Stephen Malley and Jonathan Northey will join DLA Piper as the latest lateral partner hires into the firm’s real-estate group. They both join the firm from RPC. Their arrival at the firm follows the recent hire of Richard Hopkinson-Woolley, Laurence Rogers and Neville Wright from BLP. Malley is a non-contentious construction lawyer whose practice focuses […]
Karanovic & Nikolic’s traditional summer internship programme has begun. Four candidates have been chosen to spend one month working as trainees in the Belgrade office. The training received by the interns is similar to that of a newly graduated associate. Each intern is placed in four different practice areas with a designated mentor who shows […]
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co has strengthened its intellectual property offering with the promotion of John Coldham to director. Coldham is a specialist in brands and designs and also has experience in patent law. Coldham joined Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co in 2005 and has extensive litigation experience under his belt, covering trademarks, designs, copyright, […]
Gateley has advised on the sale of retail development site Albion Place in Skipton town centre to independent fund management business Mayfair Capital in a deal worth more than £9m. Albion Place was developed by Maple Grove Developments. Since negotiations started in 2010, Gateley has advised Maple Grove on a number of development areas, from […]
No5 Chambers barrister Paul Marshall recently joined Slaughter & May’s Ben Kingsley and Federico Busatta of Gianni Origoni, Grippo, Capelli & Partners to moderate IBC Legal’s Global Legal Compliance Forum on anti-money laundering and investigations. IBC Legal’s Global Compliance and Ethics Forum addresses the real issues and challenges currently faced. The event has been created […]
Ogier has advised R&R Ice Cream on the Jersey aspects of its acquisition of Peters Food Group in Australia for an enterprise value of AUD440m (approximately €305m or £240m). R&R is known for ice-cream brands in the UK such as Fab lollies, Rowntree’s Fruit Pastille lollies and Kelly’s Cornish ice cream and in mainland Europe […]
Allen & Overy has advised Samena Capital on the acquisition of 30.58 per cent of the share capital of RAK Ceramics PJSC from His Highness Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qassimi, ruler of the emirate of Ras Al Khaimah and one of the founding shareholders of RAK Ceramics. Samena Capital is a principal investment group […]
After two planning inquiries and a High Court challenge to overturn the secretary of state’s original refusal of planning permission, a team lead by No5 Chambers’ Martin Kingston QC has succeeded in obtaining planning permission for a 330,000m² strategic rail freight interchange (SRFI) in the green belt in Hertfordshire. Having originally, in 2010, rejected the […]
DLA Piper has been recognised as a ‘standout’ among the ‘most favoured general firm intellectual property (IP) departments’ by the BTI Consulting Group in its newly published BTI Intellectual Property Outlook 2015: Changes, Trends and Opportunities in IP and IP Litigation. The firm also ranked as a ‘leader’ among the ‘go-to IP litigation providers’ and […]
DLA Piper has appointed Liam Prescott as partner in its litigation and regulatory group, based in Brisbane, effective 14 July 2014. Prescott joins the firm from HopgoodGanim, having previously worked at both Linklaters in London and at Allens Arthur Robinson in Brisbane. He has experience across all aspects of complex commercial litigation and dispute resolution, […]
What with the IPO market taking flight, and a couple of massive pharma deals hogging the spotlight, it’d be easy to forget that for many companies it’s business as usual. In the world of telecommunications, Liberty Global is continuing its gradual march across Europe. Having already hoovered up the likes of Dutch cable company Ziggo […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Herbert Smith Freehills have advised on the sale of British Sky Broadcasting’s (BSkyB) minority stake in ITV to Liberty Global. Acquisitional cable company Liberty Global picked up the 6.4 per cent stake for £481m. Despite insisting that it does not intend to make a takeover bid for the UK broadcaster, the […]