The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is set to increase its budget by 50 per cent to cope with the increase in caseload and translation caused by May’s accession to the EU of 10 new member countries from Eastern and Southern Europe. Figures obtained by The Lawyer show that the ECJ’s 2003 budget of e156.6m […]
Jones Day Milan in raid for A&O partner” />In a bid to ramp up its real estate and corporate capabilities in Italy, Jones Day has hired Allen & Overy (A&O) partner Marini Giovanni from the magic circle firm’s Milan office. Giovanni brings a number of ongoing deals to Jones Day, including transactions for key client […]
HSBC Bank USA has appointed former general counsel of Household Inter-national Janet Burak as senior executive vice-president and as its new general counsel and corporate secretary. Burak will hold the same title and position for HSBC’s US bank holding company HSBC USA. She replaces senior executive vice-president and corporate secretary Philip Toohey and senior executive vice-president Paul Lee. […]
THE US government will have to reconsider the fate of foreign nationals on death row after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that it had breached its obligations under the Vienna Convention on consular relations by failing to inform 51 Mexican convicts of their right to contact diplomats “without delay” after arrest. The court […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) is to undertake its first major property outsourcing for Land Securities Trillium after insurance giant Aviva opted for the group over Linklaters’ client Mapeley. Land Securities Trillium saw off stiff competition from Mapeley to win the first stage of a £700m deal. Aviva hopes to have a contract signed by the […]
Covington & Burling’s London office is taking the plunge into international arbitration after recruiting a partner from Coudert Brothers. Robert Pietrowski is stepping into the newly-created role of head of the firm’s European arbitration practice. Although arbitration is a large feature in Covington & Burling’s overseas offices, Pietrowski’s appointment is a first for London, where […]
Last week The Lawyer apologised in court to Richard Meeran and Leigh Day & Co for implying wrongly in an article published in December 2003 that they had been found guilty of sex discrimination. We have agreed to pay undisclosed damages to Mr Meeran and Leigh Day and their costs.
Partner promotions at Clifford Chance have plummeted, falling to 18 from 31 in the previous year. Compared with 2002-03, when nine London lawyers reached equity, this year’s round of promotions show that in the UK just four have made partner. In New York, meanwhile, one attorney joined the partnership compared with the previous year’s two. […]
Slaughter and May has completed its firmwide management reorganisation, with Chris Saul (right) taking over as head of corporate from Nigel Boardman. The changearound also includes a new head of finance in Andrew Balfour, who takes over from Richard Slater, while tax leader Steve Edge stepped down to be succeeded by Tony Beare. Elizabeth Barrett […]
Bingham McCutchen’s New York office has been hit with the loss of an 11-lawyer real estate team to Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler. The group, including five partners, is made up of lawyers from Richard & O’Neil, which merged with Bingham Dana (prior to its link-up with McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen) in 2001. Meanwhile, […]
Brendan Malkin asks what will happen next as the FSA bungles another reconciliation attempt
Clifford Chance (Philip Rocher), instructing Jonathan Gaisman QC and Christopher Butcher QC (7 King’s Bench Walk), is to represent Deloitte & Touche Singapore at the Court of Appeal on 22 April in the landmark negligence action arising out of the collapse of Barings. They are defending an appeal by the bank’s liquidator KPMG represented by […]