Real Estate

Travers takes lead role on Pinewood real estate and community project

By Legal Week | June 25, 2009

Travers Smith is advising Pinewood Studios on planning matters as it creates a working community in Buckinghamshire. The City firm has been advising Pinewood on real estate, planning, environment and real estate management issues connected with the studio's plans to build a living and working community for the creative industry.

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Partnership for Schools unveils expanded 17-firm panel

By Legal Week | June 23, 2009

Partnership for Schools (PfS), the delivery body for the Government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative, has unveiled the firms on its new legal panel. Seventeen law firms feature on the roster. They are: Addleshaw Goddard, Beachcroft, Bevan Brittan, Burges Salmon, Dickinson Dees, DLA Piper, Eversheds, Mills & Reeve, Nabarro, Norton Rose, Pinsent Masons, Sharpe Pritchard, TPP Law, Trowers & Hamlins, Walker Morris, Ward Hadaway and Wragge & Co.

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Public and regulatory law

By Legal Week | June 22, 2009

DLA Piper and Reed Smith take on the practice issues as Alex Aldridge investigates legal careers in the public sector.

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DLA Piper lays off 9% of workforce in Middle East offices

By Legal Week | June 18, 2009

DLA Piper has launched a second round of job cuts in the Middle East, with the firm cutting 9% of staff in the region, including one partner. In total, 22 staff will lose their jobs in the region, including nine fee earners. Staff were informed last week, with the cuts taking effect immediately.

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Trowers builds up City real estate with Olswang recruit

By Legal Week | June 18, 2009

Allen joined the top 40 firm's real estate group in London earlier this month (1 June) after four years at Olswang, including two as a partner. Before Olswang, he spent four years at Clifford Chance and five years at Norton Rose. Allen, who advises on property development, investment transactions, joint ventures and lettings, most recently advised REIT Asset Management on its £635m portfolio acquisition from the administrators of the Dawnay Day Group.

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Public and regulatory law: At your service

By Legal Week | June 18, 2009

As City law firms cut jobs and freeze pay levels, the public sector has become an increasingly attractive option to lawyers. Part of the allure is, no doubt, the relative security offered by government employers. But that's not the whole story. City associates who are tired of handling repetitive tasks such as due diligence and document review have long looked enviously at the more challenging work carried out by their peers in government bodies such as the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) and the Treasury Solicitor's Office, but shied away from moving because of the carrot of law firm partnership and higher salaries. However, with uncertainty about future employment prospects – let alone partnership prospects – rife, increasing numbers have begun to consider a move into public service roles.

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BLP completes redundancy consultation with 85 staff laid off

By Legal Week | June 17, 2009

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has completed its redundancy consultation, with the firm laying off 85 members of staff. More than half of the cuts (47) were compulsory, with 32 staff opting for voluntary redundancy and six choosing to take early retirement.

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Freshfields quartet quits to join K&L Gates Berlin office

By Legal Week | June 15, 2009

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lost a four-lawyer team in Berlin with the departure of public procurement partner Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann to K&L Gates. Hausmann will join the US firm along with principal associate Annette Mutschler-Siebert - who joins as counsel - and two other associates. Hausmann has been with the magic circle firm since 1996, making partner in 2002. He and his team advise on public procurement and public private partnerships (PPPs) as well as antitrust, state aid and trade.

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Eversheds secures Tyco-style mandate from Smiths Group

By Legal Week | June 11, 2009

Eversheds has been appointed as the preferred legal adviser for technology company Smiths Group in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The law firm will provide commercial, litigation, employment, real estate and company secretarial advice across the region, with London-based head of international litigation and dispute management John Heaps acting as the relationship partner to Smiths. Eversheds will use its global account management system - first developed for its relationship with Tyco - with the London Stock Exchange-listed Smiths.

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Northern Ireland

By Legal Week | June 10, 2009

L'Estrange & Brett and A&L Goodbody address the practice issues facing the Northern Irish legal market.

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Daily Business Review

Zumpano Patricios Keeps Buying Real Estate With Coral Gables HQ Expansion

By Dan Roe | August 25, 2022

The 60-lawyer firm owns its office buildings in Miami, New York City, Salt Lake City, and Chicago and has placed a priority on in-person work.

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Daily Business Review

How Can Developers, Investors and Hotels Find Fun and Profit Under the Same Roof?

By Nick Falcone | August 25, 2022

Complementing branded homes with vacation experiences began with companies willing to explore the opportunities the combination created. We are now moving from the experimental to the emerging phase. Over the next five years, we're going to see this business model become mainstream and gain extreme interest from institutional capital.

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Delaware Law Weekly

'Entire Fairness' Standard Leads to Defense Verdict in Case Over Brokerage Deal

By Ellen Bardash | August 24, 2022

Vice Chancellor Lori Will has issued a rare defense verdict based on the "entire fairness" standard, finding both the negotiation process and price in a fintech acquisition were fair to shareholders.

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Delaware Business Court Insider

Vice Chancellor Relies on 'Entire Fairness' Standard for Defense Verdict in Case Over Brokerage Deal

By Ellen Bardash | August 24, 2022

Vice Chancellor Lori Will has issued a rare defense verdict based on the "entire fairness" standard, finding both the negotiation process and price in a fintech acquisition were fair to shareholders.

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Daily Report Online

DeKalb Jury Awards $3.8M for Woman Attacked in Apartment Complex

By Katheryn Hayes Tucker | August 24, 2022

Plaintiff counsel Andy Rogers and Kara Phillips of Deitch & Rogers said the jury took an hour and a half to award $3.8 million in a case for which the defense had offered $150,000 the week before trial.

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New York Law Journal

Court of Appeals Resolves Uncertainty Over Right of Commercial Tenants To Challenge Taxes

By Nathan R. Jones | August 24, 2022

The Court of Appeals decision in DCH Auto v. Town of Mamaroneck has resolved a "raging controversy" over whether tenants who are contractually obligated to pay real property taxes had a right to challenge the assessment at the administrative level.

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New York Law Journal

NYC Issues Transfer Tax Ruling on Sale of Multiple Condo Units

By Ezra Dyckman and Charles S. Nelson | August 24, 2022

Although both the New York State and New York City statutes use almost identical language, the two jurisdictions take conflicting positions with regard to bulk sales of residential condominium units.

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Litigation Daily

For Trump Org CFO, a Hostile Manhattan Jury Pool Was a Key Driver in Hammering Out a Plea Deal

By Ross Todd | August 24, 2022

"The jury pool in Manhattan would have been a very, very bad jury pool for anyone who has been working for Donald Trump for 50 years," said Allen Weisselberg's lawyer Nick Gravante of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.

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New York Law Journal

AG Probe of Scheme to Deregulate Rent-Stabilized Apartments in NYC Leads to $4M Settlement

By Brian Lee | August 23, 2022

Property management companies inflated and falsely stated renovation costs for rent-stabilized apartments in an attempt to deregulate them, the New York Attorney General's Office said.

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Daily Business Review

Developers Secure $83 Million Construction Loan for New 'Hollywood Bread Building'

By Melea VanOstrand | August 23, 2022

The new building will keep the same name.

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