A team of 25 lawyers from SJ Berwin & Co and lawyers from seven other firms acted on Vector Industries’ £200m purchase of more than 65 companies and 15 engineering and distribution businesses of building products group Caradon. SJ Berwin’s corporate finance partner Matthew Hudson said his team, representing Vector, had worked “day and night” […]
Barlow Clowes, Lloyd’s, BCCI, Maxwell, home income plans, pension-mis-selling, Barings; these are just a few of the names and terms that have gained notoriety in recent years as the courts, regulators, lawyers and accountants have increasingly had to grapple with fraud and negligence in the financial services sector. The immediate victims range from some of […]
Tomasz Kacymirow, known as the foremost tax expert in Poland, has left KPMG to join US firm Hunton & Williams in a move that has been described as “ground-breaking”. Lejb Fogelman, head of Hunton & Williams in Warsaw, said the appointment had set a precedent in Poland because Kacymirow is the first full domestic partner […]
Representatives of the Home Office have made a “firm offer” to Spanish lawyers to visit their counterparts in the UK so that British drug barons and money launderers who are operating from the Costa del Sol can be extradited without “hiccups”. Home Office Parliamentary under-secretary with responsibility for drugs, Tom Sackville, made the offer to […]
The children’s charity Barnardos has launched a video designed to reduce the trauma experienced by child witnesses in child sex abuse and other criminal cases. The eight-minute video, called You’re Going to be a Witness, is produced in the style of a children’s television programme. It was made with the co-operation of the Teesside Combined […]
Supreme Court judges in Scotland are to receive formal training following the creation of a Judicial Studies Committee, it was announced last week. The new body, the membership of which is to be decided, is to be chaired by Lord Ross, former Lord Justice Clerk. It will promote training for Supreme Court and Sheriff Court […]
Linklaters & Paines has scored a hat trick, coming top of Corporate Money’s takeover table for deals over £1m published this week, as well as last week’s Acquisitions Monthly public takeover league table and the The Sunday Times’ UK dealmakers league table. Corporate Money’s table, which includes cross-border deals and lists only advisers to companies, […]
Lawyers are predicting all Premiership and many first division clubs will go public on the stock market as City interest in the business of football intensifies. Last week Southampton Football Club was admitted to the Stock Exchange’s Official List. Its shares had been suspended at 47p and went to 170p on the opening of trading […]
With reference to the article in The Lawyer, 7 January, concerning the position of Nottingham Law School, I would like to correct any impression given that we are reducing our commitment to the Legal Practice Course via the part-time route. In fact we are fully committed to the concept of the part-time LPC courses and […]
Americanisation. Why do we have to have it thrust down our throats? Especially Americanisation of the law. The UK government attacked the French for trying to protect the European film industry and European culture – yet our children are so exposed to US television and films they are more familiar with the topography of North […]
More and more of the solicitors who make recommendations for the stars at the Bar comment that they instruct silks and keep the work normally done by junior counsel for solicitor-advocates and in-house senior solicitors. so it is inevitable that the junior Bar is seeing the sense, commercially and legally, in specialising. As one practitioner […]
Another Chancery Division pop battle is looming in 1997, this time between members of Gary Glitter’s former group, the Glitter Band. In a preliminary pre-Christmas skirmish, two members of the original chart-topping Glitter Band took a former member to court to curb his activities with a rival, and they claim bogus, Glitter Band. At the […]