Our Technology & Digital Team, and Partner Sally Mewies held a webinar discussion with Senior Associate Luke Jackson covering blockchain technologies and all the potential they have in the financial services sector and supply chain.
Last year, the Government announced it would be introducing fundamental changes to the planning system.
As the UK continues to tackle the challenges caused by the spread of Coronavirus/COVID-19, Walker Morris continue to receive a number of enquiries from landlord and tenant clients as to how this may affect their property arrangements and obligations.
On 7 February 2021 the government announced £40 million in funding for businesses to help the hard to decarbonise industrial sectors reduce emissions and improve energy efficiency.
On 2 February 2021, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the much-anticipated Woolard Review, a significant and wide-ranging review of change and innovation in the unsecured credit market. Walker Morris consumer credit expert Jeanette Burgess summarises the report and offers her practical insights.
This webinar gives an overview of the developments in International Data Transfers in the last six months and provide some practical guidelines and tips on how to navigate the complexity.
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Four Ukrainian oligarchs have scored a major victory against oil giant PSJC Tatneft after the High Court today dismissed the claimant’s $300m lawsuit. This verdict follows a 12-week remote trial in the Commercial Court last winter, with Mrs Justice Moulder rapidly turning out a mammoth judgment that criticises Tatneft’s witnesses for being “evasive, unreliable and […]
Paul Hastings is to further expand its litigation practice in London, with the arrival of a partner from Covington & Burling. The firm is taking on partner Alex Leitch, who has spent six years at its US rival as co-chair of the London dispute resolution group. Leitch moved to Covington & Burling in 2015, when […]
Global profit per equity partner increased by almost 16 per cent at Reed Smith last year, as the firm gears up for management elections and the formation of a new strategy. Over 2020, PEP rose from $1.3m to $1.5m under the leadership of managing partner Sandy Thomas, whose role is up for elections during the […]
The former owners of litigation insurance broker TheJudge have launched a funding business following its acquisition by a professional services provider over a year ago. The broker was acquired by Thomas Miller, an insurance and professional services company, in 2019. As part of the acquisition, the company has launched Erso Capital, a litigation funding specialist. […]
Allen & Overy’s salary reviews for business services teams are still on hold, over three months since the firm’s lawyers received a belated pay boost. A&O’s business services groups underwent a pay freeze in the first quarter of the financial year, as the firm looked to shore up its finances in response to the pandemic. […]
