After a short recess last week, the courts are back in full flow with some high-profile cases due to be heard this week, including two cases which featured in The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2019. After a landmark decision in the Merricks/Interchange case, another major piece of litigation comes to the English courts this […]
With the High Court taking an early summer recess this week, The Lawyer looks back at the high-profile decisions that were handed down last week. Eversheds Sutherland and Clifford Chance will continue arbitration in a case between 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) after a High Court judge granted […]
Topping the bill this week is a disciplinary hearing as big four accountancy firm KPMG and the Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) find themselves in front of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). The pair are set to be grilled over the standards of KPMG’s audit when the accountant was drafted in to look at […]
A pensions dispute involving Hogan Lovells leads in the Court of Appeal this week, as ITV brings a challenge against The Pensions Regulator (TPR). The challenge dates to last summer when a judge ruled that TPR was right to use its powers to seek financial support from ITV for members of the Box Clever pension […]
After a short recess last week, the courts are back in full flow with some high-profile cases due to be heard this week, including two cases which featured in The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases of 2019. After a landmark decision in the Merricks/Interchange case, another major piece of litigation comes to the English courts this […]
With the High Court taking an early summer recess this week, The Lawyer looks back at the high-profile decisions that were handed down last week. Eversheds Sutherland and Clifford Chance will continue arbitration in a case between 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) after a High Court judge granted […]
Topping the bill this week is a disciplinary hearing as big four accountancy firm KPMG and the Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) find themselves in front of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). The pair are set to be grilled over the standards of KPMG’s audit when the accountant was drafted in to look at […]
A pensions dispute involving Hogan Lovells leads in the Court of Appeal this week, as ITV brings a challenge against The Pensions Regulator (TPR). The challenge dates to last summer when a judge ruled that TPR was right to use its powers to seek financial support from ITV for members of the Box Clever pension […]
Boris Johnson may be the hot favourite to replace Theresa May as Conservative leader – and Prime Minister – in the party’s leadership race, but he has so far failed to attract the initial support of Parliament’s lawyers. Initial indications suggest that Johnson has 42 supporters among the Tory MPs who will whittle down the […]
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 […]
Talent churn is accelerating among the junior ranks with today’s associates more mobile than the generations before them. The concept of long-term professional loyalty is fading as Gen Z rises. These lawyers ask not what they can do for you, but what your firm can do for them. This generational shift in working attitudes is […]
Hooray, big-ticket M&A is having a mini-revival and so are the firms that make so much of their money out of it. Already in 2024, major European M&A deals to have been announced include International Paper’s £5.8bn planned acquisition of London-listed packaging company DS Smith, which trumped another offer from rival Mondi. Other significant matters […]
On Tuesday last week (9 April), the SRA sought to quell a rising tide of discontent around the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE). In its most recent SQE annual report, SRA chief executive Paul Philip said the public and profession could have “confidence” in this “rigorous assessment”. That confidence was short-lived. Yesterday (15 April), Philip was […]
For one firm, the pan-Nordic dream is dead. For another, it’s just begun. Hannes Snellman’s announcement that its Stockholm and Helsinki offices will be going their separate ways later this year represented the end of a strategic gamble that started 16 years ago. Back then, its leadership bet that opening in Stockholm (2008) and Copenhagen […]
Competition boutique Geradin Partners opens its doors in Paris today as the firm seeks to become a serious player in the French capital’s vibrant competition and litigation scenes. Opening on the same block as Freshfields in the heart of Paris’ 8e Arrondissement, Geradin has brought in competition litigator Marc Barennes from Bureau Brandeis with his […]
Car lease schemes for partners are rapidly dwindling in the wake of the electric vehicle (EV) salary sacrifice revolution, but Hill Dickinson is not one of them. Once a more common method for partners to enjoy part of their profit share, traditional car lease schemes have lost their lustre. The tax incentives that once made […]
The residents of the Barbican Centre’s Cromwell Tower organised a demonstration outside magic circle firm Linklaters on Tuesday to protest against its diesel generator, which was installed in late March.
BT has further shrunk its panel for the third review in a row having appointed a total of 11 firms to its roster. The panel will run for three years and includes 10 firms that have been reappointed from 2020. Those continuing their relationship with BT after the latest review are the likes of Allen […]
Dentons has promoted 12 lawyers to partner in the UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME) this year, including nine partners in London. Of the remaining three promotions, two were made in Glasgow and one was made in Abu Dhabi. Most of the promotions have been made in the projects team, with Claudia Thomas and Graham […]
