Wragge & Co promotes trio to partnership
Wragge & Co has strengthened three core areas: corporate, dispute resolution and pensions, with the promotion of Richard Goold, Patrick Arben and Jane Kola to its all-equity partnership. The...
View ArticleWragge & Co appoints new corporate partner
Wragge & Co has promoted director Richard Goold as a new partner in its Corporate team. Richard, who specialises in UK and cross-border private equity and M&A, becomes a partner on 1 May 2012,...
View ArticleWragge & Co adds IT and outsourcing dispute resolution partner
Wragge & Co has appointed Patrick Arben to its sector-focused IT and Outsourcing Dispute Resolution team. Director Patrick Arben will be promoted to the firm's partnership as of 1 May 2012,...
View ArticleWragge & Co advises client Buddy Media on its US$689 million acquisition by...
Wragge & Co's technology experts have advised client Buddy Media, Inc. - the world's leading social media marketing platform - on its acquisition by enterprise cloud computing company...
View ArticleWragge & Co advises client Vodafone UK on strengthened network collaboration...
Wragge & Co's commercial real estate experts have advised existing client Vodafone UK on its intention to strengthen its existing network partnership with Telefónica UK.
View ArticleJail term for operator of Surf the Channel offering links to pirated material
The operator of surfthechannel.com (STC), a website providing links to film and TV content, recently received a four-year prison sentence. Anton Vickerman became the first person in Britain to be...
View ArticleTax free gains for employee shareholders
The Government has announced a new tax-effective regime under which employees can give up certain employment rights in return for shares which are exempt from tax on sale.
View ArticleEnglish Court of Appeal surveys the usefulness of witness evidence obtained...
On 20 November 2012, the Court of Appeal gave another judgment in the Marks & Spencer Plc v Interflora Inc & Anor [2012] EWCA Civ 1501 Google AdWords litigation.
View ArticleData centres - can you get your data back?
The increasing use of cloud-based IT services means that critical business data is increasingly being stored 'out of house' with cloud service providers in data centres. The risks attached to...
View ArticleExhaustion of rights - a green light for ReDigi?
In the last few years, there has been a quantum shift in how software consumers obtain their purchases. Tangible products are being increasingly overlooked, as both businesses and consumers discover...
View ArticleSimplified pirate website blocking orders
Yesterday, the High Court made a court order requiring BSkyB, British Telecom, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, Telefonica and Virgin Media to block access to three hugely popular peer-to-peer...
View ArticleWragge & Co advises on £800 million pension scheme investment
Wragge & Co's award-winning Pensions team has advised the trustees of the 21,000 member Fujitsu pensions schemes on an £800 million special contribution from Fujitsu UK & Ireland as part of a...
View ArticleTechnology transfer agreements - Wragge & Co LLP’s response to the...
In December 2011, the European Commission (the Commission) launched a public consultation to review current rules for technology transfer agreements. Here, it put forward a draft proposal for a revised...
View ArticleThe new Consumer Rights Bill - making consumer law simpler?
The Government has issued its long-awaited Consumer Rights Bill. Just over a year ago we were waiting for the Bill as the Consumer Rights Directive was published. Only a few months before the directive...
View ArticleThe European Commission proposes new cyber security legislation
Proposals are afoot in Brussels to introduce new cyber security standards, improve the detection of cyber security risks and incidents and introduce new reporting requirements and co-operation mechanisms.
View ArticleRecent developments in personal data security and the wider European security...
Wragge & Co's Information Law team provides an overview of the Regulation, set in context with the current draft Data Protection Regulation and wider European security legislation.
View ArticleWragge & Co promotes banking and finance expert to director
Wragge & Co has strengthened its Banking and Finance team with the promotion of Jonathan Segal to legal director.
View ArticleWragge & Co completes innovative deal for major retailers
Wragge & Co's Retail team today concluded a high profile agreement between high street retailer Argos, a long-standing client of Wragge & Co, and eBay.
View ArticleWragge & Co ranked among UK’s best law firms
Wragge & Co's reputation as a leading law firm in the UK has been boosted by improved rankings in Legal 500 UK, an independent directory of comparative law firm performance.
View ArticleCadbury and Mattel lose their exotic marks following Court of Appeal scrutiny
"Exotic" marks, being colour, smell and shape marks, are notoriously tricky to register. Wragge & Co's Intellectual Property experts analyse the Cadbury and Mattel cases in more detail.
View ArticleWhy clear drafting matters: a case lost by both sides?
Alegro Capital LLP v AllProperty Media Pte Limited is certainly not the first time that a judge has found that, in the rush to sign binding agreements, the parties have failed to record clearly what...
View ArticleIP team flies off with TMT Team of the Year Award
Wragge & Co's Intellectual Property team has won TMT Team of the Year at the British Legal Awards 2013 for securing a Supreme Court victory which overturned 100 years of patent law.
View ArticlePatent infringement finding against British Telecommunications plc secured by...
Wragge & Co's Intellectual Property team today secured a High Court judgment against British Telecommunications plc for patent infringement in connection with its Next Generation Access (NGA)...
View ArticlePatent infringement finding against British Telecommunications plc secured by...
Wragge & Co's Intellectual Property team has secured a High Court judgment against British Telecommunications plc for patent infringement in connection with its Next Generation Access (NGA)...
View ArticleWragge & Co advises NVM Private Equity, Foresight and Mobeus on exit from...
Wragge & Co's Corporate team has advised a syndicate of venture capital investors, led by NVM Private Equity, on their exit from Alaric Systems in a deal worth £52 million.
View ArticleAnnual review of patents cases
It is amazing how fast the years pass, so here we are again with another, the sixteenth, annual review of UK patent cases.
View ArticleWragge & Co and Lawrence Graham to merge
Wragge & Co and Lawrence Graham are to merge, forming a new firm, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co, from 1 May 2014.
View ArticleUn-Safe Harbor: Is Safe Harbor an adequate means of protecting EU personal...
Wragge & Co's information law experts consider whether it is wise to continue to rely on Safe Harbor as a means of ensuring adequate protection of personal data and what abolition of the regime...
View ArticleWragge & Co wins TMT Team of the Year at The Legal Business Awards
Wragge & Co's Intellectual Property team has won TMT Team of the Year at The Legal Business Awards.
View ArticleI want my data back!
Can a common law lien be exercised over an electronic database pending payment? The Court of Appeal in Your Response Ltd v Datateam Business Media Ltd has confirmed that suppliers have no right to hold...
View ArticleEuropean Parliament votes overwhelmingly in favour of data protection reform
In January 2012, the European Commission proposed a comprehensive reform of the EU's data protection rules to make them fit for the 21st century. The key part of the reform is the draft regulation...
View ArticleThe European Parliament votes through cyber security legislation
In this alert Wragge & Co's Information Law experts explain the differences between the Directive originally proposed by the European Commission and the version approved by the European Parliament,...
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