Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) and Mayer Brown acted on Link REIT’s £383.6m acquisition of 25 Cabot Square in Canary Wharf. The acquisition of the 17-floor office complex, which houses Morgan Stanley’s HQ, marks the Hong Kong-based investment trust’s entry into Europe. Mayer Brown acted for Link, Asia’s largest real estate investment trust, led by […]
Eversheds Sutherland has called time on its South African mining and natural resources practice after just one year, following a six-strong team departure. Eversheds’ former head of mining and infrastructure Warren Beech and partner Nicholas Veltman have left the firm to establish their own boutique. They are joined by fellow lawyers Refiloe Vengeni and Eben […]
Addleshaw Goddard and Winckworth Sherwood are acting on the development of the £250m “Triangle” site on St Thomas’ hospital campus in London. Addleshaws team, helmed by construction and engineering partner Andrew McVeigh and co-head of the housing sector Peter Hardy, are leading for Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation. The rest of the Addleshaws team […]
The Central Housing Investment Consortium (CHIC) of social housing providers and local authorities has appointed 22 firms to its new £15m panel. The contract is divided into three lots; corporate, governance and finance, housing and asset management, property and development across England and Wales. Firms that have been added to all three lots include Bevan […]
DWF has hired a three-strong real estate team from Baker McKenzie to boost its Warsaw office, days after the listed firm made considerable cuts across its international network. The team is led by partner Joanna Wojnarowska, who brings along senior associates Weronika Roesler and Ewa Lewandowska. As part of the move, the partner will become […]
On a London map, the distance that separates 65 Fleet Street from 100 Bishopsgate amounts to almost three kilometres. But the path that led Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer from its longstanding institutional home to the shiny skyscraper feels much longer. The firm first signed a lease for the new building four years ago, marking a new […]
Adrienne Page QC has represented newspapers, politicians and barristers in the most sensitive of cases during a sterling 46-year career; however, life hasn’t been without its challenges for 5RB‘s libel doyenne. During her early years as a junior, Page struggled immensely with the stressful experience of going to court, at a time when anxiety in […]
The world of investigations relies upon in-depth scrutiny. Whether it be leafing through office documents, conducting forensic interviews or relying upon whistle blowers, an investigator’s physical presence on-site is often key to carving out the truth. However, the in-person part of investigations is largely on hold for the time being due to Covid-19, forcing individuals […]
Lupl, a new all-encompassing platform to allow international collaboration on legal matters, has been developed after many hours of discussion between developers and those at the legal coalface
How in-house lawyers can encourage the use of tech in their companies.
As more people look to the corporate world to take more responsibility for its actions, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) finance is on the rise, with green bonds the new currency
Led by insurance broker Miller with The Lawyer, seven lawyers and risk advisers from UK Top 50 firms spent a morning discussing risk considerations during Covid-19 and the future of law post-lockdown. The virtual roundtable was hosted by the head of Miller’s UK professions team Ed Pickard and risk & compliance manager Nicola Anthony. The […]
When it comes to the resilience of law firms, a look back at how the magic circle recovered after the 2008 financial crash is a good place to start. As they gear up to release their 2019/20 financials, what does the data suggest is in store? The same rules will not always apply Three of […]
Lawyers are supposed to always have all the answers. But there can be exceptions. In a complex industry like financial services, there are regulatory changes that hit in-house legal teams like an avalanche. This is why, when Howard Wassall, principal sales engineer at software provider Apttus+Conga, laid out the urgency and complexity of tackling the […]
By David Perry The recent Government consultation on ending no fault terminations of residential tenancies, which will effectively abolish assured shorthold tenancies, came to a close on 12 October. Many people will be looking to see what, if anything, results from that process. As a generational change in residential letting, many stakeholder groups are likely […]
By Jason Hayward Over the past two decades, title insurance has gained significant traction in Ontario as a means of providing front-end comfort to owners and lenders alike with respect to purchases and financings of real estate. For owners, a title insurance policy is intended to insure the registered owner’s interest in the land itself; […]
By Fergus Charlton On 24 July, the government released the long-anticipated revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Setting the emphasis on building new homes, Secretary of State for Communities, the Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP said: “Fundamental to building the homes our country needs is ensuring that our planning system is fit for the future.” […]
Much focus has been given of late to gazumping and the potential pitfalls of the Jersey conveyancing process. Thankfully in practice the vast majority of transactions do eventually make it across the line and in most cases, completion occurs within the allocated window agreed through the estate agent at the outset. Gazumping, while a genuine […]
By Hugh Richards The Government has published its Housing White Paper “Fixing Our Broken Housing Market”. It will be recalled that in his speech to the party conference in October 2016, the Secretary of State, Sajid Javid, called for “unprecedented steps” to increase the delivery of new homes – his “number one priority” and a […]
The LMA has recently announced the publication of its own form of insurance broker letter for use on real estate finance investment transactions. Broker letters are used to provide comfort to lenders that the obligors are complying with their insurance obligations under the loan agreement, and that the lender (or agent, on syndicated transactions) will be made aware of any issues that arise with […]
By Nigel Lewis In our latest alert, we review the judgment in Larkfleet Ltd v Allison Homes Eastern Ltd which highlights the potentially significant liability implications arising from National House Building Council (NHBC) cover for contractors involved in residential developments. You may be on the hook in terms of possible liability for a lot longer […]
