Legal threat hangs over City decision April 27, 2010 A LEADING sports lawyer has told Tottenham, Aston Villa and Liverpool they could consider action against the Premier League after Manchester City were afforded special dispensation to sign a goalkeeper last night. League chiefs allowed City boss Roberto Mancini to recruit Sunderland’s Marton Fulop to his squad after Shay Given’s injury left the inexperienced Faroe [...]
Jarvis reaches the end of the line as administrator called in March 25, 2010 RAIL maintenance contractor, Jarvis is set to appoint Deloitte as administrator after the firm said earlier yesterday it had run out of cash. It is understood that four partners at the professional services firm, including Neville Kahn, will be handed the task of sorting through the struggling company’s finances. Jarvis filed for administration yesterday morning [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 3, 2010 LaSalle Investment Management The investment manager has appointed Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz as managing director for Europe and a member of its nine-strong global management committee. Lloyd-Hurwitz will also be a director of LaSalle’s parent company, Jones Lang LaSalle. She has over 20 years of experience in the real estate and asset management industry, most recently as [...]
ANALYST VIEWS: WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF BT’S MASSIVE PENSION DEFICIT? February 11, 2010 ROS ALTMANN | INDEPENDENT PENSIONS EXPERT BT has a huge pension scheme with a massive deficit. The company is doing quite well, so it’s important it pays as much as it can into the scheme now. If it doesn’t, we could see a situation similar to British Airways, which is in serious trouble with its [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS February 9, 2010 ING Real Estate The investment management company has appointed Mike Evans, the chairman of stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown, as a new non-executive director. Evans has held an advisory role with ING for over three years. He also recently completed a two-year stint as director of life assurance at law firm Pinsent Masons and originally spent almost [...]
Law firms hit out at EU super-regulator December 3, 2009 BRITISH law firms slammed the decision taken by EU finance ministers to create a new pan-European system of market regulation yesterday. “The government has allowed these reforms to be rushed through without having engaged in the debate, argued for the right reforms or indeed understood the impact of the proposals on the City,” said Ash [...]
City says FSA plan to tear up bank contracts is unlawful November 16, 2009 EX-ROYAL Bank of Scotland chairman Sir George Mathewson yesterday added to City concerns over government plans to hand the Financial Services Authority (FSA) the power to rip up bankers’ pay contracts, labelling them “dangerous”. Speaking on the BBC, Mathewson said it was “sad” to see a political move to threaten the banks even as the [...]
&65279;’GOD’S WORK’ GOLDMAN SETS ITS SIGHTS ON THE SALVATION ARMY November 22, 2009 JUST when we thought Goldman Sachs couldn’t get any more holier-than-thou, up pops a gem to prove us all wrong. Just weeks after chief executive Lloyd Blankfein claimed his army of smartly-dressed minions were “doing God’s work”, it now appears that a raft of the bank’s staff in New York have signed up to be [...]
CBI’s low-paid ‘limbo’ unlikely July 6, 2009 Richard Nicolle, employment partner at legal giant Denton Wilde Sapte, says the CBI’s proposals of an “Alternative to Redundancy” scheme are unlikely to be taken up by the government. He said the plans are “unlikely to come to fruition” as policymakers will resist any measures that could boost the UK’s unemployment figures. The CBI last [...]
The beautiful game? It’s nothing without lawyers August 18, 2009 IT is hard to imagine the chant of “we love lawyers” rolling down the Kop, but as another season kicks off, football may be surprised to know that it owes the legal profession a considerable debt. It was a solicitor, Ebenezer Cobb Morley, who had the idea to form an organisation that became the Football [...]