Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have won the top roles for luxury car brand Aston Martin as it unveils plans to float on the London Stock Exchange. Aston Martin turned to a team from Slaughter and May, led by partner Nilufer von Bismarck, working with partners Roland Turnill, Filippo de Falco, Jonathan Fenn and Steve Edge. The […]
Rolls-Royce has invited firms to bid for a place on its global legal panel, five years after it last reshuffled its roster, The Lawyer can reveal. The Lawyer understands that firms were first invited to submit their bids in March, with the deadline fast approaching. The panel process has been kept highly confidential, with firms required to […]
EE’s former legal chief James Blendis has resurfaced at Renault Nissan, where he has joined as the company’s UK and Ireland general counsel. Blendis left EE at the start of this year after five years as mobile operator EE’s general counsel. His move followed the acquisition of EE by BT, which saw EE’s in-house team […]
Slaughter and May is representing UK transport company FirstGroup, as it holds its ground in rejecting a takeover approach from American private equity house Apollo Management.
Schoenherr has secured a significant victory for the Vienna International Airport (“VIE”) and the province of Lower Austria in the proceedings for the third runway at the airport. Together with his team, Schoenherr partner Christian Schmelz succeeded in persuading the Federal Administrative Court to confirm the environmental impact assessment (“EIA”) authorisation, which is thus legally […]
International Law firm Gowling WLG, in collaboration with the London Transport Museum, Arup and Thales UK, has brought together more than 60 leading thinkers and decision makers in the transport industry to consider the challenges and opportunities facing city transport systems and infrastructure in the UK. The findings, published today in Rethinking Urban Mobility: Three questions that will shape the future […]
Until the end of 2017 Ece Gürsoy was chief legal officer and company secretary of renewables company Lightsource. For six years, she helped the company become the leading utility scale solar power generator in the UK. Gürsoy joined the company in 2011. Having started her life in law practising in Turkey, she requalifyed as […]
On December 30, 2017, Beijing’s first medium-low speed maglev line S1 with independent intellectual property started its trial operation officially. Li Dongming, Li Jian and Yang Lu from East & Concord’s Beijing Office provided legal advice on the investment and construction of the project. The magnetic levitation S1 line is a demonstration line of medium-low […]
Mitsubishi Motors UK’s legal team will be led by a new general counsel from the start of 2018.
The High Court will today hear a judicial review into whether Monarch Airlines should be able to sell its remaining airport landing slots after the budget carrier collapsed last month.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has been drafted in by the administrators of Monarch Airlines, as the UK budget carrier collapses.
Clyde & Co has failed to dismiss allegations against a client accused of deliberately scuttling a vessel to recover $22m (£17m) in insurance.