Press Releases

Bradley partner Jason Bushby was quoted in the Mississippi Business Journal on what’s ahead for the mortgage industry. Panelists and participants at the recent American Mortgage Conference identified several key concerns, including servicing. Many anticipate that there will be continuing difficulties related to mortgage servicing enforcement and compliance ...

Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has advised national accountancy and business advisory group Azets on its acquisition of Tait Walker, one of the largest independent accountants and business advisors in the North East of England. tants and business advisors in the North East of England ...

Leading UK law firm Shoosmiths has announced seven new partners in its May promotions round.The promotions are across the firm’s corporate, real estate and business advisory divisions ...

Shoosmiths has advised Hallam Land Management on a strategic land deal that will support the creation of up to 2,170 homes.The deal will see the land promotion business – part of Henry Boot PLC – sell its interest in a 440-acre site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, to Taylor Wimpey UK and Persimmon Homes. Hallam initially acquired its interest in the site in 2013. Since then, it has achieved consent for the development in partnership with the two major PLC housebuilders ...

The Ethereum Enhanced Portfolio is an actively managed fund tracking the price of Ether (ETH). The Renaissance SP is a mixed basket of digital assets that holds weighting among public chain, decentralised finance (DeFi), metaverse, Bitcoin and ETH. The DeFi Tracker SP covers the decentralised finance space ...

Specialising in commercial litigation, Nicholas has experience across a variety of multi-jurisdictional disputes, insolvency and company law related matters. He has also advised liquidators on creditor claims, security issues and trust law ...

On 1 May, long-standing partner David Jackson became Shoosmiths’ CEO.David takes over from Simon Boss, under whose tenure the firm grew substantially. David, like Simon, is now working closely with Shoosmiths’ chairperson Peter Duff and the rest of the senior leadership team to propel Shoosmiths into the next stage of its growth journey ...

Juliane Diefenbach joins as Director of Knowledge Management – Rahel Skau promoted to Director of Legal Tech & Digitalization Juliane Diefenbach started as Director of Knowledge Management effective May 1, 2022. She joined the firm from Dentons, where she had built the Knowledge Management division since 2017, and most recently served as Europe Director of Knowledge. Previously, she had worked at Morrison & Foerster in Business Development and at Hogan Lovells in Knowledge Management ...

03, May 2022. Buchalter is pleased to welcome new Shareholder Leah Lively in the Firm’s Portland office as a member of the Labor & Employment Practice Group. Lively joins from Davis Wright Tremaine. “Leah is an exceptional addition to the Firm,” said Adam Bass, President and Chief Executive Officer of Buchalter. “She comes to us as a highly recognized and respected attorney in the Labor and Employment space ...

Leading lawyer Paula Swain mentored aspiring law and business students this week, as part of an innovative careers event at Solent University, Southampton.Paula, who is head of Shoosmiths’ Solent office and heads the national law firm’s business to business debt recovery team, joined a panel of business leaders from throughout the region including representatives from Southampton FC, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and NatWest at the ‘Your future at work’ themed event ...

Asters defended interests of PrivatBank, Ukraine's largest bank in terms of assets, in a court of appeal in a dispute related to the ownership right over the client's head office building located in Dnipro (Ukraine). In November 2020, the Commercial Court of Dnipropetrovsk region upheld the claim of the company connected with the bank's former owners and top management ...

Bradley is pleased to announce eight of the firm’s Washington, D.C. attorneys have been recognized in the 2022 edition of Washington, D.C. Super Lawyers and the list of “Rising Stars.” “We congratulate this group of attorneys for their well-deserved recognition among their peers in the D.C. area. We are proud of their success and the high level of service they consistently provide their clients,” said Bradley Washington, D.C. Office Managing Partner Douglas L ...

With a team led by Dr. Peter Vocke, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised Silberlake Real Estate Group on the sale of a residential portfolio across six sites in North Rhine-Westphalia. The portfolio was acquired by a consortium consisting of a fund managed by London-based Ares Management Corporation and Forte Capital from Frankfurt am Main. The parties agreed not to disclose the purchase price ...

