Linklaters has applied to the House of Lords for leave to appeal a decision which re-instates the largest claim ever to be struck out in English interlocutory hearings $1.8bn against BCCI’s former auditor Ernst & Young. Linklaters partner John Turnbull, acting for Ernst & Young, had to apply direct to the House of Lords because […]

Thomas Eggar Verrall Bowles and Church Adams Tatham are to merge in May in a move that will create one of the largest practices in the South East. The new firm, Thomas Eggar Church Adams, will have 45 partners and 52 other fee earners in what the two firms insist is a genuine merger, despite […]

Clifford Chance’s stand-alone consultancy firm New Bridge Street has lost its managing director, Carol Arrowsmith, to Arthur Andersen’s human capital services team. Arrowsmith was managing director for eight years at the executive remuneration, employee share scheme and pensions specialist firm. She leaves the consultancy with only four partners, one of whom, David Tankel, a former […]

A team of 13 English lawyers at US firm Sidley & Austin has become the first to advise in what is set to become a major new UK market public house securitisation. The firm’s London office advised Morgan Stanley & Co International on arranging a £231m bond issue for the Wellington Pub Company. The bonds […]