Crown Office Row has hired two junior tenants from Kings Chambers in Manchester. The barristers, John Cooper and Simon Antrobus, specialise in health and safety and corporate manslaughter. For the last seven years they have acted for the Department of Trade and Industry in Griffiths v British Coal Corporation.
US firm Townsend & Townsend & Crew is to merge with litigation boutique Legal Strategies Group (LSG) on 1 March. Six partners and 12 lawyers will join Townsend’s San Francisco branch, a 150-lawyer intellectual property and litigation practice. LSG focuses on antitrust, trademark and commercial litigation. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com, 18 February
Allens Arthur Robinson has proved it is the top choice for major sporting events, having won the coveted role of official law firm to the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games. It won the role over a host of other law firms, and will advise alongside the games’ in-house legal team. First revealed on www.thelawyer.com, 18 February
Hextalls is continuing its attack on the London market, with the hire of Beachcroft Wansbroughs insurance litigation partner Dominic Dennis-Browne to head the firm’s professional indemnity department. Dennis-Browne specialises in defending claims against a number of professions, including solicitors, with particular expertise in claims involving dishonesty. The hire comes just two weeks after the firm […]
Howard Kennedy continues to beef up its media department with the hire of another Hammonds partner. Justin Stephenson joins the eight-strong media team, headed by his former Hammonds colleague Brian Eagles. Stephenson is a banking lawyer specialising in media finance. He will work mostly for the film and music industries and help out the general […]
De Brauw partners to vote on recruitment of Freshfields tax heavyweight
Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are among a number of City firms pitching to advise the Hong Kong government on its first ever securitisation.
Oil giant Shell has brought in Debevoise & Plimpton instead of its traditional litigation lawyers Cravath Swaine & Moore to fight off a multibillion-dollar claim over alleged overstatement of oil and gas reserves. Both firms have a longstanding relationship with Shell, but it is understood that Cravath is usually Shell’s first choice for US litigation […]
After snagging a role advising Disney on its defence of Comcast’s hostile takeover bid, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz can boast a role on all three of the bumper deals that are rocking the US M&A market. In addition to its vigorous defence of Disney, Wachtell is advising AT&T Wireless on its sale to Cingular […]
The European Parliament has called for the creation of a single EU authority for supervising cross-border financial supervision in Europe as a long-term response to the Parmalat scandal. Parliament members made a number of recommendations after voicing their concern that “neither the supervisors nor the regulatory authority nor the auditors nor the rating agencies” had any […]
Approval has been secured at the European Parliament for a new EU directive on the mutual recognition within member countries of professional qualifications. The directive would allow any lawyer legally established as a professional in their home state to provide services “on a temporary and occasional basis” elsewhere in the EU under their original professional […]
Latham & Watkins has poached two financial regulatory partners for its Washington DC office from Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. Brian Smith and Timothy Keehan join Latham as partners 12 years after the pair joined Mayer Brown from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan (now Stroock). The team provides a variety of financial institutions, banks and […]