James Warlick joins Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners in Washington DC
Ambassador James B Warlick has joined Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners’ team in Washington DC starting from January 17, 2017 as a non-lawyer Partner and Senior Policy Adviser. He will be...
View ArticleBank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund leads €3m investment in Corlytics
LK Shields acted for Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Growth Fund and Infinity Capital who led a €3m investment in Corlytics, a Dublin-based leader in regulatory risk intelligence. This investment of...
View ArticleShoosmiths advises on investment deal for AI speech recognition business
Shoosmiths’ corporate team has advised Cambridge-based speech technology company, Speechmatics, on investments received from a range of investors to accelerate the commercial roll-out of its speech...
View ArticlePhilip Rule succeeds in quashing two life sentences
In the very first judgment of the Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) this year ([2017] EWCA Crim 1), Lord Justice Burnett, Mr Justice Wyn Williams and Mr Justice Supperstone have allowed an appeal...
View ArticlePromotions at Collas Crill
Following the completion of its BVI merger, Collas Crill has made six promotions across the firm. Simon Heggs, Nin Ritchie and Anna Douglass have been promoted to Senior Associate in Guernsey and Alex...
View ArticleOgier strengthens investment funds team in Luxembourg
Ogier has strengthened its Luxembourg investment fund team with the appointment of Anne-Gaëlle Delabye as a managing associate. Anne-Gaëlle focuses on investment funds and regulatory work, with a...
View Article70 businesses launched through Channel Islands Student Business Challenge
The Channel Islands Student Business Challenge is supporting 70 teams of students from seven schools in Jersey and Guernsey to start up and run their own businesses with an initial investment of £100...
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“There’s nothing we could have done differently”: KWM China breaks silence on...
King & Wood Mallesons’ new European partnership – which consists of 32 partners – has been invited to a partner conference in China in February where they will be told about the new strategy for...
View ArticleFive more firms step up to rescue KWM trainees
Five more firms have confirmed that they will be taking on King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) trainees as it finally enters administration. Magic circle giant Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has confirmed...
View ArticleBLP reveals £6m investment in Australian legal resourcing business
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) secured a 50 per cent interest in Australian legal resourcing business Advent Balance for £6.25m, its LLPs have revealed. The business will be combined with the group’s...
View ArticleOlswang Paris head moves to Orrick after Europe offices locked out of merger
Olswang Paris managing partner and corporate head Guillaume Kessler has joined Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe. His exit comes less than three months before Olswang merges with CMS Cameron McKenna...
View ArticleTrump transition leaves DC legal market “saturated”
The inauguration of president elect Donald Trump is a topic that reaches pretty much every aspect of life, something that is apparent in this comment from one Washington legal market specialist: “I was...
View ArticleKennedys senior partner Thomas re-elected for fifth term
Kennedys senior partner Nick Thomas has been re-elected to serve his fifth term as senior partner after an uncontested election. The partner vote, which was held this month, is understood to have...
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Pinsent Masons named Stonewall top law firm for LGBT staff
Seventeen law firms have been named in Stonewall’s list of top 100 employers for LGBT staff. Pinsent Masons ranked second in the list, beaten only by Lloyds Banking Group in top spot. Four other law...
View ArticleCompetition law risk in the mortgage sector
Walker Morris’ Competition partner, barrister Trudy Feaster-Gee, has been invited to speak about competition law risks in the mortgage sector at the Council of Mortgage Lenders conference on Tuesday 7...
View ArticleWebinar: is Regtech the new Fintech?
With an increase in regulatory compliance, innovation in technology has become increasingly prevalent throughout the professional and financial services. With the birth of Regtech, we ask, what is it,...
View ArticleMichelle Heeley prosecutes in cache of weapons case
No5 Chambers barrister Michelle Heeley represented the prosecution of a man who wanted to ‘defend the UK from an attack by Isis’ in a trial at Nottingham Crown Court. Roger Smith, 46, stockpiled...
View ArticleStephenson Harwood chooses Aderant Expert
Stephenson Harwood, a UK 200 law firm with nine offices across Asia, Europe and the Middle East, has chosen Aderant Expert for its practice management solution. The firm needed to be sure it selected a...
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Addleshaws disputes team loses partner to K&L Gates
Addleshaw Goddard has lost its fifth disputes partner since the start of 2016, with Clarissa Coleman moving to K&L Gates. Her exit follows Kambiz Larizadeh’s departure from Addleshaws’ litigation...
View ArticleExigent targets in-house with launch of contract processing tech
LPO provider Exigent has launched a new tool that it claims combines the power of machine-learning and lawyers’ brains to speed up the processing of contracts by in-house legal teams. The new tool,...
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