Addleshaw Goddard Strengthens Middle East Commercial Disputes Team With Lucas Pitts

Addleshaw Goddard Strengthens Middle East Commercial Disputes Team With Lucas Pitts Addleshaw Goddard has announced the appointment of Lucas Pitts as a Partner in its Dubai-based Commercial Disputes team, further bolstering its market-leading presence in the Middle East. Pitts joins from Bird & Bird, where he was instrumental in establishing and developing the firm’s Middle

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Norton Rose Fulbright Advised Natixis On Trafigura Group’s US$1 Billion Trafigura Financing Facility

Norton Rose Fulbright Advised Natixis On Trafigura Group’s US$1 Billion Trafigura Financing Facility Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has successfully advised Natixis CIB (Natixis) on Trafigura Group’s inaugural US$1 billion uncommitted discounted facility of credit-insured receivables and prepayments. Natixis arranged and coordinated the facility, which was oversubscribed and increased from an initial amount of

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Ahmed Butt Joins Dentons’ Banking & Finance Practice As Partner In The Middle East

Ahmed Butt Joins Dentons’ Banking & Finance Practice As Partner In The Middle East Dentons has announced the appointment of Ahmed Butt as a partner in its Middle East Banking & Finance practice, strengthening its regional capabilities with his extensive expertise in banking regulations and financial institutions regulatory matters. With over 20 years of experience,

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HFCL Job For Young Legal Professor In February 2025

HFCL Job For Young Legal Professor In February 2025 HFCL Job For Young Legal Professor In February 2025 Hindustan Fertiliser Corporation Limited (HFCL) is looking for young legal professionals to take on the role of legal professor and company secretary professionals disciplined on a contract basis. Name of the Posts Offered- Young Professor (Legal)- Number

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Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Acted As Legal Counsel To Neev Fund, Eight Roads Investments Mauritius II Limited, And Aavishkaar India II Company Limited.

Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas Acted As Legal Counsel To Neev Fund, Eight Roads Investments Mauritius II Limited, And Aavishkaar India II Company Limited. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas (“CAM”) acted as the legal counsel to Neev Fund, Eight Roads Investments Mauritius II Limited and Aavishkaar India II Company Limited (collectively the “Clients”) in connection with the sale of

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Habit Of Releasing Pleadings And Documents To The Media Before They Are Considered By The Courts Not Acceptable: Delhi HC

                                                                             It is entirely in the fitness of things that while taking strong exception to the growing nefarious tendency among lawyers and litigants to release petitions, documents, affidavits etc to the media even before they are considered by the courts, the Delhi High Court in a most learned, laudable, landmark, logical and latest oral judgment

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SpicyIP Tidbit: The “Evergreen” Conundrum: DHC Grants Interim Injunction to Evergreen Sweet House in a Trademark Dispute

[This post has been authored by SpicyIP intern Aditi Agrawal. Aditi is a final-year B.A., LL.B (IPR Hons.) student at The ICFAI University, Dehradun. Her previous posts can be accessed here.] Images from here and here In a recent trademark dispute between Evergreen Sweet House v. JV Evergreen Sweets and Treats & Ors., the Delhi High

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Criminal Conspiracy: Legal Framework, Key Elements, and Landmark Judgments under BNS | Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita

Criminal conspiracy, as a concept, can be legally defined as a situation wherein two or more individuals collude together to accomplish any specific object through unlawful means or commit a criminal act together. It is a settled position of law that any conspiracy turns into an offence once such agreement between the individuals is duly

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