Travel giant Tui has hired a new general counsel for its group headquarters in Hanover, Germany, appointing former Clifford Chance lawyer Hilka Schneider. Schneider will replace outgoing general counsel Andreas Göhmann, who is retiring after leading legal teams for Tui and predecessor company Preussag for 16 years. The duo are working together in a transitional period […]
It is the official sponsor of the Hong Kong Sevens, a sponsor of the premiership rugby team, Harlequins, and now Norton Rose Fulbright has marched into Formula One after securing a global deal to advise McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team. Sources reckon the global adviser mandate, for which it will be paid, comes with a […]
Is the profession doing enough to encourage true diversity, asks Pinsent Masons partner David Isaac The results of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index this year make interesting reading for the profession. With law firms making up 10 per cent of the organisations in this year’s index – a greater proportion than ever – it is clear […]
In Axa UK (Taxation) [2010] EUECJ C-175/09, the Court of Justice held, surprisingly to many commentators, that a company’s services of invoicing and collecting payments from patients that are not overdue, and passing them to dentists, were not exempt from VAT because they constituted taxable debt collection under what is now article 135(1)(d) of the […]
Baker & McKenzie has been bumped as McLaren Group’s global legal adviser after the conglomerate formed a new relationship with Norton Rose Fulbright. In a further blow to Bakers, which has been advising McLaren since the 80s, Norton Rose Fulbright has also picked up a corporate partnership with the McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team. Sources close […]
The Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) could fine former Addleshaw Goddard partner Mark Gilbert £20,000 following alleged discrepancies in his expenses, his counsel proposed earlier this week. The SDT was asked for permission to drop claims of lack of integrity against Gilbert by the SRA. The tribunal concluded that the evidence submitted was irrelevant to the application […]
Southport-based Barnetts Solicitors has sold the business off to four separate buyers having appointed administrators on Tuesday (21 January). The firm’s conveyancing practice was sold to DC Law, while SGI Legal picked up the PI and litigation practice, Simpson Millar acquired care home division Seneca Banking Consultants took its interest rate swap practice. A statement from […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Baltics Sorainen has recruited competition lawyer Ieva Azanda as a partner and head of the Latvian competition and regulatory team. Azanda has moved from Latvia firm Spigulis Kukainis & Azanda. Benelux Investment management company CBRE Global Investors has promoted its deputy […]
The European Commission has adopted a proposal for a directive on the protection of trade secrets. Trade secrets (i.e. the know-how of a company that is not publicly available) are an important and invaluable intangible asset for a company to own. For example, the source code of computer software is often kept secret, even though […]
London law firm Collyer Bristow, which has an in-house contemporary art gallery, will be taking a break from its programme of independently curated shows to exhibit the work of partner Steven Heffer. Heffer, a litigation lawyer and head of Collyer Bristow’s media, sports and culture group and its reputation management team, is described as an established […]
DLA Piper has announced that Christina Houston has joined its corporate and finance practice as a partner in the Wilmington office. Houston advises clients on alternative entitles such as limited liability companies and partnerships, focusing on organisational, operational and governance issues. In the utilisation of alternative entities, she has experience in domestic and cross-border structured […]
By Maura Kathleen Monaghan, My Chi To, Mark P Goodman, M Natasha Labovitz and Amanda B Kernan On 10 January 2014, in a closely watched case, judge George Hodges of the Bankruptcy Court for the Western District of North Carolina ruled that Garlock Sealing Technologies is only liable for a fraction of the asbestos liability […]