Addleshaws, Ashurst, DLA and Eversheds Sutherland chosen for DfT’s first rail panel Kathryn McCann Addleshaw Goddard, Ashurst, DLA Piper and Eversheds Sutherland were selected last month to tier one of the Department for Transport…
High-stakes: White-collar crime teams ready as SFO hits Barclays with landmark prosecution Legal Business White collar specialists scramble in landmark prosecution White-collar crime specialists have scrambled across the City as the Serious Fraud Office…
‘Should be the end of the proposal’: Queen’s Speech reprieve for SFO as abolition move recedes Legal Business Theresa May’s Conservative manifesto pledge to subsume the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into the National Crime Agency (NCA) was absent…
Cleary, CC and Covington lead as EC fines Google €2.4bn for online shopping abuse of dominance Tom Baker Google illegally favoured own online shopping comparison service, demoting rivals On 27 June, the European Commission (EC) fined Google a…
‘Cavalier’: former Clyde & Co litigator struck off roll after string of misleading failures Legal Business The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) has struck off former Clyde & Co senior associate Rajpal Ahluwalia from the roll and…
S&C and Wachtell lead on Amazon’s $13.7bn Whole Foods buyout Tom Baker Amazon moves into food sector with swoop on 460 shops Sullivan & Cromwell and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz led…
‘Hugely complicated’: Watson Farley, White & Case, A&O line up on $14bn shipping deal Tom Baker Watson Farley & Williams has advised a group of 27 international and local banks acting as financiers on a $14bn…
Linklaters advises L’Oréal on €1bn Body Shop sale Madeleine Farman Linklaters, Davis Polk & Wardwell and Baker McKenzie led as L’Oréal looked to sell The Body Shop for €1bn to…
‘Most important strategic step’: DWF breaks into Asia with Singapore start-up Legal Business DWF takes on four-lawyer Singapore Eversheds team to set up new regional hub DWF has broken into Asia for the…
Hogan Lovells opens new Boston office in Collora buyout Legal Business Hogan Lovells is acquiring Boston-based litigation and investigations firm Collora on 1 September, taking on 15 partners in a move…
Life during law: Lee Ranson, Eversheds Sutherland Georgiana Tudor When I was 11-years old a teacher asked us to write down what we were going to do when we…
Freshfields to deploy second-tier lockstep for more partners as profit drive continues Madeleine Farman As Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer continues its profitability drive, almost a quarter of the global partnership is expected to be on…
Simmons amends partnership deed following A&O departures Georgiana Tudor While Herbert Smith Freehills became embroiled in a very public court battle over a team defection to White & Case…
Simmons amends partnership deed following A&O departures Georgiana Tudor While Herbert Smith Freehills became embroiled in a very public court battle over a team defection to White & Case…
GCs take on corporate sustainability briefs as plcs strive to protect brands James Wood Angry shareholders, rising demands for transparency, tougher regulation, declining trust in business and the need to access new markets. Just…
GC for National Grid spin-off to overhaul adviser roster this year Tom Baker Following National Grid’s £13.8bn separation of its gas distribution business to create Cadent, general counsel Mark Cooper will hold a…
‘Fiddling around the edges’: CC votes for more lockstep reform to keep pace Georgiana Tudor Partnership votes to raise compensation levels two years after last shake-up In its most recent bid to compete with high-paying…
End of the carrot and stick? Litigators react to legal privilege implications in SFO case Tom Baker Last month the High Court ruled that documents prepared by mining giant Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) relating to a…
City partners react to Conservative manifesto Tom Baker Serious Fraud Office to be absorbed by National Crime Agency The proposed scrapping of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and…
News in brief – June 2017 Legal Business WHITE & CASE’S YOULE EXITS FOR SKADDEN In a major blow for White & Case’s City private equity practice, EMEA…
