Pinsents questioned over professional negligence Pinsent Masons has been hit with a lawsuit by Gloucestershire investment management company Blackfinch Group and Kuwait supply chain services firm Agility. The two organisations have teamed up to issue a professional negligence claim against the law firm. Pinsents has called on Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) for its defence, while […]
Quinn takes on Credit Suisse as further allegations mount against the bank Credit Suisse is back in the firing line, with two separate claims filed against it by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Seladore Legal. Quinn partner Yasseen Gailani represents investment holding company M1 Limited and M1 Capital International Investments in a contracts claim […]
BDB Pitmans is no longer facing a three-day trial in February 2022 after the firm reached a confidential settlement with a legal recruiter seeking to reclaim unpaid fees. Andrew Caulfield was pursuing a claim against the firm worth over £500,000 on the basis that he was responsible for making the introduction that led to BDB […]
A legal recruiter is taking on BDB Pitmans in the High Court as he seeks to reclaim a fee for allegedly making the introduction that led to the firm’s 2018 merger. Andrew Caulfield is bringing a claim potentially worth in excess of £500,000 against BDB Pitmans, as he argues that the firm has been “unjustly […]
Boies Schiller Flexner (BSF) has been replaced by Trowers & Hamlins in an ongoing legal battle concerning an art dealer and a lucrative painting by New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The change in instruction is the latest development in a bitter dispute concerning the ownership of Basquiat’s Humidity painting, which has spawned separate proceedings in […]
Signature Litigation partner Simon Bushell is leaving the boutique after three years, having joined in 2017 from Latham & Watkins. Bushell was also at Latham for three years and previously headed the US firm’s London litigation practice. He has set up a new firm called Seladore Legal, alongside Gareth Keillor, a former of counsel at […]