Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has launched a new programme aimed at supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) colleagues after taking advice from senior legal figures from BT, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan. The firm launched its Champions network supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) colleagues this week at a panel attended by BT general […]
The firm has announced its appointment to England Athletics’ single adviser panel in a contract that will last for two years. England Athletics has chosen Newcastle firm Muckle as its sole adviser in its first-ever panel. Muckle’s win comes after the regional firm won a total of six new panel places in 2014, as reported […]
Clyde & Co partner Julian Connerty is advising a group of shareholders planning to sue the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for allegedly forcing small companies out of business through its global restructuring group (GRG). The partner has instructed Matrix Chambers’ Tim Owen QC for the RBS GRG Business Action Group. It follows the end […]
Hogan Lovells has advised long-term client M&G Real Estate on the £140m acquisition of Two Snowhill, the Birmingham office of Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co. Property development company M&G will buy the 319,000 sq ft office and retail scheme in the core of Birmingham’s prime office district. The 14-storey tower is currently home to Wragge Lawrence […]
Hogan Lovells has advised long-term client M&G Real Estate on the £140m acquisition of Two Snowhill, the Birmingham office of Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co. Property development company M&G will buy the 319,000 sq ft office and retail scheme in the core of Birmingham’s prime office district. The 14-storey tower is currently home to Wragge Lawrence […]
French giant Fidal has chosen to formalise its ‘best friends’ arrangement with Mills & Reeve through an exclusive affiliation just months after setting out its ambitions to build its cross-border profile. Fidal set its sights on international expansion in April as it announced a 1.5 per cent rise in turnover from €317.7m (13 March 2013) […]
Is the “law of unintended consequences” about to hit the legal market with another challenge when the Basel III banking reforms start to take effect in January 2015? The reason behind this question relates to the interest clients, firms and banks have historically earned on client account balances. The banks have benefited from the tens […]
On your commute into the office tomorrow morning, spare a thought for the law firms involved in getting your train off the starting blocks. A number of firms have been bulking up their rolling stock expertise over the past year or so, with an eye to winning lucrative contracts work. Among the latest to capitalise […]
On 17 May 2011, the National Assembly adopted the Law on Notary Public, which came into effect on 1 September 2014. The new law introduces the notary public into the Serbian legal system, which should help to relieve the judiciary, improve its efficiency and improve legal security. A notary public is an independent and autonomous […]
By Andrew Beck In June I wrote a WM Insight on the unreported mortgage repossession decision of Bank of Scotland v Cloke in which the condition of the defendant’s severely disabled son was deemed an ‘exceptional circumstance’ that warranted a full consideration of whether the lender’s actions in seeking to recover possession were a proportional […]
Jones Day has hired DLA Piper banking partner Justin Conway as it continues to invest in its banking and finance practice in the City. Conway has been a partner at DLA Piper since 2012, which he joined after spending six years as executive director and senior counsel at Goldman Sachs (10 April 2012). He specialises […]
Eversheds is advising Garden of Ideas to develop potential sites in China for a new cultural attraction. Born out of the UK’s vibrant arts, entertainment, design and engineering sectors, Garden of Ideas was designed by Simon Elliott, artistic director at Garden of Ideas. The ‘theme park’ reinvents the Victorian pleasure gardens to create contemporary cultural […]