A duo of former Lovells partners have struck out on their own by setting up a firm in Frankfurt. Corporate partners Hanns-Christian Salger and Thomas Forsterling have established the practice, to be known as Salger Rechtsanwalte, which will focus on small to medium-sized clients. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com 31 March
Birmingham’s St Philips Chambers has lost a leading childcare barrister, who has joined London’s One King’s Bench Walk. It is understood that David Hershman QC has made the move to practise in a smaller set with a more specialist family focus. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com 31 March
McGrigors’ Glasgow office is losing corporate director Paul Pignatelli and corporate assistant Andrew Wardrup to DLA. Both are expected to leave by the summer. The departures come at the same time as the unrelated Edinburgh exits of former head of projects Jim Smith, who retires on 9 April, and projects partner Donna Stevenson, who is […]
Law degrees at England’s top universities will be among the most expensive courses to read if the Government is able to push through its controversial top-up fees policy, a survey by Lawyer 2B can reveal. The findings come a week after the Government survived the third reading of the Higher Education Bill, which seeks to introduce variable […]
Halliwell Landau has doubled the size of its London corporate department with the hire of two new partners. The firm has recruited Richards Butler partner Matthew Puhar and Berwin Leighton Paisner partner Ian Brent. M&A specialist Puhar worked in Richards Butler’s Hong Kong office for five years, joins now from the firm’s City office. He […]
Leading European investment bank Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) has appointed Urs Rohner as its new group general counsel. Rohner, the chief operating officer of Swiss company ProSiebenSat 1 Media, is due to take up his new position on 1 June when he will also become CSFB’s head of group corporate centre and a member […]
The European Commission has raised fears that citizens of some countries joining the EU in May could defy EU regulations because they may not all have been translated into their national language. News service MaltaMedia has reported concern from officials working for EU Enlargement Commissioner Günter Verheugen that the translation of the 85,000-page ‘acquis communautaire’ was […]
Eversheds is leading negotiations between the EU and Pakistan over a major human rights dispute linked to one of the world’s largest existing insurance claims. The dispute, centring on the recent loss of an oil tanker, the Tasman Spirit, off the port of Karachi in Pakistan, and allegedly billions of dollars of pollution damage, also […]
The caseload of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has increased by more than 17 per cent in the last year. According to the institution’s 2003 annual report, there were 561 new cases brought to the ECJ last year and 466 to its sister court, the Court of First Instance. This is compared with 477 […]
Richards Butler has won a lead role on a new law firm panel set up by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) to advise on all outsourcing work of which it is a customer. While Richards Butler, not well known for outsourcing, has been given a lead place on the panel, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert, Herbert Smith and Linklaters, […]
Cobbetts AIM team has embarked on a marketing tour of Russia in the wake of a series of successful deals for Russian client Highland Gold, one of the largest mining companies in the world. Cobbetts’ head of public issues Andrew Wright advised Highland Gold on its £200m admission to AIM last year and last month […]
Herbert Smith has secured a key World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruling on cross-border gambling for Antigua, the wider implications of which could put the kibosh on US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s anti-outsourcing campaign. Last Monday (29 March), a WTO panel ruled against the US’s ban on internet gambling services based in Antigua. The ruling […]