Uber loses employment case on drivers’ rights
Uber has lost a landmark employment rights case against its drivers.
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Uber has lost a landmark employment rights case against its drivers.
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 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 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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Register nowBy Simon de Broise Payment processors, as the name suggests, facilitate payments by credit and debit cards for both online and point of sale transactions. The payment processor acts as an intermediary between the merchant (e.g. a retailer or airline) and the customer’s bank, facilitating the rapid authorisation (or otherwise) of the payment and initiating (and […]
By Piers Dereham I want to carry out fitting-out works to my business premises but my landlords say I will have to remove them when my lease expires. They are also saying that they need to check my plans before they agree to anything. Is this correct? Yes. Most commercial leases contain clauses requiring you to […]
Data processors resident outside Turkey whose activities affect Turkey may also need to register by 30 September 2019. Even failing to delete expired data can be punished by one to two years’ imprisonment. As a candidate state for EU membership, Turkey aligns much of its legal system with EU law, hence its 2016 Law on the […]
By Bolat Miyatov On 2 July 2018, the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 166-VI “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Insurance and Insurance Activities, Securities Market” was adopted. Among other things, this legislative act has amended the Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated 13 May 2003 No. […]
By Ben Stansfield, Lee P McBride, Andrew Litchfield One of the great beneficiaries of the European Union has been the environment. Since the very beginnings of the EU, Member States have come together and enacted a great variety of environmental laws, leading to cleaner seas, flourishing habitats and healthier citizens. With Brexit only a few weeks away, this […]
Uber has lost a landmark employment rights case against its drivers.
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 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 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 […]
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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Travers Smith has improved its bonus gender pay gap after increasing the amounts awarded to business services staff. For the 2017/18 financial year, Travers upped the rewards handed out to its PAs and business services employees, a move that contributed to the narrowing of its bonus gender pay gap. In the firm’s most recent results, […]
Squire Patton Boggs has closed its Budapest office following a strategic review that echoes the destiny of a number of international firms in the region. The US firm’s five-strong Budapest office, which officially shut in late January, was helmed by managing partner Akos Mester, who previously co-led the office with M&A lawyer Akos Eros as […]
Goodwin Procter’s London office increased its revenue by more than 58 per cent last year on the back of team hires from Dechert and King & Wood Mallesons in 2017. Turnover leapt from $43m in 2017 to nearly $67m in 2018, after a 64 per cent rise in London headcount. The firm’s City presence was boosted by […]
Clifford Chance has retained 46 of its 51 final-seat trainees as newly qualified (NQ) solicitors, a retention rate of 90 per cent. Fifty of the trainees had applied for NQ positions. The result is similar to last spring, when the firm kept on 91 per cent of its qualifiers. Clifford Chance’s result beats Allen & […]
Burges Salmon has been summoned to the rescue of scandal-struck café chain Patisserie Valerie, which has been bought by an Irish private equity company. Corporate restructuring partner Andrew Eaton is acting for Causeway Capital Partners, which has rescued Patisserie Valerie from its administrators KPMG for an undisclosed sum. Prior to joining Burges Salmon in 2016, Eaton […]
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