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PRESS RELEASE: Collyer Bristow further strengthens employment law offering with Partner recruitment

Andrew Granger, a senior employment lawyer from Taylor Wessing, has joined the firm as a Partner. Andrew has expertise in all aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law work (especially recruitment, dismissals, restructuring, trade unions, employee relations, discrimination, investigations, confidential information, restrictive covenants, M&A, and contract negotiations).His practice covers many areas of UK and international business. […]

CLO manager not entitled to incentive fee on optional redemption

The High Court has recently decided that on an optional redemption of a collateralised loan obligation securitisation (“CLO”), the collateral manager was not entitled to an incentive fee at the expense of junior bondholders.[1] The claim was brought by Deutsche Trustee Company Limited (the “Trustee”) in order to determine the correct interpretation of the bond […]

Collyer Bristow announces the appointment of senior commercial real estate lawyer

Law firm Collyer Bristow has today announced the appointment of senior commercial real estate lawyer Simon Edwards, bringing considerable strength and experience to the firm’s 25-strong Real Estate practice. Simon Edwards joined the firm on 2 January 2019 as a Partner. He brings to the firm a career spanning 30 years in the London commercial […]

Leveson 2 – ‘Astonishing abandoned promises,’ says Steven Heffer

In the wake of the Government’s cancellation of the second stage of the Leveson Inquiry into press standards, Steven Heffer, Head of Media and Privacy at law firm Collyer Bristow, and a leading lawyer for victims of phone-hacking, comments: “It is astonishing that the government is abandoning it promises to victims of the phone-hacking scandal.” […]

Collyer Bristow advises on £82.4m sale of Leyland SDM to Grafton Group

Collyer Bristow has advised the owners of London’s largest independent decorators’ merchant, Leyland SDM, on its £82.4m sale to Grafton Group plc, the international DIY and building merchants. Leyland SDM has 21 stores in some of London’s most prominent locations such as King’s Road Chelsea, High Street Kensington, Shaftesbury Avenue, Victoria, Clerkenwell, and Notting Hill. Founded in 1985, […]

Nigel Brahams joins Collyer Bristow’s corporate and commercial team

Collyer Bristow is pleased to announce that Nigel Brahams has joined the firm as a partner in the corporate and commercial team. He joins from Fox Williams. His arrival at Collyer Bristow further strengthens the firm’s corporate offering and brings additional expertise in FinTech and non-contentious financial services.

Success in the ‘Top 35 Under 35’

James Cook, a Senior associate in our Tax and estate planning team, and Mark Harrop, a Senior associate in our Family team, have been recognised in eprivateclient’s ‘Top 35 under 35’ for 2017.  

UK data protection laws to be overhauled

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has published a statement of intent (the “Statement of Intent”) for a New Data Protection Bill. While the General Data Protection Regulation (the ‘GDPR’) will become directly applicable in all EU Member States from 25 May 2018, it is the government’s intention to bring this EU law […]

Collyer Bristow and Augusta join forces for interchange fee damages claim

Collyer Bristow is collaborating with Augusta, a leading litigation funder in the SME market, to back a multimillion-pound claim against MasterCard and Visa over their use of multilateral interchange fees (MIFs). Augusta guarantees to pay 65% of the damages award to claimants who in turn do not have to pay any costs towards funding the […]

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