: We are delighted to announce that Aimee Mitchell has joined TGT Legal as a partner. Aimee started her career at TGT before moving overseas to work as a trust and private client adviser in the Channel Islands and then in London, where she was most recently a partner at a leading boutique private client […]
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LOS ANGELES – A federal criminal complaint unsealed today charges 10 Iranian nationals with running a nearly 20-year-long scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on the Government of Iran by disguising more than $300 million worth of transactions – including the purchase of two $25 million oil tankers – on Iran’s behalf through front companies in the
Time for lawyers to dump the ‘Dear Sir/s’ greeting? A recent article in LawyersWeekly from Jerome Doraisamy put the obvious to the legal audience, noting that ‘women are not a niche cohort’. Is it time for lawyers to take that message to heart? He notes that there is a wildfire response to comments about the
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Powered by LawFuel – Buddle Findlay is delighted to have advised Infratil on its conditional transaction announced on 15 March 2021 to sell its shareholding in Tilt Renewables Limited (Tilt) for ~NZ$1.926 billion.[1] The proposed transaction will proceed by way of scheme of arrangement (Scheme), under which Powering Australian Renewables (PowAR) will effectively acquire Tilt’s Australian
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” . . it was “incomprehensible” that Ms Kimmitt did not contact Mr Bartlett before sending the email.” The scandal involving the email from MinterEllison’s former CEO Annette Kimmitt has lead one Australian law leader to describe the incident as “off the planet and incomprehensible.” Kimmitt has now resigned her position following the imbroglio over
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Manchester-based law firm JMW Solicitors obtained a £45,000 damages payout from a law firm competitor after it saw with surprise and disappointment that the competitor had been plagiarising its correspondence. A partner at JMW saw the plagiarism when he was sent a letter of claim issued by Widnes-based law firm Hayes Connor, seeing that it was one
DLA Piper has advised Accel-KKR and its portfolio company, Seequent Holdings Limited on the sale of Seequent Holdings Limited to Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY) for ~NZD 1.46 billion (USD 1.05 billion). Seequent, head-quartered in Christchurch, is a global leader in software for geological and geophysical modeling, geotechnical stability, and cloud services for geodata management, visibility,
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The Big Law firm has hit profit per partner of $4.52 million Big Law doesn’t get much bigger than Latham & Watkins post a $4.3bn revenue on the back of pandemic restructuring, deals and just plenty of fee-earning business. Revenue growth has been 15 per cent – not bad during a global pandemic that Latham
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New York partner succeeds Vice Chair Ora Fisher, who is retiring after nearly three decades at the firm. Powered by LawFuel – Latham & Watkins LLP1 is pleased to announce that New York partner and current Executive Committee member Lisa Watts has been elected Vice Chair of the firm, effective immediately. She joins Chicago partner Brad
As Tech Startups Increasingly Move to Texas, Baker Botts Forms Strategic Alliance with The Ion and Becomes Founding Supporter of Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator HOUSTON, March 16, 2021 – Baker Botts L.L.P., a leading international energy, technology and life sciences law firm, announced today that it has extended its alliance with The Ion, a 266,000-square-foot, mixed-use structure designed to bring Houston’s
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