Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May are among the firms to have been appointed to a new legal roster announced by Government-owned British Business Bank, which provides support to small businesses. Clifford Chance and Slaughter and May have made the list on the specific structured finance panel, alongside Ashurst, Norton Rose Fulbright and Simmons and […]
Deloitte Legal likes to make a lot of noise about its dabbling in the legal sphere. The 2020 acquisition of Kemp Little was proclaimed as “ground-breaking” by the auditing giant. More recently, the 2023 hire of a four-partner real estate team from Shoosmiths suggested a significant gearshift in its legal operations. Pre-pandemic, such a move […]
The High Court has approved a bankruptcy order against the former boss of collapsed firm Axiom Ince, following a final hearing this morning. The administrators of the Ince Gordon Dadds entity, known as IGD Realisations, filed a creditors’ bankruptcy petition last month against Axiom Ince’s former managing partner Pragnesh Modhwadia. Ince Gordon Dadds was bought out […]
The total cost for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) has already seen an increase of 11 per cent in the first two years of its rollout…and that’s just the exam fees. Firms and candidates alike are bemoaning the hidden costs the SQE can bring on top of the price of the exam and law school. Law school historically […]
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Name: Karl Jansen Organisation: Freeths Role: National managing partner Based: Nottingham Trained at: Davies Arnold Cooper Year qualified: 1990 What’s your most vivid memory from being a trainee? Although I’m showing my age, it has to be the many hours spent at the fax machine! That apart, I really enjoyed my articles (showing my age […]
As UK law firms continue to review their family support packages for staff, CMS has introduced a foster care policy for its UK employees and widened its family support initiatives. The policy offers up to 10 days’ leave for planned permanent placements to help children settle into their new homes and up to five days’ […]
Mishcon de Reya’s head of international arbitration, Louis Flannery KC, is set to move to Littleton Chambers in August 2024. Flannery, who was appointed as a silk in 2018 as one of a few international arbitration solicitor practitioners, joined Mishcon’s partnership in May 2020. At the time of his joining, the practice was led by […]
Eversheds Sutherland is set to close in Berlin after a thorough review of its German business. Berlin is a relatively small office for Eversheds, housing 14 lawyers and business services staff in total. Of those, two are partners in Carsten Brüninghaus (tax) and Christian Hilpert (restructuring, and banking and finance). Hilpert is not a full-time […]
SRA files new claim over Axiom Ince collapse The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has filed a new matter with the courts. Listed on the public filing system against the former boss of collapsed firm Axiom Ince, Pragnesh Modhwadia, the suit is listed as a Part 8 miscellaneous matter, which usually seeks the court’s decision on […]
Mammoth Glencore securities litigation goes for first CMC Hundreds of claimants participate in five separate matters, with representation from Stewarts, Pallas Partners, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, BCLP and Fox Williams. The Glencore group action is a mammoth case, due to go before the Business and Property Courts for a three-day CMC beginning tomorrow (21 […]
A long-running negligence claim launched by an ex-KPMG Singapore partner against Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has taken a new turn after “marked inconstancies” were alleged against a key witness of the firm. The claimant in the proceedings is KPMG’s ex-head of restructuring, Graham Martin, who instructed HSF in 2017 to challenge a worldwide freezing order […]
No sooner had Freshfields confirmed its salary rise, Quinn Emanuel swooped in and stole its thunder. It’s a bold move that will cost the firm millions more each year.
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