Earlier this year South East European firm Karanovic & Nikolic carried out a survey of in-house counsel in its region. The exercise canvassed over 400 in-house lawyers in Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro on topics relating to managing legal risk, departmental capacity, budgets, services and executive expectations. Although the in-house counsel expressed […]
Sackers’ revenue dropped by 2 per cent last year, from £24.3m to £23.8m. The specialist pensions-focused firm, which reports its figures on a calendar year, also saw its net profit return to its 2011 figure of £12m, following a 4.2 per cent rise to £12.5m in 2012 (10 July 2013). Average profit per equity partner […]
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co’s public law and regulation expert Ravi Randhawa has been promoted to the role of legal director. Randhawa advises sector regulators, consumer councils, government departments, local authorities, major corporates, trade associations and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the full range of public law issues. She has particular know-how in energy, education, transport, health, […]
Shoosmiths has bolstered its intellectual property (IP) offering with the hire of Olly Leyden, who was previously in house at NBC-Universal. Leyden brings particular expertise in advising clients in film and television across development, production, financing, sales and distribution. He has worked on licensing deals for well-known titles such as Good Vibrations, Peppa Pig, The […]
Michael Conroy Harris, construction expert at Eversheds, has commented on the latest UK construction output figures, stating that the data points to an over-reliance on house building. He said: ‘Although market sentiment continues to be strong — as witnessed by the recent PMI [Purchasing Managers’ Index] figures — ONS [Office for National Statistics] numbers have, perhaps, a […]
DLA Piper has advised Ziraat Bank, Turkey’s largest bank by deposits and number of branches, in its successful debut issuance of $750m (£440m) 4.250 notes due 2019 under the bank’s medium-term note programme. The firm also advised on the establishment of the programme in May 2014. The DLA Piper team that advised Ziraat Bank on matters of […]
Allen & Overy has announced that Matthew Bathon, an intellectual property (IP) lawyer specialising in litigating section 337 investigations before the US International Trade Commission (ITC), has joined the firm’s global intellectual property practice as senior counsel in the Washington DC office. He joins Allen & Overy from the ITC, where he served as a senior investigative attorney in […]
No5 Chambers recently supported the annual UKELA Moot Competition. Tim Sheppard compiled the problem for teams to address for the final rounds, held this year at the Moot Court of King’s College London. The finals were judged by Lord Carnwath, a judge of the Supreme Court, who challenged the teams with some tough questions. There […]
The third consecutive Summit 100 recently took place in Cavtat, Croatia. It was organised by the Serbian Association of Managers, the Croatian Employers’ Association, the Atlas Fondation and the Managers’ Association of Slovenia and was attended by Dragan Karanović, managing partner at Karanovic & Nikolic. Summit 100 gathered 100 people from the business elite and […]
Gateley has promoted commercial dispute resolution lawyer Claire Herbert to associate. Qualifying as a solicitor in 2009, having started her career as a legal executive, Herbert works between Leicester and London and is experienced in dealing with media litigation, contractual claims, professional negligence, shareholder and partnership disputes and enforcement action. In particular, she specialises in […]
DLA Piper has represented cloud mitigation company Racemi in a $10m (£6m) investment by venture capital fund Milestone Venture Partners and existing investors Harbert Venture Partners and Paladin Capital Group. This investment will be used to further scale Racemi’s sales, services and engineering to meet the growing demand for its software that supports migrations between […]
Walker Morris has been ranked as one of the UK’s top graduate employers in the latest Guardian UK 300 listings. The law firm moved up 51 spaces in this year’s annual survey. The UK 300 survey determines not only the most popular 300 graduate employers in the UK overall but also the most popular graduate […]