MasterCard to appeal £68m Sainsbury’s interchange fee ruling
MasterCard has applied to appeal a ruling that it must pay supermarket giant Sainsbury’s £68.5m in damages, The Lawyer has learned.
New life for former Yorkshire Post site
Residential Real Estate lawyers at Walker Morris have advised the landowner on the sale of the former Yorkshire Post Gateway site on Wellington Street in Leeds City Centre. The landowner, Stirling Investments, has exchanged contracts to deliver a large 18 storey residential building offering 242 apartments aimed at the Private Rented Residential Sector (‘PRS’), along with […]
DLA Piper raises NQ salaries to £70,000
DLA Piper has raised salaries for its trainees and lawyers
New partner in Paris
Gowling WLG’s Paris office welcomes Alexandra Plain, the newest partner in its real estate team. Admitted to the New York Bar and Paris Bar, Alexandra Plain has extensive knowledge in advising foreign investors, including investment funds, real estate acquisitions and disposals in France and in Europe.
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MasterCard to appeal £68m Sainsbury’s interchange fee ruling
MasterCard has applied to appeal a ruling that it must pay supermarket giant Sainsbury’s £68.5m in damages, The Lawyer has learned.
New life for former Yorkshire Post site
Residential Real Estate lawyers at Walker Morris have advised the landowner on the sale of the former Yorkshire Post Gateway site on Wellington Street in Leeds City Centre. The landowner, Stirling Investments, has exchanged contracts to deliver a large 18 storey residential building offering 242 apartments aimed at the Private Rented Residential Sector (‘PRS’), along with […]
DLA Piper raises NQ salaries to £70,000
DLA Piper has raised salaries for its trainees and lawyers
New partner in Paris
Gowling WLG’s Paris office welcomes Alexandra Plain, the newest partner in its real estate team. Admitted to the New York Bar and Paris Bar, Alexandra Plain has extensive knowledge in advising foreign investors, including investment funds, real estate acquisitions and disposals in France and in Europe.
Win on behalf of Chief Constable in discrimination claim case
Judgment has been delivered in the widely publicised proceedings against the Chief Constable of Northumbria Police by the former Director of Legal Services, Denise Aubrey, following her dismissal. All Ms Aubrey’s claims were dismissed including her claims for sex discrimination, harassment, victimisation, disability discrimination, whistleblowing and unfair dismissal. The case gave rise to widespread publicity in […]
Exclusive: Clifford Chance to launch new delivery hubs in global innovation boost
Clifford Chance has refocused its global innovation strategy around expanding on its network of innovation and delivery hubs around the world, The Lawyer can reveal. The hubs in Singapore, New York, Dubai and London will focus on key innovation points for the firm and will work alongside resource management, pricing and pitching support teams as well as assisting […]
Linklaters M&A star exits for Paul Hastings
Linklaters heavyweight M&A partner Roger Barron is exiting the firm after 17 years to join Paul Hastings in London. This move comes exactly a week after Paul Hastings announced the hire of DLA Piper partner Anu Balasubramanian. Barron featured in The Lawyer Hot 100 2018, sealing his place in this year’s Hot 100 following his work closing […]
Norton Rose hit with mass defection as 15-strong team exit to Reed Smith
A team of 15 lawyers across four different Norton Rose Fulbright offices in the US have decamped to join Reed Smith. The team includes global head of life sciences and healthcare Rick Robinson, Washington partner Lesley Reynolds, Austin partners Jeff Layne and Ben Koplin and New York partner Cori Goldberg. Two Norton Rose associates, Washington […]
Clifford Chance searches for diversity head after gender pay gap report
Clifford Chance is searching for its first global head of inclusion and diversity, just a few weeks after the firm revealed a 66 per cent pay gap in its gender pay gap reporting. Clifford Chance’s new global head of diversity and strategy will be based in any of the firm’s 32 worldwide offices, and will work […]
Addleshaws calls on Clydes to defend professional negligence claim
Addleshaw Goddard has called on Clyde & Co to defend the firm over advice given to big four accountancy firm Deloitte by its Scottish arm, legacy HBJ Gateley, before its 2017 merger. Deloitte was originally drafted in during the collapse of a caravan park business owned by the now-defunct Scottish business Arthur Holgate & Son, […]
Exclusive: DWF raises capital contributions for the first time in seven years
DWF asked equity partnership for a raise in capital contributions for the first time in seven years, The Lawyer has learned. The call for further contributions was made towards the end of 2017, though fixed share partners were exempt, CEO and managing partner Andrew Leaitherland told The Lawyer. A series of conversations between the firm’s management and fixed-share partners […]