Linklaters has rejigged its 16-strong international board after litigator Greg Reid and corporate partner Tom Shropshire confirmed they would not stand for second terms. Both lawyers announced they would not be standing for the roles again at a partner meeting on Saturday (5 April 2013) with litigator Christa Band and corporate partner Aedamar Comiskey taking […]
The SFO is still nursing its scars after a bruising Dahdaleh trial last month, but the £18.5m price tag on its battle with the Tchenguiz brothers will only serve to pour salt into those already gaping wounds. The agency has already spent £8.13m defending the mammoth £300m case, which goes back to the arrest of […]
HMRC’s changes to the tax treatment of members could raise serious employment law issues HMRC’s new tax regime is up and running, with the changes (as they say) making “… the tax system fairer by ensuring that employment taxes are paid by LLP members who are essentially employee”. Those in the firing line are fixed-share […]
Zhong Lun’s Robert Lewis gives an insider’s view of Chinese law firm management – neither unmanaged nor unmanageable A couple of weeks ago, we had our semi-annual Zhong Lun partners meeting in an international conference center on the shores of the East Lake in Wuhan in central China. One item conspicuous by its absence from the […]
Parmjit Singh, head of the India business group at Eversheds, has commented following Sun Pharmaceuticals’ acquisition of Ranbaxy. Singh said that many in India will be concerned to see this announcement, as many see investment by Japanese companies as key to improving FDI flows into India and to help grow domestic GDP. ‘Is this an indication […]
Eversheds partner Richard Lewis has commented on Sun Pharmaceuticals’ acquisition of Ranbaxy. Lewis said: ‘This deal is a clear sign of further consolidation in the Indian generics market as companies look to increase market share, enhance growth opportunities and reduce costs. ‘As the country’s largest pharma company, it will now be particularly well placed to capitalise on the […]
DLA Piper has appointed Brett Feltham as a partner in the firm’s employment group. He commences in the firm’s Sydney office on 7 April 2014. Feltham was previously a partner at Hunt & Hunt and before then led PricewaterhouseCoopers’ employment and workplace relations team. A highly respected employment lawyer with broad-ranging experience in workplace relations, discrimination and […]
DLA Piper has advised AIM-listed Tawa, renamed Pro Global Insurance Solutions (PLC), on the significant reorganisation of its operations culminating in the demerger of its risk carrier business. The PLC group is a specialised investor in the insurance industry acquiring risk carriers in the run-off sector and more recently expanding into the service sector. Over the past 18 […]
The bitter marital split of aviation tycoon Clive Joy has highlighted the issue the role tax efficient offshore trusts can play in lengthy High Court divorces. Recently aviation tycoon Clive Joy hit the headlines, but not for his expertise in aerospace issues. It was because in the course of a bitter divorce Joy has been accused […]
There’s nothing like being thrown in the deep end to give a new GC a whistle-stop tour of the nuances of life outside of private practice. That’s exactly what Sarah Nelson Smith found when she joined YUM! Brands to lead the UK legal function for Pizza Hut and KFC in May 2011. Her first task […]
Vacation schemes used to be such simple affairs. Students would go through a basic application process and, if successful, spend a fairly relaxed week or two getting to know the firm and shadowing its trainees – at work and down the pub. Hopefully they’d be of decent quality, and like enough of what they saw […]
What a week it’s been for the FCA. It took the regulator just one bungled announcement relating to an insurance inquiry to wipe billions of pounds off the shares of a number of the UK’s largest insurers. Even George Osborne waded into the ensuing row, citing “profound concern” at the watchdog’s behaviour. In order to […]