All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Benelux Competition partner Julian Ellison has left Ashurst’s Brussels office to join Mayer Brown’s antitrust and competition team (6 February 2014). Ellison has been a partner at Ashurst since 1989 and headed the firm’s Brussels office for a number of years. […]
Move of the week Morrison & Foerster has hired Phillip Slater as a partner in its financial transactions group. Slater brings expertise in relation to acquisition finance, leveraged finance and corporate banking. He joins from Reed Smith, where he was a banking partner. UK Reed Smith has hired leveraged finance partner Ben Davis […]
The public sector is an overstretched environment; managers are being asked to find ways of further reducing their workforce, but is using a person’s age a legitimate way of cutting staffing levels? Generally no, and the growing number of age discrimination cases in the tribunal over the past few months offers a stark reminder to […]
Read all about it: Matrix Chambers’ Matthew Ryder QC has lost a dramatic case for Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s partner David Miranda, detained under the Terrorism Act last year. This case has been central to the Edward Snowdon whistleblowing furore and a massive undertaking for Ryder and Bindmans, who stepped in to secure a partial […]
Norton Rose Fulbright is set to open its third Latin American base in Rio de Janeiro with the hire of a senior in-house lawyer from BP. The firm has hired the assistant general counsel of BP’s general corporate arm, Andrew Haynes, to co-head the office. He will lead the project alongside Glenn Faass, who currently heads […]
Both sides claimed victory when Justice Gordon of the Federal Court of Australia delivered her decision in the bank fees litigation, Paciocco v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd [2014] FC 35 (Paciocco v ANZ), and both sides are contemplating their respective positions in terms of an appeal. Therefore, the much anticipated clarity around […]
Does a legal role in the EU translate into a relaxing life? Hardly. It’s more like working “in the fire department”, according to European Stability Mechanism (ESM) in-house lawyer Ralf Jansen. That doesn’t mean Jansen spends his days in yellow overalls (at least we don’t think so) but rather that his role is all about […]
Investors abroad are increasingly aware of their rights under investment treaties. This is reflected in the rising number of investment treaty arbitrations brought by investors seeking to enforce their rights against states. Having acted in more than 40 investment treaty arbitrations, Allen & Overy is aware that both investors and sovereign states are keenly interested […]
The latest round of silk appointments has been announced. Of the total 225 applicants who embarked on the process last September, filling in a gruelling 70-page application form and securing the support of 12 judicial referees in the process, 100 will line up to be formally appointed on 14 April. It’s a rise on the […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won the mandate to advise West Midlands-based retailer Poundland on its long-awaited IPO. Poundland, Europe’s largest single-price discount retailer, is working on a London Stock Exchange listing that potentially values the business at £700m. The IPO will comprise a partial sale of funds by Warburg Pincus and a free float of […]
Another year, another weighty round of silk appointees. Katy Dowell looks at the trends behind the numbers. The news today that 100 advocates have been awarded the coveted Queen’s Counsel moniker appears to have reversed a trend in falling QC appointments. It’s the highest number of appointees in three years, up 19 per cent on […]
Matrix Chambers’ Matthew Ryder has lost a High Court battle brought by Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald’s partner David Miranda over his detention at Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act 2000. Miranda was held for nine hours last August when carrying whistleblowing documents for Greenwald from Berlin to Rio de Janeiro, where he lives with the […]