E-learning: Brush up on contract drafting to avoid disputes
The Lawyer is launching an e-learning course on contract drafting. Course leader and ex-Freshfields partner Ben Staveley talks about why the subject is a passion of his.
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The Lawyer is launching an e-learning course on contract drafting. Course leader and ex-Freshfields partner Ben Staveley talks about why the subject is a passion of his.
Allen & Overy’s (A&O) ‘Fuse’ initiative last year was one of the landmark legal market developments in terms of highlighting the extent to which traditional firms are remodelling their businesses. Spearheading Fuse is derivatives lawyer Shruti Ajitsaria, an angel investor in her free time, who came up with the idea while on a jam-packed maternity […]
Mishcon de Reya is embroiled in a dispute with a former client that has accused the firm and other parties of “improperly diverting” funds away from the company as it collapsed into insolvency.
When the talk turns to major law firm mergers, few would disagree that the deal which created Eversheds Sutherland is one of the success stories. Leading from the UK side of this deal, which went live on 1 February last year, was co-CEO Lee Ranson. It is Ranson who has navigated his firm’s integration with […]
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Ireland’s Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment (“Department”) recently published a strategy paper outlining its vision for remote working entitled “Making Remote Work – National Remote Work Strategy” (“Remote Working Strategy”). The Remote Working Strategy confirms the Government’s intention to legislate for employees to have a right to request remote working. While recognising the many […]
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In this interview, excerpts of which originally appeared in Asian Legal Business, Ogier partner and head of ESG Funds in Hong Kong Kate Hodson discusses how offshore law firms have stepped up to meet this changing business landscape, the ramping up of regulations, and the growing momentum around ESG.
The Lawyer is launching an e-learning course on contract drafting. Course leader and ex-Freshfields partner Ben Staveley talks about why the subject is a passion of his.
Allen & Overy’s (A&O) ‘Fuse’ initiative last year was one of the landmark legal market developments in terms of highlighting the extent to which traditional firms are remodelling their businesses. Spearheading Fuse is derivatives lawyer Shruti Ajitsaria, an angel investor in her free time, who came up with the idea while on a jam-packed maternity […]
Mishcon de Reya is embroiled in a dispute with a former client that has accused the firm and other parties of “improperly diverting” funds away from the company as it collapsed into insolvency.
When the talk turns to major law firm mergers, few would disagree that the deal which created Eversheds Sutherland is one of the success stories. Leading from the UK side of this deal, which went live on 1 February last year, was co-CEO Lee Ranson. It is Ranson who has navigated his firm’s integration with […]
A host of US and Canadian firms have won the lead roles on Blackstone’s $17bn acquisition of a stake in Thomson Reuters’ financial and risk business.
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Review platform Trustpilot is planning to list on the London Stock Exchange, as the IPO market starts to pick up in the City. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is advising the company on aspects of English and US law. The firm’s team is being led by partners Chris Haynes and US-qualified Steve Thierbach. Morgan Stanley and […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s City office has made its second lateral hire in a month, recruiting this time from Boies Schiller Flexner. The firm has recruited Dominic Roughton from its US disputes rival to boost its London ranks. Roughton departs after four years at Boies Schiller. He was hired by the firm’s London outpost […]
K&L Gates has brought in an energy disputes partner from Squire Patton Boggs (SPB). Ben Holland arrives at K&L Gates as the first hire it has made in London in nearly a year. Holland joined SPB in 2014 as its first lateral hire in London after the Squire Sanders and Patton Boggs union. He had […]
Allen & Overy has launched an office in Los Angeles, following in the footsteps of magic circle rival Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer which opened in the region last year. The magic circle firm has hired 19 lawyers from Akin Gump’s project finance and renewables practices across Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC, co-led by partners […]
DLA Piper’s head of IP and technology in the Netherlands, Joris Willems, has left the firm for Dutch independent NautaDutilh with a team of three lawyers. In the latest team move in Amsterdam, IT law specialist Willems has become a partner of Amsterdam-headquartered NautaDutilh and will lead its technology group. His move comes following a […]
Shearman & Sterling’s head of EMEA capital markets is leaving the firm for Milbank, three years after former colleague Apostolos Gkoutzinis made the same move. Partner David Dixter is joining the US firm’s London office, after a decade at Shearman. Prior to that he was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in both […]