Two of Hong Kong’s biggest IPOs this year have yielded lead roles for Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy working opposite Davis Polk & Wardwell and Kirkland & Ellis respectively. The planned listings of state-owned brokerage China Galaxy Securities Co and Sinopec Engineering, a wholly owned subsidiary of Asia’s biggest oil refiner, Beijing-based Sinopec Group, […]
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Sir Sydney Kentridge QC at 90
As reported on thelawyer.com and elsewhere this week, Sir Sydney Kentridge QC, the prominent South African lawyer, judge and member of the English Bar, is going from full-time to part-time at age 90. As “Lunch With the FT” columnist John Gapper wrote last January, “to call Sydney Kentridge the outstanding barrister of his generation is […]
Mining Litigation
Just in time for this year’s PDAC International Convention in Toronto, Osler lawyers Mark Gelowitz, Laura Fric, Riyaz Dattu and Jennifer Fairfax, released this paper, Hot Topics in Mining Litigation: http://www.osler.com/NewsResources/Hot-Topics-in-Mining-Litigation/. It includes lessons already for Canadian mining companies and other investors from the largest class action launched in South Africa’s history, in January 2013, […]
U.S. law school applicants decline
According to a report in The National Law Journal, posted on law.com, the number of U.S. law school applicants has declined significantly: As of mid-January, the number of applicants for seats in American Bar Association-accredited law schools has fallen by 20 percent since last year. If the trend holds through the final months of the […]
Hockey Law
For a review of the several external law firms that helped end the NHL labour dispute, see the Am Law Daily report, “Skadden, Proskauer Bring NHL Back to Ice…” at http://www.americanlawyer.com. The roster of firms involved at various stages included Montreal’s Melancon, Marceau, Grenier & Sciortino and Edmonton’s Blair Chahley; then Heenan Blaikie and McLennan […]
WTO rules against Ontario’s Feed-In Tarriff Program
Michael Nilevsky, Stikeman Elliott LLP, posted a blog on Dec 20, 2012, reviewing the WTO’s ruling on the “domestic content requirements of Ontario’s Feed-In Tarriff (FIT) program”. Accordingly, “much like [the WTO’s] interim report, the final ruling finds that the FIT program violates the WTO rules that forbid treating domestic suppliers and products differently from […]
The Niqab in Canada Cases
CBC News summarizes the leading six niqab-related cases of recent years at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/12/19/f-niqab-list.html
Dewey Files Liquidation Plan
Dewey & LeBoeuf, the international law firm that sought bankruptcy protection last May, has filed its U.S. Bankruptcy Code Chapter 11 plan and disclosure statement. It sets out their proposal to liquidate their assets in order to repay creditors at least a portion of more than $600 million in debt. Chief on the asset side, […]
CLOs opting for AFAs: survey
According to a report on slaw.ca: the US-based legal business consultancy firm Altman Weil, Inc. has surveyed more than 200 Chief Legal Officers (CLOs) on issues of relevance to their corporate law departments. Many CLOs are actively negotiating reductions in their outside counsel fees, opting for alternatives to the traditional legal model and increasing the […]
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