Image rights lawyer Gary Assim, head of the intellectual property and creative industries group at Shoosmiths, has warned of a raft of disputes following the rise of the ‘selfie’. From teenagers posing for photos with film stars on the red carpet and football fans grabbing a shot with their boyhood heroes to monkeys taking photos of themselves […]
Shoosmiths has announced the appointment of two partners who will be based at the firm’s Birmingham office: Karen Featherstone and David Adams. Featherstone joins as partner from Pinsent Masons where she was a senior associate in the tax team. She has significant experience in private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and reorganisations. She will head up Shoosmiths’ tax […]
No5 Chambers’ Adrian Keeling has defended Anthony France, 41, from Watford, who is facing charges of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office. Officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Operation Elveden, an investigation into allegations of corrupt payments to public officials, arrested him last year and he will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 21 August. Operation Elveden is being […]
No5 Chambers’ Nageena Khalique has appeared in the Court of Appeal before Laws LJ, Richards LJ and Gloster LJ, instructed by the official solicitor as litigation in friend to represent a protected party who lacked the capacity to make a decision about amputation. The appellant challenged the decision of Mrs Justice King in the Court of Protection where she […]
Clifford Chance client US defence company Raytheon Systems has won over £224m from the Home Office after an arbitration tribunal ruled the Government unlawfully terminated its e-borders contract in 2010. The tribunal awarded Raytheon £50m in damages for ending the contract, £9.6m to settle complaints relating to changes to the original contract and £126m in […]
Slaughter and May has appointed a second diversity chief, Susannah Macknay, to assist the firm’s inclusion efforts. Corporate partner Macknay has been working alongside litigator Ewan Brown, who has been working as the firm’s sole diversity partner since 2012. Macknay took up the post in May, following an appointment by Slaughters’ management board. Slaughters has […]
Football fans will not be pursued with legal action for sharing unofficial footage on the popular Twitter-owned video platform, Vine. Premier League officials warned football fans on Friday (15 August) that recording live footage of matches and sharing it online was a serious breach of copyright. The Premier League has now confirmed that it will […]
Last week was one of fancy footwork in the global M&A market, with a couple of mega-deals from across the pond hogging the limelight. First up, Kinder Morgan . The energy giant announced its intention to gobble up its subsidiaries for $44bn in cash and stock and $27bn in debt. The idea is that Kinder […]
Ogier Corporate Services has been shortlisted for two awards at the ICSA Jersey Awards 2014. The awards, which are now in their third year, celebrate the professional achievements of ICSA Jersey members. Ogier Corporate Services won the ICSA Jersey Administration Team of the Year award in 2013 and the ICSA Jersey Administrator of the Year […]
Think of technology firms, and it’s probably the likes of Olswang, Osborne Clarke, Taylor Wessing or Bird & Bird that spring to mind. Now there’s one more seeking to claim a slice of the lucrative tech pie. And it’s probably not one that you were expecting. Withers, best known for its wealth planning work, is […]
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Former King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) partners Tony O’Malley and Tim Blue, who set up a Sydney boutique earlier this year, have joined accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to launch an Australian legal services arm. PwC, whose legal business PwC Legal employs over 2,000 lawyers in 80 countries and turns over in the region of £260m, […]