The BBC has released its highest-paid earners for 2021/22, identifying six lawyers within the top payment brackets. The highest paid is Sarah Jones, the BBC’s group general counsel identified as taking home between £310,000-£314,999, according to the report. Jones has been with the corporation for north of 26 years, having previously studied at Oxford University […]
Sky Group’s general counsel has left the business, leading to the appointment of a new legal head at the broadcasting company. Niamh Grogan has joined Sky as its new group general counsel after leaving multinational insurance adviser Willis Towers Watson. There, she was its global deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer for more than […]
Pharmaceutical research and analytics group Pharma Intelligence has appointed a new general counsel. Vicky Harris comes from Warburg Pincus where she was a consultant. She moves into her role as general counsel for Pharma Intelligence, given that the acquisition of the business by the private house has now completed. In February this year, The Lawyer reported that […]
Litigators from RPC and Matrix Chambers debated with a 5RB silk over the future of libel law yesterday, in an evidence session before the UK Parliament’s Justice Committee. The one-off hearing was held to investigate potential reform concerning strategic lawsuits against public participation – known in the United States as SLAPPs – something that the […]
Squire Patton Boggs has recruited its first UK head of data protection, information law and cyber security in a bid to grow out the practice. David Naylor joins the firm from Wiggin, where he served as the head of its data protection, information law and cybersecurity practice and was former co-head of its technology practice. […]
A partner from Norton Rose Fulbright’s technology, media and telecoms team has joined Clifford Chance, making him the firm’s second City lateral hire in five months. Zayed Al Jamil is expected to join Clifford Chance on 1 May. He has spent more than five years at Norton Rose Fulbright, making partner in 2021. At Norton […]
Singapore-based crypto trading firm Amber Group has appointed its first GC for the EMEA region. Ehsan Haque joined the firm this month and is expected to work closely with the firm’s chief operating officer Wayne Huo in managing the company’s legal and regulatory risk groups, as well as expand its relationship with local regulators. Haque […]
As individual lawyers are being named in the Commons over advice provided to oligarch clients, scrutiny around London’s role as a hub for privacy and libel disputes grows increasingly intense. Last month the Supreme Court decided to dismiss Bloomberg’s appeal against a claim brought over the misuse of private information. The case concerned an article […]
Simmons & Simmons is launching on the US’ West Coast, hiring the head of Osborne Clarke’s Silicon Valley office. The new office in the San Francisco Bay area will not be practising US law. Simmons has hired Emily Jones for the launch, who has been at Osborne Clarke for nearly twenty years and moved to […]
Clifford Chance and Kirkland & Ellis are the two firms to have inked the sale of Pharma Intelligence from Informa to New-York based private equity group Warburg Pincus. The £1.9bn cash sale comes after Informa announced in December 2021 it would divest from its intelligence portfolio and solely focus on its events and academic publishing […]
FTSE 250 software company Micro Focus has hired a new chief legal officer from Bupa. Janet McCarthy makes the move after four years as Bupa’s group legal director. She starts her role on 10 March. Prior to Bupa, McCarthy held several other in-house roles at Santa Fe Group, Metalor Technologies and Mitsui & Co, based […]
In the first of a series of articles, TLT introduces the Law Society’s recently updated Blockchain Guidance and the impact this new technology will have across our sectors.