A month after the firm lost four life sciences and technology partners to Goodwin Procter, Taylor Wessing has started to reassemble its group with a new hire from Fieldfisher. Fieldfisher’s former life sciences and healthcare head Alison Dennis is to join Taylor Wessing after over a decade at Fieldfisher. As the head of the group, […]
Peters & Peters will continue with its preparation for the Servier dispute after the Court of Appeal dismissed the pharmaceutical company’s appeal against a judge’s decision that was handed down last year. The case, which is featured in The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases 2019, is due to be heard in October, but this was Servier’s […]
Kirkland & Ellis and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz were the two lead US advisers on the $63bn transatlantic deal between pharmaceutical giants AbbVie and Allergan. AbbVie, an American biopharmaceutical company, has acquired Allergan, a Dublin-based botox-maker, in a cash and stock deal. The combined company is expected to increase leadership across healthcare fields such […]
NHS Commercial Solutions has rolled out a new legal panel, with firms including Addleshaw Goddard, Clyde & Co and DAC Beachcroft winning places. The three firms have been reappointed to the procurement organisation’s framework, as well as Mills & Reeve and Trowers & Hamlins. A total of 19 firms have made it on to the new roster; new additions are Browne Jacobson, Sintons, […]
Goodwin Procter has further expanded its European life sciences and technology practice, taking on a new partner from Taylor Wessing in London. Andrew Davis, who began his career at Allen & Overy, joins after a seven-year stint at Taylor Wessing, where he was made a partner in 2014. Davis has worked with clients such as […]
Penningtons Manches Cooper’s revenue has risen to nearly £80m while profits have taken a hit, in the firm’s second year as a member of the UK top 50. Over 2018/19, the firm saw slower growth compared to its previous two financial years, when both revenue and profit saw double-digit growth. Revenue rose 4.5 per cent, […]
Deep into August and the City is quiet as partners take a well-earned break drinking wine in Provence, sunning themselves on a Greek island or, in the case of one out-of-office reply we received this morning, “sailing round Alaska.” Nevertheless, the news does keep coming… The in-house market has rarely been this fluid The repercussions […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Mayer Brown have advised on US toy maker Hasbro’s £3.3bn ($4bn) acquisition of UK-listed Entertainment One. Canadian media and entertainment company Entertainment One, or eOne, is the owner of film and television titles such as children’s cartoons Peppa Pig and Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom, through its family division. Through its […]
The delay in China’s biggest e-commerce company public listing in Hong Kong could see the longstanding advisers for Alibaba lose out on fees for a £16m capital-raising. The Alibaba Group announced early in the week that it would delay its IPO process in Hong Kong due to the protests that have swept the Asian corporate […]
Covington & Burling is on the hunt for new office space in London as its lease edges closer to an end, The Lawyer understands. According to sources in the market, the US firm has kicked off the search ahead of its lease end in 2021. While no shortlist of potential locations is currently available, the […]
Allen & Overy, Linklaters and Weil Gotshal & Manges are set to scoop nearly £12m for their work on the £4bn takeover of Cobham, one of Britain’s biggest defence and aerospace companies, if the controversial deal goes ahead. US private equity company Advent International offered to buy Cobham, known for its air-to-air refueling technology, at the end […]
Clyde & Co has increased its salaries for trainee and newly qualified (NQ) solicitors. First-seat trainees will now earn £40,000, up £2,000 from £38,000, while second-years get the same uplift and will now earn £42,000, up from £40,000. The NQ salary has increased £5,000 to £70,000. Clydes has also revealed its retention for the autumn. It […]
A senior executive at litigation funder Burford Capital is facing accusations of trading sensitive documents in exchange for a sex tape, yet another development following a damning report published by Muddy Waters last week. The allegation is part of a $91m lawsuit that was filed at London’s High Court and targeted Daniel Hall, the funder’s […]
Hodge Jones & Allen’s managing partner Vidisha Joshi has announced she will be stepping down and leaving the firm. Joshi has been at the firm for seven years in the personal injury team and managing partner for three years. She joined from Prolegal Solicitors. As one of the youngest managing partners in the country, Joshi […]
At the Pharmaceutical Forum of the EAEU and CIS countries held in Moscow in late February 2018, the Director of the Department of Technical Regulation and Accreditation of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEС) said that the full-scale work on registration of medicines using the unified information system of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) will start […]
By Robert Breedon, Tom Gray, Elwin Morgan Africa’s healthcare is in the midst of an innovation revolution that, as PwC say, “…is transforming Africa’s economic potential, creating new target markets and unprecedented consumer choice”. This innovation revolution is powered in part by traditional methods of funding human capital development in areas such as development and […]
