JAMES Nichol remembers the first night after the change in the right to silence law with great trepidation. “It was horrendous. I conducted eight interviews in three or four police stations involving clients accused of very serious offences including GBH, arson, threats to kill and £1 million fraud,” says Nichol, of well-known London crime firm […]
On the 14 June 1995 official dealings commenced on the London Stock Exchange and the US Nasdaq National Market in the shares of Nynex Cable Comms, one of the UK’s largest cable telecommunications and television companies. The offering raised about £383 million net of expenses. The flotation involved three London law firms and two US […]
CITY firm Druces & Attlee is striking out for the European legal market after an amalgamation move brought in a batch of new overseas clients. Druces has joined up with Michael Pearson and his firm Herringtons. It has also taken on new partners Stephen Baister and David Thomas. Pearson, formerly senior partner with Herringtons, brings […]
Chase Consulting Group, the legal practice management consultants, is hosting a series of workshops for the legal profession based on the Investors in People quality standard. The workshops, which are subsidised by Essex Training and Enterprise Council, will cover four evening seminars offering practical management training in the standard. The first workshops start in November […]
Titmuss Sainer Dechert acted for NatWest Wood Mackenzie & Co in a £7 million rights issue by Wyndeham Press Group
A major case against the Scientologists alleging a regime of imprisonment and violence on students who stepped out of line at their East Grinstead headquarters has recently been transferred to the High Court and is now pending. The Scientologists are being sued by two students from Zimbabwe who say they won scholarships to study with […]
Professional responsibility and risk analysis of international trade developments are among topics for discussion at the autumn meeting of the International Law and Practice Section of the New York State Bar Association. The seminar, held in Vancouver from 18 to 22 October, will be attended by over 300 lawyers worldwide. Organised in conjunction with the […]
McKenna & Co acted for biopharmaceutical company Vanguard Medica in its £11.2 million private equity financing.
Pinsent Curtis partners have joined the ranks of Internet surfers after becoming what is thought to be the first law firm to use the Internet in a corporate deal. A team led by head of commercial John Pratt turned to the Internet to complete documentation for the management buy-out of parcel firm Red Star from […]
What was your first job? Clearing plates in my father’s restaurant. What was your first ever salary as a lawyer? £4,000 as a barrister in my first year of practice. What would you have done if you hadn’t become a lawyer? Researcher on South East Asia for the Lonely Planet Guide. Which law could you […]
Penningtons acted in the placing and intermediaries offer in the flotation of the Asia Healthcare Trust onto the Official London Stock Exchange
Kuwait Airways Corporation v Iraqi Airways Company and anor (1995). HL (Lords Goff, Jauncey, Mustill, Slynn and Nicholls) 24/7/95. Summary: Seizure and retention of Kuwaiti aircraft by Iraqi airline was not necessarily conduct subject to sovereign immunity because it was done on the orders of the Iraqi government when invading Kuwait. Appeal by the plaintiff, […]