Clifford Chance and Excalibur partner hit with £100,000 SDT fine
Clifford Chance and partner Alex Panayides have been ordered to pay £50,000 each by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) for their roles in the controversial Excalibur dispute.
Sainsbury’s loses mammoth credit card fee battle against Visa
Blackstone Chambers, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy and Linklaters have successfully defended Visa in its anti-competitive credit card fees battle against Sainsbury’s.
Lawyers On Demand launches first Middle East office
Flexible-working platform Lawyers On Demand (LOD) has opened in Dubai, the firm’s first office in the United Arab Emirates and eighth overall.
Walker Morris appoints Malcolm Simpson as managing partner
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.
New Circular Letter on stock option plans
Introduction of the Luxembourg VAT group regime
By Bruno Gasparotto and Claire Schmitt On 13 April 2018, the Luxembourg Government introduced the bill of law n°7278 before the Parliament. This bill will implement the VAT group into Luxembourg VAT law with effect from 31 July 2018…
Luxembourg: Amendments to the GDPR
On 12 September 2017, the Luxembourg Parliament issued bill of law no. 7184 (the “Bill of Law”) in order to complement Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free movement of […]
Luxembourg: New IP tax box regime adopted
On 22 March 2018, the Luxembourg Parliament (Chambre des députés) adopted the new IP Box Law. The new IP Box Law replaces the previous IP Box regime which was repealed in 2016 with specific grandfathering provisions. In line with the recently adopted “BEPS compliant” IP Box regimes in Europe, the IP Box Law introduces a […]
New double tax treaty between France and Luxembourg
On 20 March 2018, the governments of France and Luxembourg signed a new double tax treaty (“New Treaty”) replacing the current treaty dated 1 April 1958 (“Old Treaty”). The main differences between the Old Treaty and the New Treaty may be summarised as follows…
Luxembourg: Harmonisation of cross-border distribution of investment funds
Reducing barriers for cross-border distribution of investment funds within the EU, thus reducing the costs of going cross-border, while deepening the single marketing procedure for investment funds is the proclaimed purpose of the two legislative proposals published by the EU Commission…
Clifford Chance and Excalibur partner hit with £100,000 SDT fine
Clifford Chance and partner Alex Panayides have been ordered to pay £50,000 each by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) for their roles in the controversial Excalibur dispute.
Sainsbury’s loses mammoth credit card fee battle against Visa
Blackstone Chambers, Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy and Linklaters have successfully defended Visa in its anti-competitive credit card fees battle against Sainsbury’s.
Lawyers On Demand launches first Middle East office
Flexible-working platform Lawyers On Demand (LOD) has opened in Dubai, the firm’s first office in the United Arab Emirates and eighth overall.
Walker Morris appoints Malcolm Simpson as managing partner
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.
Walker Morris names new managing partner as Gilbert retires
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 […]
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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. […]