DLA Piper has appointed aerospace insurance lawyer Vanessa Leigh as a legal director in its aviation practice, which is part of the litigation and regulatory group. Prior to joining DLA Piper, Leigh trained at Barlow Lyde & Gilbert before moving to Gates and Partners in 2006, where she became a partner in 2007. Leigh specialises […]
Parmjit Singh, head of the food and drink group at Eversheds, has commented on news that the world’s two biggest banana producers are to merge. Singh said: ‘The news that Fyffes and Chiquita are merging will not come as a surprise. For many food producers, this is a natural next step to meet the pressure […]
Eversheds has been shortlisted by Chambers Europe in the Baltic region for an Award for Excellence. The Chambers Europe Awards 2014 seek to recognise those firms that have stood out for the excellence of their work during 2013–14. The event will be held on 24 April 2014 in London.
Claire van Overdijk of No5 Chambers has been appointed to the attorney-general’s London C panel of junior counsel to the Crown. Her appointment commenced in March 2014 for a period of five years. This follows her prior appointment (since 2010) to the attorney-general’s regional (Midlands) panel of junior counsel to the Crown, during which time […]
Earl Pinnock of No5 Chambers has defended Joyce Trail, a dentist who submitted more than 7,000 invoices for dental work she had not done and has been ordered to pay back more than £1.3m to the NHS. Trail was sentenced to seven years in jail after being convicted of conspiring to defraud the NHS in […]
Richard Kimblin, Satnam Choongh and James Corbet Burcher of No5 Chambers have acted for Barwood in the successful defences of section 288 challenges brought by South Northamptonshire Council. Mr Justice Ouseley handed down judgment in two section 288 statutory appeals brought by South Northamptonshire Council against the decisions in two successful appeals by Barwood Homes […]
Lawyers at Walker Morris have advised Welcome Financial Services (a wholly owned subsidiary of Cattles) on the sale of Shopacheck Financial Services to Rcapital, a London-based private investment company. Shopacheck carries on the second-largest home-collected credit business in the UK and the deal will see Shopacheck merge with Rcapital’s existing home-collected credit business, Morses Club. […]
Field Fisher Waterhouse has further bulked up its finance group with the hire of Simmons & Simmons partner Philip Abbott. Abbott, whose practice has a strong focus on funds finance, real estate finance and restructuring, will start his new role at FFW at the end of March. FFW also hopes to leverage Abbott’s expertise in […]
Sitting here at 1.20am writing this whilst listening to Radio 4 on my TuneIn app, I realise that I am doing MIPIM all wrong I should be next door, in the bar of the Martinez, necking a beer and talking to people who are somewhat the worse for wear and won’t remember anything in the […]
Westminster City Council is taking its fight against Soho’s sex shops to the Supreme Court, despite being refused permission at the Court of Appeal (CoA) last year. Landmark Chambers’ Natalie Lieven QC and Jaqueline Lean lost the appeal for Westminster City Council over the amount it should pay to local sex shops after charging them too […]
Travers Smith has been appointed to lead an independent review into allegations the Bank of England allowed fixing of the multi-trillion dollar foreign exchange (forex) market. The bank suspended a worker last week amid allegations that workers were involved with manipulating the forex market. The Oversight Committee of the Bank’s Court of Directors has been […]
There’s a new generation at Slaughter and May, which has two new practice heads in Andy Ryde and Andrew McLean, who are replacing Frances Murphy and Paul Stacey. The elite firm is quietly reshaping itself Slaughters shakes up management with practice stream overhaul Putnis named as Slaughter’s financial regulation head as Fox retires Slaughters prepares […]