Clayton Utz law firm news

DLA Piper has announced that former Clayton Utz partner Amanda Turnill will join its litigation and regulatory practice, effective June 1. She will further develop DLA Piper’s life sciences capability and is assembling a team of experienced lawyers for the practice

Cloud computing may be revolutionising the delivery of online services, but it has the potential to create a liability headache for in-house lawyers, writes Macquarie Telecom General Counsel Heather Tropman.

Banking specialist Peter Bowden has moved from Blake Dawson to Clayton Utz, taking up a senior associate position in Melbourne.

Middletons partners Ben Burney and Adam Fuller and a team of four lawyers are set to make the move to Sparke Helmore, the firm has announced.

Revealing the winners at the 2011 ALB-Macquarie Bank Law Awards: which firms collected the honours this year?

A summary of the deals information collected by ALB since last update (19 May).

Clayton Utz staff will be entitled to up to 36 weeks of paid parental leave, effective immediately, CEP Darryl McDonough has announced.

The Melbourne workplace relations team at Clayton Utz is set to have several new faces in its ranks. Stuart Pill and Dan Trindade, previously the principals of boutique workplace relations firm Trindade Farr & Pill, will make the move across to join the Clutz partnership.

Barrick swoops on Equinox, China zeroes in on Australia

Leading international and domestic arbitration lawyer Doug Jones AM has warned states and territories that if they do not adopt the new arbitration model law “they will be left behind”.

Attorney-General Robert McClelland has announced new appointments to the International Legal Services Advisory Council (ILSAC).

Herbert Smith, Blake Dawson and Clayton Utz all received instructions for a LNG deal that sees Chinese state-owned resources company Sinopec acquire a 15% stake in Australia Pacific LNG – in the largest LNG supply agreement in Australian history by annual volume.

Mayer Brown JSM has promoted Ben Sandstad to its partnership with additional responsibilities of heading the firm’s structured finance practice in Asia.

The UK legal market has shown its strongest sign yet that business is buoyant.

The latest Thomson Reuters Mid-Market Rankings for the Australian and New Zealand M&A market show a slight overall improvement in the first three months of the year, compared to 12 months ago.

The 2011 Macquarie Bank ALB Australasian Law Awards are only one month away and a clear leader in the finalist tally has emerged.

Two major deals involving Australian companies have fallen over or hit hurdles in the past week, but lawyers remain unperturbed.

Former Clayton Utz public and administrative law expert Michael Palfrey has joined Sparke Helmore as partner in the Canberra office. The new appointment further extends the firm’s commitment to the Commonwealth Government resources.

Australian law firm Clayton Utz and its Hong Kong affiliate Haley & Co. has bolstered its front-end construction and major projects capabilities in the region with the appointment of construction and major projects consultant Ilan Freiman.

Eight law firms across the country have exposed their environmental report card to the world in the inaugural Environmental Consumption of AusLSA Members report 2009/2010.