Collas Crill set to attend MIPIM 201
Collas Crill will be attending MIPIM 2016, the leading annual real estate event for property professionals, at the Palais des Festivals, Cannes, 15-18 March. MIPIM gathers the most influential...
View ArticleStewart Law’s recent CoA child relocation win features on Lawyer2B
Stewart Law’s Emma Hatley’s recent Court of Appeal win has featured on Lawyer2B.com. Until recently, there was a lack of clarity in family law about the principles regulating the internal relocation of...
View ArticleNo5 Chambers sponsors annual mooting competition
Leading barristers’ set, No5 Chambers, is sponsoring the 2016 Environmental Law Mooting Competition which will be held before High Court Judge Mrs Justice Frances Patterson on March 8 at King’s College...
View ArticleGoldberg Weisman Cairo streamlines technology with Aderant Total Office
Legal software company Aderant says that personal injury law firm Goldberg Weisman Cairo (GWC) has successfully implemented the Aderant Total Office case management and plaintiff financials solution....
View ArticleFreshfields and Linklaters win roles on proposed LSE and Deutsche Boerse tie-up
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising longstanding client London Stock Exchange Group (LSE) on its potential merger with Linklaters’ client Deutsche Boerse. LSE is seeking counsel from Freshfields...
View ArticleHSF and Blackstone triumph for KPMG on unprecedented judicial review
Herbert Smith Freehills and Blackstone Chambers have successfully defended KPMG against an unprecedented judicial review claim in the High Court. The application for judicial review, brought by nursing...
View ArticleSlater & Gordon freezes shares after delay in H1 accounts
Slater & Gordon has suspended the trading of its shares until the release of its half-year results. The Australian listed firm adopted a voluntary suspension of its shares after admitting it would...
View ArticleTravers wins Steinhoff mandate as it battles Sainsbury’s for Home Retail
Travers Smith is advising South African retail chain Steinhoff International in its bidding war with Sainsbury’s for Home Retail Group. Steinhoff lists a number of firms as its main legal advisers,...
View ArticleFormer DWF head joins Leonard Curtis as first legal counsel
DWF’s former managing partner Andrew Gregory has joined insolvency group Leonard Curtis Business Solutions as its first in-house counsel. Gregory was most recently a consultant at DWF, but has held a...
View ArticleJenner & Block focuses on building London as global revenue jumps to $465m
US firm Jenner & Block plans to continue investment in London following a 14 per cent increase in revenue to $465m (£329.6m) in 2015. The firm also posted a total of $196m net profit for the year,...
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HSF fraud head Hunter leaves for litigation boutique
Private prosecution boutique Edmonds Marshall McMahon is launching a civil fraud team with the hire of Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) head of fraud and asset tracing, Robert Hunter. Robert HunterHunter...
View ArticleExclusive: Dentons’ global turnover climbs 66 per cent to $2.12bn in 2015
Dentons’ global turnover for 2015 has increased by 66.2 per cent to $2.12bn (£1.523bn), The Lawyer can reveal. In The Lawyer’s Litigation Top 50 report in 2015, Dentons’ 2014 revenue was listed as...
View ArticleNo5 QC prosecutes coventry children’s home abuse trial update
Two former social workers, who ran a Coventry children’s home in the 1980’s, have been jailed. The jury at Warwick Crown Court found both Kenneth Owen and Alan Todd guilty of physically and...
View ArticleKinstellar partner and counsel to speak at ethics and anti-corruption conference
Jitka Logesová, partner at Kinstellar’s Prague office and head of compliance, risk and sensitive investigation practice; and Ákos Nagy, counsel at Kinstellar’s Budapest office, will be speaking at the...
View ArticleNo5 Chambers barrister represents Home Office
A barrister with national set No5 Chambers represented the Home Office in court last week, in a high profile immigration appeal. Vinesh Mandalia was at the First Tier Immigration Tribunal, sitting at...
View ArticlePwC releases PwC Global Economic Crime Survey 2016
The UK has seen a double-digit rise in economic crime against corporates in the last two years, with 55% of organisations affected, an increase of 11 percentage points since 2014, significantly...
View ArticleSerjeants Inn’s Hockton wins case of distinguished expert in consultant...
At the conclusion of a hearing between 8 and 23 February 2016 Dr A, a consultant adult psychiatrist, was cleared of all allegations by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal. The doctor faced over 40...
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A&O appoints corporate co-head Ballheimer as managing partner
Allen & Overy (A&O) has elected Andrew Ballheimer as its new managing partner, a week after the magic circle firm voted in Wim Dejonghe to the senior partner role. Corporate co head Ballheimer...
View ArticleWeil PEP rises 5 per cent to $2.5m as revenue stays flat
Weil Gotshal & Manges’ average profit per equity partner (PEP) rose by nearly 5 per cent globally last year to $2.5m (£1.79m). In 2015, the firm saw worldwide PEP increase from $2.4m to £2.5m,...
View ArticleLatham’s Voge takes long view as financials plateau at $2.6bn
Latham & Watkins has posted a 1.5 per cent rise in global revenue from $2.61bn to $2.65bn for the 2015 financial year, a sharp contrast to the firm’s double digit increase in revenue last year when...
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