With the support of the firm’s media and culture and sports teams, Collyer Bristow has entered into a 10-month-long challenge against six other companies including event organisers, engineers and outdoor clothing specialists to raise money for charity. The challenge is organised by the charity Wings for Life, which funds spinal-cord research. Wings for Life is […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has provided British Virgin Islands (BVI) legal advice to Credit Suisse in connection with a long-term senior credit and guarantee agreement to Canacol Energy. It is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (and its various subsidiaries) by a syndicate of banks led by Credit Suisse as lead arranger, sole bookrunner and administrative agent and […]
Allen & Overy has launched its new Alumni Network website in order to keep touch with its alumni. Since 2005, the firm has a network of more than 8,000 members in 70 countries worldwide. The website includes video hosting and the ability to sign in via multiple social network sites. It also has established ‘communities’ within the […]
William Ballmann, chair of insolvency trade body R3 in Yorkshire and partner at Gateley, has commented following the news that a record low of just 18 per cent of businesses in Yorkshire and the north east are showing signs of business distress. This is according to the latest Business Distress Index from R3. This compares with the […]
With less than two months to go before the industry’s top awards event, today we reveal the firms, chambers and in-house teams that will be jostling for a gong at The Lawyer Awards, which will be held at Grosvenor House Hotel in June. In contention for Law Firm of the Year are RPC, Slater & […]
A series of high profile fraud prosecutions risk collapse after HHJ Leonard QC refused to stay proceedings in a trial because barristers refused to represent the defendants in protest at legal aid cuts. Barrister Maryam Syed examines the case. Judgment in the landmark R v Crawley and Others case at Southwark Crown Court is being […]
Winston & Strawn has hired a team of four corporate lawyers from DLA Piper’s Hong Kong office led by Asia corporate head Mabel Lui. Lui will become a partner in Winston & Strawn’s corporate department in Hong Kong. Lui was a veteran in DLA Piper’s Hong Kong office, who had been a partner at the […]
Image sharing app Snapchat has turned to Hogan Lovells for the appointment of its first general counsel. Washington DC-based partner Christopher Handman is understood to have joined the image-sharing service yesterday (1 May), the same day that the app introduced a text and video call feature. The decision to bring in a general counsel comes […]
It’s not been the easiest time for salaried partners in LLPs. Their tax status has been queried by the HMRC following suggestions that they have been enjoying a ‘disguised salary’ status. Trouble is, official guidelines on how to deal with the issue have been woolly at best. Read ‘Tax Code Breakers’, our investigation into how […]
Having sifted through a record number of entries for this year’s The Lawyer Awards, The Lawyer today reveals the firms, chambers and in-house teams that have been shortlisted for a gong at the industry’s top awards event. The judging panel and editorial team had their work cut out whittling down each category, with this year […]
White & Case arbitration partner Paul Cowan has defected back to the bar, joining 4 New Square after months of talks. Cowan, who leaves White & Case tomorrow after eleven years at the firm, said he has a number of old friends at 4 New Square, including Anneliese Day QC, and was not “knocking on […]
Dacheng, arguably the largest firm in Asia by lawyer number, has elected a new leadership team last month. The firm’s chairman and founder Peng Xuefeng speaks to The Lawyer about his plans for the future Chinese firm Dacheng has turned itself into a 3,000-lawyer firm with 41 domestic offices since its launch in 1992. Most […]