A raft of heavyweight litigators are in the Court of Appeal this week, as Hogan Lovells battle a High Court decision to unfreeze the assets of two Ukrainian oligarchs. Pinsent Masons, Fieldfisher and Enyo have been handed the mandate for the oligarchs, as the firms defend the former owners of PrivatBank, Gennadiy Bogolyubov and Igor […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Squire Patton Boggs go head-to-head in the Court of Appeal this week in a power cables cartel dispute. The claim is the first follow-on cartel damages claim arising out of the European Commission’s power cables cartel decision in 2015. The High Court ruled in 2018 that between 1999 and 2009 Freshfields […]
This week, Addleshaw Goddard and Walker Morris come up against each other in an envelopes cartel dispute, while JP Morgan Chase defends a claim brought by Nigeria.
Two QCs from No5 Barristers’ Chambers are facing each other in the courtroom in a murder trial over the death of a Shropshire mother. David Mason QC and Earl Pinnock are actingthe prosecution in the trial of Andrew Hooper who is accused of shooting his estranged wife, Cheryl Hooper, 51, twice while she sat in […]
A raft of heavyweight litigators are in the Court of Appeal this week, as Hogan Lovells battle a High Court decision to unfreeze the assets of two Ukrainian oligarchs. Pinsent Masons, Fieldfisher and Enyo have been handed the mandate for the oligarchs, as the firms defend the former owners of PrivatBank, Gennadiy Bogolyubov and Igor […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Squire Patton Boggs go head-to-head in the Court of Appeal this week in a power cables cartel dispute. The claim is the first follow-on cartel damages claim arising out of the European Commission’s power cables cartel decision in 2015. The High Court ruled in 2018 that between 1999 and 2009 Freshfields […]
This week, Addleshaw Goddard and Walker Morris come up against each other in an envelopes cartel dispute, while JP Morgan Chase defends a claim brought by Nigeria.
Two QCs from No5 Barristers’ Chambers are facing each other in the courtroom in a murder trial over the death of a Shropshire mother. David Mason QC and Earl Pinnock are actingthe prosecution in the trial of Andrew Hooper who is accused of shooting his estranged wife, Cheryl Hooper, 51, twice while she sat in […]
A number of high-profile matters that were due to be heard this week have now been settled, but there are still appearances over the next five days from the likes of Slaughter and May and Brick Court Chambers. Slaughters has been handed the mandate by Credit Suisse, as the bank disputes the repayment of the […]
There’s no doubt that firms are using non-UK growth to power their global figures. Of the 35 Top 50 firms for which The Lawyer has historical global revenue data, all but four saw higher growth outside the UK in the five years since 2019. Included in this group is Herbert Smith Freehillls (HSF), where London remains […]
Which law firms are private equity houses looking to invest in? The answer, if the conversations we’re having with managing partners are anything to go by, is ‘pretty much all of them’. Most regional firms of note have had speculative approaches at some time in the last five years or so, as private equity gradually […]
Barclays’ legal team was once among the most influential in the UK. That power has diminished over the last decade, yet the banking giant still packs a punch when it comes to talent management. Some 40 lawyers are understood to have left Barclays in the UK last year. There are cost-cutting measures at play here, […]
Keystone Law, the poster child for the platform firm, is likely to break the psychologically important £100m revenue barrier in 2025. The success of this firm has spawned a new market, which is challenging traditional firms on the talent front. More than 3,500 lawyers now work across a variety of fee-sharing outfits, research from Atlas […]
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Gowling WLG and Norton Rose Fulbright’s London offices will all be under water in a few decades. This trio shares idyllic views overlooking the Thames, but they will all be submerged in the river by the year 2100 as climate change-induced sea level rises occur. And this is based on the […]
A duo from Travers Smith is leaving for Goodwin Procter, as exits from the UK firm’s corporate team continue. Partners Ian Keefe and George Weavil are joining Goodwin’s private equity team. Their arrivals follow the exit of a team from Goodwin to Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, led by partner Christian Iwasko. Both Weavil […]
The Supreme Court has upheld an anti-suit injunction against a Gazprom subsidiary, potentially halting €440m proceedings in Russia. The Gazprom part-owned special purpose entity, RusChemAlliance (RCA), had brought a damages claim against the bank UniCredit in Russia concerning an aborted contract following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. UniCredit instructed Latham & Watkins in its pursuit of […]
CMS senior partner Penelope Warne has revealed her next steps ahead of her departure from the firm at the end of the month. After 10 years at the helm, Warne is spearheading a project that she founded at the World Bank, via her own company, which promotes the rule of law and access to justice, […]
Slaughter and May is to add another senior lawyer to its pensions team in the City, this time from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Charles Magoffin, a partner at Freshfields since 2010, is joining Slaughters as a senior counsel from September. Slaughters has still only ever made one lateral hire in the City, also into its pensions […]
Litigation funders will be keeping a close eye on an upcoming review into third-party funding regulation, proposed caps on returns, as well as litigation costs. The Civil Justice Council is looking to produce a full report by the summer of 2025. The review follows an increased focus on litigation funders and their role in disputes, […]
