Media and entertainment firm Harbottle & Lewis has appointed a new managing partner, with tax partner Glen Atchison taking over from Lawrence Abramson. Atchison will take up his new role at the start of June, after leading the tax practice for 10 years. He has been on the firm’s management committee since 2006. Atchison said: […]
One of the areas most likely to see the introduction of new forms of collective claim is the field of antitrust damages claims. On 2 April the European Commission published a white paper setting out concrete proposals to make antitrust damages claims easier to bring. The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) also published its own […]
An Allen & Overy (A&O) IP and commercial partner in Hamburg has set up his own boutique practice, taking three associates with him. Henning Harte-Bavendamm will open under the name Harte-Bavendamm Rechtsanwälte and will focus on IP, IT commercial and licensing law. Harte-Bavendamm said: “I had always thought about opening up a boutique. After 30 […]
Ashurst bolsters Frankfurt with White & Case hire” />Ashurst’s Frankfurt office has hired White & Case local acquisition finance partner Anne Force. She will start at Ashurst as a partner and is qualified in German, French and English law. Ashurst’s German managing partner Simon Beddow said: “We’ve been looking for some time to expand the […]
Los Angeles-based Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has moved to fill one of the gaps in its international network by opening an office in Singapore. The firm has officially launched its latest office today (Tuesday 20 May) with a three-partner team hired from Jones Day along with former Los Angeles-based partner Jai Pathak. Corporate partner Pathak […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has elected Alan Newton as its new joint practice group leader (PGL) of global finance. Newton is currently head of structured finance and will begin in the new position on 1 August, taking over from Perry Noble who recently announced his retirement from Freshfields’ partnership (The Lawyer, 18 April 2008). Newton said: […]
Simmons & Simmons has advised German ship designer TGE Marine AG on its entry to AIM in one of the largest flotations on the alternative market this year. The IPO raised £24m for the company and secured a market capitalisation of £158m for TGE, which is only the second German public company to list on […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) and Ashurst have guided Imperial Tobacco through its £4.9bn rights issue, which was announced today.
Thames Valley firm Morgan Cole has cooked up a win for respected chef Raymond Blanc against a group of Caribbean cybersquatters. The dispute came about after a company based in the Bahamas registered the domain name www.raymondblanc.com and used it to advertise products that had nothing to do with the famous chef. Morgan Cole resolved […]
Clifford Chance has hired a securitisation partner from Thacher Proffitt & Wood to beef up its US financial products practice. Robert Villani will join the firm’s New York office as partner in the financial products department advising banking and issuer clients on securitisation deals. Clifford Chance managing partner of the Americas Craig Medwick said: “We […]
In May 2007, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) published a set of proposals aimed at radically overhauling the UK’s personal injury (PI) system. It aimed to introduce a raft of measures designed to speed up the process with the aim of cutting costs and improving access to justice for both claimants and defendants. The MoJ […]