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Swedish law firm Vinge has appointed Stockholm banking partner Maria-Pia Hope as its new managing partner.
Hope, who joined the firm in 1996 and made partner in 2003, will take over from current managing partner Michael Wigge (pictured) no later than June 2012. Wigge is set to return to practice as a corporate partner.
Hope, who held the roles of London managing partner for several years, focuses on the financial services sector with a particular emphasis on restructuring and insolvency.
She is known for heading up the firm’s team advising the Swedish National Debt Office in relation to SAAB Automobile’s loan from the European Investment Bank.
Outgoing MP Wigge commented: “So many things have happened at Vinge during my time, but it is ultimately teamwork that has made Vinge one of the leading law firms in the Nordic region.
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The SFO encourages companies to inform it if they uncover allegations of overseas corruption within their firm in return for it taking a more lenient approach to the issue.
Guidance the SFO has issued on self-referrals states that firms that own up to potential corrupt practices are responsible for investigating their own matters “where possible”. Companies that do not self-report are more likely to be subject to the SFO’s own criminal investigation, according to the guidance.
SFO Director Richard Alderman said that organisations that have genuinely tried to uncover information as part of their investigations will not be deemed to have been uncooperative if they failed to do so.
“When I woke up there was a fire. I know it wasn’t anything I was doing,” Mark William Roberts said in the audio recording. During that interview, Roberts was “very specific” that the fire did not start in his apartment, but he talked “about the fire being in the living room of his apartment,” testified Mike Nance, a now-retired Tulsa Police Department homicide investigator. Nance indicated that regarding the investigation of the March 10, 2009, fire at the Royal Arms Apartments, “we began to believe the fire had started because of an explosion of a working meth lab in Apartment 210,” which is where Roberts lived. Roberts said he had been asleep on a couch in his second-floor apartment, according to Nance. Find more information…
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SJ Berwin has hired a City energy partner with the addition of Neil Upton from Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM).
Upton, who was a consultant at GTM, is joining SJ Berwin as a partner and will lead the development of SJ Berwin’s energy and infrastructure team alongside existing City energy partner Elaine Gibson-Bolton. He was previously head of power at White Case and global energy head at DLA Piper. He joined White Case from DLA Piper in 2006, moving to GTM around two years ago.
His legal practice focuses on advising utilities, governments, banks and financial institutions on all aspects of the energy and water business.
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The Greater Norwich Development Partnership’s (GNDP) produced a draft charging schedule (14-page/2.77MB PDF) for Norwich, South Norfolk and Broadland councils. The proposed CIL for residential properties in zone A was up to £160 per square metre, but this could be reduced to £115 per sq m, the Council said.
The CIL is a new way of collecting developer contributions to help fund infrastructure projects. It allows local authorities to charge a tariff, at a locally set rate, on many types of new development.
The money can then be used to pay for a wide range of additional infrastructure that is required as a result of development. This can include transport schemes, green infrastructure and community facilities.
The responses to the consultation on GNDP’s draft charging schedule, which closed in November, have led to a recommendation that the CIL be set at rates lower than those first put forward. House