FRESHFIELDS AND LATHAM ADVISE ON BARCLAYS SPIN OFF Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Latham & Watkins have acted on the spin-off of Barclays’ natural resources private equity arm in a management buyout. Barclays Natural Resources Investments was purchased by its managers after being placed into Barclays’ non-core asset pile following a restructuring last year. Freshfields acted …
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Manchester, mergers and management merry-go-rounds – 2015 has been as tumultuous a year as any in recent memory. In our annual review, law firm leaders reflect on what has happened and look ahead to 2016 EXCITING TIMES ‘Understandable client nervousness about China and markets generally meant that the busy autumn period got off to a …
Disillusionment within the England and Wales judiciary was laid bare by the findings of the UK Judicial Attitude Survey in February this year. Pay freezes, pension cuts and increased workload have evidently soured the mood at the bench. The survey, carried out by the UCL Judicial Institute, indicated that 86% of judges who had been …
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Herbert Smith Freehills’ Tim Parkes welcomes the overdue launch of London’s financial court but warns of the dangers of test cases Not before time, the English court system will soon add to its stable of specialist courts a Financial List, to deal with major banking and other financial disputes. This is a positive illustration of …
Arbitration specialists gathered for our first summit in London in September. Read full coverage of the key debates.
SLAUGHTER AND MAY WIPES £600M OFF BA SUIT Litigators at Slaughter and May have successfully struck out around £600m from a claim against client British Airways. The airline is one of several airlines facing a cartel damages action from flower importer Emerald Supplies and 564 other shippers. In October the Court of Appeal disagreed with …
Interviewed for our annual in-house report, general counsel at leading companies give us their views on diversity, ethics and joining the c-suite LOOKING GOOD ‘When I was a young lawyer, I remember working with an outside counsel and I said to him: “What’s your job versus my job?” He said: “My job is to make …
