Three years of negotiations result in joint venture agreement for Clifford Chance and Singapore’s Wong partnership Clifford Chance (CC) has finally managed to seal a joint venture with Singapore firm WongPartnership, three years after it originally entered negotiations with the firm. The two firms were originally due to launch a joint venture in November 2000. […]
City firm confirms rumours of talks with Jones Day Reavis & Pogue Gouldens has confirmed that it has entered formal merger discussions with US firm Jones Day Reavis & Pogue. As revealed in Lawyer News Weekly earlier today, the two firms were rumoured to be in talks. Gouldens has 41 partners and reported a turnover […]
Stibbe partners to set up new firm with Brussels-based intellectual property practice Braun Bigwood Five Brussels partners from Herbert Smith’s Dutch and Belgian alliance partner Stibbe are defecting to set up a new firm with intellectual property specialist Braun Bigwood. Braun Bigwood’s ten partners will be joined by litigator Paul Alain Foriers, insolvency specialist Michèle […]
Edward Fitzgerald QC takes lead role in case that strips Home Secretary of his power to set minimum jail terms for convicted murderers Doughty Street Chambers’ well known human rights barrister Edward Fitzgerald QC has just won his second case this year challenging the powers of the Home Secretary. The Lords has ruled that the […]
Lord Hunt of the Wirral is re-elected as senior partner Beachcroft Wansbroughs has re-elected Lord Hunt of the Wirral as senior partner for a further three-year term. Lord Hunt’s next term of office in the role will run from 1 May 2003 to 30 April 2006. He has been the firm’s senior partner since 1996.
City firm confirms rumours of talks with Jones Day Reavis & Pogue Gouldens has confirmed that it has entered formal merger discussions with US firm Jones Day Reavis & Pogue. As revealed in Lawyer News Weekly earlier today, the two firms were rumoured to be in talks. Gouldens has 41 partners and reported a turnover […]
Two niche practices join Ius Laboris firm Toffoletto e Soci Toffoletto e Soci, the Italian member of international employment law network Ius Laboris, has merged with two niche practices. The firm will gain two new partners and three associates as a result of the deals. Aldo Bottini and Elio Cherubini have both merged their practices […]
Private equity and hedge funds specialist Achim Pütz joins Munich office as partner
Corporate recovery and litigation head Kamen Zahariev becomes director for the Ukraine The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has appointed a lawyer to a senior commercial position for the first time. Corporate recovery and litigation head Kamen Zahariev has been named director for the Ukraine. He replaces Andrew Seton, who has retired. Zahariev set […]
Two niche practices join Ius Laboris firm Toffoletto e Soci Toffoletto e Soci, the Italian member of international employment law network Ius Laboris, has merged with two niche practices. The firm will gain two new partners and three associates as a result of the deals. Aldo Bottini and Elio Cherubini have both merged their practices […]
The EU Council of Ministers for Competitiveness has failed to agree legal proposals for setting up a so-called ‘community patent’‚ which would give inventors the option of obtaining a single patent that is valid throughout the EU. Germany and Portugal succeeded in blocking the initiative to the annoyance of internal market commissioner Frits Bolkestein. Germany […]
Davis Polk & Wardwell (Eugene Gregor, John Crowley) advised Barclays Capital, Credit Suisse First Boston and JP Morgan as joint bookrunners on an SEC-registered Schedule B offering by the Korea Development Bank of $300m (£190.6m) of 5.25 per cent notes due 2007 and $450m (£285.9m) of 5.5 per cent notes due in 2012. Cleary Gottlieb […]