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Commerce & Technology

SJ Berwin LLP Continues Expansion of Specialist Outsourcing Team
01/05/07
SJ Berwin LLP, the leading pan-European corporate and commercial law firm, is pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Sutherland, who will be joining the firm’s specialist Outsourcing team... Read more

SJ Berwin LLP Advise APACS on New Faster Payments System
22/02/07
SJ Berwin LLP and Eversheds have been advising on the new faster payments system that is designed, by the end of 2007, to allow UK customers to make online or phone payments that will reach the recipient's bank account within a few hours... Read more

SJ Berwin LLP Hires New Outsourcing Partner: David Meredith from Kemp Little
24/11/06
Leading pan-European corporate and commercial law firm SJ Berwin LLP is pleased to announce the appointment of new outsourcing partner, David Meredith... Read more

SJ Berwin Hires Senior Commerce and Technology Solicitor
21/06/05
SJ Berwin's Commerce & Technology team is pleased to announce the arrival of senior solicitor, James Gill, who joined the firm from Freshfields' IP team on 6 June 2005... Read more

SJ Berwin advises NicOx S.A on research, option, development and licensing agreement with Pfizer Inc.
26/08/04
SJ Berwin has announced that it advised NicOx S.A, an emerging pharmaceutical research company listed on the Nouveau Marché on a research, option, development and licensing agreement with Pfizer Inc. concluded on 25 August... Read more

SJ Berwin Advises UGC Cinemas Limited in Landmark Cinema Advertising Deal
27/11/01
Rising cinema audiences on the back of current box office smashes such as Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone are filling cinemas ... Read more

Commercial Litigation

SJ Berwin LLP Promotes Eight to the Partnership
22/04/08
European law firm SJ Berwin LLP is pleased to announce that it has promoted eight lawyers to partnership, which will come into effect on 1 May 2008... Read more

David Shapiro moves on
04/02/08
David Shapiro is leaving SJ Berwin LLP. During the last twelve years, David has made an outstanding contribution to the firm and to the practice of mediation in this country... Read more

$2 BILLION Megafon dispute settles
29/11/07
Today, Thursday 29 November, in Hamilton, Bermuda, the High court validated a master settlement agreement between IPOC International Growth Fund Limited and LV Finance Group Limited and others, which finally brings to an end a series of global litigations and arbitrations which have taken place over the last four years.... Read more

SJ Berwin LLP's victory in the House of Lords for OK! in the Catherine Zeta Jones wedding photos case
02/05/07
SJ Berwin's senior Solicitor Advocate, Richard Slowe, and associates Georgina Bristow and Christina Sharma have successfully acted for OK! magazine in their dispute with Hello! over the publication of "spoiler" photographs of the wedding of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones ... Read more

Further Expansion of SJ Berwin's International Arbitration Practice
01/03/07
SJ Berwin LLP is pleased to announce the appointment of Justin Michaelson as a partner to the international arbitration group... Read more

SJ Berwin's Mediator Gains Further Recognition by Being Admitted as a Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators
28/02/07
SJ Berwin LLP's Alternative Dispute Resolution Group is delighted to announce that Phillip Howell-Richardson has been admitted as a Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators... Read more

SJ Berwin LLP wins CEDR Award for Excellence in Mediation 2006
20/10/06
SJ Berwin LLP is delighted to announce that the ADR group has won the Professional award at the biennial CEDR Awards for Excellence in Mediation ... Read more

SJ Berwin Wins Summary Judgment in Relation to Underfunded Pension Scheme
18/04/05
SJ Berwin's Pensions Unit, working in conjunction with the firm's Commercial Litigation department, has successfully obtained a summary judgment on behalf of the trustees of the Sea Containers... Read more

SJ Berwin Advises The Ukrainian Government
12/11/04
SJ Berwin's Commercial Litigation Department is pleased to announce that it has recently been appointed an approved provider of litigation services to the Ukrainian Government... Read more