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The JLD blog: What is social mobility and what more can junior lawyers do to help?
An associate from CMS looks at social mobility in the legal profession.
Fieldfisher duo vie for top job in senior partner elections
Fieldfisher has started the process to find a successor to senior partner Matthew Lohn, The Lawyer has learned, with two partners throwing their hats in the ring. Corporate partner David Wilkinson and real estate partner Anthony Phillips are understood to be the first to have launched their bids. Both partners are longtime Fieldfisher lawyers. Wilkinson was […]
Cellestia Biotech AG: CHF 20 million Series A financing round
Walder Wyss advises FC Capital Fund I, L.P., Shanghai, as investor in connection with Cellestia’s recent financing round. Cellestia was founded in 2014 as a spin-off from EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Its pipeline including lead candidate, oral small molecule CB-103 is based on proprietary know-how and more than two decades of research at […]
Expanding New Law provider Elevate takes Halebury under its wing
Flexible lawyering group Halebury has been acquired by Elevate as the latter sets out plans to build an alternative legal services company that can provide a “one-stop” solution for clients. The combination allows Elevate to provide private equity and in-house teams with legal consultants available for specific projects, and technology and managed services. John Croft, […]
Ontario employers: Time to update your ESA poster
Immigration implications of corporate acquisitions, restructurings and changes
By Bill MacGregor Companies and human resource managers need to be aware of the potential immigration implications that corporate changes, acquisitions or restructurings may have on temporary foreign workers (TFWs) that they employ in Canada. The immigration and work permit implications must be assessed before changes occur. Corporate immigration expertise is needed to avoid pitfalls and […]
Results of summary dismissal in Pwc claim against perpetual over Sequoia transaction
By Lorne Rollheiser, Jay Lalach, Adriana Da Silva Bellini On August 15, 2019 Justice D. Blair Nixon gave oral reasons in response to an application for summary dismissal of the claim by PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. (“PwC”), the bankruptcy trustee for Sequoia Resources Corp. (“Sequoia”), against Perpetual Energy Inc. and its CEO, Susan Riddell Rose. You can find our prior […]
Taking stock of the insurance market challenges which evs present
By Samantha Holland The growing popularity of electric vehicles, as well as the ongoing challenges around building the charging infrastructure necessary to make their widespread rollout possible, is challenging a range of sectors and services to show the model is a suitable fit for the future – and the insurance industry is no exception. James Roberts, […]
Public law case update – August 2019
By John P Cooper, Ravi Randhawa, Kieran Laird Written by Gowling WLG’s team of public law and regulation experts, our case update offers a straightforward and concise overview of six recent important cases in public law and regulation and the key points which can be taken from them. In this edition, our experts examine the following cases: 1. […]
The Basics: How to enforce a domestic judgment in England & Wales
By Tom Price, Daniel Wood, Christopher Richards Whilst receiving a judgment in your favour may feel like the culmination of a potentially lengthy legal process, it may be just the first step (though an important one) on the path to financial recovery. In our latest insight, we look at how and when you can enforce […]
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The JLD blog: What is social mobility and what more can junior lawyers do to help?
An associate from CMS looks at social mobility in the legal profession.
Fieldfisher duo vie for top job in senior partner elections
Fieldfisher has started the process to find a successor to senior partner Matthew Lohn, The Lawyer has learned, with two partners throwing their hats in the ring. Corporate partner David Wilkinson and real estate partner Anthony Phillips are understood to be the first to have launched their bids. Both partners are longtime Fieldfisher lawyers. Wilkinson was […]
Cellestia Biotech AG: CHF 20 million Series A financing round
Walder Wyss advises FC Capital Fund I, L.P., Shanghai, as investor in connection with Cellestia’s recent financing round. Cellestia was founded in 2014 as a spin-off from EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). Its pipeline including lead candidate, oral small molecule CB-103 is based on proprietary know-how and more than two decades of research at […]
Expanding New Law provider Elevate takes Halebury under its wing
Flexible lawyering group Halebury has been acquired by Elevate as the latter sets out plans to build an alternative legal services company that can provide a “one-stop” solution for clients. The combination allows Elevate to provide private equity and in-house teams with legal consultants available for specific projects, and technology and managed services. John Croft, […]
Kinstellar advises syndicate of banks on a EUR 175 million loan for the development of Nivy Station in Bratislava
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 […]
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Penningtons Manches Cooper records modest growth in pre-merger year
Penningtons Manches Cooper’s revenue has risen to nearly £80m while profits have taken a hit, in the firm’s second year as a member of the UK top 50. Over 2018/19, the firm saw slower growth compared to its previous two financial years, when both revenue and profit saw double-digit growth. Revenue rose 4.5 per cent, […]
The speed read: in-house fluidity; US firm office moves; and a poison pen at Doughty Street
Deep into August and the City is quiet as partners take a well-earned break drinking wine in Provence, sunning themselves on a Greek island or, in the case of one out-of-office reply we received this morning, “sailing round Alaska.” Nevertheless, the news does keep coming… The in-house market has rarely been this fluid The repercussions […]
Magic circle and US firms lead on Hasbro £4bn entertainment deal
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Mayer Brown have advised on US toy maker Hasbro’s £3.3bn ($4bn) acquisition of UK-listed Entertainment One. Canadian media and entertainment company Entertainment One, or eOne, is the owner of film and television titles such as children’s cartoons Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom, through its family division. Through its […]
Firms set to lose out as Alibaba postpones its HK capital-raising
The delay in China’s biggest e-commerce company public listing in Hong Kong could see the longstanding advisers for Alibaba lose out on fees for a £16m capital-raising. The Alibaba Group announced early in the week that it would delay its IPO process in Hong Kong due to the protests that have swept the Asian corporate […]
Covington begins search for new London HQ as lease end nears
Covington & Burling is on the hunt for new office space in London as its lease edges closer to an end, The Lawyer understands. According to sources in the market, the US firm has kicked off the search ahead of its lease end in 2021. While no shortlist of potential locations is currently available, the […]
A&O, Linklaters and Weil in line for £12m payout on Cobham’s sale to US PE group
Allen & Overy, Linklaters and Weil Gotshal & Manges are set to scoop nearly £12m for their work on the £4bn takeover of Cobham, one of Britain’s biggest defence and aerospace companies, if the controversial deal goes ahead. US private equity company Advent International offered to buy Cobham, known for its air-to-air refueling technology, at the end […]