Despite the international market’s uncertainty and volatility, the ship finance market in Spain is still experiencing rapid and steady growth. This is largely due to growing interest in the field from banks that have been traditionally wary of the sector. These banks, which often restricted their participation in ship finance transactions to the issuance of […]
Cayman Islands-based Maples and Calder has continued its Ireland expansion by hiring Irish firm A&L Goodbody financial services partners Barry McGrath and Nollaig Murphy. It is Maples’ second Irish hire in two months, following the recruitment of corporate partner Edward Miller from Matheson Ormsby Prentice in June. McGrath is an investment fund specialist, while Murphy […]
Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll is to launch an ad campaign to encourage people affected by the British Airways-Virgin price fixing scam to claim. US class action firm Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll is to launch an advertising campaign to encourage people affected by the British Airways and Virgin price fixing scam to make a […]
Pinsent Masons and Wragge & Co have been handed mandates in a £3bn project to build the two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy. The Ministry of Defence called on Wragges project partners Michael Whitehouse and Jane Pittaway, supported by IP partner Michael Luckman. An alliance of defence contractors – including BAE systems, VT […]
Lovells has advised on the ParalympicsGB on the intellectual property issues on its new TV advertising campaign featuring Sir Paul McCartney. The Lovells team, which acted pro bono, was led by corporate partner Richard Welfare, alongside another IP partner and corporate associate Gulley Shimeld. Shimeld said: “It’s always fun working with ParalympicsGB because they get […]
French firm Jeantet Associés has scored a €40m win for retailer LVMH after a French court ruled that auction site Ebay failed to block the sale of counterfeit LVMH goods. French firm Jeantet Associés has scored a €40m (£31m) win for luxury goods retailer LVMH, after a French court ruled that online auction site Ebay […]
Orrick has hired the former head of Jones Day’s Los Angeles IP group, Rob Dickerson as a partner. Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe announced today (1 July) that it had hired the former head of Jones Day’s Los Angeles intellectual property group, Rob Dickerson as a partner. Dickerson is best known as the former managing partner […]
Hogan & Hartson is to launch in Abu Dhabi next month – the firm’s first-ever office in the Middle East. The Washington DC-headquartered firm will be sending Ray Batla, a partner in the London office, out to the United Arab Emirates to set up the office on 1 August. Batla told The Lawyer that having […]
Dickson Minto and Willkie Farr sign alliance” />Private equity firms Dickson Minto and Willkie Farr & Gallagher have entered into a strategic alliance aimed at upping both their profiles either side of the Atlantic. Last month Dickson Minto’s senior partner Alastair Dickson (pictured) said the firm was “exploring ways in which we might work more […]
Until laws on divorce and cohabitants are brought into the 21st Century injustice will continue, says Julian Lipson Let’s face it. Reforming family law is rarely a vote winner. How often have family lawyers been handbagged for supporting the lot of the unwed mother, the same-sex partner or the abolition of fault-based divorce? The Press […]
Divorcing couples have been dubbed the latest victims of the credit crunch. With house prices on the slide and houses failing to sell, would-be divorcees are finding themselves forced into extending their time under the same roof together. Under the same Roof, with the same agenda Divorcing couples have been dubbed the latest victims of […]
The High Court’s Queen’s Bench Division (QBD) is in turmoil after being branded ‘chaotic’ by a raft of judges, some of whom claim not to have had a break in the past 10 months.Judges are calling for the management of the QBD to be overhauled, claiming that a lack of communication between the division’s departments […]