Stephenson Harwood has hired a new head of Islamic finance. Bilal Aquil joins following work at Calyon (formerly Crédit Lyonnais). He will be responsible for Stephenson Harwood’s Islamic finance work across a range of areas including real estate and banking. The firm has also recruited John Roebuck as a consultant in the commercial litigation team, fresh from a part-time role as the group legal counsel for energy company Aim Group. Prior to that he was a partner at Manches. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com 23 February
Word of honour
English is now universally accepted as the language of business, spoken by businesspeople – and lawyers – worldwide. UK and US lawyers can cheerfully travel the world, safe in the knowledge that they won’t be the ones needing a dictionary. But beware. A cautionary tale told to Tulkinghorn last week illustrates that those emails and […]