Bär & Karrer lawyers top Mergermarket league table
Earlier this month Mergermarket published its review on the 2016’s most prolific individual DACH legal advisers. We are pleased to have Christoph Neeracher and Luca Jagmetti at the top of the table....
View ArticleWebinar: dedicate time to honouring your commitments
While you’re up working late to deliver results on a case, chances are your client may be suffering from their own sleeplessness—wondering how your work will ultimately impact their case. If only your...
View ArticleConyers named Best Offshore Law Firm – Client Services
Conyers Dill & Pearman has been named Best Offshore Law Firm – Client Services at the MENA Fund Manager Fund Service Awards. This is the fifth year Conyers has been recognised for excellence by...
View ArticleMishcon expands business crime team with Kingsley Napley hire
Mishcon de Reya has hired Kingsley Napley partner Jo Rickards as a partner in its business crime group. Rickards joined Kingsley Napley in 2014 from DLA Piper where she was a partner for four years....
View ArticleEversheds management see 10% increase in profit share
Eversheds’ management saw their profit-share increase by 10 per cent in 2015/16, from £6.97m to £7.67m. Designated board members who gained from the increase include global managing partner Lee Ranson,...
View ArticleWalker Morris strengthens real estate and housing litigation teams with...
Walker Morris continues to invest in its specialist expertise in its real estatelLitigation department and the housing litigation & management department in response to growing client demand by...
View ArticleWalder Wyss advises Transports publics fribourgeois Trafic on financing...
Transports publics fribourgeois Trafic closed the financing of its maintenance and exploitation centre in the canton of Fribourg. The financing was partly made through a CHF40m (£32m) private...
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Witness evidence in commercial trials: time to think again?
This article was contributed by Taylor Wessing disputes and investigations partner Andrew Howell and senior associate James Bryden Few factual witnesses relish the prospect of giving evidence in...
View ArticleCollas Crill advises world’s largest online games software specialist
Collas Crill has acted for Playtech Plc, the world’s largest online gaming software supplier, in the acquisition of Eyecon, a leading designer of online games, for up to £50m. Over recent years,...
View ArticleTwo senior recruits for Ogier dispute resolution team
Ogier has recruited two senior lawyers to strengthen its Guernsey dispute resolution team with a particular focus on its leading restructuring and insolvency practice. Counsel Alex Horsbrugh-Porter and...
View ArticleKhaitan advises Phoenix Life on HCL guarantee
Khaitan & Co advised Phoenix Life Limited UK on the corporate guarantee provided by HCL Technologies Limited in relation to performance obligations of HCL Insurance BPO Services Limited (its...
View ArticleKhaitan advises lenders on Kenersys agreement
Khaitan & Co advised a consortium of lenders led by State Bank of India in relation to a settlement arrangement with Kenersys India P Ltd (Bharat Forge group) for part cash repayment and...
View ArticleGowling WLG forms association with Singapore’s JurisAsia
Gowling WLG has formed an exclusive association with JurisAsia LLC, a Singapore firm specialising in IP and corporate law. JurisAsia has been formed by a number of lawyers led by partner Sheena Jacob...
View ArticleCourt rules single market judicial review challenge ‘premature’
Lloyd Jones LJ and Lewis J, at a hearing on Friday 3 February in the Divisional Court, refused permission to apply for judicial review by two sets of claimants, relating to the UK and exiting the...
View ArticleBond Dickinson, Pinsents and Shepherd & Wedderburn appointed to Water Plus panel
Bond Dickinson, Shepherd & Wedderburn and Pinsent Masons have been appointed to the inaugural legal panel of Water Plus, a joint venture between United Utilities and Severn Trent. The...
View ArticleBär & Karrer advises Lonza on shares placement
Lonza Group AG successfully placed five million shares by way of an accelerated bookbuilding and completed a capital increase of approximately CHF 865 million to partially finance the acquisition of...
View ArticleNorton Rose-Chadbourne: this is all about New York
Another year, another bolt-on. As The Lawyer revealed last week, acquisition-hungry Norton Rose Fulbright (NRF) is in the midst of folding Chadbourne & Parke into its global operation. This is not...
View ArticleOrrick UK finance head takes up new role as Gordian GC
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe London finance partner Michael Crosby has left the firm to become the general counsel of investment company Gordian Knot. Crosby joined Orrick in 2014 from Proskauer...
View ArticleLitigators to banks: Stop taking notes in meetings if you want privacy
City lawyers have started advising banks not to take notes in meetings in order to get around a landmark ruling on legal professional privilege handed down in the RBS Rights Issue litigation in...
View ArticleLinklaters China shrinks again as Beijing partner joins Ashurst
Linklaters has lost another China partner as Beijing-based Pui Hong Chik has joined Ashurst’s Hong Kong office. Chik joined Linklaters as a partner in 2012 from Baker McKenzie’s Beijing office where he...
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