Stefan Kuehteubl will join Schoenherr as a partner and the head of the firm’s employment practice as of July 2014. He previously worked at the firm from 1999–2004. During the past 10 years, he worked in a well-known Vienna-based employment law boutique, in which he was a partner since 2008. Kuehteubl advises on all aspects of contentious and […]
Ogier has assisted Intu Properties as to matters of Jersey law relating to the structuring of its acquisition of a 50 per cent interest in Merry Hill shopping centre and 100 per cent interests in Derby shopping centre and Sprucefield retail park in the UK from Westfield for a total purchase price of £867.8m. Intu is a UK shopping […]
There is change at the top in this year’s top 30 international firms in London. Last year it was all about Baker & McKenzie, reigning supreme at the top of the list, and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, the shooting star rising up through the ranks. This year Latham & Watkins has taken the top […]
Peter Shervington, expert in product liability at Eversheds, has commented on the news that Toyota is recalling 6.4 million of its range, including 35,124 in the UK, over five separate issues. Shervington said: ‘For any manufacturer, undertaking a consumer recall is a major step — the direct costs of contacting vehicle owners, disseminating information through dealer networks and […]
Eversheds parter Simon Rice-Birchall has commented in anticipation of the government’s findings from its call for evidence regarding current whistleblowing laws, which are due any day. Rice-Birchall said that employers will be relieved to learn that the government does not appear to support mandatory measures, requiring employers to adhere to prescribed policies and procedures. Instead, he said, […]
Allen & Overy has been awarded M&A Deal of the Year for its work on Shuanghui’s takeover of Smithfields Food at IFLR’s Americas Awards 2014, handed down at a ceremony in New York on 27 March 2014. The firm advised the mandated lead arrangers on the $4bn (£2.4bn) debt financing for Shuanghui’s acquisition of pork producer Smithfield Foods. This […]
Allen & Overy has published its Global Litigation Survey, which assesses 10 key indicators of the litigation process in 137 legal systems. The areas rated and evaluated include the treatment of governing law clauses and clauses specifying a jurisdiction for the resolution of disputes, whether a pre-judgment order freezing a party’s assets will be granted, […]
It’s not quite caught the public imagination in the way that the Berezovsky-Abramovich battle did, but the Ablyazov litigation is just as ferocious and has similarly high states. Next stop, the Supreme Court. Ablyazov reaches Supreme Court, the latest step in “extraordinary litigation” Hogan Lovells to lead $2bn oligarch battle after White & Case is […]
Latham & Watkins has topped The Lawyer’s annual ranking of the 30 largest international firms in the UK by revenue for the first time, with UK revenue hitting an all-time high of $210.6m. Although Latham does not formally report its London office revenue, sources suggest that last year fee income in its UK operations grew […]
While some US firms had a rougher ride in this year’s survey, the West Coasters have found London a home from home The financial data by which the top 30 international firms in London are ranked paints the past year – and indeed the previous five – as a time of extremes. Some of the […]
Litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has dropped out of The Lawyer’s annual top 30 international firms in London table this year following the resolution of two of its largest cases during 2013 and a reduction in UK turnover of 28 per cent. The London office of Quinn Emanuel saw total turnover drop by […]
Linklaters has rolled out its female leadership initiative across its global offices in a bid to maintain the increase in the number of women making partner at the firm. Just days after announcing its biggest female promotions round in four years, the firm will hold its first twice-annual women’s leadership conference (19 September 2012). The […]