Legal Opinion

It is thirty years since my first visit to Singapore. At the time, I had no idea that within a decade I would be managing a […]

The ongoing globalization of markets and the ease to reach consumers online, has resulted in more and more trademarks being filed to take advantage of commercial […]

Sir David Green is an honourable man. That much was confirmed last December when the former Director of the Serious Fraud Office was knighted by the […]

The link between crime and poverty, particularly urban poverty, was established long ago. Anxious about the impact of a ‘criminal class’, the Victorians set about examining […]

Every summer, the American Lawyer publishes a Diversity Scorecard “to provide a snapshot of where the industry is headed.” It records the number of full-time minority […]

By convention, judges very rarely give interviews and never make political comment. Even in our all pervasive media age, they still follow the dictum of Lord […]

As one of the world’s fastest growing energy markets, Turkey has been increasing its drive towards greater self-sufficiency for several years. To satisfy its annual 300bn […]

Recession, what recession? It may not have landed yet, but there is one on the way. Nearly a decade has passed since the Great Recession in […]

With the term ‘key money’ we are normally referring to a sum of money that a Brand, interested in a particular location, gives to the tenant […]

What does the self-proclaimed “first and only Judeo-Christian intelligence agency and protective intelligence service in the world” have to do with the United States government’s fight […]

Starting out at one of London’s leading commercial law firms, everyone knows that the working life of young lawyers is hard: long hours are par for […]

It is the story which just keeps on giving:  the long running, three-way struggle between international mining conglomerate ENRC, its former legal advisers Dechert, and the […]