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Albert Yuen Eversheds Sutherland has hired veteran technology lawyer Albert Yuen as a partner at its Hong Kong office, succeeding Rhys McWhirter as head of the firm’s technology, data and cyber practice in Asia. McWhirter has departed the firm to join Latham & Watkins. Yuen brings more than 25 years of experience in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sector. Before joining…

The unfortunate truth is, too much… …rarely do international law firms get the return on the investment they make in China that they do in other jurisdictions (for example the Middle East right now; but Malaysia and South East Asia if we want to look closer to home!).  If you don’t believe me, take a quick look at the number of firms who have entered/exited the China market in the past 15 years…

Woke up this morning – Australia time – to news that had broken overnight that Eversheds Sutherland (ES) and King Wood Mallesons (KWM) had entered into an exclusive alliance, along with a whole lot of DMs (Direct Messages) in my LinkedIn box asked me what my initial thoughts were. So here I go with some initial, off the cuff, thoughts about this: With the closure of the 6 KWM offices across the…

EXCLUSIVE: 10 more invoices paid by Wirral Council including £3,203.88 for budget setting and £15,667.25 for a special guardianship order

EXCLUSIVE: 10 more invoices paid by Wirral Council including £3,203.88 for budget setting and £15,667.25 for a special guardianship order

                                                            Below this are ten invoices paid for by Wirral Council during the 2013/14 financial year. The first is for £15,276.96 from Eversheds for the ever cryptic “governance and employment issues”. As it’s…

Norman’s bill just keeps on rising, £7,883.88 for external legal advice on setting a budget when he wasn’t there

Norman’s bill just keeps on rising, £7,883.88 for external legal advice on setting a budget when he wasn’t there

                                                                   Every year Wirral Council has to set a budget for the next year. In fact Wirral Council have been doing this since 1974 (and probably in shadow form for the year before that).

For some reason in 2013, at Wirral…

Wirral Council spent £465,497.06 with six different firms of solicitors in the last financial year

                           Below is a list of what Wirral Council spent on solicitors in the last financial year (2013-14) which comes at just under half a million pounds. Wirral Council also employ fourteen in-house solicitors. Each amount is a total for the 2013-14 by firm of solicitors and is…