Fox Williams has headhunted Charles Russell partner Joanne Owers to ramp up its employment capabilities. Owers, who leaves Charles Russell after seven years, returns to Fox Williams, where she first worked as a newly qualified lawyer. The age discrimination specialist said part of the reason for her appointment was to assist the three other employment […]
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU) has launched a new Legal Assistance Scheme panel to advise its members on contentious issues relating to their agricultural businesses.
Uncertainty shrouds litigation costs, which is putting obstacles in the way of access to justice, a panel of experts warned at The Lawyer’s antitrust litigation conference ;last ;week (7 May). The panel’s note of caution came in relation to the European Commission’s white paper on compensating victims of competition breaches. Panel members broadly welcomed ;the […]
Nabarro’s French best friend, August & Debouzy, has hired the lawyer representing former Société Général rogue trader Jérôme Kerviel as a partner.
SJ Berwin has boosted its Paris office with the hire of real estate partner Vincent Lassalle from the French arm of Reed Smith.
Fulbright & Jaworski has secured third-party litigation funding for production company Excelsior in a royalties battle with ITV. The company is suing ITV for royalties relating to repeats of shows such as The Darling Buds of May, A Touch of Frost and My Uncle Silas, which it produced. Fulbright, on behalf of?Excelsior,?issued?a multimillion-pound High Court […]
Norton Rose has landed a deal for its first Mongolian-based client, advising oil company Petro Matad on its AIM listing.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has advised on Citigroup’s third equity offering so far this year.
Addleshaw Goddard has advised Bayerische Landesbank on a £400m loan to Hammerson that used Allen & Overy’s (A&O) office building as security on the facility.
Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has sewn up a raft of UK life sciences deals, winning a place on six transactions in the past month.
While some corporate lawyers have reportedly been twiddling their thumbs since the credit crunch took hold, Macfarlanes started 2008 with a couple of stellar deals.
Freshfields corporate guru Barry O’Brien is back with a bang following his run-in with the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal – much to the delight of his colleagues