Walker Morris has announced that Malcolm Simpson will be the firm’s new managing partner with effect from 1 May 2018. Malcolm will take over at the end of April next year when Ian Gilbert retires, bringing an end to his 8-year tenure as Managing Partner.
Norton Rose Fulbright has hired partner Pamela Reddy to join its corporate and white collar crime team. Reddy joins from West End firm Simons Muirhead & Burton, where she worked for over two and a half years handling complex fraud, corruption and money laundering cases.
Leeds-based Walker Morris has appointed disputes partner Malcolm Simpson as its new managing partner. Simpson will succeed incumbent managing partner Ian Gilbert at the end of April, when Gilbert retires from the firm after an eight-year tenure as managing partner. Simpson, based in Leeds, has been with the firm for over 17 years since he […]
Morrisons has been found liable for the the leak of hundreds of thousands of employees’ data and will have to issue a payout to some of its former staff, the High Court has ruled.
Private equity giant TPG is inviting firms to pitch for spots as one of its key M&A advisers, The Lawyer has learnt. San Francisco-headquartered TPG has a number of different private equity platforms including TPG Capital, TPG Growth and TPG Biotech. The Lawyer understands the roster being reviewed is its core M&A roster for its international […]
DAF Trucks has lost on four of its five grounds of appeal against BT and Royal Mail in the UK’s lead trucks cartel damages case, with DAF ordered to make an initial payment of 70 per cent of the claimant’s costs. The decision comes after the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) awarded Royal Mail £34.7m plus […]
The High Court has dismissed ClientEarth’s derivative claim against Shell’s board. The environmental law organisation, represented by Pallas Partners’ Will Hooker acting pro bono, brought the claim against the oil giant’s directors earlier this year after buying 27 shares in the company. Derivative claims can be brought under the Companies Act by a shareholder on […]
The annual law firm survey is now live! In collaboration with Evelyn Partners, The Lawyer is calling for responses to its annual law firm survey. Now in its 29th year, the report aims to determine the biggest factors affecting the legal profession over the coming 12 months. The survey covers a broad range of topics […]
Macfarlanes is the latest City firm to reveal it is increasing its newly-qualified solicitor salaries. The firm has upped its pay for NQs to a base salary of £115,000, plus individual and firmwide bonuses. Previously Macfarlanes paid out £107,500 to its most junior lawyers, with the latest increase representing a rise of 7 per cent. […]
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Boffins need buildings. Covid-19 has resulted in a life sciences boom and money is flowing into the sector, but laboratories are a very specific type of real estate and Britain doesn’t currently have enough. Office buildings such as 17 Columbus Court in Canary Wharf are being converted into lab space, and demand is not concentrated […]
London’s status as an international disputes centre was once unassailable, but competition from hubs in the Gulf and East Asia has intensified, meaning the loss of British litigation primacy is no longer unthinkable. Now, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) may cause a serious self-inflicted wound by poaching talent from the Bar to shore up the […]
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Thanks to the widespread adoption of the LLP, the vast majority of UK law firms publish their accounts. Yet it wasn’t always like this. In the early 2000s our fearless forebears at The Lawyer would have to ferret out information and put researched estimates to firms in order to create a benchmarking project that eventually morphed […]
You might think that those with the heaviest pay packets cough up the most income tax. And in an ordinary year, you’d be right. But this isn’t an ordinary year. The wholesale reform of how partners are taxed means the majority of UK partners will pay more to the taxman regardless of whether profits are […]
Mel Rowlands is moving on after nine years at Smiths Group, beginning there as its deputy group general counsel before moving up to group general counsel. Her previous general counsel experience involved a two-year stint as the general counsel of British Gas, building on her energy sector experience. Prior to that, she spent three years […]
Residential property giant Annington Homes has had its case against the UK Government, represented by Slaughter and May and Forsters, thrown out by the High Court. In a judgment published today following a five day hearing in February, Mr Justice Holgate ruled in favour of the Secretary of State for Defence dismissing Annington’s private real […]
The High Court has dismissed a claim from Watchstone Group against PwC and Slater & Gordon as it failed to establish that an ex-PwC partner passed confidential information to an ex-banking partner. Formally known as Quindell before rebranding to Watchstone, the company was once one of the biggest companies on the alternative investment market. Australian […]
RPC has been ordered to pay £192,500 to a former client after Mr Justice Fancourt found the firm to have breached its duties in a judgment handed down today (15 May), following an eight-day trial in the Leeds Circuit Commercial Court last March. The judgment comes over a decade after inventor Deborah Forster instructed RPC […]
Fuse, Allen & Overy’s tech incubator, has picked a series of start-ups for its latest intake. This intake makes up Fuse’s seventh cohort, and boasts two streams: one focused on legal tech, and the second on digital assets including NFTs, payment and security tokens and derivatives. In total, 226 companies applied in the hopes of […]
What can banking lawyers do to change the world? As you twiddle your thumbs on that one, let us explore last week’s debt-for-nature swap that aims to protect marine life around the Galapagos Islands. Bakers, Clifford Chance and Dentons line up on Galápagos deal Describing it as “one of the best deals I’ve ever done”, […]
