Ashurst strengthens PFI reputation with Durham, Sandwell BSF deals
Ashurst has helped clients Carillion and Interserve close two strategic Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects in Durham and Sandwell.
T-Mobile, Orange call on CC and Norton Rose for merger advice
Competition teams at Clifford Chance and Norton Rose are striving to make a tie-up between Orange UK and T-Mobile UK work as their European parents try to create the UK’s largest mobile phone operator.
Watson Burton pair quits to set up family boutique
A Watson Burton partner duo has quit to launch a family and professional indemnity (PI) boutique.
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Pinsents to provide ATE insurance
Pinsent Masons has signed a deal with legal expenses provider FirstAssist Legal Protection that will give the firm delegated authority to broker after-the-event (ATE) insurance.
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Goldsmith barrister sued by divorcée
Family barrister Dorian Day of London set Goldsmith Chambers has been handed a £200,000 claim by a disgruntled former client who claims Day failed to win her an adequate divorce settlement.
Sumption coy over Supreme Court role
Brick Court Chambers has batted off speculation that Jonathan Sumption QC is reducing his workload, insisting that he is taking time out to concentrate on the next volume of his book.
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Top firms open new front in war for specialist tax talent
Revenue’s tough stance on transfer pricing sparks lucrative new practice area for City leaders
Heated debate
With the principles of the Kyoto Protocol due to be renegotiated before the end of the year, lawyers are in the position of having to provide just-in-time advice. Time is short for international negotiators and political leaders to establish a meaningful agreement to ‘replace’ the Kyoto Protocol (KP) after 2012. The next conference of the […]
McDermott unveils London private client practice
McDermott Will & Emery has launched a private client practice in its London office with a view to aligning the service with that in its New York offering. Andrew Vergunst Martyn Gowar, former senior partner at LG and a consultant at that firm and at Penningtons, has become a partner at McDermott. He is joined […]
4 Pump Court to face Brick Court in bank bonus litigation
Stewarts Law has instructed 4 Pump Court’s Nigel Tozzi QC to represent 72 bankers who have brought a multi-million pound claim for unpaid bonuses against Dresdner Kleinwort, which was taken over by Commerzbank last year. Linklaters’ managing associates Paul Quain and Nicola Rabson have instructed Brick Court Chambers’ Mark Howard QC to defend the claim […]
Ship-shape
When Eversheds named Ian Gray as its next London litigation chief, many assumed the post was only left vacant because the outgoing boss, John Heaps, wanted to move up the ladder. Almost two years later and Gray has reshaped the practice, brought in some new blood and read the riot act to the bar. The […]
Fasken hires eight-strong team from Howard Kennedy
Fasken Martineau has boosted its London office after completing the hire of an eight-strong projects team from Howard Kennedy. The transfer marks what was understood to be a drawn-out departure process for the team from Howard Kennedy, with the individuals leaving in various stages. Together they amass expertise in contentious and non-contentious work in aviation […]