National firm Eversheds is to make up 16 partners in the Spring. Five of the partners will be based in Leeds, with other appointments in the firm’s offices in Manchester, Nottingham, Cardiff, London, Birmingham and Ipswich. Alan Whiteley, a corporate finance lawyer at Eversheds in Cardiff, is leaving to join Gambit Corporate Finance but the firm’s London pension practice has snapped up senior assistant Richard Leigh from Burges Salmon in Bristol.
Co-operation at the coalface
The sheer size of the British Coal multi-party action has led to firms working for a common goal, writes Chris Fogarty. After several years of case preparation and a hearing in the High Court that lasted 102 days, more than 100,000 former British Coal miners can breathe a little easier. In what is the longest-running […]
