The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has commenced its case against Dentons in the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT), accusing the firm of anti-money laundering (AML) failures and claiming it was “nowhere near compliance”. While Dentons did not present its defence today, the Tribunal will cover both sides’ case over the next week and a half. The […]
HSF’s head of ESG for the UK, EMEA and US regions has left the firm after 12 years, joining Kirkland & Ellis as a partner. Rebecca Perlman qualified into corporate with HSF in 2014, making partner in 2022. She had been promoted to co-head of HSF’s sustainable and impact investment team in 2017, becoming its […]
Litigation funders, defendant lawyers and claimant lawyers are divided over Lord Chancellor Alex Chalk KC’s plans to introduce a new law to reverse the Supreme Court’s PACCAR ruling last July, which ruled many litigation funding agreements (LFAs) unenforceable. The Government said it is also considering options for a wider review of the sector and how third-party litigation […]
Two Latham & Watkins partners are joining Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s New York office, tasked with building out the magic circle firm’s transactional private equity offering. Neal Reenan and Ian Bushner are the two partners making the move from Latham to Freshfields. While Freshfields has been working on private equity deals for its European and US […]
Virgin in Court of Appeal over Alaska Airlines dispute Alaska Airlines is back in the Court of Appeal with Virgin Group this Wednesday (6 March) to dispute its continued payment of trademark royalties. After the US’ fifth largest domestic carrier, Alaska Airlines, took over Virgin America in 2016, it acquired the rights to use its […]
Dentons has secured a triumph for Marks & Spencer, safeguarding the retailer’s plans for its flagship store on Oxford Street. In a judgment handed down this morning, Mrs Justice Lieven ruled in favour of the supermarket on five of the six grounds it had brought against the Secretary of State (SoS) for Levelling Up, Housing […]
Hg Capital has hired its new general counsel from Paul Hastings, ahead of the departure of longstanding legal chief Andrew Jessop. Samantha McGonigle is to take on the top legal job at Hg, having joined Paul Hastings less than a year ago. A member of its private equity group, McGonigle started her career at Lovells, […]
As revealed exclusively by The Lawyer, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has the most defence side mandates in Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) amid a booming class actions market. We laser in on the team on call. The market: The interchange fee collective action, brought by class representative Walter Merricks on behalf of 45.5 million UK Mastercard customers, is […]
The president of Mozambique, Filipe Nyusi, has today succeeded in the “tuna bonds” satellite litigation that sought to join the president as a defendant in the main case. The main trial in the mammoth Tuna Bonds litigation wrapped up in December. The case revolves around allegations that, in order to be awarded lucrative contracts in […]
Payment platform Zilch has recruited its new general counsel from Revolut. Amy Sandys will assume her first general counsel role at Zilch, after working as head of legal, corporate, at the banking app company. The new general counsel will take over from Natalie Salunke, who left the business in January 2024. Salunke joined Zilch in […]
Pinsent Masons’ head of its London office is leaving after four years to join DLA Piper’s London corporate crime and investigations (CCI) team. Before joining Pinsents at the beginning of 2020, Sackey spent almost 13 years at HMRC in senior positions including deputy director of offshore, corporate, and wealthy investigations, and deputy director of criminal […]
Hogan Lovells, Clyde & Co and Clifford Chance have the most environmentally polluting websites among UK law firms, data provided to The Lawyer has found. According to data from Website Carbon and compiled by TBD Marketing, Hogan Lovells is at the bottom of the list with its website generating 1,728.52 kg of CO2 per year. […]