There’s a changing of the guard in the litigation and disputes practice group at Eversheds Sutherland, as its former head gears up to retire by the end of the year. The group encompasses four product groups: commercial dispute resolution (CDR), real estate litigation, construction litigation and financial services disputes and investigations (FSDI). Longstanding chief Paul […]
Pharmaceutical giants close in on CMA for closing oral arguments Pfizer and Flynn Pharma are back in court this week for an appeal of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decision last July regarding the supply of phenytoin sodium capsules in the UK. The CMA found that Flynn Pharma infringed the Chapter II prohibition of […]
In this Friday’s Spotlight feature, we study Hamlins’ media disputes practice group. Earlier this week, the claimant-side team secured public apologies and substantial damages for several high-profile victims of unlawful information gathering by News Group Newspapers (NGN), publisher of The Sun and the now defunct News of the World. The market: Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPPs), legal actions […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK’s litigation market. It’s December, and as the rest of the UK eases into the festive season, the courts are just heating up. In this week’s edition, a trio of whys: why Linklaters thinks the Government can’t shake judicial reviews, why arbitrators […]
There’s a changing of the guard in the litigation and disputes practice group at Eversheds Sutherland, as its former head gears up to retire by the end of the year. The group encompasses four product groups: commercial dispute resolution (CDR), real estate litigation, construction litigation and financial services disputes and investigations (FSDI). Longstanding chief Paul […]
Pharmaceutical giants close in on CMA for closing oral arguments Pfizer and Flynn Pharma are back in court this week for an appeal of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) decision last July regarding the supply of phenytoin sodium capsules in the UK. The CMA found that Flynn Pharma infringed the Chapter II prohibition of […]
In this Friday’s Spotlight feature, we study Hamlins’ media disputes practice group. Earlier this week, the claimant-side team secured public apologies and substantial damages for several high-profile victims of unlawful information gathering by News Group Newspapers (NGN), publisher of The Sun and the now defunct News of the World. The market: Strategic litigation against public participation (SLAPPs), legal actions […]
Welcome to this week’s edition of The Hearing, your insider’s guide to the UK’s litigation market. It’s December, and as the rest of the UK eases into the festive season, the courts are just heating up. In this week’s edition, a trio of whys: why Linklaters thinks the Government can’t shake judicial reviews, why arbitrators […]
History was made today as the first settlement in an opt-out class action was provisionally approved by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), subject to the claimants’ new funding agreement being heard by the Tribunal in the new year. The £150m case, which litigation funder Woodsford backs, is brought by Scott + Scott on behalf 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 […]
European firms see more value in having a physical office in the Square Mile than they do in the Big Apple. Last week, Spanish firm Uría Menéndez became the latest to shut up shop in New York, having been there for 30 years. Uría was the final member of Slaughter and May’s fabled Best Friends […]
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 […]
Goodwin Procter has given its Luxembourg office the early moving-in present of a new partner, hiring European 100 firm AKD’s co-head of investment funds. The US firm is bringing in Virginie Leroy to strengthen its European funds practice. Leroy spent more than four years at AKD, having joined from Canadian firm DSL in March 2020. […]
Litigation boutique Candey has opened an office in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), marking the firm’s crossover into the offshore legal market. The firm is among a handful of firms that practise both BVI law and English law, with several of its lawyers already able to practise there, including partner Lisa Walmisley and BVI legal […]
Womble Bond Dickinson, which defended the Post Office in the high-profile group litigation brought by the sub-postmasters, is in line to receive £178,000 from its former client as it provides evidence to the Horizon inquiry. According to public documents, Womble Bond Dickinson entered into a contract worth £178,000 with the Post Office for the provision […]
Former White & Case partner Ian Bagshaw is launching the London office of Perkins Coie, along with five of his ex-colleagues. Bagshaw will become managing partner of Perkins Coie in London, a firm whose only offices outside the US are in Taipei and Beijing. The plan is to focus on what Perkins Coie is good […]
