• 25.Apr.2014 Quick tips to mark World Intellectual Property Day

    World Intellectual Property Day (World IP Day) on  26th April acts as a useful reminder to businesses of the value that might be contained in their data, know-how and brands, and of the steps that can be taken to protect and exploit that value. To mark World IP Day, our specialist IP lawyers provide some quick recommendations to help you take stock of your IP assets

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  • 11.Apr.2014 Property Awards 2014

    Earlier this month over 1100 guests gathered at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London to celebrate excellence across the property industry at Property Week’s Property Awards 2014.

    The awards span 19 categories, and this year Shepherd and Wedderburn were delighted to have the opportunity to sponsor the Investment Agency Team of the Year category. Jonathan Rickard, Property & Infrastructure Partner at Shepherd Wedderburn was on hand to present the award to the category winner, Jones Lang LaSalle.

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  • 02.Apr.2014 Shepherd and Wedderburn advise on £11.4m share issue

    Shepherd and Wedderburn advised Goals Soccer Centres plc in relation to its £11.4 million placing of new ordinary shares by way of an accelerated bookbuild.  Goals is a well-respected brand with a national footprint of 43 5-a-side soccer centres across the UK, hosting over 100,000 players every week, resulting in a 42 per cent share of the branded 5-a-side market.  

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  • 01.Apr.2014 Shepherd and Wedderburn help families in crisis

    In the weeks before Christmas, staff at leading UK law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn donated food items to the Trussell Trust 's North West Edinburgh and Glasgow South East food banks.

    Over 145kg of non-perishable food items such as pasta, cereals, tea bags, coffee, tinned meat, fish and biscuits were donated and collected by staff at the firm, and later delivered to the food banks.

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  • 28.Mar.2014 Shepherd and Wedderburn advise on sale to EDF

    Shepherd and Wedderburn advised US firm Duke Energy and Norwegian owned Statkraft UK Limited on the sale of the Barmoor wind farm project to EDF.

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  • 25.Mar.2014 Shepherd and Wedderburn advise on major first for UK offshore wind industry

    Leading UK law firm, Shepherd and Wedderburn has supported Moray Offshore Renewables Limited (MORL – an EDPR and Repsol owned offshore wind developer) in obtaining the consents to build and operate three 372MW wind farms in the Outer Moray Firth.  

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  • 12.Mar.2014 Shepherd and Wedderburn lawyer invited to speak at SA Regulatory Conference

    Fiona Parker, a lawyer at UK law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn, has been invited to speak at the 2nd South African Economic Regulators Conference (SAERC), 18/19 March in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference aims to provide a platform for debate on key issues in the field of Economic Regulations, and will attract a wide range of participants from academia as well as the energy, water, communications, financial services, ports and transport sectors.

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  • 12.Mar.2014 Shepherd and Wedderburn lawyer invited to speak at SA Regulatory Conference

    Fiona Parker, a lawyer at UK law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn, has been invited to speak at the 2nd South African Economic Regulators Conference (SAERC), 18/19 March in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference aims to provide a platform for debate on key issues in the field of Economic Regulations, and will attract a wide range of participants from academia as well as the energy, water, communications, financial services, ports and transport sectors.

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  • 28.Feb.2014 Shepherd and Wedderburn advise JESSICA fund on investment in key development site

    Shepherd and Wedderburn advised the Scottish Partnership for Regeneration in Urban Centres (SPRUCE) on its £9.6 million investment, required to progress the £200 million redevelopment of The Haymarket site in Edinburgh.  The investment will facilitate the critical first phase of work which includes strengthening two railway tunnels as well as archaeological excavations.

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  • 10.Feb.2014 Shepherd and Wedderburn advise LondonMetric

    Leading UK law firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has been advising LondonMetric Property Plc on the Scottish aspects of the acquisition of a portfolio of 27 DSF assets (22 stores, four distribution centres and the DFS head office in Doncaster).

    LondonMetric are forming a new joint venture with LVS II Lux X S.a.r.l which will be called LMP Retail Warehouse JV Property Unit Trust, and it is this JV that will acquire the 903,700sqft portfolio for £175 million.  The acquisition is due to complete on 25 March 2014.

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