Last year, a significant number of Icelandic fathers used their entitlement to three months off work on 80 per cent of their salary. In Denmark, new parents can share a year of paid leave. In Sweden, shared parental leave was first introduced in 1974. Here in the UK, the government has now confirmed the framework for shared […]
The reputation of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) as a burgeoning hub for international arbitration was significantly boosted late last month, when the DIFC Authority amended the DIFC Arbitration Law to ensure that it now fully complies with the UAE’s treaty obligations under the New York Convention. Two decisions of the DIFC Court in […]
It isn’t often that a US president changes policy based on stories in a UK newspaper. But that is exactly what President Obama did when he set out reforms for data collection and surveillance on Friday following a series of revelations about the National Security Agency in The Guardian. Getting those global stories into print […]
The Court of Appeal (CoA) has thrown out a claim challenging the legality of British involvement in US drone strikes because any judgment would be a condemnation of US foreign policy. Master of the Rolls Lord Dyson, Lord Justices Laws and Elias said that they could not determine whether UK officials’ role in aiding drone […]
Investment management company CBRE Global Investors has promoted its deputy EMEA general counsel Anja Ijlstra to the position of general counsel for the EMEA region. Ijlstra replaces Fabrice Rochu, who passed away in November 2013. She will sit on the European management board for the company, which is one of the largest global investment management […]
A recent uptick in Japanese outbound M&A transactions has fuelled appetite for foreign expansion for the country’s major firms. One of Japan’s ‘big four’ firms, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto, is the latest to make its move into Myanmar with a planned office opening in the spring. It is the firm’s latest expansion in the South […]
So Citibank has finally decided on its external advisers, several months after the panel process began. Read our stories on the other bank panels over the last year, including RBS and Barclays. Put it this way: the banks aren’t being particularly radical. Citigroup unveils reduced panel with Osborne Clarke cut Osborne Clarke wins back place […]
Reed Smith has become the latest international firm to open an office in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana. The US firm launched its first office in Central Asia with the hire of two corporate partners, Vladimir Shuster and Arman Tastanbekov, joining from Morgan Lewis and White & Case respectively. Both partners were previously with Dewey & Leboeuf’s […]
South African listed mining company Gold Fields has announced the resignation of its general counsel Michael Fleischer. The announcement, made to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange yesterday (20 January), will see Fleischer step down from his role on 31 January. Fleischer, a former partner at South African firm Webber Wentzel, became Gold Fields’ general counsel iin […]
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has granted Athens-based Exarchou and Rosenberg International an ABS licence with effect from 1 March. Exarchou and Rosenberg International currently runs its construction focused legal consultancy out of Athens but plans to relocate the headquarters to London, where the firm has three lawyers based at present. The firm was founded […]
The Excalibur case has prompted questions about third party funding. Nick Rowles-Davies argues that case funding is here to stay. If the fallout from Excalibur (Excalibur Ventures LLC v Texas Keystone & Ors) is to be believed, litigation funders may as well pack up their bags, ship out and do something completely different. It’s all […]
Japanese ’big four’ firm Mori Hamada & Matsumoto is in the process of opening an office in Yangon, the largest city of Myanmar. It is Mori Hamada & Matsumoto’s latest expansion in South East Asia following its 2012 launch in Singapore. The Yangon office will be initially staffed by partner Takeshi Mukawa, who is co-representative […]