In-house interview: Antoinette Keane, legal director, Genzyme
Working in healthcare brings with it a host of regulatory, IP and data issues. Genzyme’s legal director has tackled plenty of them with only a three-strong legal team
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Networks report: Global Network of the Year shortlist
Networks shortlisted for The Lawyer European Awards are adding value for clients and members in new ways, and many see themselves as viable alternatives to the global law firms
Hot 100 alumni: Chantal-Aimee Doerries QC, Atkin Chambers
Atkin Chambers’ Chantal-Aimée Doerries QC was named in the Hot 100 in 2008, the same year she held the impressive accolade of being the youngest woman to be made up to silk in that round. Since then her energy, infrastructure and shipping practice has gone from strength to strength as she has taken on weightier […]
Moves: 8 February 2016
DLA Piper has hired Latham & Watkins debt finance partner Andy Kolacki. Kolacki joined Latham as an associate from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 2005 and was promoted to partner four years later. He acts for lenders, private equity sponsors and borrowers in mainly cross-border transactions with a European and US focus.
Give environment its own court
The disparate way in which environmental disputes are handled warrants a specialist international forum
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BT: the most innovative in-house team in the FTSE 100
Revamped panels, radical collaborations and new model law, not to mention the UK’s biggest telecoms M&A deal ever. It’s all going on at BT
Big Pharma: Covington and Cooley dominate hot deals market
Worldwide deals worth $220bn in just18 months show what Big Pharma will pay to gain an R&D edge, and it’s primarily US law firms injecting the advisory boost
Star legal writers: regulatory and competition
The most downloaded regulatory and competition briefings discuss pub planning permissions and cartels in fashion
The Hot 100 2016 party
This year’s hottest legal high-flyers celebrated together at London’s Royal Exchange
BT’s legal team made the right call
Welcome to the BT issue. Well, ok, this week’s mag is not entirely devoted to the UK’s biggest telecoms giant, but it’s not far off. And to be fair, when it comes to BT, there’s quite a lot going on.