Financings
SJ Berwin acted for Megalomedia in its acquisition of a 10 per cent shareholding in The Multimedia Corporation from Inoco.
Financings
Manches & Co advised Helicon Publishing in sourcing a major round of development capital which involved Microsoft Corporation taking a minority stake in the company. Denton Hall advised Microsoft.
Property
Pinsent Curtis acted for Castlemore Securities which has bought a site for a new retail park on the outskirts of Leicester. The site was bought for £24 million from William Timpson, a subsidiary of Oliver Group. Lovell White Durrant acted for the vendor.
New chief aims to keep Linklaters at the leading edge
Charles Allen-Jones is the new standard bearer at City law firm Linklaters & Paines, where he takes over from James Wyness as senior partner this autumn. Wyness, 58, is retiring from the firm in spring 1997 after six years at the helm. Allen-Jones, an avid tennis player and traveller to exotic places such as Burma, […]
PR guru hired to revive profession
Sir Tim Bell, Baroness Thatcher’s public relations guru, has been called in by the Law Society to look at ways of boosting the public image of solicitors. It is understood £200,000 has been earmarked to pay Bell, who helped to mastermind several Tory general election campaigns. Bell, who helped Thatcher to power in the 1980s, […]
In brief: Lawyers dig into pockets for legal centre
Solicitors and barristers have donated cash to London’s Mary Ward Legal Centre so it can move to bigger premises. City firm Theodore Goddard donated £5,000 and 11 King’s Bench Walk £7,500 to fund the centre’s move from Queen Square to Boswell Street, Holborn, London. The centre will use the extra office space to recruit more […]
City gets jitters over merger clamp-down
City law firms are hoping that the merger gravy train will trundle on despite the Government’s recent U-turn on competition policy which analysts fear could jeopardise a number of large corporate deals. Concern follows a speech by Ian Lang, president of the Board of Trade, in which he indicated that domestic competition issues will weigh […]
UK dismayed by courts' record on fraud
Confidence in the ability of courts to deal with company fraud is lower in the UK than anywhere else in the developed world, according to a survey by accountancy firm Ernst & Young. The survey sought the views of senior executives in 11 countries. A large number of respondents supported the idea of special courts […]
Media ace poached by Wiggins
The head of McGrigor Donald’s company department in Glasgow has left the firm to join the media practice of Cheltenham-based Wiggin and Co. Corporate lawyer Stephen Cook, who specialises in the cable and satellite sector, is now based in Wiggin and Co’s London office. While at McGrigor Donald, Cook focused on corporate work for media […]
Fee income soars in Wragges' bumper year
Birmingham firm Wragge & Co is poised to reveal a 25 per cent increase in fee income to around £24 million in the year to April 1995. Industry sources suggest income per partner will be well up on last year’s £131,000 per head. The firm has undertaken corporate work for 100 listed stock market companies, […]
Litigation Personal Injury 21/05/96
Riley v Beacon – QBD 7 May 1996 Claimant: Janet Riley, 47 Incident: Medical negligence Injuries: Claimant, a former hairdresser, underwent treatment as private patient at AMI Childern Hospital in September 1990 and January 1991; she had been referred to hospital with pain in her back and right leg and treatment was recommended; contended treatment […]
Experts? Just ask the family
Lord Woolf made a number of recommendations about expert witnesses in his Access to Justice report. But family judges and lawyers have already anticipated some of them and in many cases his proposals simply give the seal of approval to judicial guidelines and good practice in children and ancillary relief cases. Woolf noted that experts […]