The business law firms Heenan Paris and Thomson Wilks have announced the signing of their strategic and exclusive alliance to strengthen their activities respectively in Anglophone and Francophone Africa and to consolidate their practices. Heenan Paris has a strong expertise in Africa and particularly in development projects and project financing. Its teams advise the […]
The Government has established two new panels anticipated to start late November – one of them covering general legal services which is worth £320mil and an additional one covering financial and highly complex transactions which is worth £90mil, both expected to last four years. Reviewed by the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), the panel for general […]
Cooley London advised the shareholders of SwiftKey, including the founders Jon Reynolds and Ben Medlock and investors such as Accel Partners, Index Ventures and Octopus Investments on its acquisition by Microsoft. David Bresnick, London based partner in Cooley’s corporate team commented on the acquisition: “Given the number of parties involved and the short timeframe we […]
Five people, two of which former GlaxoSmithKline researchers, were charged with stealing cancer research secrets from the British pharmaceutical company according to indictments announced by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia last week. The stolen information on drugs, which they were intending to sell to China, is believed to potentially be worth hundreds of millions […]
The news of a young woman being duped into handing over £1.35 million to a person purporting to be the legal owner of the property was reported in the Daily Mail last week. It serves as another stark reminder of the risk of fraud in the conveyancing sector. Maud Rousseau, Group Marketing and Communications […]
International dispute resolution funder Vannin Capital, has this week published the second report in its Funding in Focus series focused on providing insights, case studies and independent opinions on the high growth area of third party litigation funding (“TPLF”) in key global markets and sectors. Capturing the views of a broad range of stakeholders, […]
Running a law office does not only mean winning new clients and providing services but also administrative work which is often laborious and time-consuming. Sometimes, instead of focusing on things really important in their job, lawyers are condemned to many hours of documenting, checking e-mails, contact details management, settlements, and running records concerning their employees.
BPP University is teaming up with CIS London & Partners to offer senior legal managers, based in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the unique opportunity to study BPP University’s exclusive MBA (Legal Services). The MBA (Legal Services) programme will be delivered by BPP University, who exclusively trains over 45 leading UK and […]
Jones Day is advising Southern Company (NYSE: SO) in its acquisition of AGL Resources (NYSE: GAS) in a cash transaction with an enterprise value of approximately $12 billion, including total equity value of approximately $8 billion. The transaction is structured as a reverse triangular merger pursuant to which AGL will become a wholly owned subsidiary […]
Solicitors' role in protecting human rights is key when advising UK companies on their conduct at home and abroad, the Law Society will say today (15th September). The representative body for solicitors will announce that human rights in business operations of all sizes is becoming increasingly important. Business and human rights is the concept […]
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