A Reed Smith partner is leaving the US firm’s London outpost to join the in-house legal team at Glencore Energy. Partner Karen Ellison will leave the firm after just over a year as a partner, having been made up in 2020. A lawyer in the energy and natural resources group, she joined as a trainee […]
Last month, Cooley unveiled its first revenue dip since it opened in the City in 2015. Behind that lies a major tussle over firm strategy – and in particular, its relationship with one of the most powerful companies in the world.
The UK’s authorisation of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is the latest development in a nine-month long mandate for Clifford Chance’s IP team.
Osborne Clarke is hiring a Bird & Bird partner, just months after Stephenson Harwood said it was hiring IP specialist Tim Harris. In September, Stephenson Harwood released a statement on the hire of Harris, in which IP partner Alexandra Pygall said: “Adding a lawyer of Tim’s calibre, with heavyweight patent litigation experience, strengthens our existing […]
Kirkland & Ellis has filed a second claim against online supermarket and retailer Ocado on behalf of its client AutoStore. In October, AutoStore instructed the US firm as it alleged Ocado unlawfully sold its technology – with parallel claims filed in the UK and US. This claim relates to patents Ocado filed in 2014, with […]
Kirkland & Ellis has filed a claim on behalf of AutoStore against online grocery giant Ocado, alleging that it unlawfully sold its technology. AutoStore is suing Ocado in parallel claims in the UK and US over the alleged breach, filing papers at the High Court in London and the International Trade Commission in the US. […]
The chair of Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP)’s global data privacy and security practice has joined Greenberg Traurig in the US, alongside a partner and an associate in his team. The duo includes Colorado-based partner David Zetoony, who will join Greenberg’s Denver office and Chicago-based partner Jena Valdetero, who will keep practising in the same […]
Stephenson Harwood has pulled of its second lateral hire in a matter of weeks, this time bringing in an IP partner from Bird & Bird. The firm has hired partner Tim Harris, who spent over 13 years at its UK rival. The lawyer, who joined Bird & Bird as an associate in 2007 and became […]
Chinese telecoms giants Huawei and ZTE have lost out in a major Supreme Court decision over the infringement of patents and how corporates enter into global licensing arrangements. Huawei was appealing against previous decisions made in favour of Conversant and Unwired Planet. In one of The Lawyer’s Top 20 cases for 2019, Huawei and ZTE […]
Pinsent Masons’ cyber head has left the firm, joining Clyde & Co alongside an associate from his team. Ian Birdsey joins Clydes in London after eight years at Pinsent Masons and was made partner in 2016. Seaton Gordon, who is an associate in Birdsey’s team, is also joining Clydes. Birdsey advises corporate, SME and insurer […]
Another IP partner has left Cooley in the wake of a nine-lawyer exodus at the end of June. IP partner Charlie Winckworth, who joined Cooley at the start of last year from Hogan Lovells, has left the firm. He leaves one week after Cooley lost fellow IP partner Nick Bolter, four associates, a paralegal, and three […]
Morgan Lewis & Bockius has hired a team of nine from Cooley’s London office, in a move intended to boost its IP capabilities. The US firm has taken on a group led by IP partner Nick Bolter, who has been with Cooley since its London launch. He joins alongside four associates, a paralegal, and three […]