The litigation team that recently left Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw for US giant Hunton & Williams has scored a key victory in a Kenyan court.
Partners Marie Kidwell and John Miles, who joined Mayer Brown last year, have successfully judicially reviewed a decision by the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) to impose concessionary tariff rates on their clients’ rival cargo-handling facilities.
With assistant Llyr Rowlands, the partners will now be seeking to reverse the new tariff rates, which favour the rivals of their client Grain Bulk Handlers Limited (GBHL). Some $35m (£21.7m) has been invested in GBHL by four companies, which represents one of the largest private investments in sub-Saharan Africa.
… As Nigel Knowles extends term as chief
Nigel Knowles is to continue his reign as managing partner of DLA for another three years after partners confirmed their support of his leadership in an uncontested election last week.Knowles has already enjoyed two terms at the helm of the rapidly expanding firm. He first took on the role in 1996 when the firm was […]
