General counsel at Shell – “the best job in law” according to Peter Rees QC. So what prompted the silk to stand down two years ahead of schedule in November 2013? “It was the best job in law, but only for a fixed period of time,” claims the lawyer. He also proffers the ‘seeking new […]
Acting on behalf of HCC International Insurance, Eversheds has successfully appealed a High Court decision that had serious implications in relation to the scope of the duty of care owed by accountants to their clients. Hossein Mehjoo, a former owner of fashion retailer Bank, brought proceedings against his previous accountants, Harben Barker, a small firm […]
Eversheds has signed an agreement with CWA Morocco to partner in the country, establishing two new offices for the firm in Casablanca and Tangier under the name of Eversheds CWA Morocco. Led by managing partner Mohamed Oulkhouir, Eversheds CWA Morocco advises domestic and international clients across a spectrum of industries, including maritime, automotive, financial services […]
For its acquisition of a stake in Smetana Holding, Macquarie has been named winner of the Acquisition of the Year Energy & Natural Resources award at the Infrastructure Journal (IJ) Awards 2014 held in London on 13 March 2014. Allen & Overy’s team in Prague played a central role in what was a highly complex […]
S Chelvan of No5 Chambers has been interviewed for a news item that was broadcast on Channel 4 News on 28 March. The news item — ‘Is the UK doing enough for gay asylum claims?’ — was able to announce that, as a result of recent media attention regarding inappropriate interview techniques that asked sexually explicit […]
DLA Piper, in conjunction with its client General Electric (GE) and IMMMA Advocates, has begun a teaching course at the Law School of Tanzania for the fifth consecutive year. The project was developed in close collaboration with Dr Gerald Ndika, the school’s principal. Through the programme, each year DLA Piper and GE send teams of […]
On 24 March, DLA Piper hosted its second Israeli Global Real Estate Conference in Tel Aviv. The event provided perspectives on current trends and the future outlook of the real-estate markets in Europe, Asia and the US for Israeli-based companies seeking to diversify their real-estate capital investments. Co-hosted by Jeremy Lustman, the Tel Aviv-based head of […]
The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has handed roles to six firms including Norton Rose Fulbright, Osborne Clarke and DWF in the last of a series of panel reviews. Burges Salmon, Clyde & Co, DWF, Eversheds, Norton Rose Fulbright and Osborne Clarke have all been handed roles on the fund’s newly created Assessment Period Legal panel […]
We’ll say it again. Where are all the female partners? While partner numbers at US firms have soared by around 25 per cent since the credit crisis in 2008, gender diversity remains a thorn in the side of many international firms in London. In 2013, women represented just 17.6 per cent of UK partners across […]
Vinson & Elkins’ (V&E) former China co-head and energy partner David Blumental has left the firm to join Latham & Watkins six months after the Huston-based energy firm closed its Shanghai office. Blumental will be a corporate partner base in Latham & Watkins’ Hong Kong office. He was previously based in V&E’s Shanghai office and […]
Clarke Willmott has been kicked off the Crown Estate’s rural panel in favour of a consolidated roster comprising Bond Dickinson and Burges Salmon. Current energy panel firm Bond Dickinson and longtime advisers Burges Salmon won the top spots on the group’s rural, coastal and Windsor Estate portfolio at the expense of Clarke Willmott, which first […]
The mania for mergers is not dying down, either at home or abroad. Such is the flood of them, it can be difficult to keep up. Refresh your memory by checking out our special Merger Watch section of the site Morgan Cole and Blake Lapthorn to create £72m firm post July merger Berrymans enters Scottish […]