William Ballmann, chair of insolvency trade body R3 in Yorkshire and partner at Gateley, has commented on an R3 report that revealed that 50 per cent of people in Yorkshire and Humberside are worried about their level of debt, close to the national figure of 51 per cent — the highest share of people that have […]
Attorney-at-law Paweł Lipski has been promoted to partner at Wierzbowski Eversheds. Together with Tomasz Zalewski, he will head the law firm’s intellectual property (IP) and e-business teams. Lipski has been associated with Wierzbowski Eversheds since 2005, when he joined the team as a winner of the ‘Grasz o staż’ internship competition. In 2006, he interned at the London […]
On 27 March 2014, Allen & Overy will co-host an event with Fenwick & West and the Silicon Valley Bank regarding the growth of Silicon Roundabout companies. The conference and networking reception covers topics such as raising financing from US venture capital firms, being acquired by a US acquirer, and listing shares on US stock exchanges […]
DLA Piper has advised Q2 Holdings, a provider of cloud-based virtual banking solutions, in its initial public offering (IPO) valued at approximately $100m (£60m). The DLA Piper team representing Q2 was led by partner John J Gilluly III and also included partner Ariane Chan and associates Anna Denton, Justin Bowes and Brent Bernell. Since 2008, […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman’s British Virgin Islands (BVI) office has recently added four attorneys. Joining the corporate group are James Baillieu and Oliver Richardson, with Adam Hinks and Murray Laing starting in the litigation and restructuring team. Baillieu joins Conyers from Covington & Burling in London and brings with him 10 years of experience advising on mergers […]
On 20 May, Allen & Overy will be holding a seminar called ‘The quest for meaning — an overview of the law of contract part I — interpretation’. This session, which is part one of a two-part series looking at the law of contract, focuses on the key recent decisions affecting the interpretation of contracts and […]
Ogier in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has acted with Latham & Watkins’ New York office to advise Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and KKR in connection with the $1.7bn (£1bn) acquisition of the consumer canned foods business of Del Monte Foods Consumer Products by Singapore-listed Del Monte Pacific. Ogier’s role related to the financing elements of the […]
It’s no easy task being the Serious Fraud Office (SFO). Fighting multi-million pound blockbuster litigation with an ever-decreasing budget is alarming. But there’s no getting around the fact that things have not been going well for the agency, which has faced over £22m cuts over the last five years. Now new criticism over its “mismanagement” […]
DLA Piper has advised Dulles-based SummitIG in its equity investment from ORIX Ventures and Columbia Capital. SummitIG, a custom network solutions and bandwidth infrastructure provider, will use the additional funding to expand its dark fibre network that will support the growing demand for broadband and cloud services in Northern Virginia. The DLA Piper team representing […]
DLA Piper has appointed Lillian Mackenzie as a partner in the projects team, part of the finance and projects group. She joins the firm along with two associates and will be based in Edinburgh. Prior to joining DLA Piper, Mackenzie was a partner at MacRoberts where she joined as a trainee in 1999 and became […]
DLA Piper has been awarded the Best International Law Firm of the Year 2013–14 (India) award at the annual LegalEra Awards, held on 15 March in Mumbai to celebrate excellence in the Indian legal market. The winners were selected by a panel of judges comprising senior in-house counsel and leaders of the Indian bar, based […]
You are the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), looking into allegations that a Canadian-British businessman funnelled billions of dollars in bribes to a Bahraini aluminium company to secure contracts. Who do you turn to to help with your investigation? How about lawyers hired to represent that company in US civil litigation against him? What about witnesses? […]