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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced that Chicago Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Lee Abrams has been named to Franchise Times magazine’s “Legal Eagles Hall of Fame.” Introduced this year, the Hall of Fame recognizes 45 lawyers who have appeared on the publication’s annual “Legal Eagles” list for ten consecutive years.
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Leading global law firm Mayer Brown's Litigation and Construction teams in London secured a successful judgment in the High Court for Carey Value Added, S.L. against the claimant, Spanish hotel company group, Grupo Hotelero Urvasco. The judgment followed a 10-week trial.
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Mayer Brown Legal Update
The Court of Final Appeal (CFA) has confirmed the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) can obtain wide-ranging relief under section 213 of the Securities & Futures Ordinance (Cap 571) (SFO), including freezing injunctions, before and independent of any Market Misconduct Tribunal or criminal proceedings.
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Mayer Brown Legal Update
The Court of Final Appeal (“CFA”) handed down its long-awaited decision in Fully Profit (Asia) Limited vs. The Secretary for Justice for and on behalf of the Director of Lands (FACV 17/2012) on 13 May 2013. The appellant Fully Profit owns a site at Nam Kok Road, Kowloon City, comprising five lots held under five separate virtually identical Government Leases, each of which contains a restriction that the owner cannot erect or allow to be erected more than one house on the lot. The CFA reversed the unanimous decision of the Court of Appeal and held that a 26-storey building straddling the five lots cannot be a “house” within the meaning of the word in the Government Leases.
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Media Coverage
17 mai 2013
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Thomson Reuters News & Insight
Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Andy Pincus' (Washington, DC) arguments on behalf of Delaware's Chancery Court are quoted from the case before the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Delaware Coalition for Open Government Inc. v. The Hon. Leo E. Strine Jr. et al.
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Media Coverage
17 mai 2013
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The Wall Street Journal (subscription required)
Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Andy Pincus' (Washington, DC) arguments on behalf of Delaware's Chancery Court are cited from the case before the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Delaware Coalition for Open Government Inc. v. The Hon. Leo E. Strine Jr. et al.
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Media Coverage
16 mai 2013
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Thomson Reuters News & Insight
Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Andy Pincus (Washington, DC) is quoted on the ongoing debate over the costs of litigation and court decisions involving businesses.
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Media Coverage
16 mai 2013
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Thomson Reuters News & Insight
Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Andy Pincus (Washington, DC) is mentioned as representing Delaware's Chancery Court in a case before the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Delaware Coalition for Open Government Inc. v. The Hon. Leo E. Strine Jr. et al.) and noted as a "prominent appellant specialist."
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Media Coverage
16 mai 2013
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Bloomberg Businessweek
Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Andy Pincus' (Washington, DC) arguments on behalf of Delaware's Chancery Court are quoted from the case before the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Delaware Coalition for Open Government Inc. v. The Hon. Leo E. Strine Jr. et al.
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Media Coverage
14 mai 2013
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Law360
Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Dan Himmelfarb (Washington, DC) is profiled in a Law360 Q&A feature.
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Media Coverage
Spring 2013
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American Bar Association newsletter
In a bylined article, Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Dana Douglas and associate Michael Rowe (both Chicago) discuss that a plaintiff's inability to plead both objective and subjective falsity may bar many claims under section 11 of the Securities Act against outside auditors.
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Mayer Brown Legal Update
In The Joint and Several Liquidators of QQ Club Limited (in liquidation) v. Golden Year Limited (HCCW 245/2011, 9 April 2013) (QQ Club), the Court of First Instance held that a liquidator's costs in pursuing an avoidance claim are "fees and expenses properly incurred in preserving, realizing or getting in the assets", and are payable out of the company's assets in priority to all other payments prescribed in rule 179 of the Companies (Winding-up) Rules. In reaching this conclusion, the court distinguished the English Court of Appeal's decision in Lewis v. Commissioner of Inland Revenue and others [2001] 3 All ER 499 (Lewis v. IRC), which has attracted a considerable amount of criticism in England.
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Media Coverage
10 mai 2013
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Accountancy Magazine
London Commercial Dispute Resolution partner Stuart Pickford is quoted in an article about the Supreme Court judgment in the Pitt and Futter v HMRC case.
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Mayer Brown Legal Update
An update on the current situation of arbitration cases of China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), CIETAC Shanghai Sub-Commission (CIETAC Shanghai) and CIETAC South-China Sub-Commission (CIETAC South-China) and some practical recommendations in handling such cases in light of the uncertainties.
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Media Coverage
10 mai 2013
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Law360
Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Dale Giali (Los Angeles) is quoted on the impact of the Third Circuit upholding the dismissal of a proposed class action alleging that Johnson & Johnson misrepresented the health benefits of its Benecol brand of butter and margarine substitutes on the products' labeling.
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Media Coverage
9 mai 2013
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The Lawyer
Article reports on the Court of Appeal’s ruling in the £400m Northern Rock appeal case, a victory for London Litigation partner Stuart Pickford who acted for the Independent Valuer of Northern Rock.
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Media Coverage
7 mai 2013
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Law360
A brief by Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Erika Jones (Washington, DC) and a co-author is quoted in an article reporting that an administrative law judge allowed the US Consumer Product Safety Commission to seek to hold the former CEO of Buckyballs maker Maxfield and Oberton Holdings LLC personally liable for alleged defects in the magnet sets.
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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, has been retained to act as outside common counsel to the International Aerospace Environment Group (IAEG), a worldwide group of aerospace companies including Boeing, EADS and Airbus, Bombardier, Dassault Aviation, Embraer, GE Aviation, Northrop Grumman, Rolls Royce, SAFRAN, UTC and Zodiac Aerospace as founding members. Mayer Brown will provide US and EU regulatory, antitrust, export control and intellectual property advice to the IAEG on an ongoing basis.
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Mayer Brown Legal Update
In a recent decision handed down by the High Court, Yau Tsz Hin v. Broadway Theatre Company Limited, HCPI 674 of 2010, the cinema successfully defended a 'slip and fall' claim lodged by its patron. The conduct of the defence focussed on the cinema having in place an adequate cleaning and inspection system. The High Court accepted this and held that the cinema had discharged its reasonable duty of care owed to its visitors.
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Media Coverage
2 mai 2013
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Law360
Antitrust & Competition partner Britt Miller (Chicago) is profiled in a Law360 Q&A feature.
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News Release
29 avril 2013
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Mayer Brown, a leading global law firm, announced that Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner Scott Chesin has been selected as one of New York Law Journal’s 2013 “Rising Stars.” The award recognizes New York’s most promising lawyers under 40 who have made significant contributions to the practice of law and their communities.
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Media Coverage
25 avril 2013
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Law360
Litigation & Dispute Resolution partner John Roberti (Washington, DC) is profiled in a Law360 Q&A feature.
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Jurisdiction in Germany – what will change?
CH-D Wirtschaft 2013/4, 26 et seq.
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Knowledge of the Purchaser in Corporate Acquisitions
BB 2013, 963 et seq.
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Legal Update
22 avril 2013
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Mayer Brown Legal Update
In a recent English Judgment concerning R (Prudential plc and another) v. Special Commissioner of Income Tax and another [2013] UKSC 1, the Supreme Court, by a five to two majority, held that Legal Advice Privilege (LAP) only applies to advice provided by qualified lawyers.
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