British outsourcing giant Serco has rejigged its panel for the first time since reviewing the roster in 2016. The full panel, which covers the UK and Europe, sees the reappointment of Clifford Chance, DWF and Pinsent Masons, while Radiant Law and Clyde & Co have been retained for group corporate procurement matters and specific regulatory […]
The Covid-19 vaccine will be made available for terminally ill people as soon as it is clincally appropriate to do so, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed, after a campaign spearheaded by Pinsent Masons’ head of communications. Fred Banning, aged 38, a popular member of the legal PR community, was diagnosed with terminal cancer earlier […]
A High Court judge has ordered RBS to provide fresh disclosure in an £11m dispute against a property company. TLT is acting for the Royal Bank of Scotland in litigation brought by Gary Wyatt, an accountant who runs Grove Park Properties. Wyatt, instructing Cooke Young & Keidan, has sued the bank over a loan, alleging […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s London outpost has been strengthened by the addition of two new partners in the firm’s latest round of promotions. With a total of 11 making the step up across the board, effective as of 1 January 2021, the promotion of two in the City now leaves the litigation boutique with […]
Many chambers made significant hires over 2020 to prepare for an influx of claims next year.
British outsourcing giant Serco has rejigged its panel for the first time since reviewing the roster in 2016. The full panel, which covers the UK and Europe, sees the reappointment of Clifford Chance, DWF and Pinsent Masons, while Radiant Law and Clyde & Co have been retained for group corporate procurement matters and specific regulatory […]
The Covid-19 vaccine will be made available for terminally ill people as soon as it is clincally appropriate to do so, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has confirmed, after a campaign spearheaded by Pinsent Masons’ head of communications. Fred Banning, aged 38, a popular member of the legal PR community, was diagnosed with terminal cancer earlier […]
A High Court judge has ordered RBS to provide fresh disclosure in an £11m dispute against a property company. TLT is acting for the Royal Bank of Scotland in litigation brought by Gary Wyatt, an accountant who runs Grove Park Properties. Wyatt, instructing Cooke Young & Keidan, has sued the bank over a loan, alleging […]
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan’s London outpost has been strengthened by the addition of two new partners in the firm’s latest round of promotions. With a total of 11 making the step up across the board, effective as of 1 January 2021, the promotion of two in the City now leaves the litigation boutique with […]
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired another magic circle partner to its London ranks, this time taking on the co-leader of Allen & Overy’s antitrust practice. The US firm has hired partner Antonio Bavasso, who will join after a two-decade-long career at Allen & Overy, where he was co-head of the global antitrust practice as […]
“I’ve seen the future, and it’s porn, sharks and Nazis.” Twitter hadn’t even been founded at the time, but the above quote from the niche 2005 sitcom Bromwell High turned out to be unintendedly prophetic when considering the journey of one of the planet’s largest social media companies. Once ‘the world’s town square’, Twitter, latterly […]
One of Europe’s most enduring rumours is about Simpson Thacher & Bartlett opening in Luxembourg. It is one of the jurisdiction’s key referrers of work for the local Luxembourg players, meaning there is an amount of paranoia among them about what would happen if Simpson Thacher decided to open its own office there. The idea […]
Which is the best personal injury firm in the country? Irwin Mitchell, perhaps? Maybe Leigh Day, or Slater & Gordon? Wrong, wrong, wrong. The answer in fact is Cheshire six-lawyer outfit Gavin Edmondson Solicitors, which according to the website reviewsolicitors.co.uk scores better than almost 2,500 PI firms across the country for its quality. What about […]
Cash piles rose during the pandemic, but the latest year-end shows a turnaround. Across the UK 200, debt levels are increasing, and those precious cash reserves are being eroded by a tide of rising costs. This evidence suggests the trend is most prominent among firms that occupy the mid-tier; these firms are spending big as […]
Who says UK firms are getting left behind in the global legal market? Whoever it is should take a look at the top end of this year’s UK 200, which later this month highlights that for the first time ever, all four magic circle firms have a turnover of more than £2bn (though it’s worth […]
The Stewarts-repped London International Exhibition (ExCel) Centre has successfully seen off an appeal by insurers over its Covid-19 business interruption claim. The case, which was one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 Cases of 2023 and Top 10 Appeals of 2024, concerned whether pandemic lockdowns entitled the Centre to claim £16m under the disease occurring “at […]
A&O Shearman has set out its post-merger integration plans, which includes closing one of its global offices and reducing its partnership by 10 per cent by the end of the financial year. The firm said today that its partnership would reduce within the year following a strategic review of its business post-A&O’s tie-up with Shearman. […]
Dentons and Reed Smith have taken the leading roles on eSky Group’s purchase of travel business Thomas Cook. Dentons private equity partner Nicholas Plant, along with Michał Wasiak, a partner in the firm’s Warsaw office, were at the helm of the team for Polish purchaser eSky. They were supported by corporate associate Alex Macdonald, IP […]
Football law has typically been the domain of sports specialists. However, in recent years, there has been a growing number of large, elite firms and chambers entering the football market. Clifford Chance and Freshfields act for Manchester City, and Slaughter and May and Linklaters represent the Premier League. Latham and Watkins worked on the Chelsea […]
A former Ashurst employee has agreed to the outcome of an investigation by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), after he was found to have stolen two laptops and sold them. Irfan Malik, an IT service desk analyst, was accused of removing “two laptops from the firm’s IT storeroom without its knowledge or consent”. The SRA […]