Eversheds Sutherland has successfully overturned a High Court decision on behalf of Malaysia’s Minister of Finance (MoF) and 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), duly defeating Clifford Chance in the process. Heard in the Court of Appeal, the case’s fundamentals related to a previous High Court judgment that prevented 1MDB and MoF from lodging a court application that sought […]
LendInvest GC Ruth Pearson talks to The Lawyer ahead of her session at the In-house Financial Services conference.
Nearly a year since it hired Freshfields’ David Higgins to bolster its corporate offering in London, Kirkland & Ellis is to bring in two Linklaters partners to spearhead its move into the Paris market.
Our digest this week is certainly one for the petrolheads, with the first case concerning the most expensive car ever bought, while the other affects Volkswagen-owners all across the country. There’s a whole host of firms acting in both hearings, including Rosenblatt Solicitors, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Leigh Day. Separately, Stephenson Harwood and Macfarlanes are […]
Eversheds Sutherland has successfully overturned a High Court decision on behalf of Malaysia’s Minister of Finance (MoF) and 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), duly defeating Clifford Chance in the process. Heard in the Court of Appeal, the case’s fundamentals related to a previous High Court judgment that prevented 1MDB and MoF from lodging a court application that sought […]
LendInvest GC Ruth Pearson talks to The Lawyer ahead of her session at the In-house Financial Services conference.
Nearly a year since it hired Freshfields’ David Higgins to bolster its corporate offering in London, Kirkland & Ellis is to bring in two Linklaters partners to spearhead its move into the Paris market.
Our digest this week is certainly one for the petrolheads, with the first case concerning the most expensive car ever bought, while the other affects Volkswagen-owners all across the country. There’s a whole host of firms acting in both hearings, including Rosenblatt Solicitors, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Leigh Day. Separately, Stephenson Harwood and Macfarlanes are […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s former head of international tax is in custody in Germany in relation to ongoing investigations into “cum-ex” transactions. According to Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Ulf Johannemann has been in custody since Friday afternoon and has been refused leave to return home “due to the risk of absconding”. He left the firm several weeks ago. […]
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A Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer litigator has exited Fleet Street following the outcome of an internal investigation, just two months after another one of the firm’s former partners was fined by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal over misconduct allegations. Nick Williams has left the firm’s London office; he was promoted in the firm’s disputes group in 2017, […]
The race to become the next leaders of Allen & Overy (A&O) has kicked off, with six candidates throwing their hats in the ring for the senior and managing partner roles. Wim Dejonghe will battle the firm’s current co-head of global banking Philip Bowden for the senior partner spot; Bowden has spent over twenty years […]
Nottingham Law School at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) has launched its new version of the vocational training course for barristers. The Barristers Training Course (BTC) and the LLM Barristers Training Course (LLM BTC) will replace the old Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC). The Bar Standards Board has authorised the change. The 2019/20 fee for the […]
Herbert Smith Freehills has become the latest global firm to appoint a Hong Kong-based leader, after incumbent CEO Mark Rigotti announced he would not be seeking reappointment this year. The firm has announced that Justin D’Agostino will be its next CEO, after the partnership approved his appointment in a vote. He will take over from […]
Sidley Austin has elected 30 new partners, including a lawyer duo in London. Out of the 30 promoted worldwide, Alastair Hopwood in commercial litigation and disputes and Michelle Tong in private equity were the ones given the nod in the City office. Hopwood acts mostly for clients in the banking, financial services, insurance and reinsurance […]
As talk of a potential IPO rumbles on, Mishcon de Reya has confirmed a number of senior management changes amid plans to distribute leadership more widely and provide a formalised structure at the firm. The first change will see current board members Sandra Davis, Nick Doffman and Nick Davis stepping down from their current leadership […]
