Deutsche Bank is the latest in-house outfit to take on its own trainees, starting with the launch of four training contracts in a few months’ time. The programme will be overseen by the bank’s general counsel for UK and Ireland, Simon Man. Man has worked at Deutsche Bank for over 20 years and is a […]
If the UK wants to get serious on white-collar crime, it needs to spend more
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This week saw a judge rule on a “troubling” police disciplinary process, while a Swansea-based law firm failed to have negligence allegations thrown out. Over at the Court of Appeal, a London-listed oil and gas company was also forced to pay out $1.6m over a drilling project gone wrong in Cameroon. Judge labels police disciplinary […]
When The Lawyer last wrote at length about Weil Gotshal & Manges’ former Poland team, we started with an anecdote. We will do so again. Pawel Rymarz and Marcin Maruta arrived to a dinner hosted by a mutual friend expecting to enjoy a relaxing evening. The managing partners of ruthless corporate/M&A firm Rymarz Zdort and […]
Harry Borovick started life as the son of a textile market trader in Berwick Street. “I’m not from a family of lawyers,” he discloses. “My family were textile market traders for a number of generations, and I worked at my family’s business while at law school. I think that early interest in commerciality and how […]
“Don’t undersell yourself and have the confidence to push yourself towards new roles and unchartered territory – even when you don’t feel 100% sure or ready.”
One of the co-heads of Linklaters’ financial sponsor leveraged finance practice has left the firm for Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Ed Aldred is a Linklaters lifer. He has spent nearly 21 years at the firm and was given the nod to partner in 2013. He joins Nick Rumsby, another former Linklaters partner, who moved […]
Total revenue in Proskauer’s City office rose by 6 per cent in 2022, with its work for the firm’s core asset manager client base taking turnover from last year’s peak of $124.5m to a new record of $132.2m. The rise is in line with a similar 6.1 per cent increase globally, with Proskauer’s firmwide revenue […]
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Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK litigation market. This week we look at how the floodgates may be about to open to mass claims from landowners against water companies, and how the working hours of financial crime and corporate compliance lawyers are in the hands of those […]
Check in with The Lawyer each week as we spot the most important new claims hitting the courts and assess what they say about the litigation landscape. Credit Suisse hit with lawsuit by Mozambique bank Pallas Partners filed two separate claims last week on behalf of Mozambique bank Moza Banco against parties involved in the tuna bonds scandal. […]
Round two for tax silk as professional negligence case heads to Court of Appeal A three-day appeal concerning tax silk Andrew Thornhill KC will begin in the Court of Appeal today. Thornhill has been accused by 100 investors of professional negligence regarding advice he provided in three similar film finance tax schemes between 2002 and […]
This week saw Justice Secretary Dominic Raab’s intervention in probation service procedures ruled unlawful. But in better news for the UK Government, the Foreign Office’s sanction regime against Belarus succeeded in a challenge hoping to overturn it. Herbert Smith Freehills’ client Mercedes Benz was also at the High Court, attempting to determine the scope of […]
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