Field Fisher Waterhouse has appointed Oliver Rijckaert as an employment partner in its Brussels office. Rijckaert will join the team at the start of September from Bird & Bird, where he was head of the Brussels employment team. The hire follows the recent appointments of corporate partner Marie Evrard and pensions partner Corinne Merla to […]
Transport for London (TfL) has awarded panel positions to a dozen law firms, with Eversheds retained to work specifically on the company’s mainstream work. The firms, which will remain on the panel for four years, are Ashurst, Berwin Leighton Paisner, Bird & Bird, Clifford Chance, Eversheds, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith, K&L Gates, Manches, Simmons […]
Clifford Chance has continued its mobility strategy with the transfer of a senior associate from London to Hong Kong. Last month (30 July) the firm’s global managing partner David Childs told The Lawyer that, as part of a firmwide strategic review, everyone coming up to partnership will be expected to have undertaken a stint either […]
Scottish law firm Muir Myles Laverty (MML) has blamed bosses copying the brash style used by Sir Alan Sugar on television programme The Apprentice for the rise in the caseload of employment tribunals. The firm claims that Sugar’s catchphrase, “You’re fired”, in the show known as, “the job interview from hell” is being copied by […]
Allen & Overy scooped the lead role advising on the first ever sukuk programme in Kuwait. The firm, advised joint arrangers, BNP Paribas, National Bank of Kuwait, Standard Chartered Bank and WestLB on the $1.5bn sukuk programme for National Industries Group Holding (NIG). Lead partner on the deal was Roger Wedderburn-Day, assisted by consultant Anzal […]
Legal woes might yet scupper the £3.75bn London flotation of Rusal, the aluminium giant. It emerged over the weekend that the Russian conglomerate was in talks with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over potential claims the company might face in the future. One potential problem could be from businessman Michael Cherney, a Russian living in […]
Clifford Chancehas been struck by what is thought to be the first UK discrimination claim against a law firm on the grounds of sexual orientation. Former competition partner Michael Bryceland hit the magic circle firm in November with the claim, which has now been settled for an undisclosed amount. The claim never made it to […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer‘s tribunal woes will stretch out until the end of 2007. The second discrimination claim this year against Freshfields will be heard publicly at the London Central Employment Tribunal on 14 December. The magic circle firm’s former corporate partner Lois Moore, who is now at Shearman & Sterling, is bringing the suit against […]
A parliamentary committee has launched an inquiry into allegations of torture by British troops in Iraq and allegations that British forces were told that human rights law did not apply there. The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) combines members of parliament and lords from all three mainstream political parties. Its inquiry follows the investigation […]
K&L Gates has scored the lead role advising world cricket governing body the International Cricket Council (ICC) on the sale of its global media rights. The firm acted for the ICC on its eight-year global media rights sale by tender to ESPN Star Sports (ESS), which will cover two Cricket World Cups between 2007 and […]
Garden centre Dobbies turned to Dickson Minto over regular adviser Tods Murray for the £156m bidding war that saw Tesco emerge as the likely victor. A Dickson Minto team, led by name partner Bruce Minto and corporate partner Colin MacNeill, navigated Dobbies through the competitive process that saw its board accept a £15-a-share offer from […]
Memery Crystal, K&L Gates” />Memery Crystal and K&L Gates have played key roles advising on the AIM flotation of oil and gas company Leed Petroleum. K&L Gates corporate partner Owen Waft led the team acting for Leed Petroleum, a UK upstream oil exploration and production company focused on the Gulf of Mexico. Memery Crystal corporate […]