Mixed bag as many firms get back in the black, while one’s debt rises by 10,493% It’s LLP accounts filing season – most firms have until the end of this month to get their accounts audited and filed at Companies House. But even with a relatively small sample of accounts, some interesting trends are emerging. […]
While litigators look forward to a vintage year in court, we look back at what happened in the top cases of last year Only the most fiercely fought cases are heard by the High Court with many more litigants looking for a settlement to avoid the potential embarrassment and cost of court. Of The Lawyer’s […]
Move of the week Maitland Chambers’ silk Tom Leech QC has quit the bar to join Herbert Smith Freehills’ advocacy unit. He joins as the fourth partner in the department. Leech specialises in professional negligence and commercial, company and property litigation. Leech was called to the bar in 1988 and took silk in 2010. […]
Inward investment to Ireland is rising, just the tonic for its law firms Ever since the first Irish immigrants set sail for America in the 17th century, the US and Ireland have shared a close relationship – only accentuated in recent years when it emerged that President Barack Obama was descended, through his mother, from […]
International law firms are moving in to exploit the global hi-tech hub The Taipei 101 Tower is a landmark Taiwanere skyscraper, located in the commercial heart of the island’s capital city Taipei. It is well-known as Asia’s tallest building and for its dazzling New Year’s Eve fireworks displays. Increasingly, it also plays host to international […]
Guardian legal chief Gill Phillips balances protecting the newspaper from legal action across the globe with finding ways to get stories such as WikiLeaks out to the public “I have always been a Guardian reader,” says Gill Phillips, the paper’s director of editorial legal services. “When I started at Clifford Chance, I’d come up in […]
Restructuring firms anticipate a boom when UK interest rates get jacked up and from mandates coming from Asia The Bank of England’s hint that interest rates could rise soon has restructuring lawyers anticipating a busy 2014. “An upturn in the economy and a possible increase in interest rates means activity in the restructuring market is […]
Investment firm Barings Asset Management has lost its first global general counsel Sandie Okoro to HSBC Asset Management. Okoro joins HSBC Asset Management in the new role of general counsel on Monday (20 January 2014), having spent nearly seven years in the top legal role at Barings. A spokesperson for HSBC confirmed the move, adding […]
Ogier has announced that Shameer Jasani has been appointed as a partner in the Cayman Islands corporate and funds team and Ray Ng has been appointed as a partner and head of litigation for the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and Asia. Jasani joined Ogier in 2007 from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Taylor Wessing in London. A graduate […]
Langham Park Developments has been successful in its appeal, led by Ian Dove of No5 Chambers, against Broxtowe Borough Council to construct housing on the land adjacent to Hempshill Hall, Nottingham. The appeal was allowed following an inquiry in November 2013. The appeal site was a 6.5ha area of land adjacent to Hempshill Vale estate, bordered […]
No5 Chambers has announced that it is again supporting Mental Health Research UK’s ‘Blooming Monday’ depression awareness campaign. MHRUK is the UK’s first charity dedicated to funding research into the causes of mental illness in order to develop better treatments with fewer side effects. The charity was co-founded in 2008 by one of No5’s own barristers, Laura Davidson, […]
Conyers Dill & Pearman has been named Best Offshore Law Firm at the second annual MENA Fund Manager Fund Services Awards. The awards paid tribute to the service providers who have shaped the MENA funds industry in 2013. The firm was presented with the Best Offshore Law Firm award at a lunchtime ceremony on 14 January in […]