A flair for innovation sets apart the banking and finance teams on this year’s shortlist for top honours at The Lawyer Awards The improved financial landscape in 2013 was a gift to banking and finance lawyers, offering an abundance of opportunities to get creative with their advice to clients. That is reflected in The Lawyer […]
A responsive stance to EU legislation has led to a thriving Maltese funds market. Is it enough to make rumours of a global firm’s move there come true? Voters in Europe’s big beast countries may have sent a strongly sceptical message to their leaders in the union-wide parliamentary elections last month, and given the keepers […]
Brace yourselves – here comes a story about accountants, although it is not as yawn-inducing as one might imagine. And it has an important solicitor angle. So if you’re still with us… The saga of Mehjoo v Harben Barker dates from 1999 when the claimant – Iranian-born, who claimed asylum in 1981 and was granted […]
Parmjit Singh, head of the India business group at Eversheds, has commented following predictions that India is likely to ease restrictions for foreign online retailers. He said: ‘The news that the new Indian government is likely to ease restrictions for foreign online retailers will be welcomed by major online retailers, but will cause concerns for […]
The High Court was asked to decide last month who owns the copyright to No Woman, No Cry in a major battle for a piece of music that marks its 40th anniversary this year Who is Vincent Ford? Here’s a clue, he ran a soup kitchen in a ghetto in Kingston in Jamaica, known as […]
As London basks in Friday sunshine, the junior ranks of the magic circle are feeling even happier than the rest of the city’s workforce as the pay rises just keep on coming. Clifford Chance is the latest firm to boost its trainee and junior associate wages, with its generous approach reflecting the mood at its […]
King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has been hit by the exit of a pair of heavyweight Hong Kong partners, Larry Kwok and Conrad Chan, who will leave the firm next week with a clutch of associates. Kwok, who was managing partner for Asia strategy and markets at King & Wood Mallesons, is expected to launch […]
Is there any difference between Travers and Macfarlanes? Travers Smith and Macfarlanes. Macfarlanes and Travers Smith. The two City firms are often thrown haphazardly into the same bucket labelled ’private equity strengths, conservative management approach and international outlook’. It’s fair to say that the two firms do have their similarities. Both are historically known as […]
Herbert Smith Freehills’ (HSF) former advocacy head Murray Rosen QC is to join 4 New Square in September. Rosen joined legacy Herbert Smith in 2005 from 11 Stone Buildings to launch its advocacy unit (21 March 2005). He led the development of the team alongside Ian Gatt QC who joined the firm from Littleton Chambers […]
Nabarro senior partner and self-confessed “IT geek” Graham Stedman is heralding a major set of investments in technology ahead of the firm’s move to 125 London Wall this year. Stedman, who was elected to the role in 2012, proposed the initiative last year and started a pilot with the aim of rolling it out across […]
Fountain Court is to launch an office in Singapore in early September, after appointing former Rajah & Tann litigation partner Kanaga Dharmananda as a member of chambers. Fountain Court’s deputy head Bankim Thanki QC pinpointed the soon-to-be-launched Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) as the key reason for the set’s expansion to the market. “We see […]
The Qatari bid committee is understood to have turned to Schillings for advice following allegations of corruption during the World Cup bidding process. The committee have denied claims of bribery linked to the World Cup, after a Sunday Times report claimed that football officials had received up to £3m to tilt the 2022 bid towards Qatar. […]