Fallout from BHS Group set to hit the courts Commencing on Friday, the joint liquidators of BHS Group are seeking to recover £163m from the retailer’s former directors in one of 2023’s largest insolvency litigation set pieces. Dominic Chappell, Lennart Henningson, Dominic Chandler, and Keith Smith were accused of breaching their duties as directors, ultimately […]
This week on The Lawyer’s Litigation Tracker, we inspect the art law practice at Mishcon de Reya as a team of hybrid lawyers battle litigation, disputes and everything in between. The market: Art law is as cosy a market as it is discreet. While even Caravaggio would have done deals and dealt with disputes in the 16th century, the art […]
Welcome to your last edition of The Hearing for October. A judgment concerning an $11bn arbitral award from Commercial Court Judge Sir Robin Knowles CBE has left many London disputes lawyers reeling this week. That amount of money would leave most people reeling, to be fair, but it’s the implications for the legal profession that […]
Law firms in the hotseat once again A raft of claims have mounted against several law firms in the past week, including suits against solicitors and barristers and those regarding professional negligence against Wiggin, Keystone, Fox Williams, Setfords and JMW. Banner Universal Motion Pictures (BUMP), an independent TV, film and entertainment company, filed a claim […]
Fallout from BHS Group set to hit the courts Commencing on Friday, the joint liquidators of BHS Group are seeking to recover £163m from the retailer’s former directors in one of 2023’s largest insolvency litigation set pieces. Dominic Chappell, Lennart Henningson, Dominic Chandler, and Keith Smith were accused of breaching their duties as directors, ultimately […]
This week on The Lawyer’s Litigation Tracker, we inspect the art law practice at Mishcon de Reya as a team of hybrid lawyers battle litigation, disputes and everything in between. The market: Art law is as cosy a market as it is discreet. While even Caravaggio would have done deals and dealt with disputes in the 16th century, the art […]
Welcome to your last edition of The Hearing for October. A judgment concerning an $11bn arbitral award from Commercial Court Judge Sir Robin Knowles CBE has left many London disputes lawyers reeling this week. That amount of money would leave most people reeling, to be fair, but it’s the implications for the legal profession that […]
Law firms in the hotseat once again A raft of claims have mounted against several law firms in the past week, including suits against solicitors and barristers and those regarding professional negligence against Wiggin, Keystone, Fox Williams, Setfords and JMW. Banner Universal Motion Pictures (BUMP), an independent TV, film and entertainment company, filed a claim […]
Venice interest rate swaps case heads to Court of Appeal The case against the Municipality of Venice brought by two Italian banks regarding interest rate swaps starts on Tuesday 24 October for four days in the Court of Appeal. The High Court action was the latest in a long line of cases in which Italian […]
Journalists aren’t natural champions of PRs, but sometimes we sympathise. Cleaning up the mess of lawyers behaving badly. Calming down those who haven’t been ranked in the latest directory release. Trying to pitch tedious not-quite-scholarly articles to uninterested reporters. Getting asked ‘can we just have a leaflet?’ by people who don’t comprehend the breadth of […]
In-house lawyers are contending with major resourcing issues that is preventing them from doing their job effectively. This is the conclusion of major new research from alternative legal provider, Axiom, which found the in-house market stacked with challenges. In the wake of the Post Office Horizon Public Inquiry, which has put the reputation of the […]
The scene: A US firm boardroom, somewhere not in New York*. Big Cheese (furiously): ‘We’re not growing fast enough. What have you got?’ Smaller Cheese (panicking): Private equity! That’s the thing! Kirkland! Paul Weiss!’ Big Cheese: ‘Do whatever it takes. And do it now.’ Smaller Cheese: ‘Leave it with me. We’ll hire big in London. […]
Some US firms in London tend to get all the headlines, and as you know who they are, we won’t bother namechecking them again. But there are others, a tad more under the radar, that have had a barnstorming year in 2023 and whose time in the limelight is now. Such as Willkie Farr & […]
The latest newly-qualified (NQ) salary rise from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer still managed to raise interest last week, despite the fact enormous pay hikes are the new normal these days and that even £150,000 isn’t unusual any more (as of last week, Quinn’s £180,000 tops the market alongside Gibson Dunn). But it is still significant because […]
Brick Court Chambers is the latest in the legal market to investigate a possible cyber breach. A Brick Court spokesperson said: “We are aware of a potential cyber incident and we are actively working with external cyber specialists to investigate the extent of any data breach. “Chambers remains fully operational and we are taking all […]
RPC is set to defend gaming company Valve in a class action launched by Milberg London in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). The action is brought by class representative and children’s digital rights campaigner Vicki Shotbolt, who set up social enterprise Parent Zone, on behalf of around 14 million UK consumers. She alleges the class […]
Slaughter and May is leading for the owner of Royal Mail, which is poised to accept a takeover bid from Czech-owned EP Group (EP). EP’s bid values International Distribution Services (IDS) at approximately £3.5bn. Slaughters’ corporate team for IDS is led by partners Richard Smith and Claire Jackson. Kirkland & Ellis is leading for EP […]
A capital markets team from Linklaters is taking the lead in the expected London Stock Exchange listing of British single-board computer developer Raspberry Pi. Under the leadership of equities global chair and capital markets partner Jason Manketo, the firm is working with both the Cambridge-headquartered chip maker and its non-profit subsidiary over the process of […]
Bird & Bird has announced it will be opening a new office in Tokyo with the hire of Ashurst partner Hiro Iwamura. The primary purpose of the office will be to support the firm’s Japanese clients in the renewable energy, life sciences and technology space with outbound work across Europe, the Middle East and Asia […]
