Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has snared New York Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regional director Mark Schonfeld as a partner in its litigation group. After a 12 year career at the SEC, Schonfeld will join the US firm in November to co-chair its securities enforcement practice group alongside Washington DC partner Barry Goldsmith. Schonfeld will […]
BAE Systems has appointed its first chief counsel for India, sending land systems legal chief Mike Elston to Delhi. The move is part of a BAE business strategy to exploit growth markets. India has boosted its defence spending by 8 per cent this year. In a memo sent out to staff, seen by The Lawyer, […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner has begun a push on the Middle East, opening an office in Abu Dhabi. The Abu Dhabi office will focus on hotel and leisure work, and will be staffed by one partner and four associates transferred from London. Partner John Sipling of the hotels and leisure practice will head the office, joined […]
West coast-headquartered Gibson Dunn & Crutcher launched a formal international arbitration group this week at a New York cocktail reception attended by recent hire and former Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer (pictured). The firm’s newest practice group is aimed at capitalising on the growth of cross-border disputes and picking up clients who in the past may […]
Field Fisher Waterhouse partner John Olsen is taking his own firm to an employment tribunal, alleging age discrimination and bullying behaviour. Field Fisher Waterhouse (FFW) partner John Olsen is taking his own firm to an employment tribunal, alleging age discrimination and bullying behaviour. Olsen, who joined the firm in 1999 from SJ Berwin to become […]
The Court of Appeal precludes escape from narrow vacatur grounds available under the English Arbitration Act 1996 Despite an insurer’s attempt to escape from the few and extremely narrow grounds available under the English Arbitration Act of 1996 to vacate an unfavourable arbitration award, a recent Court of Appeal decision confirmed that an award rendered […]
Slaughter and May on Cowdery’s Resolution IPO” />Veteran entrepreneur Clive Cowdery has turned to longstanding adviser Slaughter and May for advice on the IPO of his latest venture, financial services business Resolution. Slaughters corporate partners Jeff Twentyman, Kathy Hughes and Robin Ogle are leading the team acting on the flotation. Twentyman worked on the establishment […]
Changes to Dubai property law over the past six years have opened up the market to foreign ownership and is helping to bring about the creation of a recognisably westernised property asset class. Prior to 2002, non-Gulf Corporation Council (GCC*) expats living in United Arab Emirates were only permitted to rent property or own property […]
The world’s largest-ever meeting of intellectual property lawyers was held this week in Boston, with the centrepiece being a battle over a hamburger. Some 2,000 lawyers from around the world came together at the Boston Conference and Exhibition Centre for the first meeting on US soil since the 1970s of the International Association for the […]
Nabarro has hired a counsel from Allen & Overy (A&O), doubling its core competition law capacity in response to an expected boom in the practice area. A&O EU and competition law counsel Brian Sher will join as a partner in Nabarro’s London office. Nabarro hopes to ramp up its competition law practice with further lateral […]
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz has scored the lead role on the US government’s seizure of beleaguered mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Wachtell corporate partner Ed Herlihy and restructuring partner Harold Novikoff are leading the firm advising the US Treasury on its takeover of the two ailing financial institutions. Both companies will be […]
Corporate partners at Addleshaw Goddard and Allen & Overy (A&O) are slated to seal Nationwide’s takeover of the Cheshire and Derbyshire Building Societies in record time. Corporate partners at Addleshaw Goddard and Allen & Overy (A&O) are in for a busy few weeks with Nationwide’s takeover of the Cheshire and Derbyshire Building Societies slated to […]