Shoosmiths is aiming to raise at least £60,000 for Barnado’s by the end of next April. The money will enable the children’s charity to employ two specialist workers to tackle child sexual exploitation — an issue it believes is the most pressing and hidden child protection issue for UK children aged 10 and over. Shoosmiths’ […]
All the latest partner hires and other appointments within Continental European firms and offices. Benelux De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek is joining German best friend Hengeler Mueller with an office in Shanghai, its second Chinese base (5 December 2013). The Shanghai office will open in mid-2014 and will be led by partner Gaby Smeenk. Smeenk, a […]
A barrister from No5 Chambers was in the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) at the end of November, representing his client who wants the ECHR to recognise that the French ban on wearing full-face veils is discriminatory. Ramby De Mello argued on behalf of his client, known by her initials SAS, that […]
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TSB Bank has named Susan Crichton, previously the Post Office general counsel, as its first general counsel. Crichton joins the bank on 6 January 2014 and will head up the bank’s preparations for an IPO. The appointment follows the recent split of Lloyds TSB Bank. In September Lloyds Banking Group named corporate and M&A head […]
When Ashurst corporate head Stephen Lloyd resigned from the firm, insiders predicted that only one man could possibly replace him. That man is Simon Beddow, who has duly stepped up to the role and joins new chairman Ben Tidswell in the firm’s management. Beddow replaces Lloyd as Ashurst’s corporate co-head Ashurst corporate chief Stephen Lloyd […]
Squire Sanders and Mayer Brown have emerged as the biggest fallers in the main table contained in this year’s Global Litigation Top 50 report (9 December 2013), The Lawyer’s exclusive analysis of the world’s top 50 litigation practices by revenue. The US firms slipped seven and nine places respectively in the table, which is ranked by […]
Former Stewarts Law partner Andrew Shaw is fighting the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) ruling which saw him struck off in the High Court today, bringing the details of the case into the public domain for the first time. Shaw was struck off by the SDT in February 2013 following a private prosecution bought by Geoffrey […]
Hogan Lovells is hiring a white-collar crime partner to boost its Paris litigation capabilities. Metzner Associés partner Antonin Lévy will join the firm along with two associates at the start of 2014. Lévy’s experience includes representing Continental Airlines in its defence of criminal proceedings relating to the 2000 crash of Concorde, in which 113 people died. […]
The ‘how long is a piece of string’ line is wearing thin, so one commenter neatly sums up after reading last week’s news about botched litigation budgets. The ‘how long is a piece of string’ line is wearing thin, so one commenter neatly sums up after reading last week’s news about botched litigation budgets. Our […]
Allen & Overy has advised German pharmaceutical and chemical group Merck on its £1.6bn takeover offer of Luxembourg-based AZ Electronics Materials. The acquisition, contingent on the approval by antitrust authorities and a minimum acceptance level of 95 per cent of the shares, will boost Merck’s offering of speciality chemicals to the electronics industry.
The Competition Commission (CC) has been concerned about the lack of competition in the audit market for some time. It reports that this lack is due to factors that inhibit companies from switching auditors and the incentives auditors are having to focus on satisfying management rather than shareholder needs. The CC Final Report (published on 25 […]