GD in the news:  London Welsh Rugby
Last week, the press reported details of case in which Jonathan Hadyn-Williams of our litigation department has been involved since the end of last year involving London Welsh Rugby Club.  The case involved a considerable amount of financial investigation and urgent applications to court for injunctions and orders.  Click here to read more of the details

What to watch in 2010….
Goodman Derrick’s departmental teams cast a spotlight on legal issues that will be important in 2010.  Click here for their collected wisdom:

Goodman Derrick news: Chambers 2010
Chambers & partners, one of the leading independent guides to the legal profession, has published its 2010 edition. Once again, Goodman Derrick is singled out for praise. Paul Herbert, Alison Downie and Patrick Swaffer are all mentioned as leading individuals. Click here for more.

Collectors cars and motor sports
Goodman Derrick LLP partner Martin Emmison specialises in transactions and disputes in the historic car field and reports here on the new papers you need to race in Europe and here on the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile's Heritage Certificate.

Hotel News
Goodman Derrick LLP recently acted as legal advisers to the country house hotels group, Von Essen, on the multi-million pound acquisition of Luxury Family Hotels plc.
The legal team was led by senior corporate partner John Roberts. Goodman Derrick's team included partner Tanya Shillingford, who handled the implications of the Takeover Code, and property partner Greg Hamlen.

Media Tour
Paul Herbert, Head of Media, is on a tour of ITV's regional newsrooms giving a seminar on "Compliance and Court Reporting".
The "tour" has already taken him to Manchester and Plymouth and he will be making further appearances in Leeds and Belfast

Film
Tim Adler of Screen Finance joined Keith Northrop of Goodman Derrick LLP in holding a breakfast panel discussion on 11 May 2006 on the new UK Film Tax Credits.

Firm News Archive

The partners of Goodman Derrick LLP and Berger Oliver are delighted to announce that the two businesses will be joining forces with effect from January 2005. At that time, three property partners from Berger Oliver, Simon Mapstone, Simon Catt and Guy Martin will become partners of Goodman Derrick LLP and Paul McAndrews, their litigation partner, will become a consultant.

John Roberts the senior partner at Goodman Derrick LLP, said We are thrilled that Berger Oliver are joining. Their expertise and experience will add strength to our Property Department”.

On behalf of Berger Oliver partners, Simon Catt stated Joining a company with the reputation and standing of Goodman Derrick LLP is excellent news for us. It also means our clients will, in future, have the benefit of a larger firm with greater depth and breadth of resources to call upon”.

Goodman Derrick LLP has recently acted for London Town plc the AIM listed property company in connection with its underwritten open offer to raise approximately 7.8 million pounds. Tanya Shillingford a partner in Goodman Derrick LLP's corporate department led the firm's legal team.

Goodman Derrick LLP partner Martin Emmison has had the honour of being quoted in the New York Times on 14 th June 2004 by Jim Motavalli in his article 'When the numbers don't add up'. Martin has a niche motor practice which deals with cross border sales and exchange of very expensive vehicles together with import, taxation and registration issues. The article is available on the newspaper's website.

Tanya Shillingford and Robert Macro ATT of Goodman Derrick LLP's corporate department together with Mark Kendrick of the firm's property department recently acted for The Financial Services Skills Council. The company has obtained the licence to operate as the skills council for the financial services sector from the Sector Skills Development Agency. This continues Goodman Derrick LLP's relationship with the sector's education and training body as the firm has acted for a number of years for The Financial Services Skills Council's predecessor The Financial Services National Training Organisation

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