Despite being a small venture capital company Passion Capital has given itself a mammoth task – it is aiming to find the next Facebook or Google. To do this the company invests heavily in start-up technology businesses in the hope that one will change its market dramatically.
The introduction of E-2 treaty investor visas is expected to make it easier for Israelis to travel to the US, and provide foreign national and corporate entities with a pathway to investment in the US economy.
From spy probes to the Diana inquest, this year’s crop of silks have interesting backgrounds and diverse aspirations
Squire Patton Boggs has hired King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) energy heavyweight Ian Wood as a partner in its energy and natural resources practice group in London.
This week is the first publication of The Lawyer Court Rankings, a mammoth piece of research in which we examined 5,000 cases in English courts over a two-year period. We tracked not only the parties, judges, forum, law firms, barristers and their chambers, but the sectors in which the clients operate. The good news for […]
The Lawyer interviews Sarah Ford, the most junior female barrister to take silk this year.
Monckton Chambers’ Josh Holmes is one of seven new star silks interviewed by The Lawyer this year. Competition and EU expert Josh Holmes was called to the English bar in 1997 after some time working at the European Court of Justice and teaching law at Oxford. “I like competition law because it’s an opportunity to combine […]
Blackstone Chambers’ Ben Jaffey, called to the Bar in 1997, is one of seven new star silks interviewed by The Lawyer this year. “I’ve spent the past few years doing a lot of ‘war on terror’ and Edward Snowden work,” says Blackstone’s Ben Jaffey, showing why he has earned a reputation as one of the […]