Gateley has called on Clyde & Co to defend it against a claim that the firm gave negligent advice during a property dispute back in 2019. Damages worth £1.7m are being sought against Gateley by Stamford Management, which is the current trustee of the Mashel Family Trust. 4 New Square’s Tim Chelmick will be acting […]
Listed firm DWF has been called upon by the owner of Britain’s iconic Silverstone racing track which has brought a claim against a construction company over resurfacing work that led to the cancellation of the 2018 MotoGP. The claim totals £7.9m plus interest for breaches of an agreement which Silverstone Circuits, the track’s parent company, […]
Ince Gordon Dadds is being sued by a former client over allegations of breach of contract and negligence which resulted in nearly £40,000 in damages for the claimant. North London independent law firm Fahri LLP has filed the claim in the High Court on behalf of its client Guest Supplies International (GSI), which supplies branded […]
Akin Gump has filed a claim on behalf of an energy company over alleged breaches that arose from a sale and purchase agreement. The firm is representing Drax Smart Generation Holdco, a subsidiary of Drax Group, which acquired shares in VPI Power (formerly known as ScottishPower Generation). The argument stems back to an arrangement made […]
Gateley has called on Clyde & Co to defend it against a claim that the firm gave negligent advice during a property dispute back in 2019. Damages worth £1.7m are being sought against Gateley by Stamford Management, which is the current trustee of the Mashel Family Trust. 4 New Square’s Tim Chelmick will be acting […]
Listed firm DWF has been called upon by the owner of Britain’s iconic Silverstone racing track which has brought a claim against a construction company over resurfacing work that led to the cancellation of the 2018 MotoGP. The claim totals £7.9m plus interest for breaches of an agreement which Silverstone Circuits, the track’s parent company, […]
Ince Gordon Dadds is being sued by a former client over allegations of breach of contract and negligence which resulted in nearly £40,000 in damages for the claimant. North London independent law firm Fahri LLP has filed the claim in the High Court on behalf of its client Guest Supplies International (GSI), which supplies branded […]
Akin Gump has filed a claim on behalf of an energy company over alleged breaches that arose from a sale and purchase agreement. The firm is representing Drax Smart Generation Holdco, a subsidiary of Drax Group, which acquired shares in VPI Power (formerly known as ScottishPower Generation). The argument stems back to an arrangement made […]
A case has been brought against Pinsent Masons over advice given in relation to a property investment deal. The claim has been brought by Fortimat, a Luxembourg-based company owned by Andrei Gorbatskiy, which instructed Pinsent Masons for the investment deal in Cambridge. It concerns the development of a property known as Cheddars Lane into student […]
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 […]
Linklaters and Slaughter and May are leading on BHP’s mega-offer for rival mining company Anglo American. It emerged this morning that Australian giant BHP had put forward an unsolicited proposal to Anglo American If the deal went ahead, it would be valued at around £31bn. Linklaters is on call for Anglo American as it discusses […]
The ex-general counsel of Haleon has announced that he has joined energy and chemicals business Aramco, which is based in Saudi Arabia. Bjarne Tellman was hired by GSK four years ago to prepare the company for the creation of Haleon, one of the UK’s largest corporate demergers in 20 years. The purpose of the demerger […]
The wait is finally over. In just under a week, the transformational merger between Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling will go live. But while the deal is done, the job is only just beginning. On this episode of The Lawyer Podcast, editor Catrin Griffiths and litigation editor Christian Smith look at how 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 […]
