Clifford Chance leaders take home £16m in bumper year
Clifford Chance’s management pay rose over 2016/17 after a strong set of financial results for the magic circle firm.
Akin Gump promotions: One gets nod in London in 15-strong round
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has promoted one City lawyer to partner, making it the third consecutive year that the firm has included London in its promotions round.
Magda Cocco and Paula Gomes Freire named as women lawyers leading change for Iberia
InspiraLaw, recognises outstanding women in the legal field (in-house and private practice lawyers). Magda Cocco, Telecoms, Media & IT’s practice partner, and Paula Gomes Freire, Banking & Finance practice partner, were named in the top 50 women excelling in their career as voted by more than 500 of their peers in Portugal and Spain. This new initiative […]
Linklaters boosts Washington DC presence with bankruptcy hire
Linklaters has expanded its Washington DC office with the hire of Jones Day bankruptcy partner Amy Edgy.
Edgy joins the magic circle firm after a nearly a decade at Jones Day, having made partner in 2011.
How new houses and flats are sold set to undergo major change in England
Five key employment cases: 2018
By Antonia Blackwell As we enter the festive period and the start of a new year, we take a look back on some of the most notable cases of 2018. Employer’s liability A managing director’s assault on an employee was held to be “in the course of employment” by the Court of Appeal, and therefore […]
Fraudsters are entitled to make use of the law of adverse possession
By Nick Shepherd, Lucy Shepherd The Court of Appeal has held that the law of adverse possession can be used to obtain ownership of a property even if the possession came about due to previous fraudulent activity. Background The case of Rashid v Nasrullah involved two people named Mohammed Rashid, whom the court for convenience termed MR1 […]
Can commonhold be reinvigorated?
By Michael Callaghan and Melissa Barker The Law Commission has issued a substantial consultation seeking to improve the manner in which the commonhold system operates and to persuade existing leaseholders to move to a commonhold structure. Background Commonhold is an alternative to long leasehold ownership of property. Instead of a landlord and a number of tenants, […]
Court of Appeal has held that public policy interests do not justify the release of restrictive covenants
By Bill Howard, Michael Callaghan The Court of Appeal has held that public policy interests do not justify the release of restrictive covenants where a developer deliberately builds houses on land in breach of those covenants. Background Millgate, a property developer, obtained planning permission for, and then built, houses and flats on a development site. Part […]
Supreme Court hands down judgment in S Franses v Cavendish Hotel case
By Kirsty Black, Lucy Shepherd A landlord can defeat a lease renewal on development grounds only where it intends to carry out the works whether or not the tenant is in occupation. The Supreme Court has handed down its eagerly-awaited judgment in S Franses Ltd v The Cavendish Hotel (London) Ltd, the facts of which we covered in our […]
Clifford Chance leaders take home £16m in bumper year
Clifford Chance’s management pay rose over 2016/17 after a strong set of financial results for the magic circle firm.
Akin Gump promotions: One gets nod in London in 15-strong round
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has promoted one City lawyer to partner, making it the third consecutive year that the firm has included London in its promotions round.
Magda Cocco and Paula Gomes Freire named as women lawyers leading change for Iberia
InspiraLaw, recognises outstanding women in the legal field (in-house and private practice lawyers). Magda Cocco, Telecoms, Media & IT’s practice partner, and Paula Gomes Freire, Banking & Finance practice partner, were named in the top 50 women excelling in their career as voted by more than 500 of their peers in Portugal and Spain. This new initiative […]
Linklaters boosts Washington DC presence with bankruptcy hire
Linklaters has expanded its Washington DC office with the hire of Jones Day bankruptcy partner Amy Edgy.
Edgy joins the magic circle firm after a nearly a decade at Jones Day, having made partner in 2011.
SDT scolds Clifford Chance in Excalibur judgment
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has said Clifford Chance “failed to provide a good standard of service” in the controversial Excalibur dispute, after the firm and one of its partners were fined a total of £100,000 last year.
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Clifford Chance lures in venture capitalists and academics for new tech venture
Clifford Chance has launched a new innovation lab in Singapore to explore legal technology solutions with the input of startups, companies and academics. As part of the firm’s innovation and best delivery hub for Asia Pacific, the project called Create +65 aims to develop and test new technology by gathering players at various ends of the […]
US promotions: Jones Day stays focused on US, as Cadwalader prioritises London
Jones Day has made up 46 new partners globally in its latest promotions round, while London accounts for the majority of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft’s new joiners. The majority of Jones Day’s new partners – 34 out of 46 – were made up in the US, with a smattering of partners making the grade in the […]
Fried Frank and Dechert strike decisive blow in Sberbank case
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson and Dechert have fought off an appeal from White & Case upholding an earlier High Court decision in favour of Russian lender Sberbank. The appeal made by the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA) was unanimously dismissed by Lord Justices Lewison, Henderson and Baker, with White & Case now expected […]
Clifford Chance confirms role in Africa deal with anti-corruption pledge
Clifford Chance has pledged to engage other elite law firms in a bid to counter corruption, after the firm came under pressure for acting on a deal involving the son of Equatorial Guinea’s long-serving president. The firm confirmed it played a role in the sale of a private jet to Teodoro Obiang in 2006, with the magic […]
Centrica names new GC as longstanding chief retires
Centrica’s deputy general counsel Justine Campbell has been named as the company’s new legal head following the retirement of its longstanding chief Grant Dawson. Campbell joined Centrica in 2013 as general counsel of its British Gas business, before rising through the ranks to the role of Centrica’s general counsel for UK and Ireland and then […]
DAC wins first UK mandate from healthcare business Cygnet
The firm will effectively act as sole provider for the healthcare business, offering a range of advice on services.