Global industry file

Afghan judges are eligible to relocate to the UK due to their close work with the UK government and immediate threat to safety, the lord chancellor has confirmed. Several leading voices in the profession, including the profession's …

A partner who has run her own law firm for the last three years has joined Dentons in South Africa, enhancing the firm’s technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) capabilities. Dentons has added digital and media law partner Diana…

The Finance Act 2019 (“the Finance Act”) made significant changes to the tax regime in Nigeria, with broad implications for doing business, investment strategies and tax planning in Nigeria. Changes introduced by the Finance Act include…

Portuguese law firm Abreu Advogados, which already has an African presence, has formed another African alliance.  Lisbon-headquartered Abreu Advogados has partnered with Guinea-Bissau law firm Armindo Serqueira Advogados. Abreu, which…

A major US firm is to take on 65,000 square feet of office space in one of London’s newest skyscrapers, as investors say that businesses are increasingly seeking new premises. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates…

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deal value increased in the first half of 2021 in South Africa and Nigeria, according to Baker McKenzie’s analysis of Refinitiv data, although the economic success could be threatened by unrest in South…

In hailing the transformative effects of digitisation on legal services, LawtechUK has produced a visionary report envisaging an industry worth £22bn a year. But its proposals for legal data are a tall order ‘Lawtech is not a panacea’,…

A hearing to decide whether a £1bn class action can proceed against major banks that were fined for rigging the foreign exchange market has opened in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT). Barclays, Citigroup, JP Morgan and RBS were…

Royal Dutch Shell Plc has abandoned its final attempt to argue that a major lawsuit brought by thousands of Nigerians over an oil spill in the West African country should be heard in Nigeria rather than the UK. Shell’s legal team…

Clifford Chance and Linklaters have acted for the lenders on the structuring and financing of a large West African biomass power plant.  Biovéa Project, which is a 46-Megawatt project located in Aboisso, a town in Côte…