Simon Petersen

March 17, 2011 | International Edition

Squire Sanders Hammonds has announced its first partner promotions since the firm's transatlantic merger, with 18 lawyers made up to the partnership. The bulk of the new promotions come in the UK, with five in the City and two in Leeds. In legacy Hammonds' last promotion round, no London lawyers were made up in a global round of eight. The remaining 11 promotions in this year's round are spread across the firm's Cleveland, Phoenix, Prague, Columbus, Madrid and Brussels offices.

By Simon Petersen

3 minute read

March 16, 2011 | International Edition

Burges Salmon corporate finance partner Alan Barr is set to take over as the national firm's new senior partner following an uncontested election. Barr will take up the post at the Bristol-based firm on 1 May for a four-year term, replacing current senior partner Stephen McNulty in the role.

By Simon Petersen

2 minute read

March 16, 2011 | International Edition

The long delayed agreement to create a single European patent has this month received a downbeat reaction, with intellectual property (IP) advisers arguing that legal opposition to a European Union-wide patent court will hamstring the venture. Ministers from 25 EU states on 10 March approved the creation of a single European patent - a unitary title set to operate across much of the EU. The move has been hailed by supporters as a step forward in the decades-long fight to streamline Europe's patchwork patent regime.

By Simon Petersen

4 minute read

March 16, 2011 | International Edition

The Tchenguiz brothers are free to push ahead with claims worth more than £1bn against failed Icelandic bank Kaupthing in the English courts, after a ruling earlier today which handed roles to a trio of firms. Mr Justice Burton today (16 March) dismissed Kaupthing's attempts to strike out the claims and challenge the jurisdiction of the English court, paving the way for the English High Court to hear damages claims by the Tchenguiz Family Trust and the Tchenguiz Discretionary Trust, together worth more than £1bn.

By Simon Petersen

3 minute read

March 16, 2011 | International Edition

Maclay Murray & Spens has boosted its Aberdeen energy practice with the hire of Shepherd and Wedderburn partner Richard Cockburn. Cockburn, who specialises in utilities regulation as well as commercial and competition law within the energy sector, has a particular focus on renewable energy and gas work. He is joining Maclays imminently, and his hire takes the number of partners in the Scottish firm's Aberdeen office to eight.

By Simon Petersen

2 minute read

October 20, 2011 | Law.com

Leading Chinese firm Jun He Law Offices has bolstered its Beijing corporate practice with a hire from Weil Gotshal, marking the firm's fourth new partner addition since August. Jasson Han's move is the latest in a spree of hires for the Beijing-based firm, which recently boosted its Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York offices.

By Simon Petersen

2 minute read

August 17, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Simon Petersen

2 minute read

November 04, 2011 | Law.com

Gibson Dunn has recruited O'Melveny's Hong Kong office head Yi Zhang and Reed Smith partner Graham Winter as it seeks approval to convert its Hong Kong base into a local solicitors firm. Until then, Winter, admitted as a Hong Kong solicitor in 1992, will form a separate firm that will practice in association with Gibson Dunn.

By Simon Petersen

2 minute read

November 07, 2011 | Law.com

Half of the U.K.'s top 30 law firms are either de-equitizing partners or considering it, according to new research, which found that of the 20 firms that completed the survey, nine were already in the process of de-equitizing partners, and another six expected to consider it during the current financial year.

By Simon Petersen

2 minute read

August 19, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Simon Petersen

2 minute read