Allen & Overy (A&O) has added a new client to its expanding airlines practice after beating competitors including Clifford Chance to an instruction from Oman Aviation Services Company.A&O’s New York office has closed the airline’s first deal with the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank), the US’s official export credit agency. Ex-Im financed […]
Field Fisher Waterhouse has struck the first blow actng for Accenture subsidiary Navitaire in the case that will decide the future of EasyJet’s internet booking system.Herbert Smith, advising EasyJet, applied to have the copyright case struck out, but High Court judge Mr Justice Pumfrey last week ruled that the case will go to full trial.Field […]
Denton Wilde Sapte’s former head of aviation Colin Thaine (left) has joined Airbus’s financing arm Avion Capital after being on secondment at the company since the middle of last year. He has been appointed chief executive of the new financing arm. Denton Wilde Sapte is now one of the advisers to Avion Capital, after acting […]
Even after the merger, P&O Princess Cruises and Carnival are still separate. Brendan Malkin finds out how P&O counsel Tony Kaufman keeps it all together For a year and a half Tony Kaufman, P&O Princess Cruises head of legal, worked 16 hours a day on one of the most complex transactions imaginable – the merger […]
Wedlake Bell is hoping to get a share of airline industry work after hiring British Airways (BA) senior employment lawyer Jo Pawley. Pawley returns to private practice after more than seven years in the role at BA. She was originally seconded from Osborne Clarke. Wedlake Bell is not one of BA’s panel firms, but Pawley […]
Allen & Overy’s (A&O) London office has advised on its first deal for the Export-Import Bank of Korea (Eximbank). A team, led by London partner David Smith and Hong Kong-based Simon Black, has advised the bank on its first structured ship financing for international customers in relation to nine container vessels, totalling $431m (£257.9m). A&O […]
Eversheds‘ Singapore best friend Khattar Wong & Partners (KWP) has this week lost a partner and an associate, the latest in a string of defections over the past few months. Coudert Brothers has taken on shipping litigation partner Sin Lye Kuen to bolster the arbitration and litigation department. Also defecting to Couderts is fellow litigator […]
Holman Fenwick & Willan has elected partners for its restructured management group. This follows the election of Greg Gray to the firm’s new position of managing partner. Hugh Livingstone now heads the shipping group, Noel Campbell the commercial practice group, former member of the House of Lords Robin Byron leads the trade and energy group, […]
Stephen Walsh left BA to become a one-man legal engine room at Associated British Ports. Brendan Malkin reports Luckily for Stephen Walsh, his first major piece of work after joining Associated British Ports (ABP) a year ago was handling the sale of several airfields that formed part of ABP’s modest US operation Amports. Eleven years […]
Norton Rose has been taken off London’s largest ever arbitration, on behalf of Sembawang Shipyard, and has been replaced by six-partner niche shipping firm Curtis Davis Garrard. The scale of the case, named Solitaire after the bulk carrier vessel at the centre of it, has been a thorn in the side of the parties concerned, […]
For theatre engineering group Stage Technologies, the important thing is that the show must go on. But that doesn’t leave much time for legal wranglings. Julia Cahill reports You may never have heard of Stage Technologies, but if you’ve been to the Royal Opera House, seen My Fair Lady, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang or Bombay […]
Allen & Overy (A&O) has scooped the role of European counsel to Australia’s national airline and flag carrier Qantas after beating Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in a pitch. Having flown jets made by US manufacturer Boeing for its entire history, Qantas has switched to French rival Airbus, prompting the airline to conduct a tender for European […]