KLegal’s multidisciplinary (MDP) private equity team has been appointed as primary legal adviser to mid-market fund Inflexion, its first major new client win since the team’s formation.Last summer KPMG launched a joint private equity team with its law firm KLegal, with partner Moray Mac-pherson and three assistants providing legal expertise.The practice, headed by KPMG partner […]

The former head of Osborne Clarke’s Bristol corporate practice has launched a niche firm of corporate lawyers. Bruce Roxburgh, who left Osborne Clarke in February, has launched Roxburgh and Milkins LLP with a senior corporate lawyer from Osborne Clarke, Jason Milkins.The two of them have been close colleagues for many years and share a number […]

A human rights challenge was launched earlier in the month on behalf of a 51-year-old disabled woman who had been forced to sleep in her wheelchair for the past year because her healthcare trust refused to sanction her carers to lift her into bed.Milton Keynes Primary Care Trust refused to permit its staff to lift […]

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is aiming to round up a ‘dirty dozen’ of insider dealing and market abuse cases, with a view to bringing them to court over the next three months, claimed Sir Howard Davies as he bowed out as chairman of the FSA last week, handing over the watchdog to Callum McCarthy.“There […]