A quartet of firms have won top roles on the £1bn sale of four of the Grange Hotel’s London leases, while Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance took the lead on financing matters. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP), Hogan Lovells, Brown Rudnick and Gowling WLG all advised on the sale of the buildings to Queensgate […]
A noticeable difference at MIPIM this year, says DLA Piper’s real estate co-chair Antoine Mercier, was the number of women featuring on the many panels.
Bird & Bird has re-elected CEO David Kerr for another three-year stint in the position, meaning that by the end of this term he will have been in charge for 26 years. Kerr was elected unopposed, with the tech partner having held the position since 1996. The stint easily makes Kerr one of the longest-serving […]
Network Rail has more than halved its panel in the past six years, with the latest review seeing three firms wins spots until 2024. The spots have been taken by Dentons, Addleshaw Goddard and Eversheds Sutherland and will be in place until 2024. The contract is worth £70m. Stuart Kelly, group general counsel at Network […]
Dechert has appointed a new partner to its London management team, after the departure of Miriam Gonzalez and appointment of Camille Abousleiman to the Lebanese government. Corporate and private equity partner Chris Field is to join employment partner Jason Butwick and finance partner Gus Black on the committee, with Black taking up the helm as […]
Data from The Lawyer UK 200 highlights the diversity of the leading firms’ approach to workspace
Analyse 2018 to inspire 2019. By analysing the 2,000+ cases across 15 English courts that reached judgment in 2018, the report unearths the most active firms and chambers in the year. Importantly, it details who is instructing whom, uncovering vital relationships between litigants and law firms and between law firms and chambers. What’s inside this […]
The UK 200: Operational Healthcheck report is The Lawyer’s annual assessment of the most efficiently run law firms in the UK. The analysis is based on a number of key indicators and metrics that are collected from firms as part of the UK 200 research process. They include: property costs; borrowings; lock-up. ENQUIRE TODAY The […]
In 2019 The Lawyer’s Global Real Estate 50 report will break new ground. For the first time, the report will include a new metric – the percentage of each firm’s revenue that is derived from the real estate sector. ENQUIRE TODAY Read this report from The Lawyer to: Ensure your firm hit their 2019 practice […]
Firms are replacing years of traditional process with new ways of working
Nativist economic policies of CEE countries are making US law firms re-evaluate their business model – and even Weil Gotshal is not immune
Once again, The Lawyer’s Hot 100, in association with AlixPartners and LexisNexis, gathers together the standout lawyers in the UK over the past year.
Several major court cases this year deal with the fallout from Britain’s EU departure, and barristers from Brick Court are playing a prominent role.
These are The Lawyer‘s Top 20 cases to look out for in 2019.
In 2019 The Lawyer’s Global Real Estate Top 50 report will break new ground. For the first time, the 50 firms highlighted in the report will be ranked by the total revenue they derive from the full range of work they handle that is related to the real estate sector.
By Isabella Hislop The likes for Gowlessence’s Self-Care Serum advertising campaign have been rolling in. As explored in a previous article – Influencer Law 101: legal considerations, Gowlessence is working with several high-profile influencers. The influencers were either paid or given products in exchange for creating content posted to social media featuring the #GowlessenceGlowUp hashtag, alongside […]
By Jürg Schneider, Christophe Gösken On 2 February 2019 the Federal Supreme Court ruled that internet access providers are not liable for third-party websites and portals that make movies available for illegal downloading or streaming. Further, internet access providers are not obliged to monitor or block access to such websites and portals. Facts The case […]
By Stephen Radcliffe, Carly Thorpe, Sam Parkinson The Technology & Construction Court (“TCC“) has confirmed that a party cannot rely upon a ‘true value’ adjudicator’s decision in its favour as set-off or counterclaim to resist enforcement of a previous “no notice” adjudication if it has not first paid the sums awarded in that first adjudication.
By Julie E. Mclean 2019 marks the centenary in the UK of the 1919 Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act, which allowed women to enter the legal profession. Take a timely look back at the story of women in Bermuda’s legal sector and the progress to equality in her own firm. The history of women lawyers in […]
By Scott Hopkins, Lorenzo Corte M&A transactions in Portugal follow the general principle of Portuguese civil law, which allows the contracting parties to establish all clauses, covenants and conditions they agree on, provided that they are not contrary to any law and/or public order (i.e. the principle of free will of the parties). The most […]
