Conyers Dill & Pearman has announced the appointment of Dennis Ryan as head of corporate services in its Dubai office, effective 1 July 2014. He will hold this position in addition to his role as counsel. An experienced corporate lawyer, Ryan joined Conyers’ Cayman office in 2007 and transferred to the firm’s Dubai office in […]
DLA Piper has received five Turnaround Atlas Awards from Global M&A Network, including the Mid-Market Law Firm of the Year Award, for its work on value-creating restructuring and turnaround transactions. Global M&A Network is a producer of conferences and awards for the mergers, acquisitions, turnaround and alternative investor communities. The annual Turnaround Atlas Awards, which […]
DLA Piper has played a key role in the launch of guidelines issued by the European Commission intended to help businesses save money and get the most out of cloud computing services. The guidelines are intended to ensure contracts between professional cloud users and cloud providers are written plainly, boosting confidence in the digital market. […]
The Lawyer today reveals which firms did best in terms of public M&A legal fees for the first half of 2014. UK public M&A work is down, as are fees. But as the deals markets shows signs of life, it’s not just the M&A titans that are winning. A raft of smaller firms also took […]
Naeema Choudry of Eversheds has commented on the new Flexible Working Regulations 2014, which extend the right to make a request for flexible working to any employee who has been employed for 26 weeks. The regulations also make dramatic changes to the procedure for making such a request, replacing the prescriptive statutory regime that currently […]
Robin Johnson, co-chair of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) at Eversheds, has commented on news that the value of global M&A has hit $1.75tn (£1tn) in the first half 2014, showing a return to vigour. He said: ‘Everyone knew this was coming last year. The downturn in M&A in the previous five years, low interest rates, quantitative […]
On 30 June 2014, No5 Chambers barrister Jack Feeny was interviewed by presenter Iain Lee on the BBC Three Counties Breakfast show about an employment tribunal case he was involved in. In the case, he represented an English Romany police officer who had complained of institutionalised racism towards travellers within the police. Feeny was asked […]
No5 Chambers barrister Ian Brownhill has acted in the inquest into the death of Edward Ham, a prisoner at HMP Oakwood. Brownhill was instructed on behalf of two of the family members. Late in October 2012, Edward Ham, or Steve as he was known to his friends and family, went to healthcare at HMP Birmingham […]
No5 Chambers won the Chambers of the Year 2014 accolade for the first time at The Lawyer Awards, which took place on 26 June at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. The awards celebrate excellence in the legal profession across private practice, the public sector, commerce and industry and the Bar. The Chambers of the Year […]
Squire Patton Boggs has completed its first bolt-on since the merger of Squire Sanders and Patton Boggs, taking on three-partner Tokyo firm Mamiya Law Offices. The deal, which went live over the weekend, brings Squire Patton Boggs’ Tokyo lawyer headcount to just under 40. Founded in 2008, Mamiya Law Offices is led by partner Jun […]
The total fees paid to lawyers on public M&A deals over the first half of calendar year 2014 fell by 35 per cent compared with the previous six months, research by The Lawyer has found. In total lawyers picked up around £25.4m in legal fees over the six-month period in contrast with the £38.9m they […]
Mills & Reeve and Veale Wasbrough Vizards (VWV) are to give employment advice to the British Library after winning a mini-tender run by the London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC). The library, which has a small internal legal team led by legal services head Ricky Olejnik, does not operate a formal panel but uses the LUPC […]