K&L Gates has become the latest firm to pick up a partner from Clifford Chance in Germany, recruiting the magic circle firm’s German trademark head Thorsten Vormann. Vormann joins K&L Gates’ Frankfurt office. He has been a partner at Clifford Chance and its legacy firm in Germany since 1997. He focuses primarily on patent infringement […]
Weightmans has promoted four women to its partnership in a reduced promotions round, with the new partners including HR director Sam Airey. Last year the firm made up seven new partners including its first non-lawyer partner, marketing director Sarah-Jane Howitt (22 May 2014). The promotion of Howitt and Airey, who are both fixed-share partners, comes […]
City West Housing has appointed 14 firms and the in-house team at Manchester City Council to its panel in a framework agreement worth £1.4m over four years. City West Housing Trust, which owns more than 14,600 homes in the North West, has appointed a 15-strong lineup of teams including BLM, Brabners, DWF, Hill Dickinson, Trowers […]
Baker & McKenzie has been granted the first Chinese joint operation licence with local firm FenXun Partners, opening the doors for its international clients to access PRC law through the firm. The firms announced that they have been granted a licence in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone by the Shanghai Bureau of Justice today (15 […]
Trowers & Hamlins has become the first firm to be granted a qualified foreign law firm (QFLF) licence in Malaysia after changes to the way foreign firms can practise in the country last June. The licence was approved by the Malaysian Bar Council and is effective from 4 April 2015. It will last three years, […]
Suspended Gibson Dunn & Crutcher partner Peter Gray has been denied permission to appeal the ruling that he deliberately misled the High Court. Yesterday (14 April) Mr Justice Flaux took just 15 minutes to refuse Gray’s application for permission to appeal. The application was led by counsel Mark Simpson QC of Fountain Court Chambers. It […]
Public, police and medical negligence set Serjeants’ Inn Chambers has reported growth in fee income of 27.5 per cent for the 2014/15 financial year ending 31 March on the back of a management overhaul. The set declined to provide a figure for its income, but said the growth had come on the back of a […]
The spate of hires of UK talent by US firms continued last week with the news that Cahill Gordon has swooped on Shearman disputes partner Richard Kelly to build its London litigation practice. At the same time Cahill has becomes the first US outfit to be licensed by the Solicitors’ Regulation Authority (SRA) as an […]
eBay has hired Agilent Technologies’ top lawyer Marie Oh Huber as its new general counsel as the company prepares for the split of eBay and PayPal into two separate companies later this year. eBay general counsel Michael Jacobson plans to leave the company following the separation of the two businesses in the second half of […]
Nominations for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s next senior partner are expected to close this month with sources close to the firm already touting three clear frontrunners to take over from incumbent Will Lawes when he steps down in October. Edward Braham, who stepped down from his role as corporate head at the end of his term […]
Grimaldi Studio Legale has announced the hire of two prominent banking partners for its London office, former Clifford Chance CEO Michael Bray and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo’s Riccardo Sallustio. Bray was originally responsible for establishing the link between what was then Grimaldi e Associati and Clifford Chance in 1993. As CEO of the magic circle firm […]
Publicis Groupe has appointed Joe LaSala, general counsel of recent takeover target Sapient, as its new general counsel to replace Eric Antoine Fredette. This appointment comes months after Publicis Groupe sealed a £2.3bn deal to buy US digital company Sapient, advised by Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Cravath Swaine & Moore and Bredin Prat (5 […]