Allen & Overy and Norton Rose Fulbright are understood to have successfully completed the Singaporean renewal process to extend their Qualifying Foreign Law Practice (QFLP) licences for another five years. The two firms are thought to be among six to have been through the renewal process in recent months. The Singapore Ministry of Law (MLAW) is expected […]
Time to fess up. According to King Digital Entertainment, 69 per cent of UK users of its Candy Crush Saga game play during their daily commute. If you’re among the one billion daily players with an addiction to the orange lozenge, the yellow lemon drop and the blue lollipop head, here’s some news worth slowly […]
Intellectual property (IP) lawyers at Walker Morris have achieved success in a recent high-profile music dispute involving 1970s rock band Wishbone Ash. The Court of Appeal has refused former Wishbone Ash band member Martin Turner the right to appeal an Intellectual Property Enterprise Court (IPEC) decision. In October last year, IPEC found Turner’s new band’s […]
Walker Morris has teamed up with Bloom to run a series of breakfast seminars to discuss the issues and opportunities surrounding the management of brands in a digital age. On 1 April 2014, Dominic Burch, head of social media at Asda, and Sam Brown, digital marketing manager at Goal, will discuss the challenges they often […]
By Andrew Foyle The courts in England have ruled that accepting an award from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) can be a bar to any further proceedings in England and Wales. Shoosmiths examines whether the same principles apply in Scotland. In its recent judgment in Clark v In Focus Asset Management ([2014] EWCA Civ 118), […]
Deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) are agreements reached under judicial supervision between a prosecutor and a potential corporate defendant relating to an economic crime. The DPA allows a prosecution to be suspended for a defined period provided that the corporate defendant meets certain conditions. These conditions may include payment of a financial penalty, payment of compensation […]
Karanovic & Nikolic has announced that it has beennamed ‘Law Firm of the Year’ for Eastern Europe and the Balkans at The Lawyer’s recent annual European Awards ceremony. The awards showcase legal knowledge and expertise and recognise excellence in corporate, finance, projects and competition work. All award recipients have demonstrated a commitment to excellence across […]
Eversheds partner Alison Oldfield has commented on the legal process of evicting protesters, after an application to evict protesters from Barton Moss in Eccles, Salford, reached court, but was adjourned for two weeks to give the defendants more time to respond. Oldfield said that the decision demonstrates the risk that if landowners do not respond quickly […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has advised Global Container Assets 2013 (GCA 2013) on its $280m (£168m) note offering. Conyers assisted GCA 2013 in connection with its issuance of $144m fixed-rate secured container equipment notes, Class A-1, and $135m fixed-rate secured container equipment notes, Class A-2, pursuant to a note purchase agreement dated 29 October 2013 […]
Much has been written in the short time since the adoption in December 2013 of final regulations implementing the Volcker Rule about the rule’s restrictions on the ability of banking entities to sponsor and invest in ownership interests in private equity or hedge funds or other ‘covered funds’ as defined in the rule. Less attention […]
Monday morning quiz question for you: Which office is set to be Ashurst’s fourth largest within the year? If you said ‘Glasgow’ you win haggis for two at the Edinburgh Festival this summer. As we report today, the firm’s low cost support base in Scotland, which currently houses 100 employees, is expanding a lot faster […]
DLA Piper, Fenwick & West and William Fry have advised King.com, the company behind Candy Crush Saga, on its proposed $500m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The entertainment brand plans to use the funds for working capital and acquisitions. Fenwick & West advised on the US listing aspects of the deal from […]