Keeping track of the latest European developments, as well as domestic trends and changes, can be difficult — all the more so for multinational businesses. Taking a Europe-wide view of pensions developments is more important than ever. In this briefing, members of the global pensions practice (a network of Allen & Overy lawyers with pensions […]
For most HR practitioners and in-house counsel, keeping abreast of domestic legal developments can be challenging. For those with a multi-national remit, the task is huge, particularly as the drive for harmonised terms, policies and practices becomes more commercially desirable. Allen & Overy asked 10 members of its global employment practice (the firm’s network of […]
Allen & Overy has been shortlisted for Antitrust/Competition Firm of the Year in the Chambers Global Awards 2014, which celebrate outstanding achievements in the international legal market in 2013–14 and highlight the pre-eminent law firms in key practice areas. Chambers said: ‘This firm leverages its excellent European network to advise on significant global matters, including mergers, cartel work and […]
The Royal Court of Jersey recently faced a trustee’s application seeking the court’s blessing of its refusal to disclose trust information to a former beneficiary. On the facts, the case was straightforward: documents were not being sought in order for the former beneficiary to hold the trustee to account but to support proceedings that might […]
Barclays looks set to spend a healthy chunk of time at the High Court this year, no matter how hard it tries to resist. The bank has been frustrated in its attempt to avoid a full High Court trial against a former Dewey & LeBoeuf partner by losing its application for summary judgment. Its relationship […]
How do you solve a problem like the Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) finance team? That is the question facing new finance head Adam Dann. The former projects and infrastructure partner has just been handed finance chief Matthew Kellett’s crown and with it the job of straightening out the troubled team. But does Dann have the […]
It is now two years since the collapse of mammoth firm Dewey & LeBoeuf. But the next chapter in the story of its dramatic spiral into crisis is about to emerge in lurid technicolour following a High Court trial last week. Monday 28 May 2012 might have marked the end of Dewey (29 May 2012) […]
If you were asked to sketch a picture of a lawyer, chances are you’d draw a white man in a grey suit. The stereotypical image of the profession isone that favours primarily Anglo-Saxon middle class graduates who move, like a shoal of well-heeled fish, from private school to Oxbridge to the City. But in a […]
Slaughter and May has announced a re-jig of its practice stream heads following a partner vote. The move will see corporate head Frances Murphy and finance chief Paul Stacey voluntarily step down from their roles to be replaced by corporate partner Andy Ryde and finance partner Andrew McClean respectively. Ryde and McClean will begin their […]
The London office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has posted a significant fall in revenue for the 2013 financial year, with total turnover dropping by almost a third from £27.5m to £19.8m. Net profit was £12.4m, giving litigation boutique Quinn Emanuel’s London office a margin of 62 per cent, down from 68 per cent in […]
Anthony Connolly, represented by Earl Pinnock of No5 Chambers, accused of accompanying his son Lee Connolly on drugs runs between Plymouth and Liverpool, has been cleared by the jury. Scott Conners, 31, of Stonehouse, has been convicted of conspiracy to supply cocaine following a three-week trial at Plymouth Crown Court. The court heard that Connors, […]
S Chelvan of No5 Chambers has established some guidelines named ‘DSSH — Difference, Stigma, Shame, Harm’, which are designed to ensure immigration officials ask the right questions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people. As with all LGBTI asylum cases, the biggest issue that asylum seekers face is proving their sexual or gender identity to […]