It is hardly necessary to remark on how consequential the past year has been – and to do so would be to distract from the promise of the year to come. As we move into 2023, we hope for a continuation of progress made towards a greener and more just future even amid geopolitical turmoil and economic shock, and look forward to discovering and sharing all the major legal stories of the months ahead. Our front-cover features for January are led by Mark Brealey KC, a barrister with Monckton Chambers and a specialist litigator in competition law. Calling upon an extensive career of success in the sector, he shares an exclusive look at some of his past cases and the current trajectory of competition law in the UK and internationally. His story and insights can be found in full beginning on page 12. Bidding farewell to 2022 in style, we look back on the biggest legal stories of the past year in a roundup special feature on page 28. We also hear from Colin Russ on the ways in which the mediation space has developed post-COVID, and from Stefano Balbinot of D.G.P.A. & Co. on the role he and his team played during Palladio Holding’s investment in Wisycom. You can find these incisive interviews on page 20 and page 62 respectively. Back in the present, we have packed this edition with the usual array of news, transaction reports and lawyer moves to get you up to date on all of the latest happenings in the legal sphere. It is our pleasure to have been able to report on activity within the sector all throughout 2022, and we hope to do the same through 2023 and many more years to come. We hope that you enjoy this start-of-year edition! LAWYER MONTHLY©2022 Universal Media Limited Lawyer Monthly is published by Universal Media Limited and is available on general subscription. Readership and circulation information can be found at: www.lawyer-monthly.com. The views expressed in the articles within Lawyer Monthly are the contributors’ own. All rights reserved. Material contained within this publication is not to be reproduced in whole or in part without prior permission. Permission may only be given in written form by the management board of Universal Media Limited. Approx. 302,000 net digital distribution. Oliver Sullivan Editor Lawyer Monthly Welcome to Lawyer Monthly Magazine JANUARY 2023 EDITION @lawyermonthly @LawyerMonthly @lawyermonthly company/lawyer-monthly Universal Media Limited, PO Box 17858, Tamworth, B77 9QG, United Kingdom 0044 (0) 1543 255 537 Production Team: Emma Tansey, Luke Ostle, Nathan Athersmith production@lawyer-monthly.com Sales Enquires: Jacob Mallinder Jacob.mallinder@universalmedia365.com
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