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Parabis lost: a cautionary tale
There’s a lot to digest in this week’s cover story. In short, the collapse of Parabis is a cautionary tale for management in any business, not just those in the admittedly tightly squeezed insurance...
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Parabis collapse: Lessons learned
The collapse of insurance giant Parabis is the biggest commercial failure the UK legal market has seen since Manchester-based Cobbetts entered into administration in 2013. Parabis made history in 2012...
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Star legal writers: IT, data and privacy
Our top briefings echo the main IT concerns: namely the rise of legal technology and concern over cyber crime. Star writers in IT, data and privacy Ian Oxman, Aderant Rhory Robertson, Collyer Bristow...
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Moves: 4 April
Move of the week Reed Smith arbitration partner Simon Sloane has joined Fieldfisher’s dispute resolution practice in London. Sloane has been Singapore-based since 2006, having joined Reed Smith in 2013...
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Knowledge management report: Pause, then engage
The 2015 shortlisted firms for The Lawyer Business Leadership’s innovation in knowledge management (KM) category discuss the struggle to implement KM and how to engage an entire firm to achieve...
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SFO self-reporting concerns misplaced
Ben Morgan, head of bribery and corruption, Serious Fraud OfficeImagine you have a corporate client with a fraud or corruption issue. The client conducts its business responsibly. It has a code of...
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Business Leadership Awards: awards alumni – CMS
At last year’s The Lawyer Business Leadership Awards the firm that walked off with the Grand Prix Business Leadership Team of the Year prize was CMS, thanks largely to its move to tech-driven,...
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LMI analysis: ITV
For ITV 2015 was a profitable year. The UK’s biggest commercial terrestrial broadcaster achieved total revenue of £3.3bn, up from £2.9bn the previous year. Strong advertising, increased M&A...
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In-house interview: Aviva GC Kirsty Cooper
Aviva general counsel Kirsty Cooper is celebrating her 25th year at the company this June. But the small Gloucestershire-based business she joined and the listed £45bn revenue insurance giant she helps...
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In-house interview: Gita Parihar, Friends of the Earth
In the fight against climate change, much of the talk is about the practical ways of limiting the effects of global warming on our planet. But from an office building in south London, a small group of...
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My career story: “I went from corporate at Clifford Chance to a niche car...
Damen Bennion started his career at a small regional firm, worked in the corporate team at Clifford Chance, spent time in-house at Excel, Sainsbury’s and John Lewis, and is now a partner in the niche...
View ArticlePinsents inches towards diversity target with eight women made up
Pinsent Masons has inched closer to its gender diversity target after female lawyers made up 44 per cent of the 18 promoted to the firm’s partnership. The eight new female lawyers brings the proportion...
View ArticleLloyds hires National Australia Bank GC as group legal boss
Lloyds Banking Group has finally replaced its former general counsel for group legal, Hugh Pugsley, hiring Nathan Butler from the National Australia Bank. Pugsley left Lloyds last April after just two...
View ArticleExclusive: Parabis founders received £33m after Duke Street investment
Parabis founding partners Tim Oliver and Tim Roberts each received £16.9m one month after the firm’s 2012 £50m investment deal with private equity house Duke Street, The Lawyer can reveal. Oliver and...
View ArticleGuernsey firms advise on Europe’s largest medtech fund
Guernsey firms Carey Olsen and Ipes have assisted Endeavour Vision on the fundraising of Endeavour Medtech Growth LP, which closed at its hard cap of €250m having been oversubscribed. This makes it the...
View ArticleLegal project management webinar
Webinar: Get Ahead of the Curve: Adopting Legal Project ManagementThursday, April 7, 2016 at 2:00PM EDT
View ArticleYuval Lazi participates in student entrepreneurship programme
As an expert in advising entrepreneurs, Yuval Lazi will be a mentor in an evening event involving 40 participants in the student entrepreneurship program at the University of Tel Aviv. The event will...
View ArticleCarey Olsen advises on fund migration from Cayman to Guernsey
Carey Olsen’s corporate practice has advised VinaCapital Vietnam Opportunity Fund Limited (VOF) on its migration from the Cayman Islands to Guernsey and its move from AIM to the premium segment of the...
View ArticleArtex acquires Hexagon and Kane insurance groups
Insurance M&A specialists from Carey Olsen have advised Arthur J. Gallagher & Co’s insurance management unit, Artex Risk Solutions, on its acquisition of two insurance management operations....
View ArticleSix promotions at Conyers
Conyers Dill & Pearman announced the appointment of six lawyers from the Firm’s Bermuda, British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong offices. The following lawyers have been appointed to Partner/Director:...
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