Addleshaw Goddard managing partner John Joyce has installed Gulf and Asia regional office heads in the latest stage of ongoing management reform at the firm. It comes as part of an overhaul of the management team following the election of Joyce as managing partner in May (16 May 2014). The two new heads are construction […]
With the economy improving, partners’ minds are turning to growing the business, but a serious dose of pragmatism must balance their ambitions As the legal market recovers from a bruising period, many firms are considering either opening new offices in the UK or internationally or developing their practice areas. Having been through a period of […]
In the regulators’ sights and with plants on the Russia-Ukraine border, Amcor’s tobacco packaging division needs all the help it can get from GC Damien Clayton Despite the advent of e-cigarettes, the world still loves an old-fashioned fag. Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that between 1980 and 2012 smoking […]
The professional indemnity insurance market was shaken by last year’s adjustments, and now the SRA has additional proposals Last year was unusually turbulent for firms looking to secure professional indemnity insurance (PII), resulting in brokers voicing concerns over the SRA’s handling of the renewals process after the regulator admitted it had lost track of some […]
Move of the week Water industry watchdog Ofwat has appointed former Ofgem legal director Elizabeth Hillman as its first general counsel. She worked for seven years at energy regulator Ofgem as legal director. She moved to Ofgem from energy giant EDF, where she was head of the B2B and upstream legal team. […]
Northern Ireland’s economy has picked up and work levels with it. Lawyers can almost taste the possibilities from much lower corporation tax In the years immediately preceding the financial crash the Northern Ireland economy routinely tracked above that of the UK as a whole, Scotland and its southern neighbour Eire. But the past few years […]
As much as football fans love the World Cup, it is painfully difficult to warm to the sport’s international governing body and the organisation that runs – and profits from – the competition: Fifa. Anyone who has spent a couple of hours leafing through the Sunday Times in the fortnight in the run-up to the […]
Next month will see the cream of the UK legal market music talent rock the Square Mile, as a mini Glastonbury come to Guildhall Yard in the raucous form of the City’s Got Talent. On the back of the huge success of legal market battle of the bands Law Rocks (30 May 2014), the City’s […]
Allen & Overy’s Roger Lui (partner, Hong Kong) and Elizabeth Leckie (partner, New York) have published a chapter, entitled ‘Issues and challenges in structuring Asian cross-border transactions — an introduction’, in the 2014 edition of The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Lending & Secured Finance, co-sponsored by the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA). The chapter […]
Eversheds’ Austrian office has obtained a landmark decision in the Supreme Court for Austrian restaurant group Plachutta. The case centres around the debate on smoking in restaurants. In this case, two private individuals appointed themselves as ‘smoking sheriffs’ with their sole life mission being to check whether establishments comply with all the regulations of the […]
Allen & Overy’s Warsaw office hosted a Regional Competition Law Day on 12 June 2014, where competition counsel from 18 law firms from across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) attended to pool their collective knowledge and experiences. The day focused on issues inherent in the retail sector with an emphasis on hub-and-spoke arrangements, leniency programmes […]
DLA Piper’s technology sector team has produced a pack of free legal guidance and documents aimed at high-growth start-ups that have ambitions for high-growth and international expansion. The legal start-up pack contains downloadable legal documents, guidance notes and checklists with respect to intellectual property, corporate, employment and tax matters. It includes: Guidance notes and checklists to […]