Last year’s horsemeat furore left supermarket chain Iceland feeling the heat. So it called on legal chief Jayne Burrell for some cool-headed thinking Supermarket chain Iceland has had a difficult media image over recent years. Any business having to live down an advertising campaign fronted by the car-crash celebrity that is Kerry Katona doesn’t need […]
The boss of US retailer Target has stepped down after a data breach affected millions of customers. Could law firms be next in the firing line? Cyber security is about stopping people from breaking into things. Like a virtual world of cops and robbers, the aim of the game is to convince the curious burglar […]
Just when bankers thought it might be safe to put a tentative toe back into the dinner party circuit, one of the UK’s new financial regulators has to go and publish a consultation paper on pay to remind fellow guests of just how loaded they are. Law firm Nabarro looks at recent Prudential Regulation Authority […]
Collyer Bristow took part in the 10km London Legal Walk on 19 May. All 14 walkers completed the route from the RCJ all the way up and around the Serpentine and back again, with a time of roughly two hours and 15 minutes. The money will be split between the Z2K Trust and the London […]
Collyer Bristow trainee Robert Andrews and Alex Just, a pupil barrister at Old Square Chambers, engaged in a ‘life swap’ in March, which was featured in The Times. Andrews spent a week assisting barristers in chambers and in court, while Just spent time researching cases in the firm’s employment department.
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided Cayman law advice to Lombard Medical in relation to its $55m (£33m) US initial public offering (IPO) and the listing of the company’s ordinary shares on the NASDAQ Global Market. Conyers also advised on the Cayman aspects of the group’s change of domicile from the UK to the Cayman […]
Throughout May, No5 Chambers barrister S Chelvan has provided training across Europe on his DSSH (difference, stigma, shame and harm) model for credibility assessment in LGBTI asylum claims. From 5–7 May, Chelvan provided training in Madrid to more than 100 delegates from NGOs as part of the CREDO project, co-organised by the ELENA network and the Hungarian Helsinki Committee. […]
Collyer Bristow corporate law partner Nick Gould has spoken at the Cabinet Office on the subject ‘Good/bad law — a cry for common sense’. According to the firm, Gould offered a ‘no-holds barred’ insight into the impact that legislation can have on users in the ‘real world’ of business. He provided case studies of the […]
HowardKennedyFsi (HKFsi) has become the latest firm to move out of London’s West End, moving three of its offices to a 54,552 sq ft location in London Bridge. The firm has agreed to a 15-year lease at No.1 London Bridge, where the staff from its three former offices will take up a 54,552 sq ft space […]
DLA Piper has advised shareholders from two of four separate entities on the equity investment by Equistone Partners Europe to establish a new company, Performance Interactive Alliance for Digital Marketing. DLA Piper acted on behalf of econda and DeLaSocial, while Performance Media was represented by Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft and Blue Summit Media by Hoffmann Böttcher Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft. […]
DLA Piper has advised Tilad, a multi-family office based in the Gulf region, on the acquisition of an office complex in Berlin from Société Générale Immobel SA. The acquisition took place as part of a share deal, which was financed by ING Real Estate Finance Germany. The DLA Piper team led by partner Fabian Mühlen […]
Shearman & Sterling and Cravath Swaine & Moore have played lead roles in Japanese group Mizkan’s $2.15bn acquisition of Unilever’s North American pasta sauce businesses, Ragu and Bertolli. Shearman & Sterling acted for the Japanese acquirer, alongside Japanese counsel Mori Hamada & Matsumoto (MHM). Shearman’s Tokyo corporate partner Kenneth Lebrun led the firm’s team in […]