Real Estate

Field Fisher seals double A&O hire in Brussels as pensions team departs

By Legal Week | October 29, 2009

Field Fisher Waterhouse has boosted its Brussels base with a double hire from A&O, at the same time as the office's head of its pensions departs to join Benelux leader Stibbe. Field Fisher will build a public and administrative law practice in the Belgian capital with the hire of A&O counsel Veronique Vanden Acker, who joined last week along with one associate.

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UK trio win out in Standard Life Investments panel review

By Legal Week | October 26, 2009

Dundas & Wilson, Herbert Smith and Addleshaw Goddard have all been reappointed to Standard Life Investments' real estate funds panel. The firms successfully tendered to remain on the real estate funds panel for another three years, with Dundas & Wilson set to carry out all property work in Scotland, while Herbert Smith and Addleshaws will continue to advise on property work in England.

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Linklaters signs up Spanish public law partner from CMS member firm

By Legal Week | October 23, 2009

Linklaters has bolstered its Spanish public law and regulated sectors practice with the hire of Jose Gimenez from CMS Albinana & Suarez de Lezo. Gimenez will join Linklaters' Madrid arm as a partner next week (26 October) and will head up the firm's public law and regulated sectors practice.

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CC real estate chief McAuley voted in for second term

By Legal Week | October 16, 2009

Clifford Chance (CC) has re-elected global real estate chief Cliff McAuley for another term. McAuley, who has been a partner with the firm for 14 years, was first voted into the role in 2003. The election was uncontested, with the new term beginning on 1 January.

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Linklaters lands Government role on £16bn asset sell-off

By Legal Week | October 12, 2009

Linklaters has been drafted in by the Government to advise on the potential sale of £16bn worth of assets over the next two years in a bid to reduce the UK's budget deficit. The magic circle firm is understood to be one of a number of top law firms in line to benefit from the UK Government's plans to sell a portfolio of assets including the student loan book and the Dartford Crossing.

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Sixteen firms win roles on unified London borough councils panel

By Legal Week | October 12, 2009

Sixteen firms including Eversheds, Pinsent Masons and Kennedys have won spots on the first panel of advisers assembled by the London Boroughs Legal Alliance (LBLA). The firms will be appointed for three years to provide legal services to six London boroughs - Camden, Harrow, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hillingdon and Hounslow London Borough Councils and the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea - which have clubbed together to pool their legal services in a bid to reduce legal costs.

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Barratt Homes almost halves regional panel

By Legal Week | October 6, 2009

Barratt Homes has put the finishing touches to its regional legal panel, with the housebuilder almost halving the number of firms on its roster. The company has cut its panel - which does not cover mainstream corporate work - down from around 40 firms to 19 as a result of the review, which was completed over the summer. All of the successful firms will sit on the panel for three years.

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Hammonds loses three more partners as trio hand in notice

By Legal Week | October 2, 2009

Hammonds is to lose two equity partners with construction partner Rupert Cowen and real estate partner Martin Fleckenstein set to leave the national firm. Both partners handed in their notice earlier this week (30 September), on one of only two days each year on which equity partners are able to resign from Hammonds.

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Commentary: Trophy deals help real estate lawyers dream of better days

By Legal Week | September 30, 2009

If there's one practice in desperate need of a boost, it's real estate. With the sector the first to feel the pain of the credit crunch, deals have been painfully thin on the ground for two years now. And news last month that Eversheds was to make more property job cuts was a reminder that many are not expecting a rapid rebound. But those real estate advisers lucky enough to still have a job may be able to start breathing a little more easily as the signs are finally pointing towards some form of recovery in the commercial property sector. In particular, Blackstone Group's joint venture with British Land in the £2.13bn Broadgate Circle estate in London was probably the most visible indication of the kind of trophy deal that has been missing but there have been some other signs.

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International Edition

Commentary: Trophy deals help real estate lawyers dream of better days

By Legal Week | September 30, 2009

If there's one practice in desperate need of a boost, it's real estate. With the sector the first to feel the pain of the credit crunch, deals have been painfully thin on the ground for two years now. And news last month that Eversheds was to make more property job cuts was a reminder that many are not expecting a rapid rebound. But those real estate advisers lucky enough to still have a job may be able to start breathing a little more easily as the signs are finally pointing towards some form of recovery in the commercial property sector. In particular, Blackstone Group's joint venture with British Land in the £2.13bn Broadgate Circle estate in London was probably the most visible indication of the kind of trophy deal that has been missing but there have been some other signs.

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Daily Business Review

Luxury Real Estate Company Facing Housing Discrimination Suit

By ALM Staff | September 7, 2022

This lawsuit was surfaced on Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.

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New York Law Journal

Town Justice Agrees to Censure; Admits Invoking Judicial Office on Wife's Behalf

By Brian Lee | September 7, 2022

According to the commission, a Town Justice who is a non-lawyer acknowledged that it was improper for him to have advocated for his wife in court as if he were an attorney, and to have disparaged a prospective tenant in a lawsuit.

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Pro Mid Market

North Carolina's Booming Healthcare and IP Industries Boost Brooks Pierce

By Dan Roe | September 6, 2022

Growth is coming naturally for the midsize firm, but managing partner Reid Phillips said preserving the firm's "well-knit" culture is top-of-mind as the 107-lawyer firm accommodates expansion.

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The Recorder

Sheppard Mullin Takes Real Estate Partner Trio From Sidley in New York

By Jessie Yount | September 6, 2022

The group represents financial institutions in real estate finance transactions and construction projects, "many of which have helped to shape and enrich the New York skyline," as well as workouts and remedies, according to firm leaders.

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Texas Lawyer

Court Divided on Legal Malpractice: Judges Reverse $20M Judgment, Order 3rd Trial

By Adolfo Pesquera | September 6, 2022

The majority opinion, delivered Aug. 31 by Justice Amanda Reichek, took issue with a jury charge that states in part a that Terry would not have been required to prove the plaintiffs case' to designate Flaven as a responsible third party.

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New York Law Journal

Realty Law Digest

By Scott Mollen | September 6, 2022

Scott Mollen discusses the land use case, "301 E. 66th Condominium Corp. v. City of New York," and a foreclosure action, "Majestic Holdings v. Wilmington Sav. Fund Socy."

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Texas Lawyer

Real Estate Firm Cassin & Cassin Taps Young Partner as New Dallas Leader

By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | September 6, 2022

Tara Darling, who was an associate in the firm's affordable housing and agency lending practice in New York, moved to Dallas, where she is now office managing partner.

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The Legal Intelligencer

Court Examines Condo Conversion in Relation to Real Estate Ordinances

By Alan Nochumson and Alex Goldberg | September 5, 2022

In Charlestown Township v. CMI Hartman, 2022 Pa. Commw. Unpub. LEXIS 115 (Apr. 1, 2022), the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court analyzed a municipalities' treatment of a condominium conversion with respect to state and local real estate ordinances.

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New York Law Journal

Second Circuit Affirms Dismissal of RICO Suit With 'Parallel Case' Proceeding in Luxembourg

By Jane Wester | September 2, 2022

In a statement, Seth Cohen of Hogan Lovells, who argued the case, said the district and appellate rulings demonstrate that federal courts are monitoring attempts for forum shopping.

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Daily Business Review

Fox Rothschild Repping Florida Developer in Lawsuit Against Property Owners Association

By ALM Staff | September 1, 2022

This lawsuit was surfaced on Law.com Radar. Read the complaint here.

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