No5 Chambers’ Simon Hunka has represented David Blood, 48, who has been sentenced to eight months in custody after pleading guilty to escaping lawful custody. He was serving a life sentence for armed robbery imposed in 2003 when he walked out of Ford Open Prison in June this year. He had been sentenced to 13 […]
Simon Hunka of No5 Chambers prosecuted in the recent case of Dawn Huckerby, 45, who has been jailed for 12 months after falsely claiming she was a single mother living alone and failing to declare her partner, Steven Daniels, was living with her. She received £73,000 in benefits that she was not entitled to. Huckerby […]
Bruce Dear, head of London real estate at Eversheds, has commented on the 2.9 per cent fall in property prices from July to August. He said: ‘The laws of economic gravity are at last slowing the housing market down. ‘The problem is that the average price of a London house is still more than 16 […]
John Whitaker, a partner in DLA Piper’s real-estate practice in Los Angeles, has been named to the Daily Journal’s 2014 list of Top Development, Land Use and Municipal Infrastructure Lawyers. The list recognises the top 50 attorneys in California whose work in the real-estate development sector has had an impact on projects that are helping to shape […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Cayman Islands law advice to Colour Life Services Group Co on its HKD1.15bn (£89m) listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange by way of Hong Kong public offering and international offering. Colour Life Services Group is a property management company in the […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Cayman Islands law advice to Century Sage Scientific Holdings regarding its listing on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange by way of Hong Kong public offering and international offering. Century Sage Scientific Holdings, an investment holding company, primarily provides hardware and […]
Media boutique Michael Simkins and City-based BCL Burton Copeland have been brought in to represent Sir Cliff Richard following a police raid on the star’s home last Thursday (14 August). The police search on Richard’s Berkshire home relates to accusations of sexual assault against a boy in 1985. Richard denies the allegations and no charges […]
Scotland-headquartered Shepherd & Wedderburn has added the former head of DLA Piper’s Scottish construction and engineering group to its own construction and projects practice. Gareth Parry, who joined DLA Piper from legacy McGrigors (now Pinsent Masons) in 2010 (1 March 2010), joins Shepherd & Wedderburn after a year out of practice. He had been based […]
Mishcon de Reya managing partner Kevin Gold has revealed a series of structural changes, including a conversion to LLP status, bringing all partners into the equity and an ABS application. Gold says the restructure, and corresponding cash call, was sparked by the firm’s forthcoming £3m-plus rent hike as it prepares to take on 120,000 sq […]
Ashurst has taken a trio of partners from O’Melveny & Myers and one from White & Case in a bid to boost its restructuring offering in Asia. It also hired White & Case’s Asia high yield chief and debt capital markets partner Anne-Marie Slot, in a drive to bulk up its high yield capability in […]
The $100m settlement between German prosecutors and Formula One paterfamilias Bernie Ecclestone in the Munich District Court prompted an outpouring of cynicism and dismay. Unfortunately much of the reaction fixated on the octogenarian buying his way out of a conviction for bribery and ignored the mechanics of the German law. Ecclestone’s trial was ended under […]
Dentons, Linklaters, Travers Smith and Weil Gotshal & Manges have settled a £184m battle between the Pensions Regulator and Lehman Brothers administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). The settlement will mean that pension scheme members will receive benefits due to them and ends a six-year battle between the administrators, the Pensions Regulator and the scheme trustees. The £184m […]