This year marks the fifth edition of the IFLR1000 Women Leaders list and is the most comprehensive yet, featuring around 1000 lawyers globally. The list recognises elite female lawyers who have outstanding reputations in their markets, and who demonstrate expertise in complex matters and strong leadership. Kate Andrews, who has been listed for the second consecutive year, is featured on the Jersey list ...

On April 26, 2022, Asian Legal Business (ALB) released the shortlist for its China Law Awards 2022 ...

The granting of the CLU by the States of Guernsey's Development & Planning Authority (DPA) is arguably the most significant since the Land Planning and Development (Certificates of Lawful Use) Ordinance, 2019 (2019 Law) came into force, as the law's introduction was largely the result of Stan Brouard having traded for many years as a retail outlet but without the required planning permission for such use ...

Bradley attorneys Bruce Ely, Tiffany Graves and Dawn Sharff were featured in a Birmingham Business Journal article on the firm’s upcoming launch of its Black Small Business and Nonprofit Community Clinic. In partnership with Legal Services Alabama, the new clinic will begin providing free legal services to local Black-owned businesses the fourth Thursday of every month from noon to 1 p.m. starting April 29 ...

Bradley partner Slates Veazey was quoted in the Mississippi Business Journal on interest from entrepreneurs in Mississippi’s newly enacted medical marijuana program. The fairly open medical marijuana law fashioned by Mississippi legislators is drawing large interest from entrepreneurs inside and outside of the state. While opportunities are plentiful, so are the risks, say lawyers helping to guide aspiring medical marijuana businesspeople through the state’s regulatory process ...

With a team led by M&A lawyers Dr. Mathias Schröder, Fabian Becker and Peter Schäffler, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek advised ISOVOLTA Group on the acquisition of all shares in Gurit (Kassel) GmbH from Gurit Holding AG. With around 1,500 employees*, the globally active ISOVOLTA Group is a specialist for electrical insulation materials, technical laminates and composite materials and a partner for more than 20 industries ...

A team led by Cologne-based Partner Dr. Thorsten Kuthe legally advised Geratherm Medical AG on a cash capital increase and assisted the company in its downlisting to Frankfurt Stock Exchange’s Scale segment. The entire transaction consists of several steps, starting with a capital increase under exclusion of subscription rights. The capital increase was fully subscribed by investor JotWe GmbH ...

With a team led by Ulf Christiani, Heuking legally advised transport association Verkehrsverbund Mittelsachsen GmbH on procuring and financing 19 Citylink vehicles for the Chemnitz model. The contracts for the tram trains and their financing were signed at the end of March. The Stadler bidding consortium was awarded the contract for supply and maintenance of the dual-system trams (with an option for more units in the future) ...

Shimon Merkel and Ariane Neubauer of Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek’s Berlin office advised talking hands flipbooks GmbH (“talking hands”), a social startup from the inclusion tech sector, on its seed funding round. talking hands produces learning materials to popularize sign language in the form of small films in flipbooks, which are primarily used in educational institutions such as daycare centers and elementary schools, thus promoting communication opportunities for children with disabilities ...

Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP has promoted five of its lawyers to Partner, six to Legal Director and six to Associate, 10 of whom began their legal careers as trainees of the firm. The promotions will take effect on 1 May. The newly-assumed Partners are Alison Rochester (media and technology), Susan Swan (infrastructure), Leigh Herd (property and infrastructure disputes), Stephanie Hepburn (commercial disputes) and Nathaniel Buckingham (property and infrastructure disputes) ...

The awards gala, held at the end of last week at the Intercontinental Hotel in Madrid, Spain, recognised international law firms' pre-eminence and achievements over the past 12 months. Winners were selected across 30 categories following in-depth independent research and analysis, conducted by an experienced team of more than 200 researchers, whose rigorous selection process included interviewing referees and clients from every shortlisted firm ...

The open-ended platform makes use of Jersey's incorporated cell regime, with each of the two existing and future trading strategies (currently BTC Smart Beta and BTC Tracker) housed within a different cell. The Carey Olsen team was led by corporate partner Chris Griffin, assisted by senior associate Sophie Hancock and associate Daniel Burridge.Chris said: "The Altis/Blockchain ...