Come for the rugby, stay for the M&A
Revived interest in Japan from certain law firms may have something to do with the Rugby World Cup.
Revealed: The Top 20 Cases of 2021
This year, the courts play host to a series of long-running financial and competition cases, while it looks like UK Government lawyers will be extremely busy.
Pinsents hires Bakers partner for Dutch foray
Pinsent Masons has made further inroads into Continental Europe with the opening of an office in Amsterdam. The firm has recruited TMT, data privacy and digital partner Wouter Seinen from Baker McKenzie to head its new Amsterdam office. The office will focus on advising clients on cyber, data, tech and life sciences mandates. Seinen will […]
Freshfields and TLT steer Boohoo’s acquisition of Debenhams
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising Debenhams’ administrator FRP Advisory as Boohoo snaps up the department store’s brand. The deal does not include any of Debenhams’ remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce, meaning that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go. Freshfields global restructuring and insolvency head Ken Baird […]
Registering a foreign power of attorney in Jersey
If a person holds assets in Jersey they may wish to ensure that they have made adequate provision to appoint someone who can manage those assets in the event that they should lose capacity to such an extent that they can no longer do this themselves. Often, these considerations form part of a person’s wider estate planning.
PRI’s new reporting framework – are you ready?
On 12 November 2020, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) issued significant updates to the reporting framework (RF) for signatories. The new requirements are more focused on “real world” outcomes meaning signatories needs to show how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors are integrated into investment analysis and execution.
Cayman Islands Funds Update: Q4 2020
Despite the beginning of 2020 being marked by a large number of new regulations in the Cayman Islands, the number of changes to laws and regulations that impact or may impact funds constituted in the country was significantly lower in the last quarter of 2020 than verified previous quarters. Specifically, the regulatory bodies and competent authorities focused on receiving clarifications and refinements to the existing regimes, which continued to occur in January 2021.
Advance healthcare directives under Cayman law
An advance health care directive is also known as a living will. It is actually not a new concept but is new to being recognised in the Cayman Islands. In 2019 the Health Care Decisions Act was implemented in the Cayman Islands.
What to know about BVI’s regulatory change for investment structures
It was unfortunate that such a fundamental change to the regulatory regime of the British Virgin Islands was largely overshadowed due to the twin challenges of the economic substance regime implementation in 2019/2020 and the COVID 19 pandemic in 2020. Save for structures established for the purposes of a making a single investment, most investment […]
Fund finance in Ireland and Luxembourg: A comparative analysis
Ireland and Luxembourg have long been the preferred jurisdictions in which to establish a fund in Europe, and the prevalence of funds established in Ireland and Luxembourg make them important jurisdictions for lenders to understand.
Come for the rugby, stay for the M&A
Revived interest in Japan from certain law firms may have something to do with the Rugby World Cup.
Revealed: The Top 20 Cases of 2021
This year, the courts play host to a series of long-running financial and competition cases, while it looks like UK Government lawyers will be extremely busy.
Pinsents hires Bakers partner for Dutch foray
Pinsent Masons has made further inroads into Continental Europe with the opening of an office in Amsterdam. The firm has recruited TMT, data privacy and digital partner Wouter Seinen from Baker McKenzie to head its new Amsterdam office. The office will focus on advising clients on cyber, data, tech and life sciences mandates. Seinen will […]
Freshfields and TLT steer Boohoo’s acquisition of Debenhams
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is advising Debenhams’ administrator FRP Advisory as Boohoo snaps up the department store’s brand. The deal does not include any of Debenhams’ remaining 118 High Street stores or its workforce, meaning that up to 12,000 jobs at the department store chain are set to go. Freshfields global restructuring and insolvency head Ken Baird […]
City firms steer Paperchase towards rescue deal
Baker McKenzie and Mayer Brown have helped secure a rescue deal for Paperchase after the business suffered severe disruptions from Covid-19 lockdowns. Following the appointment of administrators from PwC on 28 January, the stationery chain has been sold in a pre-pack administration to Permira Debt Managers. Bakers’ banking and finance partner Geoff O’Dea has taken […]
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UK firms are flashing the cash
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The new SQE courses shed more darkness than light
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The decline and fall of the legal secretary
Law firms can either invest in upskilling the secretarial work force. Or they can axe them.
US firms’ booming financials could be better
US firms are not converting all their hard work into profits.
PCP Capital’s High Court claim fails against Barclays
The High Court has rejected PCP Capital’s claim against Barclays in a highly-anticipated judgment from Mr Justice Waksman, which ruled that Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s client is not entitled to the damages it sought. In a mammoth ruling handed down today, Waksman J concluded that PCP’s claim should be dismissed despite finding that Barclays […]
PwC appoints new UK head of legal
PwC legal head Ed Stacey is to stand down from his role, handing over the reins to partner Teresa Owusu-Adjei. As UK head of legal, Owusu-Adjei will lead 400 lawyers and other legal professionals. She has been with the accountancy firm since 1995, and a financial services partner since 2008 Stacey was appointed head of […]
Linklaters finance partner exits for Latham
Latham & Watkins has added another partner to its expanding restructuring and finance groups in London, with Bruce Bell joining from Linklaters. Bell was promoted to partner at Linklaters in 2005, having moved across as an associate from Wilde Sapte in 2000. In Latham’s restructuring group, he will be reunited with fellow Linklaters alumni such […]
Shoosmiths’ first-ever COO departs after one year
Shoosmiths‘ chief operating officer and board member is to leave the business after little more than a year in the newly-created position. Ben Bennett was hired in late 2019 as the firm’s first COO. Reporting to chief executive officer Simon Boss, he came in to support strategic growth and drive operational improvements. As part of […]
Taylor Wessing recruits from Greenberg in second team hire of 2021
Taylor Wessing has brought in a real estate team from Greenberg Traurig, just months after the arrival of an 11-strong private wealth group from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. In March, the firm will beef up the structured component of its real estate sector group with the hire of a four-lawyer team led by partner Michael […]
Osborne Clarke eyes shift to “subscription models” in 2025 strategic review
Osborne Clarke is predicting a gradual shift to new charging systems as part of a five-year client strategy disclosed to The Lawyer by its management. The firm’s leadership has conducted a review exercise internally dubbed ‘3D’. It is anchored on the three main elements at the heart of the firm’s future direction: legal skills, sectors […]
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