Gowling WLG is pleased to announce that infrastructure and construction lawyer Adam Lewinberg has joined the firm as partner in its Toronto office. Lewinberg, who previously was the associate general counsel at Carillion Canada, has broad experience that focuses on P3s/infrastructure, and possesses significant expertise in corporate governance and compliance matters — including designing and […]
The Lawyer’s Career Clinic panel advises on how law firm partners can find a fulfilling role as a non-executive director when approaching retirement. “I’m a partner nearing retirement in the next few years and am keen to keep working after I leave the firm, perhaps in a non-executive directorship (NED) role. However, I don’t really […]
Shoosmiths has boosted its Midlands corporate team with the appointment of experienced deal-maker Maurice Dwyer. Maurice’s appointment follows hard on the heels of Paul Batchelor who moved from PwC Legal in 2017 and provides further evidence of the firm’s desire to grow its corporate footprint and reputation in the West Midlands market. Maurice has considerable […]
A new breed of legal professional could revolutionise the business. They have both tech and legal expertise, are fee-generating and on track for partner status
By André Poulin-Denis The Ontario legislature is poised to make more changes to Employment and Labour legislation. As we previously discussed, there have been a number of important changes to the Employment Standards Act, 2000 (“ESA“), and to the Labour Relations Act, 1995 (“LRA“), in the past year. Initially, the Liberal government made a number of significant reforms by adopting […]
By David P. Stevens, Rose M. Johnson, Douglas D. Buchmayer “Multiple wills” are two or more wills, each dealing with different assets, some or all of which will be probated on death. They are often used to avoid probate tax on assets for which a grant of probate is not, as a practical matter, required. As […]
By Rocio de la Cruz When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force earlier this year, many companies made changes to their policies and processes to become compliant. In this video, we explain the importance of remebering the Data Protection Act 2018, as well as GDPR, when processing special categories of personal data.
By Martin Thomas, Şenay Nihat, David Wigy The Supreme Court handed down judgment today in London Borough of Southwark and another v Transport for London [2018] UKSC 63 – finding that that there is no clear and consistent meaning of ‘highway’ in common law. Rather, the meaning of ‘highway’ depends on the context in which it is used, […]
By Ian J Gordon, Chris Edwards-Earl BT has lost its attempt to convince the Court of Appeal that it should be able to move away from the retail prices index (RPI) for indexation of benefits for one of the sections of its pension scheme. The Court of Appeal upheld the High Court judgment that RPI had not […]
Gowling WLG is pleased to announce that infrastructure and construction lawyer Adam Lewinberg has joined the firm as partner in its Toronto office. Lewinberg, who previously was the associate general counsel at Carillion Canada, has broad experience that focuses on P3s/infrastructure, and possesses significant expertise in corporate governance and compliance matters — including designing and […]
The Lawyer’s Career Clinic panel advises on how law firm partners can find a fulfilling role as a non-executive director when approaching retirement. “I’m a partner nearing retirement in the next few years and am keen to keep working after I leave the firm, perhaps in a non-executive directorship (NED) role. However, I don’t really […]
Shoosmiths has boosted its Midlands corporate team with the appointment of experienced deal-maker Maurice Dwyer. Maurice’s appointment follows hard on the heels of Paul Batchelor who moved from PwC Legal in 2017 and provides further evidence of the firm’s desire to grow its corporate footprint and reputation in the West Midlands market. Maurice has considerable […]
A new breed of legal professional could revolutionise the business. They have both tech and legal expertise, are fee-generating and on track for partner status
The launch of BonelliErede in Egypt, Ethopia and Dubai marked a significant shift in the views of Italian firms towards internationalisation.
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Associates at Slaughter and May are in line to pick up Christmas bonuses of up to 14 per cent and will also receive salary raises in the new year. Newly qualified (NQs) will receive an extra 8.25 per cent of their basic salary as a bonus, while 4.5 to 6.5 year PQEs will receive 14 per cent. […]
Riverview Law has made its first significant hire since being brought by EY four months ago, appointing a former Barclays general counsel to a new director role. Rob Dinning will be a director of legal function co-sourcing, a new unit within the business that helps global corporations change their operating model to achieve a combination of […]
Mining group ENRC has raised further questions over the Serious Fraud Office’s long-running corruption investigation into the company, alleging that privileged information was used as part of the probe. Documents seen by The Lawyer allege that Dechert partner Neil Gerrard passed privileged documents onto the SFO in 2013, as part of its investigation into alleged bribery and corruption […]
Moët Hennessy’s European legal director Isabelle Meyer is to move on from the company in the New Year, after six years with the luxury goods conglomerate. The Lawyer can reveal Meyer will be joining Just Eat’s legal team, taking up a position as deputy general counsel. She will report to the company’s current group general counsel James […]
Slaughter and May and Ashurst are leading for embattled contractor Interserve, which has revealed that it is seeking a recovery plan amid fears of a Carillion-style collapse. The rescue plan, which aims to scale back its £500m debt pile, will see the Reading-based outsourcer convert much of its debt into new shares, potentially handing control of the […]
A Chicago corporate partner is to take the reins of Kirkland & Ellis, as the US firm preps for chairman Jeff Hammes’ leadership handover in February 2020. Private equity specialist Jon Ballis will step into the shoes of Hammes in two years time, bringing his 10-year tenure as chairman to an end. Ballis’ practice focuses on leveraged […]
