A conglomerate of UK corporates and retailers has launched a series of claims worth up to £300m against MasterCard and Visa over alleged losses resulting from overcharges of interchange fees billed by the two financial giants.
Bond Dickinson is poised to enter the Global 100 as it announces its merger with Washington DC-headquartered Womble Carlyle, a year after the firms entered into a strategic alliance.
Systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and Barrister James Pereira QC discuss the meaning of well-being and how to be well.
Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners has reinforced its Public M&A team with the arrival of Counsel Giulia Staderini. Giulia has extensive experience in the legal regulation of listed companies, and in particular in the field of compliance with market transparency duties concerning corporate control.
The Disrupted Childhood Report, co-authored by the 5Rights Foundation, the charity advocating for children’s rights online, and Schillings, outlines the damaging effects of ‘persuasive design’* on childhood…
Snapchat’s map feature has been called “creepy” and “dangerous” by the media since its inception last year. The feature enables users to track their friends’ locations at any time, across the globe. This adds to a myriad of settings on the app which allow users to share their location with others. The very act of […]
By Jennifer Michael Being Driven to Change during a crisis can often be haphazard, fast-paced and incredibly stressful. It usually comes about because an event you haven’t planned for happens suddenly. If this event is a cyber attack, as a priority you will need to put measures in place to stop your private and confidential […]
The case of A v A has provided a timely reminder that undertakings given by parties in financial proceedings on divorce can, in effect, be varied by the court if circumstances justify doing so. In this case Mrs A applied to be released from her undertaking to repay Mr A. In the first instance the court […]
By Jenny Afia “People think that miscarriages of justice are rare and exceptional….but they are routine.” Alarming and, some might say, prophetic words, from Dr Michael Naughton, in 2014. He’s a leading legal academic and founder of the UK innocence project. The project spawned 36 similar organisations throughout the UK, all of them working on […]
A conglomerate of UK corporates and retailers has launched a series of claims worth up to £300m against MasterCard and Visa over alleged losses resulting from overcharges of interchange fees billed by the two financial giants.
Bond Dickinson is poised to enter the Global 100 as it announces its merger with Washington DC-headquartered Womble Carlyle, a year after the firms entered into a strategic alliance.
Systemic coach Zita Tulyahikayo and Barrister James Pereira QC discuss the meaning of well-being and how to be well.
Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners has reinforced its Public M&A team with the arrival of Counsel Giulia Staderini. Giulia has extensive experience in the legal regulation of listed companies, and in particular in the field of compliance with market transparency duties concerning corporate control.
Osborne Clarke has posted a 5 per cent in profits in 2016/17 from €219.6m to €245.1m, amid a like-for-like turnover increase of 12 per cent.
White & Case is making good on its promise to expand in the US, launching its second new office in the country this year. The firm is to open its doors in Chicago hiring Greenberg Traurig private equity partner Gary Silverman and former White & Case white collar associate Carolyn Gurland, who has been working […]
Mayer Brown has retained 80 per cent of its trainees in its September 2018 intake across four different practice areas. Eight out of the 10 applicants were offered a role as newly-qualified lawyers at the firm; all of the eight accepted these positions. These eight new lawyers will be distributed evenly across corporate and securities […]
Nearly a year after advising on Hellman & Friedman’s takeover of Nets, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has strengthened its relationship with the private equity house by acting on a further deal for its payments portfolio company. The deal sees Nordic payments company Nets agree a tie-up with Concardis Payment Group, a rival provider in the German-speaking […]
A week after Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan announced a bumper pay increase for US associates, the firm has decided to reward its City lawyers with a salary rise of up to 19 per cent. The new payscale will see first year post-qualification (PQE) lawyers paid £125,000 per year, increasing to a maximum of £245,000 […]
Trainee numbers remained static last year, according to the Law Society’s Annual Statistical Report. The number of new trainees registered in 2016/17 fell 0.2 per cent, from 5,728 to 5,719. It follows two years of growth in trainee numbers. In 2015/16 the number of trainees in England and Wales rose by 5 per cent, marking the first time since 2007/08 […]
Taylor Wessing‘s UK profit per equity partner (PEP) has skyrocketed by 20 per cent to £579,000 in the last full financial year under managing partner Tim Eyles. The firm posted a 12 per cent boost in UK turnover from £128.9m to £144.6m, while UK profit increased by 16 per cent from £49.1m to £56.8m in […]
