Uber loses employment case on drivers’ rights
Uber has lost a landmark employment rights case against its drivers.
Fischer’s, Marylebone
Nicky Richmond is taken back to her childhood at Fischer’s in Marylebone. I am in a quandary over the Austrian theme. Austria, for all its culture is not a place where I feel entirely at home – birthplace of Hitler, rise of modern anti-Semitism and all that – and it put me in mind of […]
DLA Piper advises Etihad Airways on $560m investment in Alitalia
DLA Piper has advised Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, on its entry into a transaction implementation agreement with Alitalia, which will result in a €1.76m (£1m) investment to build a reinvigorated Alitalia as a competitive, sustainably profitable business. Etihad Airways’ investment of €560m will be provided through a combination of […]
Skadden brokers historic $16.5bn Bank of America deal with US DoJ
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has brokered a record-breaking $16.6bn (£10bn) settlement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) for client Bank of America to resolve allegations of fraudulent mortgage handling. The deal is the largest civil settlement from one single entity in American history and a win for assistant US attorney Leticia Vandehaar […]
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Uber loses employment case on drivers’ rights
Uber has lost a landmark employment rights case against its drivers.
Fischer’s, Marylebone
Nicky Richmond is taken back to her childhood at Fischer’s in Marylebone. I am in a quandary over the Austrian theme. Austria, for all its culture is not a place where I feel entirely at home – birthplace of Hitler, rise of modern anti-Semitism and all that – and it put me in mind of […]
DLA Piper advises Etihad Airways on $560m investment in Alitalia
DLA Piper has advised Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, on its entry into a transaction implementation agreement with Alitalia, which will result in a €1.76m (£1m) investment to build a reinvigorated Alitalia as a competitive, sustainably profitable business. Etihad Airways’ investment of €560m will be provided through a combination of […]
Skadden brokers historic $16.5bn Bank of America deal with US DoJ
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has brokered a record-breaking $16.6bn (£10bn) settlement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) for client Bank of America to resolve allegations of fraudulent mortgage handling. The deal is the largest civil settlement from one single entity in American history and a win for assistant US attorney Leticia Vandehaar […]
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Is the Bernie Ecclestone ruling a formula for injustice?
The $100m settlement between German prosecutors and Formula One paterfamilias Bernie Ecclestone in the Munich District Court prompted an outpouring of cynicism and dismay. Unfortunately much of the reaction fixated on the octogenarian buying his way out of a conviction for bribery and ignored the mechanics of the German law. Ecclestone’s trial was ended under […]
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Freshfields to speed-date junior barristers in bid to narrow gender gap
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has launched an initiative designed to promote diversity in the barristers that the firm recommends to clients and instructs. The firm has rolled out a networking events programme for female barristers and lawyers from Freshfields. The speed-networking style events are designed to ensure that lawyers at the firm develop connections with a […]
FTSE waste group Biffa brings in new GC
Waste management company Biffa has appointed a new general counsel from manufacturer Rotork. Sarah Parsons has joined Biffa in her first general counsel position, having been a senior legal counsel at Rotork since 2015. Biffa will be her third in-house role, with Parsons leaving private practice in 2008 to join the Australian and New Zealand […]
Addleshaws and A&O spearhead sale of BT’s HQ
Allen & Overy and Addleshaw Goddard are acting on the £210m sale of BT’s iconic HQ overlooking St Paul’s Cathedral to Orion Capital Managers. The deal, part of a major cost-cutting drive, includes an initial leaseback agreement of 30 months during which time the former telecom monopoly will move its HQ to a new London […]
DLA Piper ramps up “radical change” strategy to train lawyers for the future
DLA Piper managing partner Simon Levine is embarking on phase 2 of his “radical change” strategy; a wide-ranging initiative to ensure the firm is prepared to broaden its services and face the growing competition of the accountancy firms. The efforts are part of a strategy informally dubbed “radical change” and disclosed to The Lawyer last February. […]
Paul Hastings snares transatlantic Hogan Lovells trio
Paul Hastings has targeted Hogan Lovells’ corporate department for the second time this year, bringing in a team of three that includes London head of private equity Ed Harris. Harris is joining alongside Hogan Lovells counsel Leanne Moezi in London, who will become a partner. Partner Adam Brown is also moving across from Northern Virginia […]
Addleshaws and Weil Gotshal lead on Abraaj funds sale
A raft of firms including Addleshaw Goddard, DLA Piper, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Debevoise & Plimpton have scored roles on Actis’s acquisition of stakes in the Middle East’s former biggest buyout firm, Abraaj. Following Albraaj’s filing for provisional liquidation in the Cayman Islands in June 2018, it underwent a complicated unwinding process after a […]