Nabarros wins the top spot as Isis dumps regeneration panel” />Waterways regeneration body Isis has abolished its panel and appointed Nabarro Nathanson as its sole legal adviser. The move will be a blow to Addleshaw Goddard and DLA, which are also on the panel for UK regional work, and for MacRoberts, which has done some […]
Morgan Lewis & Bockius could be liable to pay up to $20m (£10.6m) in severance pay to former lawyers and employees of collapsed firm Brobeck Phleger & Harrison.
Linklaters raids CC for telecoms partner” />Former Clifford Chance partner and head of Linklaters’ global IT and communications practice Christopher Millard has raided his old firm to poach telecoms star Tim Schwarz. Millard, who left Clifford Chance 18 months ago, was instrumental in bringing Schwarz back to private practice from a spell at the World […]
Westminster firm RadcliffesLeBrasseur has lost two departmental heads – making a total of three partners this year. This means that the firm has lost four department heads in the past 15 months. Head of commercial dispute resolution (CDR) and executive board member Paul Clements has joined City practice Rooks Rider as the head of commercial […]
MLaw, the firm acting for Hello! in its appeal against the High Court victory by Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas and OK! over the couple’s wedding photos, is taking the case forward on a ‘no-win, no-fee’ basis. Former Charles Russell partner Christopher Hutchings, who set up MLaw last autumn, has billed Hello!> £1m for the case, […]
Bird & Bird has secured first-time instructions from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. The firm has advised the government department on an IT deal that assists the unemployed to move house to get a job if there is a shortage of work in their area. Bird & Bird snared the work after a […]
Kendall Freeman litigation partner Marcus Rutherford is joining Reed Smith Warner Cranston. Rutherford, a commercial litigator with a media bent, stayed at the firm when it restructured itself into an insurance outfit, losing most of its media and property partners and changing its name from DJ Freeman last year. Most of DJ Freeman’s media and […]
Ofgem, the energy regulator, has made its general counsel redundant and restructured its 20-strong legal team as part of its ongoing mission to cut costs. Earlier this month Ofgem announced it was to impose strict price controls on its spending, similar to those it requires from the private electricity and gas companies that it regulates. […]
Landwell’s global legal network has been given a deadline of 30 June by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this year to stop working for Price-waterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) SEC-registered audit clients. Heussen, the firm’s German practice (previously PwC Veltins) is to quit the network almost two months short of this date on 6 May. The […]
Travers Smith Braithwaite has helped broking client Evolution Beeson Gregory implement the next generation of accelerated initial public offerings (IPOs) on a management buy-in of the retail arm of Torex. The accelerated IPO was a concept devised by Collins Stewart on the Northumbrian Water acquisition, where it was advised by Simmons & Simmons. In Torex […]
Tetsuya Kashio, the name lawyer of Denton Wilde Sapte’s Japanese office Denton Wilde Sapte Kashio Law, has been appointed by the Japanese Cabinet Office to manage its newly-established department of compliance. The department has been set up to establish and manage new corporate governance legislation, which is due to be submitted early this year. The […]
The shake-up of the MCI legal team has seen senior in-house lawyer Peter Waters promoted to acting head of legal for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Following the departure of the previous EMEA legal head Stuart Blythe to Viatel last year, Waters had been co-heading the legal function with Suzanne Hopkinson, who is […]