Dentons turnover for its UK and Middle East regions dropped 4 per cent over 2019/20, with the firm generating just over £221m. The dip follows a 13 per cent rise over 2018/19 in what was the firm’s first full financial year since its merger with Scottish outfit Maclay Murray & Spens, when revenue reached £229.8m […]
Dentons is to shut its Aberdeen and Watford offices, with its employees and partners set to work from home permanently from now on. The firm will vacate the two premises, with all partners and employees (consisting of 66 people all together) set to permanently work from home. The Aberdeen and Watford employees will remain at […]
I hope that 2020 will be remembered as the year that uncomfortable but important conversations were propelled into the spotlight. Events of the last two months have forced leaders to look at what we can – and must – do better. As the managing partner of the largest office of a major international firm and […]
The UK’s decision to ban Huawei’s role in the 5G network rollout signalled a political U-turn towards the second largest economy.
The Romanian legislation on the sale of farmland has been significantly amended. The new provisions were enacted with the declared aim of consolidating the Romanian agricultural real estate market and increasing the use of farmland for agriculture instead of speculative investment. It is expected that the new regulation will mainly lead to restrictions on the access of foreigners to Romanian agricultural real estate, which could raise concerns about its compatibility with EU legislation.
The new Montenegrin Companies Act which entered into force on 11 July 2020, is an innovative and thoroughgoing codification of Montenegrin Corporate Law. The legislator opted for a comprehensive legal instrument which, compared to the previous law, contains more detailed and exhaustive rules determining the establishment, management, restructuring, termination and functioning of business entities.
The General Court (GC) of the European Union ruled in favour of Apple in the state aid case regarding Apple’s Irish tax structure, annulling the 2016 decision of the European Commission (EC). As a result, Ireland is at present not obliged to reclaim the amount of EUR 13 billion from Apple. The decision is not yet final due to the EC’s right to appeal.
The Supreme Court of the Czech Republic recently issued an interesting decision concerning the employment of a managing director and an accident at work. It should be noted that this decision does not relate to a long-term problem with the concurrence of functions, i.e. the (im)possibility of performing the function of a managing director in an employment relationship, but reflects a situation where the managing director performs non-parallel work, i.e. work outside the function of a statutory body.
Austria Statutory Moratorium on repayment of loans taken out by consumers and micro enterprises (enterprises with less than 10 employees and annual turnover/annual balance sheet not more than EUR 2 million) before 15 March 2020, resulting in extension of payment dates falling in the months of April, May or June 2020, by 3 months. During […]
1 Financial Support Measures 1.1 Corona Relief Fund 21/07: guidelines for grants for site-relevant companies effective as of 22/07. Grants to be issued by COFAG to i.a. companies in the sectors of infrastructure, energy, telecommunication. 25/05: guideline for grants for fixed costs effective as of 26/05. 23/05: EU Commission greenlights Austrian scheme allowing grants […]
There have been several changes to the planning system in recent months, reflecting the response to Covid-19 and most recently in support of the Prime Minister’s evocation to ‘build, build, build’.
Remember the wearable tech fail of Google Glass? Legal tech should never be about tech for tech’s sake. It needs to serve your business’ needs, so you can tackle the challenges you face head on smarter, faster and better.
The Department for Social Security or more commonly referred to as ‘DSS’, was the government department responsible for providing benefit payments. The department was however replaced in 2001 by the Department of Work and Pensions. In the case of Rosie Keogh v Nicholas George Ltd, the complainant contacted a local letting agent regarding a property […]
In a recent decision (4A_613/2019, 11 May 2020), the Swiss Federal Supreme Court (Supreme Court) followed the practice of the Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO) as it held that the singling out of single features from two separate lists of features and therefore the combination of these two specific features constitutes an extension of the subject-matter of the patent application leading to its nullity.
In March 2020, the CMA established a dedicated COVID-19 taskforce to identify, monitor and respond to competition and consumer concerns arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the task force has already been contacted more than 80,000 times.
Dentons turnover for its UK and Middle East regions dropped 4 per cent over 2019/20, with the firm generating just over £221m. The dip follows a 13 per cent rise over 2018/19 in what was the firm’s first full financial year since its merger with Scottish outfit Maclay Murray & Spens, when revenue reached £229.8m […]
Dentons is to shut its Aberdeen and Watford offices, with its employees and partners set to work from home permanently from now on. The firm will vacate the two premises, with all partners and employees (consisting of 66 people all together) set to permanently work from home. The Aberdeen and Watford employees will remain at […]
I hope that 2020 will be remembered as the year that uncomfortable but important conversations were propelled into the spotlight. Events of the last two months have forced leaders to look at what we can – and must – do better. As the managing partner of the largest office of a major international firm and […]
The UK’s decision to ban Huawei’s role in the 5G network rollout signalled a political U-turn towards the second largest economy.
Let go of the past! And those strategies you worked so hard on? Park them.
Firms will make smart choices when their next office move comes Attention has been focused on law firms’ own real estate ever since the pandemic began and there were plenty of developments this week, with Milbank delaying its office move to 100 Liverpool Street, Freshfields scheming how its move into 100 Bishopsgate will work, Stephenson Harwood […]
Up to 110 jobs are at risk of redundancy at Irwin Mitchell after the firm indicated it was responding to the long-term change in working patterns triggered by Covid-19. The national outfit today announced the next phase of its response to the pandemic, claiming that redundancy consultations are a direct result of an increased shift […]
A partner at RPC has left the firm after three years, following accusations that she concealed information in order to fool her own client. Nicola Cain, who joined the firm in 2017 from the BBC, was acting for former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and his company, Orbis Business Intelligence. Steele was defending a claim brought […]
Herbert Smith Freehills is acting for Chelsea’s former manager Antonio Conte in a dispute against a UK-based asset management company and its director. While representing Conte and seven other investors during a hearing in July, HSF partner Chris Bushell was successful in convincing the commercial court that it should grant a freezing order against Kidman […]
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Milbank has delayed the move into its new 100 Liverpool Street HQ while it waits for the new office to be fully completed. The Lawyer understands that the firm has renegotiated an extension of its lease at 10 Gresham Street with its landlords till the end of the year, while the fit-out at its new […]
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