By Kiera S Gans and Joshua Kane Challenges to arbitrator appointments have become a hot topic in international arbitration, having arisen in several high-profile international arbitrations this year. Mimicking some of the cases arising in the international arena, two recent cases in the US provide some new insight as to how the US courts might […]
DLA Piper has advised Europe Virgin Fund (EVF), a private equity fund sponsored by Dragon Capital, on the acquisition of the majority stake in Portmone.com, a Ukrainian system of online payments. The DLA Piper team was led by Illya Muchnyk (legal director) and Margarita Karpenko (managing partner of DLA Piper in Ukraine). Associates Dmytro Pshenychnyuk […]
DLA Piper is understood to be losing a partner and an associate from its London real estate team as rival Squire Sanders looks to bulk up in the City. News of the departures of partner Gary Paddison and associate Rachel Orton comes just weeks after the former global co-chair of DLA Piper’s hospitality and leisure […]
Stories of law firms battling against the continuing squally economic weather balanced a prurient interest in legal profession hotties, the analysis of The Lawyer’s most-read stories of 2013 reveals. Leading the tales of gloom this year was the drama around the demise of Manchester firm Cobbetts, which kicked off the year with by announcing in […]
Irwin Mitchell has placed four support staff in its Glasgow office into a redundancy consultation following a decision to relocate the roles to Sheffield. Those affected by the restructuring are all in the firm’s finance team, the rest of which is already located in the Sheffield office. The consultation is expected to complete before Christmas. […]
Rarely does a High Court trial engender a football crowd-style atmosphere, but when England’s longest-running commercial case in recent memory wrapped up a few days ago, shareholders for the defendant companies were cheering outside the court. In dismissing Excalibur Ventures’ claim for an interest in various petroleum fields in Iraqi Kurdistan held by Texas Keystone […]
DLA Piper has advised Arsenal Capital Partners and Chromaflo Technologies, a supplier of pigment and chemical dispersions, on the acquisition of tinting specialist CPS Color. Chromaflo Technologies and CPS Color’s colorant business will combine to create an independent global colorant system and pigment dispersion platform. The new colorants and dispersions specialist will operate under the […]
Karanovic & Nikolic recently hosted a VIP cocktail at the Vatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in Zagreb, on the occasion of the performance of the Choir and Symphony Orchestra of the Croatian Radio Television. The concert was held as part of the Kanconijer Cycle and showcased the work of Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat in D-major.
In a groundbreaking decision, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently held that a limited exclusion order under section 337 may not be predicated on a theory of induced infringement when the subject imported product did not directly infringe before or at importation. The case involves certain method patent claims relating to […]
By Alec Christie Whether a start-up or a listed ASX company, your business opportunities are increasingly online and/or overseas. At last count, more than 80 countries have adopted data privacy laws and Australia’s new Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) come into effect from 12 March 2014. The new APPs, overseas laws and attitudes toward data privacy […]
Osborne Clarke’s employment head David Cubitt has been elected as the firm’s new London chief. He replaces Andrew Saul, who stepped down from the role after being elected as the firm’s senior partner last month (26 November 2013). Cubitt has headed up Osborne Clarke’s employment practice for about four years, ensuring it runs efficiently and […]
Men should take up their new rights so that flexible working becomes the accepted norm for both sexes I was recently a panellist at tThe Whitehall Industry Group (WIG) conference on ‘Accelerating gender diversity all the way up to the boardroom’. My session focused on progress since the Davies Report and what needs to be […]