DLA Piper has been recognised as one of the most active law firms in terms of venture capital (VC) deal volume in the first quarter of 2014, according to the US Venture Industry Report published by PitchBook. DLA Piper was ranked as the most active firm in late-stage VC deals and the third most active firm […]
Collyer Bristow’s financial disputes lawyer Janine Alexander has been quoted in The Times. She was quoted regarding the costs that banks may face following the latest claims on foreign exchange (forex) manipulation.
It’s almost as if legacy LG’s acquisition of Tite & Lewis (T&L) never happened. For those that remember, T&L was the former law firm of accountancy giant Ernst & Young (EY), but they were taken under LG’s wing after leaving EY in April 2003, when the accountants got cold feet about the law post-Andersen. But […]
Schoenherr has announced the appointment of Anne-Karin Grill as counsel. Grill will apply her expertise in international procedural law, arbitration law and alternative dispute resolution as a member of the law firm’s dispute resolution practice group. Her activities will focus on commercial arbitration and complex multi-jurisdictional disputes. Grill earned her law degree at the University […]
In Christmas 2011, a member of our regulatory and professional discipline team, barrister Elizabeth Taheri, was drawn to the hype surrounding the Military Wives’ choir. She was instantly hooked, remembering choirs she had been in during her school years Having previously considered joining a local choir, but been defeated or discouraged by trying to balance […]
Sainsbury’s has added two more firms – KWMSJB and TLT – to its formal roster following its recent panel review, which was run jointly by the legal and procurement functions. See below for a selection of the most recent tenders. TLT and King & Wood SJB win spots on Sainsbury’s panel review Wait is over […]
Hogan Lovells’ international management committee has introduced a 10-strong flexible working group, to be led by the firm’s co-head of corporate Andrew Skipper. The committee, internally known as the agile working group, will review how the firm can promote flexible working as an “acceptable and positive” way of working. Skipper told The Lawyer that, […]
BLM’s senior partner Mike Brown is intent on leading his insurance-focused firm into the big league. Insurance-focused Berrymans Lace Mawer has been flying quietly and steadily under the radar for years. But its merger with Scotland’s HBM Sayers last week (1 May 2014) and subsequent rebrand to BLM is part of a quiet, but nonetheless […]
Legacy Lawrence Graham (LG) has lost the final two partners who joined the firm from legacy Tite & Lewis in 2004, with head of corporate finance Christopher Tite leaving the firm for Wedlake Bell. Tite and real estate partner Louise Gowman started at Wedlake Bell earlier this month, as LG combined with Wragge & Co […]
Norwegian firm Wikborg Rein will soon expand its China presence to Beijing on the back of increasing revenues from the jurisdiction. The firm is in the process of applying for a licence to open an office in the Chinese capital, its second base in the country. The firm has been in China since 2002 when […]
There is practically nowhere to eat in Oxford. Nowhere good that is. Yes, of course there’s Sojo and My Sichuan, which are both fine and there’s the Turl Street Kitchen, which will do for a snack, but there is very little else. Do not say to me the words Maison Blanc, Loch Fyne or Covered […]
Despite it taking a year to investigate and two more years of hearings to try and get trial ready, the case of ‘O’ — in which Ian Brownhill of No5 Chambers defended — finally collapsed last week. O was charged with assaulting a number of prison officers as they restrained him in a local prison. Despite the […]