ former international head of real estate William Naunton and former London head of tax Clive Jones. All three will join […]
In a week when it seemed everyone was doing a panel review, our most popular story proved to be the news that Santander general counsel Karen Fortunato had quit the bank just as it finalised its new panel. The story topped a varied top 10 list. In second place the analysis of the impact of […]
Shoosmiths has advised family-backed private equity firm Prowting Investments on the strategic investment in bespoke property developer Bargate Homes. A team of corporate specialists, led by corporate partner Adam Dowdney, worked on the multi-million-pound deal. The Shoosmiths team also included banking partner Linda Williams, corporate associate Lisa Sigalet and paralegal James Arnold. Additional specialist legal […]
The Shoosmiths transport team has won the 2014 (regional) Transport Firm of the Year title at The Legal 500 UK Awards, which recognise excellence across the legal sector and for particular disciplines and sectors. According to the firm, partners Chris McClure, Ursula Gould and Joanne McGuinness are the key players within the team, which acts for […]
Shoosmiths has advised new company Haversham Holdings on their decision to float on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM). Haversham Holdings is a new group formed by Avril Palmer-Baunack, former executive chairman of Stobart group and former chief executive of Autologic, along with the support of Marwyn, the specialist investment management company. Palmer-Baunack will drive the business […]
Richard Hignett, employment barrister at No5 Chambers, has given a talk titled ‘Let’s have a chat (off the record)’ at the Annual Employment Seminar 2014. The talk included discussion on what the admissibility of settlement offers and ‘off-the-record’ conversations in proceedings before an employment tribunal is regulated by.
This is a Friday leadership column with a difference. Next week’s cover feature targets the trials and tribulations of running a law firm. For that we’ve quizzed some of the best-known names in the market on the toughest things being a managing or senior partner. Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co’s Quentin Poole; K&L Gates’ Peter […]