Gateley has announced a total of 28 promotions across its English offices. Seven of Gateley’s Manchester team have been promoted, with tax specialist Richard Clitherow being made legal director. Additionally, three employees were promoted from associate to senior associate: Simon Maddox from the real-estate team, employment lawyer Avril England and Stuart Evans from the pensions team. Employment […]
No5 Chambers has entered a team in the Bristol Legal Walk, which is taking place on 22 September 2014. The Bristol Legal Walk began in 2011. This year, Nick Fluck, president of the Law Society, Ashley Palminteri, president of the Bristol Law Society, Lord Lieutenant, the High Sheriff, and the Lord Mayor will lead the […]
The phone-hacking scandal came to a dramatic conclusion last month with Andy Coulson jailed for 18 months over conspiracy to hack phones. But for an ex-Harbottle & Lewis partner and former News International in-house counsel Jonathan Chapman, a new battle is brewing. Former Harbottles partner Lawrence Abramson, hired by the paper to investigate allegations against […]
Fixed fees are becoming increasingly popular in the transactional world but in the wake of Jackson and the debate about third-party funders, litigators are also becoming more at home with the set-up. Take Nabarro. The firm is set to become one of the first in the UK to formally embrace fixed-fee structures for its disputes […]
Schoenherr has advised Laakman Holding Ltd on the increase of its participation in the listed fund company C-QUADRAT Investment AG from 9.4 per cent to 18.4 per cent. Through this transaction, Laakman became the core shareholder of C-QUADRAT. The increase of the participation was effected through the acquisition of a shareholdings from Alexander Svoboda Privatstiftung, […]
The London boroughs of Harrow and Barnet, which recently merged their legal groups, have become the second local authority in-house team to be awarded an alternative business structure (ABS) licence, following Buckinghamshire County Council last week. Yesterday the merged legal team of Harrow and Barnet councils HB Public Law (HBPL), which was advised by Bevan Brittan […]
Nabarro is launching a new regime of fixed-fee deals across its litigation practice which will see the firm shoulder risk for its clients. For the first time the firm will offer a single headline price for an entire dispute, agreed at the start of the case. Clients will also be offered fixed prices for certain […]
Chester firm Aaron & Partners boosted its turnover by 7.4 per cent from £6.76m to £7.26m during the 2013/14 financial year. The revenue increase follows Aaron’s acquisition of employment firm Bennett’s Legal in May, a tie-up that handed it a Shrewsbury office and boosted the firm’s headcount by 10 per cent. Over the year the firm’s […]
Ethical investor Sustainable Development Capital LLP (SDCL) has appointed six firms to its inaugural legal panel, with Muckle and Walker Morris among those winning a spot. Other firms to be appointed include Addleshaw Goddard, Bird & Bird, Bevan Brittan and DAC Beachcroft. SDCL was launched in 2007 as a boutique investment firm offering advisory services to […]
Baker Botts, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Vinson & Elkins have advised on Kinder Morgan’s blockbuster $70bn consolidation of its related pipeline companies, marking the biggest energy merger since ExxonMobil 12 years ago. Kinder Morgan announced its intention to take on all of the outstanding equity securities of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, Kinder Morgan Management […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided Bermuda advice to Viking Cruises Ltd in connection with the offering of $275m (£164m) aggregate principal amount of its 8.50 per cent senior notes. These will be issued as additional notes under the indenture together with the $250m aggregate principal amount of existing 8.50 per cent senior notes due 2022, issued on 19 […]
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) and Baker & McKenzie have topped a survey of Asia-Pacific general counsel aimed at identifying the firms with the strongest brands in the region. Legal research company Acritas compiled the responses of 379 in-house counsel working in organisations with revenues of $50m or more. Those working in Australia and China […]