Solicitors in Sevenoaks

BTA v Ablyazov: the secret billionaire

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:17:43 +0000

The High Court is about to rule on Mukhtar Ablyazov’s role in the mystery of the Kazakh bank’s disappearing billions.
The Lawyer – City

Cleary and Shearman lead on $7bn Petrobras bond deal

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:16:27 +0000

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Shearman & Sterling have both scooped roles advising on Brazilian oil giant Petrobras’s up to $ 7bn bond issue.
The Lawyer – Practice Management

Stocks and ’mares

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:18:43 +0000

Sevenoaks Lawyers Services

IPOs may often land new clients but they don’t bring in much money and can also fail altogether. Are they worth the bother? The Lawyer – Focus

Social media and digital natives

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:17:06 +0000

For many lawyers, particularly senior partners of big legal practices, social media is still uncharted territory. Defined as a means by which people discover, read and share news, information and content, there remains a general mistrust of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, fueled to some extent by numerous examples of court cases going awry because of postings on social media sites.

In Business | Law Gazette

Big bang, big crash

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:15:26 +0000

Broadly speaking, computer projects make three sorts of news headline. One is the ‘gee-whiz gizmo’ of fond Tomorrow’s World memory. Second is the ‘big brother’ scare story about surveillance or intrusive data-sharing.

Blogs | Law Gazette

A fixed deal for fixed share partners

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:15:41 +0000

The concept of partnership has been transformed in the post-Legal Services Act world, says Michelle Chance in response to today’s Appeal Court ruling in Tiffin v Lester Aldridge LLP
The Lawyer – Opinion

Social media and digital natives

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:17:57 +0000

In Business | Law Gazette

An ABS game-changer as UK says g’day to Aussies

admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:17:19 +0000

Those Aussies just can’t resist a bit of competition.

From their cricket team beating us with depressing regularity in the 1990s to Paul Hogan (‘you call that a knife?’), it seems a nation devoted to one-upmanship. So we shouldn’t be too surprised to see an Aussie law firm this week muscling into the UK legal profession with all the subtlety of a Prisoner Cell Block H plotline.

Blogs | Law Gazette

Dressing down

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:16:09 +0000

Somehow West London Magistrates’ Court in Southcombe Street near Barons Court tube station seemed more informal than Bow Street and Marlborough Street, certainly so far as dress code was concerned. I remember at Marlborough Street seeing my friend, the giant Irishman David Sarch, appearing one morning in a Prince of Wales check suit minus waistcoat and the magistrate refusing to hear him, going through the old routine – ‘It’s no use speaking louder, Mr Sarch, I still won’t be able to hear you’ – until someone whispered to him that he was considered to be improperly dressed.

Obiter | Law Gazette

A fixed deal for fixed share partners

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:17:17 +0000