McDermott Will & Emery has hired a finance partner from Reed Smith, the latest in a string of senior laterals to join over the past few months. The US firm has taken on longtime Reed Smith London partner Ranajoy Basu. The finance lawyer has spent over seven years in the City outfit of the US […]
The entire process of becoming a lawyer is time sensitive. Students progress through university and law school, taking exams in their due turn. Law firms hunt for new talent and offer jobs two years in advance. Trainees wheel through the rotation of seats and eventually apply for newly-qualified jobs. As the seasons turn so does […]
DWF has braced its investors on the impact of the coronavirus on its business, highlighting that will seek additional contingency facilities from its lenders. The firm said this was needed to ensure it has “increased headroom for working capital purposes and a relaxation of certain covenants for a period of time.” It already has an […]
In these days of social isolation it can be tough not seeing your friends and colleagues, especially if you are at home alone. But the great thing about the legal profession is that it has an incredibly strong sense of community. To this end, every afternoon at 3pm The Lawyer will be sharing content from […]
Keystone Law, the listed flexible working legal services business, today confirmed that it would not be paying shareholders a dividend when it announces its full-year results for the period ended 31 January 2020, blaming the “uncertain” and “unprecedented” times resulting from the Covid-19 crisis. The company stressed that despite the deferment of the dividend, which […]
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As 114 new silks celebrated their success in the 2020 Queen’s Counsel appointments, they were also marking the end of an arduous selection procedure – all for the honour, pride and privilege of securing those two prestigious letters that can reshape a legal career. Finally gaining the QC kitemark gives some barristers a sense of […]
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By Louis A. Frapporti Jordan Furlong is a legal industry analyst and consultant based in Ottawa, and a partner with the global consulting firm Edge International Louis: Jordan Furlong is here with me today to discuss, not the future of law, but the right now of law. Welcome Jordan. Now that’s a nuance that you’ve […]
By Hashi Mohamed Appeal Decision: Land at Clavering Walk, Cooden, Bexhill-on-Sea It is often the case that we post our successes on here, but rarely get a chance to reflect on failure or near misses. This is an appeal which I believed was in the balance to begin with, and came down on the right […]
Section 112(2) was introduced into the Companies Law of the Cayman Islands in 2009. In Pearson (in his capacity as Additional Liquidator of Herald Fund SPC) v Primeo Fund [2020] UKPC 3, the JCPC considered, for the first time, an important point of statutory construction surrounding the meaning and effect of this provision. Section 112(2) […]
By David Lawson At 6.50 am on 10 February 2020 Matt Hancock signed off the Health Protection (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020, SI 2020/129. The press reported that the urgent need for the regulations was that some people subject to quarantine by agreement had said they could see little point in the process and intended to leave. I […]
FORMATION AND STRUCTURING 1 Type of vehicle 1.1 The first step in establishing a Cayman Islands fund is to determine what type of vehicle(s) to use. The choices are (i) an exempted company, (ii) an exempted limited partnership, (iii) a unit trust, or (iv) a limited liability company (LLC). 1.2 There are few Cayman factors […]
