DIBB Lupton Broomhead has emerged as the highest-earning legal firm in The Lawyer’s analysis of its most comprehensive list of financial figures supplied by the profession. The firm brought in u56 million last financial year to head a list of those prepared to give income details. Dibbs was followed by Leeds-based Hammond Suddards with u33 […]
US FIRM Dechert Price & Rhoads has increased its European portfolio by placing a resident partner in Paris. The firm, which last year joined up with London’s Titmuss Sainer & Webb, was one of the first US firms to establish offices in Europe. It now operates an established Brussels practice and employs almost 150 lawyers […]
HERBERT Smith is expanding its Far East practice by establishing a new office in Singapore. The City firm, which already operates a substantial international network, is also working with lawyers, clients and government agencies in China while it waits for permission from the Chinese Ministry of Justice to open in Shanghai. The firm is hoping […]
MORE than one new partner in five appointed by a crop of leading law firms this year are based overseas. Some sources believe the figure reflects a trend in which UK firms are trying to open up fresh markets by expanding abroad. In the latest batch of appointments, eight firms have announced 81 new partners, […]
A European Court has ruled that VAT on UK corporate lawyers’ fees cannot be recovered. The judgement supports the view of HM Customs & Excise which, since 1989, has meant UK businesses pay 17.5 per cent more for their lawyers than their European counterparts. It was made despite the fact that most continental countries have […]
LONDON firm John Singh & Co has lost its High Court fight against swingeing taxation of a legal aid bill for defence at a Southwark Crown Court fraud trial. The case represents a signpost ruling that the decisions of taxation masters can be susceptible to judicial review, although Mr Justice Latham made it clear the […]
Denton Hall has won a tender to assist the Treasury Solicitor on a Home Office scheme which aims to set up five secure training centres. The centres will be designed, constructed, managed and financed by the private sector under the Government’s Private Finance Initiative. A Denton Hall team led by partner Edwin Marlow will advise […]
SENIOR criminal lawyers are attacking the Home Secretary’s plans to force disclosure on to the defence and limit prosecution disclosure as an “erosion of a fundamental principal of English law”. The plans treat the criminal justice system as a “political football” and are merely a response to police pressure, they say. Richard Ferguson QC, chair […]
London firm Edward Lewis has taken on public companies and corporate finance specialist Martin Thomas, the second partner to move over from Edwin Coe this year. The move follows the recruitment of Rob McKellar to the firm’s property group in January. Thomas, who deals in all aspects of corporate finance transactions, started in the company […]
PANNONE & Partners newest equity partner Neil Gerrard has left the Manchester practice to join rival firm Dibb Lupton Broomhead in the city. Gerrard, who started with Pannones in 1989, took partnership in 1993 and was made up to equity status a year ago. His switch to Dibbs has been negotiated over the past three […]
THE RIGHT to silence may be reinstated if key cases set to be heard in the European Court of Human Rights later this year are successful. But practitioners are divided over the likely result of the cases. Many believe the hearings of former Guinness chair Ernest Saunders and Northern Ireland kidnapper John Murray could see […]
Superframe Group was advised by Goodman Derrick in connection with its admission to the Official List and the placing of shares. Sponsor Keith Bayley Rogers & Co was advised by Bircham & Co.