Walker Morris has been appointed to the Legal Service Panel for the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) following a successful tender. The firm was successful in all areas of legal work and will cover all lots: property and construction; corporate; procurement state aid and competition; commercial and intellectual property litigation; commercial and technology; engineering law […]
Every week in The Lawyer we focus our attention on a different jurisdiction – often European – in our regular special reports. Very often the timing of these coincides with a major political or economic event within the country under focus, or with moves within the legal market. That was precisely the case with this […]
DLA Piper has advised Rizhao Port Group on the listing of its credit-enhanced bonds and China Agri-Products Exchange on its medium-term note programme. Rizhao Port Group listed its credit-enhanced bonds for ¥850m (£80m) with the benefit of a keepwell deed provided by Rizhao Port Group. The bonds are placed by way of debt issue to […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided Bermuda legal advice to HKT on the $2,425m (£1,450m) financing and security obtained and granted by HKT in respect of its acquisition of the entire issued share capital of CSL New World Mobility. CSL operates a mobile telephone network in Hong Kong under the brands 1010, one2free and New World […]
Dissenting opinions at the highest court in the land used to be rife. But as The Lawyer’s article, All For One, highlighted, there has been a dramatic decline in dissenting opinions at the Supreme Court. What’s the reason for this? All for one Litigation: The Supersilks The top 20 cases of 2014: In detail Individualism […]
Squire Sanders and Washington DC-based Patton Boggs have agreed to a wholly merit-based remuneration structure once the two firms merge on 1 June. The decision was made at the start of the merger discussions after Patton Boggs conducted a strategic review of its compensation structure and decided to abolish its traditional ’eat-what-you-kill’ model. Patton Boggs […]
Olswang has hired seven lawyers for its German patent team, including the former head of legacy Hammonds’ Munich office, Herbert Kunz. Kunz has joined the firm as a partner, alongside five other lawyers from his boutique firm Dr Kunz & Kollegen. Olswang has also hired Tobias Reker as a legal director from an in-house role […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. France Kramer Levin has announced the promotion of restructuring and litigation specialist Marie-Christine Fournier-Gille to its partnership in Paris. Fournier-Gille has been a member of the litigation team at Kramer Levin since 1994. The former head of Allen & Overy’s (A&O) […]
A former 1 Gray’s Inn Square barrister jailed last year for avoiding paying £77,000 in income tax and VAT has been struck off by the Bar Standards Board (BSB). Former barrister Edward Agbaje admitted the charge of professional misconduct at the disciplinary tribunal in front of the five-strong panel chaired by former deputy circuit judge […]
He is one of the UK’s most infamous bosses: hard to please, fiendishly frank and not afraid of giving anyone who disappoints him the chop. Now Lord Alan Sugar is hurling his famous catchphrase not at a group of potential business partners but at his former lawyers, Kingsley Napley. The mogul’s real estate company Amsprop […]
What do Eversheds and Pinsent Masons have in common? Their record-busting 2013/14 financial results for one thing, with Eversheds boosting profit to £85.4m and Pinsents smashing the £300m revenue barrier? Or maybe it’s their success at winning sole adviser roles? Both have secured high-profile wins in recent years, with Eversheds scoring a £10m Tyco deal […]
Lord Alan Sugar has hit Kinglsey Napley with a £1.3m professional negligence claim over an allegedly botched property deal, according to papers filed at the High Court. Sugar’s real estate company, Amsprop, has turned to Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) to launch the case against the firm. Kingsley Napley, meanwhile, has instructed RPC to defend the case. […]