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 […]
The many approaches to panel reviews
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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The speed read: Orrick helps associates roam free; Herbies’ lightbulb moment; and European upheaval
This week, The Lawyer has revealed a number of law firm initiatives targeting the junior end of the industry through innovation and new career opportunities.
Travers’ bonus tweaks lead to improved gender pay gap figures
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, […]
Squires pulls the plug on Budapest in latest CEE exit
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’s City figures skyrocket after KWM and Dechert hires
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 posts March 2019 retention
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 & […]
Bristol firm enlisted in surprise buyout of Patisserie Valerie
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 […]