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With a longstanding association with the road and freight haulage industry, Rothera Dowson sets the benchmark nationally for advice in all areas of transport. Clients include DHL and Norbert Dessentrangle as well as bus, coach and ferry operators and private motorists. The recommended Anton Balkitis has now taken over as practice head from Ian Rothera, and regularly appears at public enquiries and in court for operators in relation to regulatory, disciplinary, health and safety and environmental issues. Drivers are also represented on major traffic offences. A growth area is advice on carriers’ liability under the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999. The team is also able to draw on its extensive regulatory expertise for domestic and international carriers operating in the UK and the EU.

A strong transport and logistics client base is advised by Caroline Green and a multi-disciplinary team at Browne Jacobson LLP on commercial matters and regulatory requirements, and in investigations by HMRC and VOSA.

Freeth Cartwright LLP’s rail and aerospace clients look to the firm for commercial, contractual and property advice.

Jeremy Hale at Shacklocks handles debt recovery and disputes arising from freight movements.

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  • Boult Wade Tennant partner to speak at Management Forum’s Trademark Administrator conference

    Felicity Hide, a partner in Boult Wade Tennant’s Trade Mark and Domain Name Group, will be speaking at the Management Forum’s Trademark Administrator conference on 28 October 2010 at the Rembrandt Hotel in London.
    - Boult Wade Tennant

  • Mark Emery quoted in Guardian race discrimination article

    Why is a race discrimination case that the Crown Prosecution Service lost being dragged into a tenth year by the public body?
    - Bindmans LLP

  • Campaigners acquitted of conspiracy to cause criminal damage

    Mike Schwarz of Bindmans LLP and Lydia Dagostino from Kellys Solicitors in Brighton represented campaigners who were tried at Lewes Crown Court sitting at Hove. They were acquitted of conspiracy to cause criminal damage at EDO MBM Technology Ltd (a company owned by ITT Integrated Structures), a business said to have supplied weapons components used during Israel's military activity in Gaza in January 2009.
    - Bindmans LLP

  • Different legal defences, different outcomes for two environmentalist groups

    In 2008, six Greenpeace campaigners were acquitted for an action at Kingsnorth power station, whereas in the following year, 29 environmentalists were convicted after an action at DRAX power station.
    - Bindmans LLP

  • CARTWRIGHT KING EXPANDS TEAM

    Leading Midlands law firm Cartwright King has made another addition to their expanding team.
    - Cartwright King

  • CARTWRIGHT KING SPEAK AT CONFERENCE

    Richard Boucher, a director at leading Midlands law firm Cartwright King (which has an office in Nottingham, Derby, Leicester) has recently spoken at a national conference at Birmingham University.
    - Cartwright King

  • BRIBERY ACT GETS POLITICAL BACKING

    The Bribery Act, which received Royal Assent earlier this year, increases the maximum prison term for offences of bribery to ten years and businesses are to be subject to unlimited fines.
    - Cartwright King

  • CARTWIGHT KING OFFER ADVICE FOR CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES

    Under the Corporate Manslaughter law, that came into effect in April 2008, an organisation can be prosecuted for a fatal accident if the way its work is managed or organised by its senior management, causes a death and is in gross breach of its duties towards an employee or third party. In the past, unless a fatality was so serious that an individual who was a “controlling mind” of the company (usually a director) could be charged with criminal manslaughter, the company could not be pursued successfully for manslaughter and would be prosecuted for health & safety offences.
    - Cartwright King

  • Defamation and confidence: three significant cases

    There have been several recent cases concerning the laws of confidence and defamation that address important procedural issues relevant to litigators practising in all spheres. This article discusses decisions by the Court of Appeal, a Queen’s Bench judge and a Master.
    - Schillings

  • Adjudication: caught in the Act?

    Anyone not involved in what might be regarded as the mainstream of the construction industry (whether as a building contractor or someone who regularly employs one) would be forgiven for thinking that a dispute resolution procedure introduced to rid the industry of some of its historical problems is of no relevance to their business.
    - Bond Pearce LLP

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  • Restriction of Directors in Irish law – a recent development

    A recent Supreme Court decision has offered some insight into the law on the restriction of company directors by the Courts. The decision is particularly helpful as it addresses the differing roles of executive and non-executive directors, the type of conduct which will be classed as “irresponsible” in the conduct of the affairs of a company in financial difficulty and the need for the law to apply to the particular circumstances at issue.
    – Hayes Solicitors

  • WKB – lead advisor to the investment of LNG Terminal in Swinoujscie

    The agreement for construction of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) Terminal in Swinoujscie was signed on 15th July in Warsaw. WKB Wiercinski, Kwiecinski, Baehr was the main advisor in all stages of this voluminous PLN 3 billion investment. The State Treasury Minister, Aleksander Grad, representatives of GAZ-SYSTEM SA and Polskie LNG, as well as WKB lawyers attended the signing ceremony. The following WKB lawyers were involved in the project as advisors: advocate and partner Jan Rolinski, advocate and partner Bartlomiej Jankowski, and legal counsel Anna Flaga-Martynek.
    – WKB Wiercinski, Kwiecinski, Baehr Sp. k.

  • Paksoy acted for joint lead managers this transaction involving Akbank, Turkey's largest lender

    Akbank, Turkey's largest lender by market value, borrowed $1 billion in a five-year RegS/144A bond issue.  Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citibank, JPMorgan and Standard Chartered were the joint lead managers for the issue.
    – Paksoy

  • New law firm in Luxembourg

    As of March 1, 2010 and following a split is born Linari Law Firm. The firm’s contact details are:
    – Linari Law Firm

  • Wildgen elected new Partner, Director and Senior Associates

    Wildgen, Partners in Law, a leading Luxembourg corporate law firm, elected Daniel Boone to partnership and announces the appointment of a Director and five Senior Associates.
    – Wildgen

  • Wildgen, Partners in Law to receive two new Awards

    Luxembourg, 14 June 2010 – Wildgen, one of the most renowned law firms in Luxembourg, is delighted to announce that it has been awarded “Benelux Re-insurance Law Firm of the Year” and “Benelux Sharia Law Firm of the Year”.
    – Wildgen

  • LEXENCE BENOEMT MARK KEUSS TOT BESTUURDER

    Amsterdam, 29 juni 2010 - Met ingang van 1 juli is mr. Mark Keuss benoemd tot lid van het dagelijks bestuur van Lexence voor een periode van drie jaar. Keuss volgt mr. Menno van Groningen op die terugtreedt na het verstrijken van zijn zittingsperiode.
    – Lexence

  • Hengeler Muelelr advises SANYO on sale of global semiconductor business

    Japan' SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. (Osaka) has sold its global semiconductor business to the US company ON Semiconductor Corporation, Phoenix (Arizona). The transaction is subject to various closing conditions and regulatory approvals, such as clearance by merger control authorities.
    – Hengeler Mueller

  • Hengeler Mueller advises Henkel on joint venture with BASF

    Henkel AG & Co. KGaA and BASF have signed a joint venture agreement to develop innovative corrosion protection solutions for the automotive industry.
    – Hengeler Mueller

  • Salans Swoops In On Elite Real Estate Team

    Salans has announced that one of the most recognisable names in real estate in Central Europe, Pawel Debowski, plans to join forces with Salans, a power-house in the real estate arena and one of the top international legal practices in Central and Eastern Europe. Debowski is rated as a “Band Star” by Chambers Europe who commented that “…observers are generally in awe of (his) outstanding outfit.”
    – Salans
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