The Lawyer Awards 2010
This year’s annual ceremony once again celebrates the industry’s success stories, rewarding excellence, innovation and those that have made the greatest impact
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This year’s annual ceremony once again celebrates the industry’s success stories, rewarding excellence, innovation and those that have made the greatest impact
For law firms on both sides of the Irish Sea, the latest phase of the The National Asset Management Agency process presents the most significant opportunity yet. By Tom Phillips The national Asset Management Agency (NAMA), the government agency designed to stabilise the nation’s banks by taking property loans off the banks’ books, is now […]
Glastonbury has it all: 1,000 acres of Somerset is turned for a week in June into a city within a steel ring. On the inside 180,000 live, love, lounge and long for a connection with this unique event. What is special about this festival is that it works in spite of itself: its many faces, […]
Russian TV company TNT Broadcasting Network has turned to City firm Padva Haslam-Jones for advice on a deal to air Warner Bros material including the latest Harry Potter film. Katerina Haslam-Jones, name partner at the firm, guided her long-standing client on a deal that will allow it to acquire a library of feature films over a two-year […]
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Register nowAs noted in our recent article ‘Private Lives and Public Interest’, the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands (the “Grand Court”) is often asked to give directions as to the protection of confidential information in the context of ongoing litigation. Most frequently, these requests are made in reliance on section 4 of the Confidential Information […]
By Richard Naish, Ben Sheppard The future of businesses in food and drink manufacturing and its supply chain will be affected by consultations launched by Government on 18 February. The consultations, which are aimed primarily at packaging waste, close on 13 May 2019. The consultation on reforming the UK packaging producer responsibility systemconsiders a range of options to […]
By Jo Ratcliffe, Ruth Bamforth, Craig Looker The Government made clear, in its March 2018 Pensions White Paper, it is committed to ensuring the Pensions Regulator (Regulator) has the right powers to be able to protect effectively defined benefit pension schemes. On 11 February 2019 the Government published its response to its June 2018 consultation on strengthening the […]
By Manuel Gouveia Pereira According to the Overview of the OECD’s Economic Survey for Portugal in 2017, structural reforms have led to a successful rebalancing of the Portuguese economy towards exports, which appears to be gaining ground, although the continuation of the rebalancing of the economy will require more investment. As of December 2015 the new […]
By David Asker At this time of year, we see many suppliers contacting us about money they are owed from Christmas parties. For these companies it seems the festive hangover has lasted longer than is reasonable so we have put together a handy guide to how companies and business that are owed money from the Christmas […]
This year’s annual ceremony once again celebrates the industry’s success stories, rewarding excellence, innovation and those that have made the greatest impact
For law firms on both sides of the Irish Sea, the latest phase of the The National Asset Management Agency process presents the most significant opportunity yet. By Tom Phillips The national Asset Management Agency (NAMA), the government agency designed to stabilise the nation’s banks by taking property loans off the banks’ books, is now […]
Glastonbury has it all: 1,000 acres of Somerset is turned for a week in June into a city within a steel ring. On the inside 180,000 live, love, lounge and long for a connection with this unique event. What is special about this festival is that it works in spite of itself: its many faces, […]
Russian TV company TNT Broadcasting Network has turned to City firm Padva Haslam-Jones for advice on a deal to air Warner Bros material including the latest Harry Potter film. Katerina Haslam-Jones, name partner at the firm, guided her long-standing client on a deal that will allow it to acquire a library of feature films over a two-year […]
Eversheds is facing a High Court professional negligence claim from property development company JMH Acquisitions. The company has instructed Blackstones Solicitors’ senior partner Rajendra Mashru to pursue the firm for £200,000, which it claims was lost when Eversheds allegedly failed to adequately advise it on the purchase of an industrial unit in Bolton. According to the claim form, […]
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Find out moreReed Smith’s global revenue has risen for the second consecutive year, exceeding levels recorded in 2015 for the very first time. Despite the 5 per cent uptick, the firm’s revenue continues to be around the $1.1bn mark. Over 2018, Reed Smith’s turnover increased from $1.119bn to $1.175bn. This compares to Reed Smith’s financials four years ago […]
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft’s London office recorded a double-digit decrease in its revenues, after a series of big-billing partners left the firm for Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy at the start of last year. City turnover fell from $50m to $43m, although the firm added that revenues increased overall when discounting the partners who exited. […]
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld’s City figures jumped 28 per cent over 2018 in the firm’s best set of London results since its deal with Bingham McCutchen in 2015. The London office’s turnover increased from $96.2m (£73.8) to $123.5m (£94.7m) over 2018, outpacing global growth by some margin. Akin Gump’s overall revenue nudged up slightly […]
The battle for UK plastics company RPC is heating up after it was revealed that US giant Berry Global, represented by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, may bid against Apollo for the group. Slaughter and May partners Andy Ryde and Paul Mudie have been advising RPC Group throughout the process. Ryde leads Slaughters corporate practice, while Mudie […]
Flexible legal resources provider Axiom has filed for an IPO after several years of deliberation, in a bid to obtain extra investment for further expansion. The provider has submitted a draft registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York, but the filing did not disclose a range for the pricing of shares or […]
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang has expanded the reach of its in-house startup accelerator to about 20 countries, expecting to engage 150 startups worldwide by the end of the year. The programme, dubbed CMS EquIP, provides startups and businesses at various stages of development access to potential investors and discounted legal support from the firm’s fee-earners. […]
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