Jones QC, Jonathan
Jonathan Jones QC is a member of a number of groups at No5 Chambers. These groups are industrial disease, personal injury and professional negligence. This information has been sourced from the No5 Chambers website.
DLA Piper hires four-lawyer IP team from Jones Day in Beijing
DLA Piper has hired IP partner Horace Lam from Jones Day’s Beijing office along with a team of four lawyers. Lam will join DLA Piper’s Beijing office as a partner and the head of intellectual property in China in October. His practice focuses on intellectual property, covering a wide range of issues such as disputes, protection […]
Faster, higher, stronger
Lawyers in Japan could be in for a big boost after the country won the race to host the 2020 Olympics The enthusiasm of the winning delegation to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Buenos Aires on 7 September was drowned out in early Sunday morning Tokyo, where crowds celebrated the announcement they would host […]
Laurence Simons appoints new EMEA Managing Director
International legal recruitment specialist Laurence Simons has appointed Chris Cayley as Managing Director for their EMEA region, working from their London HQ. Chris Cayley will report into both John Rose, Chief Executive of the FiveTen Group and Naveen Tuli, Global Managing Director of Laurence Simons. Chris will focus on the growth of Laurence Simons’ operations […]
How Aviva got tough with its panel
Jones QC, Jonathan
Jonathan Jones QC is a member of a number of groups at No5 Chambers. These groups are industrial disease, personal injury and professional negligence. This information has been sourced from the No5 Chambers website.
DLA Piper hires four-lawyer IP team from Jones Day in Beijing
DLA Piper has hired IP partner Horace Lam from Jones Day’s Beijing office along with a team of four lawyers. Lam will join DLA Piper’s Beijing office as a partner and the head of intellectual property in China in October. His practice focuses on intellectual property, covering a wide range of issues such as disputes, protection […]
Faster, higher, stronger
Lawyers in Japan could be in for a big boost after the country won the race to host the 2020 Olympics The enthusiasm of the winning delegation to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Buenos Aires on 7 September was drowned out in early Sunday morning Tokyo, where crowds celebrated the announcement they would host […]
Laurence Simons appoints new EMEA Managing Director
International legal recruitment specialist Laurence Simons has appointed Chris Cayley as Managing Director for their EMEA region, working from their London HQ. Chris Cayley will report into both John Rose, Chief Executive of the FiveTen Group and Naveen Tuli, Global Managing Director of Laurence Simons. Chris will focus on the growth of Laurence Simons’ operations […]
Court of Appeal casts doubt over the effectiveness of anti-discharge provisions
In CIMC Raffles Offshore (Singapore) Ltd & anr v Schahin Holdings SA [2013] EWCA Civ 644, 7 June 2013 the Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal in a case concerning the extent to which a guarantee still applies if the guaranteed contract has been varied so that it fundamentally differs from the original guaranteed […]
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Kirkland’s former London head James Learner to retire
The former head of Kirkland & Ellis’s London office is due to retire at the end of 2018. James Learner has been at the US firm since 1987, starting out in Chicago, and in London since 2000. Besides being a corporate private equity partner, he also served on Kirkland’s 15-member global management committee. He left […]
A&O, Stephenson Harwood and Cleary Gottlieb lead on takeover of easyHotel
Allen & Overy, Stephenson Harwood and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton are acting on the £139m takeover offer of easyHotel, following a wrangle which has been won by two property funds. Canadian investment fund Ivanhoé Cambridge and Luxembourg-based property fund manager ICAMAP Investments, working under the banner of Citrus UK, have bid for budget hotel […]
US and European firms lead on Bayer’s latest billion-dollar disposal
Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has teamed up with German firm Hengeler Mueller on the sale of Bayer’s animal health business for $7.6bn. The two firms advised the purchaser Elanco Animal Health, which sells products to support farmers and pets alike. The Paul Weiss team was led by partner Tarun Stewart and litigation partner […]
Under pressure Arcadia loses legal chief to media group
Arcadia Group’s Michelle Gammon is to leave the company after 11 years, just months after the retail giant secured a high-profile rescue deal. Gammon will be general counsel for Global’s newly-formed outdoor advertising division, which was created following the acquisition of outdoor media owners Primesight and Outdoor Plus last September and transport advertising business Exterion […]
Dentons dubs Warsaw partner its ‘chief mindfulness officer’
Dentons has appointed a ‘chief mindfulness officer’ for Europe in an attempt to develop its lawyers’ emotional intelligence. Warsaw-based partner Karina Furga-Dabrowska has been handed the role as an acknowledgement of her role in the launch of NextMind, Dentons’ wellbeing programme. Furga-Dabrowska has been with the firm since 2006 and is co-head of its tax advisory […]
Dechert partner accused of threatening aviation entrepreneur in hacking claim
US aviation entrepreneur Farhad Azima has filed a counter-claim against Ras al Khaimah (RAK)’s sovereign investment vehicle RAKIA, alleging that it hacked and published his data on the dark web and that he was threatened by a London-based Dechert partner. The partner in question, Neil Gerrard, has been in the spotlight for his involvement in […]