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 UK’s Serious Fraud Office. For legal journalists, the ongoing saga has given them plenty to write about over the past year.
Applications for judicial review (JR) sometimes make for dull reading, but the legal argument put forward in a recent Administrative Court JR application is extraordinary. Or at least the facts of the claim, as stated, are. On behalf of Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) against the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the application […]
It has been a very good year for most large international law firms with increased revenues and profits generally par for the course. But things have not been quite so good at Philadelphia-based Dechert. The latest results from the AmLaw100 show an unusual disparity in the firm’s performance compared to many of its peers.
