The rivalries between smartphone giants Samsung, Apple and Nokia are well known but Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan was condemned for going too far this month. The firm and longstanding client Samsung have been ordered to pay rivals Apple and Nokia over £1.2m in damages after leaking confidential information. Details of patent infringement bust-ups and […]
We’re coming out of the back room and helping to shape strategy, say our shortlisted lawyers for this year’s In-house Lawyer of the Year award. In-house lawyers are no longer the forgotten back office box-tickers they once were, next-generation general counsel are masters of the boardroom. Dynamic, often young, and surprisingly good-humoured, considering they’re also […]
Russell Holland from No5 Chambers has appeared for the appellant in Nabili v Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust UKEAT/0437/13/DM. The claimant’s claim had been struck out but the employer had admitted that there had been procedural flaws. The employment tribunal judge concluded that the procedural flaw would have made no difference to the […]
The UK’s biggest payday loans company, Wonga, is set to pay £2.6m compensation to about 45,000 customers after sending letters threatening legal action from non-existent law firms. The letters, sent to customers in arrears, were sent under the names ‘Chainey, D’Amato & Shannon’ and ‘Barker and Lowe Legal Recoveries’. In some instances, Wonga also added […]
Deutsche Bank and Canary Wharf Group are seeking a court resolution over a financing deal following the £795m sale of Clifford Chance’s 10 Upper Bank Street building. Deutsche Bank’s trustee business and Canary Wharf Finance II, a CWG subsidiary, are asking the court for a decision over whether to pay out £168.8m to note holders […]
The real-estate team at Shoosmiths has acted for Xafinity Consulting in a deal that will see the company relocate from Greyfriars Road in Reading to Phoenix on Station Hill. Xafinity will take the entire second and third floors of the new office development situated next to Reading railway station, providing a total of 20,521ft² of […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided British Virgin Islands (BVI) law advice to HICKIES Corp on three rounds of financing, including funding led by the venture arm of one of the global footwear brands. HICKIES Corp is a Brooklyn-based footwear brand known for its elastic lacing system. The new financings will be put towards, inter alia, […]
Allen & Overy has advised the book-running lead managers on Yes Bank’s $500m (£300m) qualified institutions placement (QIP) of shares to fund the bank’s future expansion. The transaction involved a private placement of shares into the US under section 4(a)(2) of the US Securities Act of 1933 and an offering outside the US in reliance […]
Today’s news is dominated by the verdicts in the epic News International phone-hacking trial. And with eight silks drafted in by lawyers from DLA Piper, Kingsley Napley, HowardKennedyFsi and Simons Muirhead & Burton battling it out, today should also see some celebrations across the City. For media lawyers the hacking saga has been a gift, […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and its client Samsung have been ordered to pay Apple and Nokia over $2m (£1.2m) in damages related to the leaking of confidential information. A US court ruled on June 20 that Samsung and Quinn Emanuel had to pay Nokia a total of $1.15m and Apple a total of $893,825, […]
What does Linklaters need to do in China? Will it replicate its alliance strategy in South Africa and Australia? Relationships in the Chinese market are shifting all the time, as the stories below demonstrate. Is Linklaters ready for a China alliance? Jun He and Zhong Lun merger shows China market in new light Elite ‘red […]
Bird & Bird has expanded its Pan-Asian alliance network by adding two Indonesian firms. The firm has signed strategic cooperation agreements with two Jakarta-based firms, IP boutique K&K Advocates and five-partner firm Nurjadin Sumono Mulyadi & Partners (NSMP). It is rare for an international firm to form associations with two firms in one jurisdiction. 2Birds […]