Allen & Overy has lost one of its project finance partners, Andrew Trahair, to Australian firm Clayton Utz. Trahair has left London to join Clayton Utz in its Sydney office. Trahair became a partner at Allen & Overy in 1994 and worked primarily in international project finance deals in power, infrastructure and telecoms. Clayton Utz […]

Pinsent Curtis advised HSBC on a £135m private equity investment in AM Paper Group’s planned paper mill in Skelmersdale. Chaffe Street acted for AM Paper and Slaughter and May advised JP Morgan on providing senior debt.

A SECOND front will be opened up against the Government’s legal reform blueprint when it publishes its consultation paper on raising the small claims threshold from £3,000 to £5,000 this week. The Legal Action Group (LAG) has joined housing lawyers in warning that tenants being victimised and exploited by their landlords will lose out under […]

Former Law Society councillor Bill Blackburn OBE , who has helped build up Franco-British legal relations, is to be the new chairman of the British Council’s Law Advisory Committee. He takes over from Lord Justice Phillips. Blackburn, who began his career at the Paris office of Theodore Goddard in 1957, is now a consultant with […]