A QC at No5 Barristers’ Chambers is defending a county cricketer accused of raping a sleeping woman. Michelle Heeley QC is acting for Alex Hepburn, of Portland Street, Worcester, who was born in Perth, Western Australia. Hepburn, 23, denies two counts of rape. He claims the alleged victim was awake and initial kissing led to […]
Following on from a spate of activity in Paris last year, DAC Beachcroft has unveiled new operations in the French capital.
We are pleased to announce that three new counsel Davide Cerutti,Stefano Fornara and Urs Hofer joined our firm as of 1st of January, 2019. Davide Cerutti is mainly active in family law, property law, inheritance law, as well in medical law (civil liability, professional licences and human resources), lease law and debt and enforcement law/bankruptcy. His other areas of expertise […]
Kinstellar has recently advised a syndicate of international banks led by UniCredit Bank and including Tatra banka, ČSOB and HYPO-BANK Burgenland in relation to a EUR 175 million club loan provided to HB Reavis for the construction of Nivy Station (Stanica Nivy)—a unique, multipurpose urban development project adjacent to Bratislava’s historic city centre. The loan represents […]
By Sudhir Bassi, Oishik Bagchi In the United States, settlement of securities issued pursuant to a public issue takes place within 3 days from the issue closure. Over a period, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) had reduced the timeline for listing from 12 working days to 6 working days from the date of issue […]
Recently, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) released a policy note titled Making Markets Work for Affordable Healthcare (Policy Note). The Policy Note asserts that the CCI, over the course of its adjudicatory experience, had observed information asymmetry and supplier-induced demand in the pharmaceutical / healthcare sector resulting in circumscribing consumer choice. The key issues […]
On 8 November 2018, the Competition Commission of India (Commission) passed a common order (Order) to dispose of 10 sets of information (Information) filed against GAIL (India) Limited (Gail) by some of its Regasified Liquified Natural Gas customers (Informants). The Commission found that Gail did not abuse its position of dominance in terms of Section […]
In its recent decision in the matter of M/s Caravel Shipping Services Private Limited v M/s Premier Sea Foods Exim Private Limited (C.A. No.-010800-010801 of 2018 in SLP (C) Nos. 31101-31102 of 2016), the Supreme Court of India (Court) has held that the only prerequisite for an arbitration agreement is that it should be in […]
Rajasthan Cylinders and Containers Limited v Union of India and Another (Civil Appeal No. 3546 of 2014) The Supreme Court allowed the appeals filed by 45 liquified petroleum gas cylinder manufacturers, setting aside CCI orders and order of the former Competition Appellate Tribunal (COMPAT), which had held that the manufacturers indulged in bid rigging in […]
A QC at No5 Barristers’ Chambers is defending a county cricketer accused of raping a sleeping woman. Michelle Heeley QC is acting for Alex Hepburn, of Portland Street, Worcester, who was born in Perth, Western Australia. Hepburn, 23, denies two counts of rape. He claims the alleged victim was awake and initial kissing led to […]
Following on from a spate of activity in Paris last year, DAC Beachcroft has unveiled new operations in the French capital.
We are pleased to announce that three new counsel Davide Cerutti,Stefano Fornara and Urs Hofer joined our firm as of 1st of January, 2019. Davide Cerutti is mainly active in family law, property law, inheritance law, as well in medical law (civil liability, professional licences and human resources), lease law and debt and enforcement law/bankruptcy. His other areas of expertise […]
Kinstellar has recently advised a syndicate of international banks led by UniCredit Bank and including Tatra banka, ČSOB and HYPO-BANK Burgenland in relation to a EUR 175 million club loan provided to HB Reavis for the construction of Nivy Station (Stanica Nivy)—a unique, multipurpose urban development project adjacent to Bratislava’s historic city centre. The loan represents […]
Clifford Chance and Debevoise & Plimpton are acting in a US buyout firm’s big UK food sector play, as it takes a $1bn stake in the British hospitality company behind the Benugo and Searcys eateries. Christopher Sullivan, a City-based M&A partner at Clifford Chance, is advising UK catering operator WSH Investments, supported by senior associates Jonathan Dillon and Oliver Marcuse. […]
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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, […]
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 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 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 & […]
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 […]
