Hot 100 Career Quiz: Callum Sinclair
This year, we’ve put some career questions to all our Hot 100 and will be running their responses over the coming months. First up, Burness Paull’s Callum Sinclair.
Walker Morris advises fishing tackle retailer on £1.3m share placing
Corporate lawyers at Walker Morris have advised Fishing Republic, the fishing tackle retailer, on a share placing to raise £1.3m. The net proceeds of the placing will be used to further advance and develop the company’s e-commerce operations, logistics and merchandising activities following the recent review of operations. It will also be used to provide […]
Linklaters sets up reverse mentoring scheme for its top lawyers
Linklaters is piloting a reverse mentoring scheme with its 13-strong partnership board as the firm ramps up its efforts in diversity and inclusion.
Roiser, Darren – King & Wood Mallesons
It was King & Wood Mallesons’ (KWM) litigation partner Darren Roiser who came up with idea of a ‘hardship fund’ for those hardest hit by the collapse of the European in January 2017. As a result, people on sick or maternity leave, or in relatively low paid roles, received financial support. Roiser had been promoted […]
Ireland: Trade Secrets Directive aims to protect innovation
Competition: Altice fined €124.5m for ‘gun jumping’
By Marco Hickey A fine of €124.5m has been imposed on Altice by the European Commission for breaching EU merger control rules by implementing its acquisition of PT Portugal before the transaction had been cleared by the Commission…
Rejecting settlement offers led to an adverse costs award
By Sean Barrett and Shane Neville A party to proceedings may make an offer to settle the dispute in “open correspondence” for tactical purposes, which will result in a shift in the costs risk of litigation. In O’Reilly v Neville & Ors, costs were awarded against the Plaintiffs, the O’Reillys, following their rejection of an […]
Trade secrets: Retailers don’t get left on the shelf
By Aideen Burke, Peter Bolger and Jeanne Kelly The EU Trade Secrets Directive (EU 2016/943) (the “Directive”) clarifies and strengthens the current protection available to trade secrets in Ireland. Trade secrets may be of particular relevance to retailers, who can often have commercially valuable information and materials which are not otherwise protectable by traditional forms […]
GDPR in Ireland: Key steps for employers
By Aoife Bradley and Jennifer O’Neill The GDPR substantially increases the obligations and responsibilities on organisations and businesses in relation to how they collect, use and protect personal data. All employers are data controllers and data processors in respect of the personal data of their employees. Employers should take some key preparatory steps to ensure […]
Ireland: Employment law legislative update, 1 February to 19 April 2018
By Aoife Bradley and Roisin Lawler In this edition of our regular update on legislative developments in employment law, we discuss a number of proposals for new legislation, including Private Members’ Bills, on subjects as diverse as the impact of extreme weather on employees to the protection of maternity leave for members of both houses […]
Hot 100 Career Quiz: Callum Sinclair
This year, we’ve put some career questions to all our Hot 100 and will be running their responses over the coming months. First up, Burness Paull’s Callum Sinclair.
Walker Morris advises fishing tackle retailer on £1.3m share placing
Corporate lawyers at Walker Morris have advised Fishing Republic, the fishing tackle retailer, on a share placing to raise £1.3m. The net proceeds of the placing will be used to further advance and develop the company’s e-commerce operations, logistics and merchandising activities following the recent review of operations. It will also be used to provide […]
Linklaters sets up reverse mentoring scheme for its top lawyers
Linklaters is piloting a reverse mentoring scheme with its 13-strong partnership board as the firm ramps up its efforts in diversity and inclusion.
Roiser, Darren – King & Wood Mallesons
It was King & Wood Mallesons’ (KWM) litigation partner Darren Roiser who came up with idea of a ‘hardship fund’ for those hardest hit by the collapse of the European in January 2017. As a result, people on sick or maternity leave, or in relatively low paid roles, received financial support. Roiser had been promoted […]
Norris, Amie – Pinsent Masons
Pinsent Masons corporate senior associate Amie Norris’s 2017 began with a four-month secondment to the firm’s London office. Norris’s work on Lyceum Capital Partners takeover of Timico Technology took up the vast majority of those four months before she headed home to the North West. However, while in the capital Norris developed a range of […]
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UK 200: Slaughters tops revenue per lawyer charts
Slaughter and May has the highest revenue per lawyer (RPL) of the UK’s top 100 largest firms this year. At £900,000, the firm’s RPL is also the third highest in the top 200. Only Bott & Co (ranked 153rd in the UK 200) and Drydensfairfax Solicitors (ranked 196) are higher. For 2018, any firm wishing […]
Former SFO case controller resurfaces to launch US firm’s London white-collar crime team
The former Serious Fraud Office (SFO) case controller for its high-profile battle with the Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) has resurfaced as a partner at a US firm which only launched in London earlier this year. John Gibson has joined Cohen & Gresser’s London office – which opened in May – to launch the firm’s […]
Clyde & Co to support global banks-backed trading blockchain platform
Clyde & Co is set to provide legal services to a new consortium of banks and traders launching a blockchain-based platform to digitalise commodities trading processes. Komgo SA is a new Switzerland-based partnership that brings together powerhouse banks and stakeholders in the oil industry, including ABN AMRO, BNP Paribas, Citi, Crédit Agricole Group, Gunvor, ING, Koch […]
Linklaters starts coding club after asking lawyers for innovation tips
Linklaters is piloting an idea generation platform to develop new solutions to common problems in an effort to boost lawyers’ engagement in innovation. Ideas Pathway, a technology platform created by software company Hype Enterprise, allows the firm’s staff to submit ideas from any device and to collaborate on the review and development of the pitches. […]
Blow for Macfarlanes’ client over oligarch’s $350m freezing order
A Russian billionaire being sued by a former business partner has failed in his attempts to not have the details of a worldwide freezing order (WFO) on assets worth up to $350m disclosed to the claimant in a recent High Court judgment. Fishing magnate Vitaly Orlov, advised by Macfarlanes head of fraud James Popperwell, is […]
Freshfields tops UK M&A rankings for Q3
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has retained the top spot in UK M&A rankings for Q3, having ranked second behind Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) in Q1. According to data from Thomson Reuters, Freshfields announced 55 UK-based deals between July and the end of September, totalling $115.4bn. The firm’s work on Comcast’s Sky bid paid dividends. Davis Polk & Wardwell, […]