Simmons & Simmons has made up eight to its partnership today, with 50 per cent of the new partners based in London. It’s an increase of just one on last year’s reduced promotions round at the firm which saw seven partners made up compared to the previous year’s ten (2 May 2013). Half of the […]
Wierzbowski Eversheds has achieved a 50 per cent reduction on the appeal of a fine imposed on PTK Centertel (at present Orange Polska) by Poland’s competition regulator. In a judgment announced on 16 April 2014, the Warsaw Court of Appeal amended the decision by Poland’s competition regulator, the president of the Office of Competition and […]
Eversheds associate Andrew Bennett has commented on news that Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust has been fined for health and safety breaches. Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust was fined £200,000 for health and safety breaches over the death of a diabetic patient. The trust was also ordered to pay £27,000 in legal costs. Gillian Astbury, 66, […]
Eversheds Saladžius is sponsoring the 5th Congress of Lawyers: Legal Institutions in Modern Society, which is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Lithuanian Lawyers Association. The congress will take place on 9 May 2014 at the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania and is organised by the Lithuanian Lawyers’ Association in co-operation with the […]
DLA Piper has represented Avalara, a provider of a cloud-based software platform that delivers compliance solutions related to sales tax and other transactional taxes, in its acquisition of the line of Zytax energy-related tax automation solutions. Avalara acquired the Zytax offering from FuelQuest, a provider of on-demand software and services for global downstream energy companies. […]
No5 Chambers has been shortlisted for the Chambers of the Year award at The Lawyer Awards 2014, set to take place on 25 June at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London. The Lawyer Awards celebrate excellence in the legal profession across private practice, the public sector, commerce and industry and the Bar. The Chambers […]
EY has hired BLP’s former finance head to launch a financial services legal team. It follows the hire of an Addleshaws partner to kickstart a corporate practice and existing investment in Asia and an application for an ABS. Could EY be a force to be reckoned with in the legal market? Accountants aren’t kidding with […]
Lloyds Banking Group has tried to keep a tight lid on its plans to outsource its retail and wealth and asset finance litigation teams. But that pan reached the boil this week, the lid shooting off and revealing that DWF, Irwin Mitchell and Shoosmiths are on the shortlist to take the departments over. The project, […]
A year after CMS Cameron McKenna first crossed the threshold of Dundas & Wilson with its tantalising proposal, the merger between the two firms has gone live. What comes next will be an intense tussle over banking and energy clients as the two firms play tug of war over the institutional client list. It was […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Benelux Loyens & Loeff has rejigged its executive board, with banking and finance chair Willem Jarigsma succeeding Maarten van der Weijden as managing partner. Board member Hamith Breedveld is retiring and will be succeeded by tax adviser Fred van der Leije. […]
It isn’t so long since the litigation funding market felt the shockwaves reverberating from Mr Justice Christopher Clarke’s judgment in the Excalibur v (1)Texas Keystone; (2) Gulf Keystone ruling. The case was thrown out and two of the three funders behind Excalibur’s case were exposed as being insolvent. All this raised some serious questions about […]
General counsel from across the business world will gather in Portugal today for The Lawyer ’s annual General Counsel Strategy Summit, which focuses on the key issues affecting in-house lawyers today. The summit kicks off tomorrow (Thursday 1 May) with a keynote speech from KPMG’s economics and regulation practice chair Bill Robinson, providing an economic […]