Rolls Building will rule the world undisputed December 11, 2011 IT WILL take some time for the full implications of last week’s EU Summit to become clear. For my part, I will spend much of today in discussion with UK-based EU ambassadors at the Polish presidency’s conference on financial stability and growth, which takes place at the Mansion House. My recent discussions with leading practitioners [...]
The City’s young and politically active November 16, 2011 CV | SOPHIE FERNANDES, AGE 29 Work: I’m an account manager for an independent communications agency. I look after a mixture of private sector corporate, trade association and public sector clients. Previously, I worked for the Institute of Directors in the Policy Unit. Became common councilman because:I wanted to be directly involved in local democracy [...]
The City’s young and politically active November 16, 2011 CV | SOPHIE FERNANDES, AGE 29 Work: I’m an account manager for an independent communications agency. I look after a mixture of private sector corporate, trade association and public sector clients. Previously, I worked for the Institute of Directors in the Policy Unit. Became common councilman because:I wanted to be directly involved in local democracy [...]
Steve Jobs was an amazing businessman – but Einstein’s the genius behind the iPod October 17, 2011 THE recent death of Steve Jobs is a timely moment to step back and reconsider what innovation is really for. Reading the obituaries and testimonies posted across the internet, you would not be alone in assuming that Saint Jobs had cured the world of cancer and is now in heaven, reconfiguring God’s messaging system from [...]
City lawyers slam OFT reform December 19, 2010 The City of London Law Society has warned the government that merging the Office of Fair Trading with the Competition Commission could damage efficiency and fairness. The society, which counts City law firms Allen & Overy and Norton Rose among its members, wrote to the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills claiming the existing two-tier [...]
City lawyers slam OFT reform December 19, 2010 The City of London Law Society has warned the government that merging the Office of Fair Trading with the Competition Commission could damage efficiency and fairness. The society, which counts City law firms Allen & Overy and Norton Rose among its members, wrote to the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills claiming the existing two-tier [...]
CITY GRANDEES DEBATE FUTURE OF UK BANKING July 25, 2011 MAGIC circle law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Fleet Street offices played host last night to a City crowd debating one of the most pertinent questions currently facing the UK’s politicians, regulators and bankers – whether the country’s biggest banks should be forcibly broken up, or whether other kinds of reforms are the best way forward. [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS January 13, 2011 City of London Law Society The membership organisation has appointed a new chief executive: David Hobart. He is currently CEO of the Bar Council, in charge of representing barrister members, and has been heavily involved in changes to the law industry since 2007. Before joining the Bar Council, he had a long career in the RAF, [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS January 13, 2011 City of London Law Society The membership organisation has appointed a new chief executive: David Hobart. He is currently CEO of the Bar Council, in charge of representing barrister members, and has been heavily involved in changes to the law industry since 2007. Before joining the Bar Council, he had a long career in the RAF, [...]
A journey to the promised land of New World wine October 16, 2011 It was a few years ago, on an evening near Christmas in a neon-lit office boardroom, that I set my heart on South African wine. Until that night, I’d floundered when faced with supermarket wine sections and restaurant lists. Nothing tasted worth the money. And yet wine played an almost daily role in my life. [...]