DWF has won a mandate to provide Covid-19 legal advice to NHS Digital, the information and technology provider for the national healthcare system. A team from the listed firm will be seconded to the public body as part of a £227,000 contract. The team seconded includes Manchester data protection head and partner JP Buckley and […]
Salary freezes at Slaughter and May are set to continue, as the firm faces the economic fallout of the pandemic. The freeze will now be reviewed next year. In response to Covid-19, the firm had put quarterly partner distributions on hold in April and deferred annual salary reviews. The firm has recently reinstated partner distributions […]
Osborne Clarke is hiring a Bird & Bird partner, just months after Stephenson Harwood said it was hiring IP specialist Tim Harris. In September, Stephenson Harwood released a statement on the hire of Harris, in which IP partner Alexandra Pygall said: “Adding a lawyer of Tim’s calibre, with heavyweight patent litigation experience, strengthens our existing […]
Ahead of a potential lawsuit from the administrators of NMC Health, Ernst & Young (EY) has called on the expertise of RPC, The Lawyer can reveal. The litigation specialist has been handed the mandate by the Big Four accountancy giant, which is looking to shore up its legal defence after Alvarez & Marsal informed creditors […]
DWF has won a mandate to provide Covid-19 legal advice to NHS Digital, the information and technology provider for the national healthcare system. A team from the listed firm will be seconded to the public body as part of a £227,000 contract. The team seconded includes Manchester data protection head and partner JP Buckley and […]
Salary freezes at Slaughter and May are set to continue, as the firm faces the economic fallout of the pandemic. The freeze will now be reviewed next year. In response to Covid-19, the firm had put quarterly partner distributions on hold in April and deferred annual salary reviews. The firm has recently reinstated partner distributions […]
Osborne Clarke is hiring a Bird & Bird partner, just months after Stephenson Harwood said it was hiring IP specialist Tim Harris. In September, Stephenson Harwood released a statement on the hire of Harris, in which IP partner Alexandra Pygall said: “Adding a lawyer of Tim’s calibre, with heavyweight patent litigation experience, strengthens our existing […]
Ahead of a potential lawsuit from the administrators of NMC Health, Ernst & Young (EY) has called on the expertise of RPC, The Lawyer can reveal. The litigation specialist has been handed the mandate by the Big Four accountancy giant, which is looking to shore up its legal defence after Alvarez & Marsal informed creditors […]
Clifford Chance’s Frankfurt office will move into new premises early next year, after one of the firm’s most significant real estate developments was delayed due to the pandemic. The move will be Clifford Chance’s first in almost 40 years in the major German financial hub, and is considered as one of the largest property projects […]
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The general counsel and company secretary of DWF is leaving the listed business to take on a similar position within the Ocado Group. Mollie Stoker joins Ocado as deputy GC after the move of in-house lawyer Jonathan Wiseman to the retail arm of the grocer. She is leaving DWF after becoming GC on its listing […]
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang and Addleshaw Goddard are among the four firms that have been added to Scottish Enterprise’s new £8.7m panel. The public body has appointed Scottish firms Brodies and Burness Paull to the panel, as well as CMS and Addleshaws. Shepherd and Wedderburn, which was on the former panel running from 2016 […]
Taylor Wessing is advising pharma giant Pfizer on aspects around the rollout of its Covid-19 vaccine across Europe, The Lawyer understands. The firm is understood to be counselling the company on patent issues arising from the unprecedentedly large-scale distribution of the vaccine it developed in conjunction with German biotech company BioNTech. It is understood that […]
DWF has made up six new partners, in cities such as Manchester and Bristol, while London has missed out for the second year in a row. While there were no London partner promotions, the office did see director elevations. The promotions mostly concern the firm’s insurance and real estate practices. Of the new partners, professional […]
Isotropic Systems has appointed Indira Hann as its first general counsel. Indira Hann has taken on the chief legal role at Isotropic Systems, which designs and develops satellite antennas for rail, defence and aerospace applications In the role, Hann will manage all legal activities regarding Isotropic Systems’ multi-beam broadband terminals, which are on track for […]
Addleshaw Goddard has recruited a corporate lawyer from Allen & Overy as its new head of corporate governance, as firms look to advise FTSE clients on matters such as ESG and compliance. A&O counsel Jaya Gupta has joined Addleshaws as a partner in London. She joins Addleshaws to lead its corporate governance team and co-chair its […]
