King & Capital’s legal risk management department targets enterprise safety and heightens enterprise value by providing our clients with practical legal risk management services. Our comprehensive system can provide comprehensive services for enterprises, institutions or agencies of different scales. We offer legal risk management services related to corporate governance, contract management, intellectual property protection, major […]
The energy and environment department provides a wide range of legal services. Our principal specialisations include legal risk assessment, due diligence, management consulting, corporate re-organisation and merger integration. We have acted for clients in China, south-east Asia and Africa involved with major infrastructure construction and financing, real-estate exploitation, mergers and acquisitions, industrial investment, anti-monopoly litigation, […]
As one of the earliest practice departments established in King & Capital, we are able to draw on some of the most talented legal minds in the country, many of whom have had their cases and articles published in national legal journals as standard examples for other legal practitioners to follow. Scope of expertise Commercial […]
Our criminal department consists of flexible and accomplished practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds, many of whom are well-known throughout China for their successful involvement in high-profile cases. Some lawyers previously worked for the police, prosecution authorities and different levels of courts. We are also actively involved in criminal legislation, such as the drafting […]
The impending merger of Bingham and Morgan Lewis continued to keep tongues wagging this week, with the news that Akin Gump was to take Bingham’s London office. The city has been full of chatter about the outcome of the tie-up with speculation rife that Bingham London managing partner James Roome was to take his whole […]
As the Scottish referendum campaign enters its final week, the debate is getting increasingly heated. While many lawyers are declining to go on the record, The Lawyer’s exclusive that a major Anglo-Scottish firm is shifting its cash to English accounts has caused waves. Read more about the Scottish reaction in our stories below. Scottish independence: […]
At 6.10am this morning, when the Kingdom of Fife declared its result in the Scottish independence referendum and made a Yes win mathematically impossible, the debate on British constitutional reform was silenced. Silenced, that is, until just after 7am when David Cameron made a short but potentially significant announcement about his ambitions for changes to […]
It’s been an agonising wait to hear whether they were in or out, coming along or going it alone – but even now some Bingham partners are yet to make their move. Oh, and something major happened in Scotland too…before that though, spare a thought for Bingham London managing partner James Roome. It looked like […]
The Society of Conservative Lawyers has published a paper setting out proposals for more devolution to Scotland, England and Wales to establish a “quasi-federal kingdom’ after yesterday’s Scottish ‘no’ vote. The working party, which included 4 Pump Court barrister Anthony Speaight QC, former treasury solicitor Alberto Costa and trainee solicitor Jonathan Lafferty, argued for a […]
Scotland has decided. Scotland will remain part of the United Kingdom and the strengthening of devolution for Scotland within the union is the way forward. What does this mean for businesses in Scotland or doing business there? All three UK parties had proposed a variety of devo plus, more or max proposals ahead of the […]
The much anticipated tie-up between Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Bingham McCutcheon’s London office closes only one chapter of speculation over the fate of the US firm. As market sources suggested would be the case in the run-up to the move, London managing partner James Roome secured the loyalty of 18 of his […]
“It is no surprise that Pearl Liang is one of the busiest restaurants in the area”, boasts their website, which tells us that “Pearl Liang Chinese Oriental Restaurant is a stylish, cosmopolitan, London restaurant located in the heart of Paddington”. Correction: the heart of Paddington Basin, with a captive audience of thousands, where the culinary […]