The stakes are high for ex-A&O partner Michael Castle, the man tasked with helping Deloitte make a big splash in an increasingly crowded market. Deloitte is late to the party, and arriving fashionably late can generate high expectations and interest.
There are eight firms in the running for this year’s Funds Team of the Year prize at The Lawyer Awards. Here are the deals that merited them a place on the shortlist.
More than three-quarters of firms carried debt during 2017/18 to fund expansion, but overall levels are low, reveals The Lawyer’s UK 200: Operational Health Check report.
Sports boutiques have been springing up in recent years at a rate of knots. As deal values rise in the apparently ceilingless world of TV rights, Linklaters has now decided to enter an arena that in many lawyers’ minds has hitherto been dominated by boutiques such as Centrefield, Northridge Law and Hamlins. Linklaters’ characterisation of […]
Which firms have NEDs on their boards? And who are the most junior UK-qualified partners on leadership teams? The Lawyer’s first boardroom audit displays key trends in gender diversity, seats of power and the role of business services professionals.
The Lawyer’s new technology report underlines how some firms are gaining an advantage by using tech alongside new talent with specialist skills
Shoosmiths and The Lawyer assess the focus of general counsel and what it takes to secure a position at the top table
David Pollitt is transforming DACB thanks to his style of cheery communication coupled with strict financial discipline.
The Lawyer’s recent roundtable focused on understanding and complying with the new regulatory challenges from the FCA
A group of trainees and associates brimming with innovative tech ideas is being given the opportunity to take the reins, collaborate with partners and revolutionise how firms work
A handful of firms have realised that effective alumni networks can help solve longstanding problems of resource allocation – and the likes of Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy are putting structures in place to mine it.
Six firms were shortlisted in the Swiss Firm of the Year category at The Lawyer European Awards. But what made the winner stand out?
Norton Rose Fulbright has coupled a Japanese agile-working framework with automation software to dramatically cut document production time
A&O now has an all-encompassing alumni network, including staff past and present. Why did it feel this was an investment which would reap dividends in the years ahead?
In 2016, Balfour Beatty’s legal department embarked on one of the largest compliance programmes of its kind. How did the team embed the company’s values and processes into such a large workforce?
The #MeToo movement has left no sector unaffected. From entertainment to hospitality, finance to media, allegations of workplace impropriety have swept the globe. Jobs were lost, careers ended and a clear message sent: the culture of impunity for misconduct can continue no longer. Sexual harassment is inappropriate in any field. But it is particularly repugnant […]
In this week of Mental Health Awareness it is encouraging to read how many firms have committed to support the mental health of their staff.
Leadership, according to one London-based firm head, means “putting other people first”. Really? That’s unlikely to be most people’s response to the question of what makes a good law firm leader. For most, it usually means whoever can make us more money, each year, without fail. But there are signs that senior lawyers across the […]
Given how much lawyers bang on about how law is a people business, not investing time in formalising a sophisticated alumni network is a rookie error.
Cambridge EU law professor Catherine Barnard and Oxford EU law professor Stephen Weatherill set out the feasibility of a significant delay in the Brexit process.
Let’s begin at the end. I have seen the future, and it is a long queue at Paris, Gare du Nord. All week at MIPIM, Brexit talk had been banned. Mention of it was social death, like flicking bogies into the salad bowl. But (as Leon Trotsky once said of war), you might not be […]
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.
Today Philip Hammond has announced in his Spring Statement a commitment to funding menstrual products at secondary level and in colleges. It is not enough.
HFW partner Sarah Taylor was promoted to equity last year as a single mother of two, and writing during a work flight from London to Singapore, talks about the guilt of working parents.
While we can be rightly sceptical about the rebadging of the smallest organisational improvements as ‘innovation’, it’s clear that the discourse has shifted dramatically.
As a female junior solicitor it is strange to think that 2019 will mark 100 years since women were first allowed to practice law, by the introduction of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919. Just six years before that, in the famous case of Bebb v The Law Society [1914] 1 Ch 286, the Court […]
The glacial pace of change in relation to women’s progress at the Bar is disappointing, writes Outer Temple Chambers’ new CEO.
By Imogen Halstead Section 4 of the 1975 Act provides that an application for an award under the Act “shall not, except with the permission of the court, be made after the end of the period of six months from the date on which representation with respect to the estate of the deceased is first […]
By William Jean-Baptiste Following the smooth passage of a new Budget bill, Luxembourg has cut the rate of corporate income tax with immediate effect to attract more international investors. The decrease in the corporate income tax (CIT) rate was promised in the Government’s coalition agreement for the period 2018-2023 following the 2018 general elections.
By Gavin Ferguson, Tehya Morgan Guernsey’s fiduciary companies continue to win substantive mandates for new private wealth structures, and a growing stream of new business is coming from the Middle East. Here we consider the key drivers for ultra-high net worth families from the Middle East choosing to structure, and reflect on why these families […]
Turkey’s first comprehensive data protection law was being launched in April 2016. The 2016 Law on the Protection of Personal Data (“Turkish Data Protection Law”) is based largely on EU Data Protection Law. As a candidate state for EU membership, Turkey aligns much of its legal system with EU law. Turkish data protection law consequently […]
This information sheet has been prepared in accordance with the Decision dated 10.05.2019 and published in the Official Gazette No. 30770 . The legal basis of the decision ; Law No. 5346 on the Utilization of Renewable Energy Resources for the Purpose of Generating Electrical Energy published in the Official Gazette dated 18.05.2005 and numbered 25819 ( Law on the Renewable Energy Sources ). Thus, as is known, the amount, […]
For burgeoning tech startups, turning bold ingenuity into a commercially viable business can be a risky proposition. To help you hit the ground running with confidence, we’ve outlined below five crucial legal documents that no startup should be without. Incorporation agreement Shareholders’ agreement Employment agreement Proprietary rights/IP assignment agreement Non-disclosure agreement
By Gareth Baker, Helen Emmerson, Gus Wood, James Bruce Gowling WLG’s Energy team has authored ‘Renewable Power Projects M&A: Due Diligence Issues for Consideration’, its latest practice notes in collaboration with Thomson Reuters Practical Law Energy. The report sets out some of the key energy sector specific issues for consideration by a buyer (and its prospective lenders) in […]
By Kieran Laird In R (on the application of Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal and others, the Supreme Court considered whether judicial review of decisions of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (“IPT”) was successfully excluded – or ousted – by statute and whether such ouster was permissible in any case. Background The IPT was established under the Regulation […]
In a recent decision of the Financial Services Division of the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands, Qunar Cayman Islands Limited (10 May 2019) (“Qunar”), Parker J rejected the central hypothesis of the dissenting shareholders’ expert that there was a systematic undervaluation of Chinese companies on US exchanges which meant that their publicly traded share price was […]
By Christian R.Luthi, Graham B.R. Collis The European Union has removed Bermuda from Annex 1 of its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes (the ‘blacklist’), effective 17 May. The EU’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) met on 17 May and voted to remove Bermuda from its blacklist of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes. […]
In the Matter of the H Trust [2019] SC (Bda) 27 Com (30 April 2019), the Supreme Court of Bermuda delivered an important judgment in which it exercised its inherent supervisory powers over trusts to appoint protectors. In its decision, the Court also reaffirmed the wide breadth of the Court’s jurisdiction under Section 47 of […]
By Karl Anders, Deborah Brown On 1 June 2019 a new Section 21 Notice Form 6A will replace the current version. This is to coincide with the commencement of the Tenant Fees Act 2019. The main changes to the notice are in the section explaining the restrictions on terminating a tenancy under Section 21 of […]
