Law in international waters raises complex questions over environmental issues, ownership and responsibility. In this week’s edition of Spotlight, we’re turning our attention to HFW’s admiralty and crisis management team, with offices across key ports and 10 master mariners aboard. The market: For HFW’s admiralty and crisis management team, a broad client base means a […]
Last summer, The Lawyer reported that Paul Hastings was on the hunt for growth in its Paris office and this year, the firm made its move in one of the French capital’s hottest markets. With white collar boutique Antonin Lévy & Associés joining Paul Hastings last month, we look at how the team sets itself […]
Clifford Chance has said it is “heartbroken” at the passing of New York litigator Christopher Morvillo after Mike Lynch’s superyacht sank this week, while DWF has said its former chair Jonathan Bloomer will be “sorely missed”. Clifford Chance partner Morvillo was one of six individuals who went missing after the Bayesian sank this week. Invited aboard […]
The Post Office paid out a quarter of a billion pounds in legal fees in relation to the Horizon IT scandal, The Lawyer can reveal. A Freedom of Information request made by The Lawyer to the Post Office has revealed £256.9m was paid to 15 law firms and two barristers’ chambers between September 2014 and […]
Two former directors of retailer BHS have been found liable for over £110m in a judgment handed down yesterday (19 August) by Mr Justice Leech at the High Court. This comes as part of one of the largest insolvency litigation set pieces that went to trial through the end of last year and the beginning […]
US giant Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has been referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over allegations relating to failures with anti-money laundering regulations. The SRA alleges that Simpson Thacher failed to have in place a compliant “Firm Wide Risk Assessment” (FWRA) between 2017 and 2023, and between 2017 […]
Insurance giant Clyde & Co is cutting its Northern Irish presence in half, The Lawyer can reveal, closing one of its two offices in the region later this year. Clydes is preparing to wind down its Derry/Londonderry office when the lease ends later in 2024. The firm inherited the Derry/Londonderry base through its merger with […]
A key member of Hamlins’ media and entertainment team has been referred to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) by the legal regulator with “a case to answer”. Christopher Hutchings, who launched Hamlins’ highly successful media team 13 years ago, is alleged to have made “assertions which were false and/or misleading including as to the strength […]
DAC Beachcroft (DACB) recorded its 10th year of consecutive growth for 2023/24, while leadership remains open to third-party investment after talks to sell off its Claims Solutions Group broke down last summer. Over 2023/24, DACB’s revenue broke through the £300m mark with a 9 per cent revenue uplift to £326.5m. Profits saw growth too, increasing […]
A barrister, condemned by an MP over his tweets following the Southport attacks, has left Radcliffe Chambers after 13 years. Steven Barrett, who practises in commercial litigation and writes for The Spectator, is no longer a member of Radcliffe Chambers. According to his LinkedIn profile, Barrett left Radcliffe Chambers this month (August), drawing his career […]
Welcome to The Passport, your regular round-up of the most important stories to come from the European legal market. In this edition, we introduce you to Mayer Brown’s new Paris team and tell you how the personal relationships sealed the deal; what the freshly de-merged CGR Avocats means when it talks about being a “last […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s “professional connections” with an arbitrator led to apparent bias in an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) case, a High Court judge has ruled. Aiteo, Africa’s largest private integrated energy company, brought a challenge before the English High Court alleging a “serious irregularity” after the ICC issued four arbitration awards against it between […]