Derivative Services, an affiliate of Allen & Overy, will be hosting a webinar on 21 January 2014 at 3pm GMT entitled ‘Navigating cross-border transfer restrictions when transferring data to foreign law enforcement authorities, regulators and courts’. The webinar will be delivered by specialists from Allen & Overy, including partners Ahmed Baladi and Jane Finlayson-Brown, and […]
By Sophie Wilkinson The Health and Safety Executive is consulting on changes to legislation concerning the storage of petrol — with the aim of simplifying and modernising it. The proposal is to create one new set of regulations to replace eight existing pieces of legislation that currently apply to petrol storage. The main change for operators […]
Allen & Overy has advised Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) and a syndicate of commercial banks (the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, National Bank of Kuwait, Standard Chartered Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) on the $1.43bn (£870m) debt financing of the Az Zour North IWPP, the first independent water and power project in Kuwait. The Az-Zour North IWPP is the […]
Wragge & Co has given 90 students a taster of the legal profession by inviting them to a one-day career event. The ‘day in the life of a lawyer’ open day is aimed at year-12 students in the Midlands who are interested in a career in law. The event is targeted at talented students from […]
The Court of Appeal has now reversed the decision in Aspect Contracts (Asbestos) Ltd v Higgins Construction plc, concluding that payment of the adjudication decision constitutes a new cause of action and restarts the limitation clock for the paying party. Aspect was the losing responding party in an adjudication in 2009 under the Scheme for […]
There was little mention made in the autumn statement of the carbon reduction commitment (CRC) scheme, but the government did announce that it would introduce a climate change agreement (CCA) for the data centre sector by the end of 2013. TechUK (the UK trade association for the ICT industry, formerly known as Intellect), of which […]
The Groceries Code Adjudicator has issued guidance on how the adjudicator will carry out its investigation and enforcement functions under the Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013 in order to enforce GSCOP (the groceries supply chain code of practice between suppliers and the UK’s 10 largest supermarkets). This follows the open letter produced by the adjudicator […]
A bid by Virgin Atlantic Airways to overturn a High Court ruling secured by Wragge & Co, on behalf of Zodiac Seats UK, has failed at the Court of Appeal. According to Gordon Harris, head of intellectual property at Wragge & Co, it signals ‘another nail in the coffin’ for the six-year litigation brought against Zodiac, an […]
By Bukola Aremu Social landlords continue to ask an age-old question: what to do with those left in occupation following the death of a tenant, or after a tenant parts with the whole of the property. There is not always a simple answer. In complicated or sensitive cases — where a social landlord would be […]
Gowlings former head of energy and infrastructure David Shasha has joined Watson, Farley & Williams as a senior consultant to its London office. The former Simmons & Simmons partner joined Watson Farley’s corporate group on Monday (6 January 2014). Shasha left Gowlings on 1 November (1 November 2013) three years after joining the firm as […]
The New Year transfer window is well and truly open, and while laterals are nothing exceptional these days, it’s notable that Squire Sanders appears to have picked up in January where it left off in December in terms of its ongoing raid on DLA Piper. If your New Year’s hangover has now receded (yes, we […]
Burges Salmon associate Matthew Sims has led the £31m sale of Honda’s biggest storage depot in Avonmouth to BlackRock UK Property Fund and Canmoor. The real estate team had acted on the Crown Estate’s purchase of the Honda site in Cabot Park in 2005 and sale of part of the original site in 2011 for […]