DLA Piper has announced that Emil R Infante has joined the firm’s corporate and finance practice as a partner in Miami. Infante represents clients in matters related to securities, financial regulation, banking, family office services and cross-border transactions. He has a particular focus on counselling companies with business interests and operations in Latin America and […]
Corporate lawyers at Walker Morris have advised AIM-listed engineering services group Renew Holdings on the disposal of Allenbuild. Allenbuild is the new-build affordable housing part of Renew’s specialist building business. It has been sold to Places for People Group (PFP) for £2.75m. The cash sale is taking place in two tranches. PFP has acquired 50 […]
Edward Clougher, 41, has pleaded guilty to wounding with intent after attacking his neighbour, Michael Rowland, with a machete. The incident happened following a neighbourly dispute over noisy dogs. Phil Bradley and Graham Henson of No5 Chambers defended in the dispute. On 30 August last year, Mr Rowland threatened to kill them if they did […]
In July, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) embarked on a three-day hearing to determine whether employers should pay — and should historically have been paying — workers holiday pay based on their overtime earnings. The EAT has now held that the claimants’ holiday pay should have been calculated to include overtime. Simon Rice-Birchall, partner at Eversheds, […]
Pinsent Masons kicked off a contested managing partner election this morning, with three high-calibre heads of department up for the role. The firm announced three candidates; head of property Adrian Barlow, head of banking and restructuring John Cleland, and former McGrigors managing partner Richard Masters are the three contenders vying for the top spot. This […]
Osborne Clarke corporate and commercial head Ray Berg is set to become the firm’s new UK managing partner for a four-year term starting on 1 January 2015. He will step into the shoes of Simon Beswick, who is nearing the end of his third and final term after 12 years as Osborne Clarke UK managing […]
Employees represented by lawyers from Minster Law and Thompsons have secured a groundbreaking Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision over whether pay for overtime should be including in holiday pay. BGL Group-owned Minster Law and trade union specialists Thompsons were acting for three groups of employees who claimed they were required to work overtime, and so […]
Pinsent Masons has kicked off its managing partner election process by putting three partners up for the role. The three candidates are head of property Adrian Barlow, banking and finance head John Cleland and head of client operations and former managing partner of legacy McGrigors Richard Masters. They were nominated for the position following incumbent […]
Pinsent Masons’ blossoming overseas real estate teams reveal a hint of what direction the firm will take as a new generation of leaders arrive at the helm. Having appointed new senior partner Richard Foley this summer and a new managing partner imminent, Pinsents is at a transformative juncture in its development. Property partner and head […]
Baking giant Hovis will seek to establish a formal panel of legal advisers next year, according to new general counsel Helen Selby. Selby expects to begin the tender process in the first quarter of the coming financial year. She has been using DWF and Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co for commercial work since joining Hovis […]
Dentons has put a permanent team on the ground in Morocco for the first time with the hire of two partners from French firm UGGC & Associés. Partners Patrick Larrivé and Christophe Simonnet joined Dentons yesterday (4 November). Larrivé had been a partner at UGGC for 14 years and joins Dentons as the Casablanca managing partner, […]
Iceland general counsel and company secretary Jayne Burrell has resigned from her role at the supermarket chain to become group general counsel and company secretary of pharmaceutical company Sinclair Pharma. Burrell will leave Iceland at the end of the year, after over three years as general counsel, general secretary and trustee of Iceland Foods Charitable […]