After a quiet January, chambers have accelerated their recruitment drives for 2021. Last month, several barristers moved chambers, including a shift away from private practice to the Bar for one barrister. Here are the five biggest moves in February: Daniel Kalderimis (Call: 1999 New Zealand), Twenty Essex In February, Twenty Essex hired Andrew Ayres QC […]
2020 was already shaping up to be a challenging year, long before I’d heard of coronavirus. Returning to work full-time after my second period of maternity leave was a somewhat daunting prospect, juggling client work and the daily commute with being mum to two children under 3. Not one to do things by halves, I […]
Housing developer A2Dominion has assembled its first legal panel with seven firms scoring a place. The panel is divided into seven lots made up of: corporate governance; housing management; general property; development reconstruction and regeneration; treasury and finance; employment; procurement, data protection, health and safety. Devonshires has been appointed to all seven lots, Capsticks to […]
Shoosmiths’ Caroline White-Robinson on finding the confidence to say “this isn’t going well” and that no, this is not “the worst thing that could have happened”.
The Canada Colombia Chamber of Investment and Trade and Gowling WLG hosted an exciting virtual event leading up to this year’s PDAC conference to uncover the opportunities in mining in Colombia this year.
Effective February 1st, 2021, the Home Construction Regulatory Authority began licensing and regulating builders and vendors as designated under the New Home Construction Licensing Act, 2017.
When setting up a global anti-counterfeiting programme for the first time, there are several aspects to consider.
In this article, we summarize the UNEP Report findings to help Canadian businesses and communities understand the paradigm shift described by UNEP, and what changes UNEP expects.
On-demand webinar on how insurance works in the condo world.
As expected, the Québec Budget 2021-2022 is focused heavily on re-launching the Québec economy, supporting small businesses impacted by the pandemic, and encouraging investment to accelerate technology adoption.
After a quiet January, chambers have accelerated their recruitment drives for 2021. Last month, several barristers moved chambers, including a shift away from private practice to the Bar for one barrister. Here are the five biggest moves in February: Daniel Kalderimis (Call: 1999 New Zealand), Twenty Essex In February, Twenty Essex hired Andrew Ayres QC […]
2020 was already shaping up to be a challenging year, long before I’d heard of coronavirus. Returning to work full-time after my second period of maternity leave was a somewhat daunting prospect, juggling client work and the daily commute with being mum to two children under 3. Not one to do things by halves, I […]
Housing developer A2Dominion has assembled its first legal panel with seven firms scoring a place. The panel is divided into seven lots made up of: corporate governance; housing management; general property; development reconstruction and regeneration; treasury and finance; employment; procurement, data protection, health and safety. Devonshires has been appointed to all seven lots, Capsticks to […]
Shoosmiths’ Caroline White-Robinson on finding the confidence to say “this isn’t going well” and that no, this is not “the worst thing that could have happened”.
Newcastle United (NUFC) has been unsuccessful in its bid to have Blackstone’s Michael Beloff QC dismissed as an arbitrator in the club’s dispute with the Premier League. NUFC, which is owned by Mike Ashley, is currently engaged in arbitration proceedings with the Premier League over the failed takeover of the club. The club brought the […]
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White & Case has hired two partners from Shearman & Sterling, as it rebuilds its London ranks following a recent steady flow of defections. The US firm has taken on partners Tim Sheddick and Katie Hicks, who have spent little more than two years at Shearman. Sheddick is a partner in the project development and […]
CMS has made up 52 lawyers to partner worldwide, its largest-ever promotions round. The firm has promoted 52 partners globally, spanning 22 offices of which the UK accounted for 44 per cent of the total. In the UK, 23 new partners were made up. Of the London partners, energy lawyer Dalia Majumder-Russell joined from Clyde […]
Associates in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis are seeing expectations around their target hours spike considerably, The Lawyer has learned, as a result of rising workloads. Sources said junior lawyers at the US firm have seen their targets skyrocket. Over the past few months, they have risen from the bonus threshold of 2,000 […]
Forsters has entered discussions around its London property strategy, appointing CBRE as agents. The 177-lawyer firm, which is based in Mayfair, is understood to be scoping 50,000sq ft of space further north of the city, around Marylebone, north Oxford Street, Fitzrovia and Soho. Forsters, which derives nearly half of its revenue from its 21-partner real […]
Corporate veteran Nigel Boardman has been appointed by the Prime Minister to carry out an independent review into the ongoing Greensill saga. Boardman, who left Slaughter and May’s partnership in 2019, is a non-executive director of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. He has continued since as a senior consultant at Slaughters, with […]
Latham & Watkins and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are acting as cybersecurity start-up Darktrace confirms plans to go public. The Latham team for Darktrace is led by capital markets partner James Inness, with co-chair of the London corporate department Robbie McLaren and partners Josh Kiernan, Shing Yuin Lo and associate Koushik Prasad. Lo, a member of The […]
