Historic England hands panel spots to 10 firms as roster triples
City and regional firms have won roles on Historic England’s enlarged 10-firm roster of legal advisers.
Clifford Chance gains £15m in savings thanks to tech push
Clifford Chance is ramping up its focus on the use of technology to deliver services, notably via its continuous improvement programme, with investment in a wider range of business services roles and related products. Speaking to The Lawyer for this year’s UK 200: Business Services report, Clifford Chance’s global head of innovation and business change […]
Tiago Bessa speaks on eSports and legal challenges
Tiago Bessa, managing associate of the TMT practice, has been a speaker in the Lisbon Games Week (LGW) on 20 November, on “The phenomenon of eSports and legal challenges”.
Stefan Riegler to head up arbitration practice in Vienna
Stefan Riegler is to lead Wolf Theiss’s arbitration group in Vienna and further expand its multijurisdictional arbitral practice. Riegler specialises in representing companies involved in commercial legal disputes before arbitral tribunals and can look back at more than a decade of experience in this area.
The importance of compliance when appointing directors
ECJ clarifies ambiguity around EU Design Protection Exemption
By David Cullen The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has clarified the ambiguity which has surrounded the interpretation of Article 8 of the Community Design Regulation (EC) no 6/2002 (CDR); the provision which excludes from design protection those design features which are dictated solely by technical function. The ECJ’s decision in Doceram v CeramTec (C-395/16), a […]
GDPR- A door to privacy class actions suits in Ireland
By Kellie O’Flynn With the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) now in effect, one of the emerging considerations is whether its provisions – specifically Article 80 – open the door to ‘class action’ style privacy cases. Several European countries have already legislated for varying degrees of collective actions, particularly in the area of consumer protection, […]
New Data Protection Act 2018 allows access to court records to media
By Owen O’Sullivan, Richard Breen, Lisa Carty One of the many implications of the new Data Protection Act 2018 is that pursuant to section 159 of the Act the rules of the courts (at all levels) have been changed to allow access to court records for bona fide members of the press or broadcast media. Although the media […]
Ireland: new Coroners Bill aims to modernise the law and address maternal deaths
The Minister for Justice and Equality, Charlie Flanagan, published the Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2018 on 2 August 2018 with the aim of significantly clarifying, strengthening and modernising the law relating to the reporting of deaths to coroners. The Bill, once enacted, will amend the Coroners Act 1962. The Bill allows for a wider scope of […]
Use of behavioural biometrics brings privacy issues under GDPR
By Alex Towers With cybertheft and data breaches becoming an increasingly common occurrence, the need to rapidly and accurately identify fraud has driven the development of behavioural biometrics as a means to target automated attacks and suspicious transactions. However, for the technology to function, companies must amass libraries of biometric personal data to construct profiles…
Historic England hands panel spots to 10 firms as roster triples
City and regional firms have won roles on Historic England’s enlarged 10-firm roster of legal advisers.
Clifford Chance gains £15m in savings thanks to tech push
Clifford Chance is ramping up its focus on the use of technology to deliver services, notably via its continuous improvement programme, with investment in a wider range of business services roles and related products. Speaking to The Lawyer for this year’s UK 200: Business Services report, Clifford Chance’s global head of innovation and business change […]
Tiago Bessa speaks on eSports and legal challenges
Tiago Bessa, managing associate of the TMT practice, has been a speaker in the Lisbon Games Week (LGW) on 20 November, on “The phenomenon of eSports and legal challenges”.
Stefan Riegler to head up arbitration practice in Vienna
Stefan Riegler is to lead Wolf Theiss’s arbitration group in Vienna and further expand its multijurisdictional arbitral practice. Riegler specialises in representing companies involved in commercial legal disputes before arbitral tribunals and can look back at more than a decade of experience in this area.
Clifford Chance boosts Germany with White & Case M&A hire
Clifford Chance has hired White & Case corporate M&A partner Markus Stephanblome into the firm’s German practice and will join the firm next month.
Stephanblome will join the partnership in the firm’s Frankfurt office after a transitional three years for Clifford Chance’s German corporate practice.
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Monzo wraps up panel review as three firms win places
Digital bank Monzo has finished reviewing its roster of legal advisers, appointing three firms to its panel. The firms which made it onto the roster include longtime advisers Hogan Lovells, Taylor Wessing and Simmons & Simmons. While Hogan Lovells partner Jonathan Chertkow mainly advises the challenger bank on regulatory and compliance issues, Taylor Wessing partner Adrian […]
Linklaters and Charles Russell Speechlys pair up on Stonegate pub buyout
Linklaters and Charles Russell Speechlys have acted together on another of British pub Stonegate’s acquisitions, following on from its takeover of cocktail bar chain Be At One in the summer. Stonegate has snapped up Bar Fever Limited, which operates 32 late night bars in UK towns and cities, under brands such as as Fever, Boutique, Zinc and Moo Moo. Linklaters advised […]
Listed law firm brought in for KPMG on Patisserie Valerie collapse
KPMG has appointed a UK law firm to advise it on the administration of Patisserie Valerie, months after the café chain became embroiled in a scandal over accounting irregularities. Gateley, led by Birmingham restructuring partner Daniel French and Manchester partner Stuart Tait, is working with the Big Four accountant on the process. Patisserie Holdings confirmed yesterday that it has […]
Ten career-break lawyers welcomed back to the City as part of first Reignite Academy cohort
The Reignite Academy, a programme aimed at bringing former City lawyers who have been out of the workplace back into the fold, has finalised its first intake, with 10 women signing on to work across four different firms. The women have a diverse range of experiences and range from those who have taken a complete […]
Slaughters and HSF dropped from eight-firm FSCS panel
Slaughter and May and Herbert Smith Freehills have been replaced by Clifford Chance and Addleshaw Goddard on The Financial Services Compensation Scheme’s (FSCS) revamped £12.6m panel. The FSCS, the UK’s statutory compensation scheme for customers of authorised financial services firms, has appointed eight firms for a four-year term on its latest legal panel, which is divided into three […]
Simmons shifts to larger Bristol premises after headcount gains
Simmons & Simmons is recruiting for new roles to bring its Bristol base to a headcount of over 200, following its move into a new, larger office. This week, the firm moved into a new office in Finzels Reach from its former base in Temple Quay, increasing its office space from 16,000 to 27,000 sq ft. […]