Kirkland & Ellis is hiring a new partner from Clifford Chance, in a move that will grow its outsourcing and technology expertise in London. André Duminy joins Kirkland after nearly 25 years at Clifford Chance, where he is head of its London tech and digital group and co-head of the strategic sourcing and complex contracting […]
Browne Jacobson has taken a team of five lawyers, including two partners, from EY in London as it looks to grow in the UK capital. Rowan Armstrong and Alex Mason are both commercial tech specialists. They are set to join Browne Jacobson in June, along with a legal director and two associates. Both Armstrong and Mason […]
Online fast fashion retailer Shein has hired Yinan Zhu as its new general counsel (GC) of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Zhu, who has joined from My Inhouse Lawyer after a three-year stint as principal, has been brought in to support the company’s activity in the region. She began her career as an associate […]
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.
In the first half of 2021, £355 million was lost to authorised push payment (APP) fraud. This compares to £208 million in the first half of 2020. As a result, APP fraud losses now exceed card fraud losses for the first time. This significant growth in sums lost to APP fraud comes despite the successful introduction of phase 1 of Confirmation of Payee.
The CMA recently launched its much anticipated review as to how competition law should apply to many common types of commercial arrangements (including, among others, distribution agreements (including exclusive and selective distribution), agency and franchising). It will, of course, be relevant in the automotive sector, bearing in mind that dealer agreements now fall under the “general” competition law rules rather (with the Motor Vehicles Block Exemption being confined to aftermarkets).
As part of our ‘Future Cities’ campaign, Shoosmiths is holding a series of virtual ‘think tank’ discussions with prominent local stakeholders in different locations across the UK to share insights and ideas around what the future holds for these locations.
Partners Fiona Teague and Jonathan Smart look at force majeure and the legal and practical challenges of emerging from lockdown in this short LexisNexis® Brief bitesize webinar.
Whether Coronavirus will be counted as a force majeure due to its economic and socioeconomic effects has been the subject of debate. Since the force majeure is not defined in the legislation, in the light of the decisions of the Supreme Court, the force majeure conditions shall be counted as the situation that; (i) the […]
No5 are delighted to announce that Esther Gamble has been appointed by the Queen as Recorder, on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, The Right Honourable Robert Buckland QC MP, and the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, The Right Honourable The Lord Burnett of Maldon. Esther has been deployed to sit on the […]
The summer recess may be keeping the courts of action but there are still plenty of legal issues to digest from over the past few weeks. We’ve taken the chance to dissect some of the most interesting cases from the last month, including a solicitor being imprisoned for contempt of court and a shipping inspector emerging victorious in a watershed High Court ruling.
Barrister Bernard Thorogood led the prosecution as a company was fined £1.33 million after a woman was killed by debris blown off a building roof by Storm Doris in 2017. Tahnie Martin, 29, from Stafford, was hit by a wooden panel outside the Mander Shopping Centre in Wolverhampton. Ms Martin, who worked at the University […]