Three of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases are in court this week, as the High Court slowly eases social distancing measures. A preliminary hearing is taking place in the Brazilian dam dispute to decide whether the substantive hearing will take place virtually or in person. The main hearing, which is taking place in the business […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have acted on Tesco’s latest exit from the Asian continent, as the retailer sold its Thai and Malaysian business for $10.6bn to the CP Group yesterday. Freshfields London managing partner Claire Wills led the team for longstanding client Tesco, together with Hong Kong partner Simon Weller and City partner Keir […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Stewarts and Morgan Lewis & Bockius are still on course for a mammoth 44-day trial in June 2020 after Tesco’s ambitious strike-out application was dismissed in the High Court. The heart of the lucrative dispute relates to a case brought by two groups of institutional investor claimants – MLB and SL – […]
UK Infrastructure group Balfour Beatty is to bring in a new general counsel from Tesco ahead of the impending retirement of current head David Mercer. Tesco’s legal director of finance, corporate and technology Jonathan Lagan will take on the position, after nearly a decade at the supermarket. He was formerly a senior associate in Shearman […]
Three of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases are in court this week, as the High Court slowly eases social distancing measures. A preliminary hearing is taking place in the Brazilian dam dispute to decide whether the substantive hearing will take place virtually or in person. The main hearing, which is taking place in the business […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have acted on Tesco’s latest exit from the Asian continent, as the retailer sold its Thai and Malaysian business for $10.6bn to the CP Group yesterday. Freshfields London managing partner Claire Wills led the team for longstanding client Tesco, together with Hong Kong partner Simon Weller and City partner Keir […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Stewarts and Morgan Lewis & Bockius are still on course for a mammoth 44-day trial in June 2020 after Tesco’s ambitious strike-out application was dismissed in the High Court. The heart of the lucrative dispute relates to a case brought by two groups of institutional investor claimants – MLB and SL – […]
UK Infrastructure group Balfour Beatty is to bring in a new general counsel from Tesco ahead of the impending retirement of current head David Mercer. Tesco’s legal director of finance, corporate and technology Jonathan Lagan will take on the position, after nearly a decade at the supermarket. He was formerly a senior associate in Shearman […]
A lecturer at BPP University has won a claim of constructive unfair dismissal against her former employers, having suffered from severe mental health problems. Elizabeth Aylott who worked at the university for over a decade brought the claim against BPP. She suffers from autism, which was not diagnosed until she resigned from the university and […]
“I’ve seen the future, and it’s porn, sharks and Nazis.” Twitter hadn’t even been founded at the time, but the above quote from the niche 2005 sitcom Bromwell High turned out to be unintendedly prophetic when considering the journey of one of the planet’s largest social media companies. Once ‘the world’s town square’, Twitter, latterly […]
One of Europe’s most enduring rumours is about Simpson Thacher & Bartlett opening in Luxembourg. It is one of the jurisdiction’s key referrers of work for the local Luxembourg players, meaning there is an amount of paranoia among them about what would happen if Simpson Thacher decided to open its own office there. The idea […]
Which is the best personal injury firm in the country? Irwin Mitchell, perhaps? Maybe Leigh Day, or Slater & Gordon? Wrong, wrong, wrong. The answer in fact is Cheshire six-lawyer outfit Gavin Edmondson Solicitors, which according to the website reviewsolicitors.co.uk scores better than almost 2,500 PI firms across the country for its quality. What about […]
Cash piles rose during the pandemic, but the latest year-end shows a turnaround. Across the UK 200, debt levels are increasing, and those precious cash reserves are being eroded by a tide of rising costs. This evidence suggests the trend is most prominent among firms that occupy the mid-tier; these firms are spending big as […]
Who says UK firms are getting left behind in the global legal market? Whoever it is should take a look at the top end of this year’s UK 200, which later this month highlights that for the first time ever, all four magic circle firms have a turnover of more than £2bn (though it’s worth […]
The Stewarts-repped London International Exhibition (ExCel) Centre has successfully seen off an appeal by insurers over its Covid-19 business interruption claim. The case, which was one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2023 and Top 10 Appeals of 2024, concerned whether pandemic lockdowns entitled the Centre to claim £16m under the disease occurring “at […]
A&O Shearman has set out its post-merger integration plans, which includes closing one of its global offices and reducing its partnership by 10 per cent by the end of the financial year. The firm said today that its partnership would reduce within the year following a strategic review of its business post-A&O’s tie-up with Shearman. […]
Dentons and Reed Smith have taken the leading roles on eSky Group’s purchase of travel business Thomas Cook. Dentons private equity partner Nicholas Plant, along with Michał Wasiak, a partner in the firm’s Warsaw office, were at the helm of the team for Polish purchaser eSky. They were supported by corporate associate Alex Macdonald, IP […]
Football law has typically been the domain of sports specialists. However, in recent years, there has been a growing number of large, elite firms and chambers entering the football market. Clifford Chance and Freshfields act for Manchester City, and Slaughter and May and Linklaters represent the Premier League. Latham and Watkins worked on the Chelsea […]
A former Ashurst employee has agreed to the outcome of an investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), after he was found to have stolen two laptops and sold them. Irfan Malik, an IT service desk analyst, was accused of removing “two laptops from the firm’s IT storeroom without its knowledge or consent”. The SRA […]