On Thursday The Lawyer’s student publication Lawyer 2B is holding an unmissable event at the University of Law in London, targeted at non-law students who are considering the conversion course. You can sign up at http://www.l2blawfornonlaw.co.uk – and read around the topic in the meantime. Sign up for the event Careers: Transformers In defence of […]
Allianz Insurance has appointed DAC Beachcroft, Berrymans Lace Mawer (BLM), DWF and Keoghs to its claims legal panel for England and Wales. Keoghs has also been added to the panels for motor damage, motor personal injury (PI) & casualty, fraud and credit hire. The firm will also cover disease-related work alongside BLM and DWF. For […]
Recent attacks on Twitter through the legislative framework into sharp relief The proliferation of social media has seen an increasing number of individuals, businesses and celebrities alike falling foul of social media conventions. Whilst some of these are merely embarrassing, some misuse of Twitter has criminal consequences. Recent troll attacks Take the case of Caroline […]
Bond Dickinson has hired Walker Morris’s IP head Patrick Cantrill in a boost for its IP and media team. Cantrill is a longstanding partner at the Leeds firm and has headed its IP team for a number of years as well as co-chairing the firm’s China trade practice group. He advises on both contentious and […]
The beginning of 2014 has been marked by a number of partner moves, regional expansion, and has already started producing major deals. Those who have moved include former Dechert’s Hong Kong managing partner Basil Hwang, who has left for Chinese firm Zhong Lun after spending 16 years in international firms The move follows that of […]
The Co-operative Group has finalised the process of dividing its legal function in the wake of losing control of its banking arm to investors in October. The consumer group was given until 20 December to restructure the in-house legal function, following investor approval of the bank’s plan to host the UK’s first ever ‘bail-in’ by […]
In this ThinkHouse podcast from Wragge & Co, parter Sally Mewies talks to Michael Luckman about the pros and cons of cloud services. If you are registered and logged in to the site, click on the links below to listen to the Wragge & Co podcast or read the transcript. If not, please register or […]
It could be a tailor-made term to make them sound a little shady, but perhaps now it’s time for the so-called ‘shadow banks’ to step out of the background and into the mainstream. This is partly thanks to Ashurst and Hogan Lovells, which advised Barclays and BlueBay respectively on their novel tie-up, the first, it’s […]
DLA Piper advised on more than 20 significant inbound and outbound US transactions that closed last year on behalf of Israeli institutional investors and companies, as well as foreign investors and acquirers, with an aggregate value of more than $2bn (£1.2bn). Demonstrating the firm’s strong real estate, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital […]
By William H Hoffman Section 6039 of the Internal Revenue Code requires a corporation to furnish a written statement to any employee or former employee who either (i) exercised an incentive stock option within the meaning of section 422 of the code (ISO) during 2013 or (ii) during 2013 first transferred legal title to shares […]
Employees from law firm Walker Morris have raised £1,989.49 through charity fundraising efforts for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). The funds, which have been raised through a number of activities, including dress-down days and donations, are enough to pay for the training for a ChildLine School Service volunteer. ChildLine […]
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Sidley Austin have taken the lead roles in Japanese drinks maker Suntory’s $16bn (£9.7bn) acquisition of US spirits group Beam, the maker of Jim Beam. Cleary is advising Osaka-based Suntory in this acquisition, which is the company’s biggest ever overseas transaction. The firm’s team is led by New York […]