No5 Chambers’ Mark Kelly has acted for the defence in the case of Gurdev Nagra, who has been spared jail after pleading guilty to two charges of assisting unlawful immigration and one charge of providing unlicensed immigration services. Nagra and her late husband, Duman Singh, filled in more than 280 false applications in less than […]
Stephenson Harwood has axed 15 per cent of its secretarial jobs, as a result of a redundancy consultation which kicked off last month (5 February 2014). The consultation followed an internal review of the firm’s secretarial and document production services in the City, which concluded a “significant reorganisation” was necessary. Stephenson Harwood chief executive Sharon […]
Philadelphia-based insurance firm Cozen O’Connor has refocused its London strategy with partner hires from Edwards Wildman Palmer and RPC. Edwards Wildman aerospace reinsurance partner Mark Meyer is understood to have already joined the eight-partner City office alongside RPC insurance partner Paul Dowsey. The hires comes months after the firm picked up Edwards Wildman associate Stephen Ixer […]
A former ABN Amro Group senior lawyer has brought a £300,000 case against the bank after claiming she was racially harassed and hounded out of her job. The Dutch banking giant’s former UK lawyer Angela Cobbina has turned to Withers partner Emma Sanderson for her case against UK ABN Amro chief executive Paul Schuilwerve. Cobbina […]
Eversheds has secured a contract as the primary legal services provider for the International Air Transport Association (IATA) across Europe, northern Asia and the Asia-Pacific, in addition to the existing contract to deliver legal services in Africa and the Middle East. IATA is the trade association for the world’s airlines and works with members and […]
Ben Jones, tax expert at Eversheds, has commented on news that the UK is set to scrap VAT on Bitcoin. Jones said: ‘This change has been anticipated and follows lobbying from the Bitcoin community and recent changes to the taxation treatment of Bitcoin in Germany. ‘Although the detail of the proposed changes needs to be reviewed, […]
Our briefings section is rich in content. Take energy, for example; there’s plenty going on in this dynamic sector, so check out the latest papers from Mills & Reeve, Stephenson Harwood, Taylor Wessing, Walker Morris and Wragge & Co Taylor Wessing: Recent changes in international sanctions against Iran Walker Morris: Education update: a waste of time? […]
Mayer Brown’s London office is close to implementing a blind CV policy in a bid to counter bias towards trainee applicants who received an Oxbridge degree or were educated privately. The potential move is aimed at boosting social diversity within the firm’s London office, which currently has 38 trainees from 18 UK universities. Staff interviewing […]
DLA Piper has raided Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in London for partner duo Tony Katz and Sam Millar who are to join the City litigation group. The pair will work alongside non-contentious financial regulatory partner Michael McKee and the banking litigation team at DLA Piper. Orrick hired the pair in 2011 to launch the London […]
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) new general counsel, Marina Zain, is to put together the theatre company’s inaugural panel of legal advisers. Former British American Tobacco legal counsel Zain kicked off the supplier review at the end of 2013 as part of a three-year strategy to overhaul the company’s legal provision. Zain is planning to issue tender […]
Clifford Chance and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett are among the firms advising on the Carlyle Group’s $1.93bn buyout of Tyco International’s South Korean fire protection and security unit. Clifford Chance’s instruction for Carlyle is significant given the departure of one of its remaining contacts at the firm, in the form of corporate partner Kem Ihenacho’s […]
Allen & Overy has hired a second partner from Ashurst, Karan Dinamani, to boost its private equity practice, following the recent appointment of Stephen Lloyd as private equity sector group co-head. It is understood that A&O has announced the partner hire of Karan Dinamani internally. Dinamani joins from Ashurst’s London office, where he was a […]