Linklaters and Slaughter and May are advising two housebuilders on their £2.5bn merger. It was announced this morning that listed company Barratt Developments is combining with fellow plc Redrow. FTSE favourites Linklaters and Slaughters acted for Barratt and Redrow, respectively. This is understood to be Linklaters’ first major M&A mandate for Barratt Developments, which has […]
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is aiming to significantly expand its City litigation and arbitration practice, kickstarting the initiative with the hire of a commercial disputes partner from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom. David Edwards is making the move to Simpson Thacher, having joined Skadden in 2009 along with partner David Kavanagh KC from O’Melveny […]
Fighting referendums and interfacing with nearly 300 cities is all in a day’s work for Sarah Binder. Relocating from London to San Francisco, she joined the legal team at micromobility company Lime in May 2021, which now comprises 20 lawyers and eight paralegals. Since then, Binder has celebrated some major wins. She led Lime in […]
Following swiftly on from its hire of Linklaters’ competition head Nicole Kar, Paul Weiss is growing out its City practice with another new recruit. Antitrust expert Annie Herdman joins from Ropes & Gray, where she has been for two years. Prior to Ropes, she made partner at Kirkland & Ellis in 2019. Before that, she […]
Charles Lyndon and Hagens Berman EMEA have prevailed over Hausfeld in a judgment handed down yesterday (5 February) as the parties sought to resolve the carriage dispute for a class action against Amazon in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). Proposed class representative Julie Hunter, chair of the British Standards Institution, filed her claim in the CAT in […]
One Essex Court’s Lord Anthony Grabiner KC and Anthony De Garr Robinson KC, and partners from Womble Bond Dickinson are set to appear this spring as witnesses in the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry. Last week (2 February), the inquiry completed Phase 4, which dealt with actions against sub-postmasters and others around policy-making, audits and […]
Energy supplier Eon has awarded three panel spots this year in its first tender process since 2018. DLA Piper and Shakespeare Martineau are the two firms to have won places alongside longstanding incumbent Pinsent Masons. The trio are collaborating under a comprehensive five-year agreement that kicked off in January 2024. According to Eon, they will […]
Hill Dickinson has snapped up a team from Irwin Mitchell to open an office in Birmingham, just weeks after cutting the ribbon for its Limassol launch. The firm has hired corporate partners Nick Dawson and Emma Callow, who spearheaded their respective team offerings in Birmingham and the Midlands. They have a particular focus on M&A […]
The man behind Bitcoin – finding Dr Wright? Who is behind Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency that launched the boom and has led to more crypto-coins than you can throw a piggy bank at? According to Australian computer scientist Dr Craig Wright, he is. Wright claims to be the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, credited with inventing Bitcoin in […]
Mishcon de Reya has acquired a majority stake in Somos, a global group actions management business that builds, develops and manages group action claims. Somos’s two founders, Pedro Martins and Tomás Mousinho, have also been admitted to the firm’s dispute resolution department as equity partners. The move indicates Mishcon’s interest in further developing its claimant […]
Shoosmiths has significantly cut its business travel-related emissions, after introducing several carbon-saving initiatives across the firm. The firm reported that it has cut emissions related to air travel by 56 per cent between the 2019/20 and 2022/23 financial periods, while rail and road travel have seen a 15 per cent and a 9 per cent […]
A confidential settlement was reached by Norwegian storage robotics company AutoStore Technology last week, just days before its appeal was due to be heard in the Business and Property Courts, The Lawyer can reveal. After losing its UK patents in a 2023 judgment in favour of Ocado – which had been the subject of IP […]