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Private Equity Fund Creates Role for London Kirkland Partner
The partner has joined the fund in a new role as European legal counsel.
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Dentons Continues Europe Expansion With Deloitte Legal and BonelliErede...
The international behemoth continues its European expansion charge with senior hires in Italy and Germany.
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US Duo Lead On $1.45B UK-French Pharma Deal
The transaction sees French pharma giant Sanofi acquire U.K. biotech firm Kymab.
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Law Society President Set to Appear Before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal
London's High Court has criticised the UK industry regulator over its decision to strike out the claim against David Greene.
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Big Law Firms Join In Freezing Political Contributions Following US Capitol...
Following the lead of several major banks and corporations, the firms are reassessing where money from their political action committees goes.
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Why In-House Counsel for Investment Firms Are Blamed for Overspending They...
Legal departments for private equity firms are asked to control outside spending, but they're unable to approve budgets for new legal projects and lack access to live spending data, according to a new...
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Jack Nusbaum, Longtime Willkie Chairman, Has Died at 80
Nusbaum chaired Willkie Farr & Gallagher for 23 years, most notably overseeing its expansion into Europe.
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The New Hats of Aviation Lawyers in Asia
As the aviation sector right-sizes, law firms have been forced to adapt. Many that have specialized in transport sector work are benefiting, while larger firms that had been mulling over whether their...
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Dutch Firms De Brauw and NautaDutilh Break into European M&A Top 20
A new Mergermarket report places Benelux firms NautaDutilh and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in the list of the 20 firms with the largest M&A transactions by deal value in Europe in 2020.
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The New Normal Could Be the Beginning of the End for Law Firm Culture
If firms all adopt flexible work arrangements, they'll lose the characteristics that make them unique, Paul Hodkinson writes.
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Former Quinn Emanuel Tokyo Partner Heads for DLA Piper After Brief Stint
Tony Andriotis will lead an international arbitration practice in Japan.
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Linklaters Duo On Call For Second UK IPO This Week
Allen & Overy is also advising on the latest IPO.
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Kennedys Expands in UK With 36 Strong Acquisition
The team includes four partners and will launch a new office for Kennedys.
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HSF and Dentons Lose Corporate Partners to Elite French Outfit
The partners are joining August Debouzy, an elite business law firm, to lead a push into project finance, infrastructure and energy in Africa.
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UK, Belgian Law Firm Duo Seal Strategic Alliance
The tie-up is the second move into continental Europe the U.K. firm has made in recent months.
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Gateley Latest UK Law Firm To Cut Roles Amid Agile Working Shift
The AIM listed outfit is the latest to take the measure after a challenging year.
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Revealed: Clyde & Co's Outgoing Senior Partner Faced Internal Probe Into...
An independent investigation did not uphold complaints made against Peter Hirst but reviews of the firm's remuneration and membership agreements have been halted.
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Pinsents Axes 24 Staff In Latest COVID-19 Cuts
The firm says COVID-19 and remote working 'has implications for the resourcing of offices on a day-to-day basis'.
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FisherBroyles London Partner Exits Mount Less than a Year After Office Launch
Three partners have now left the U.S. firm's young London base in the past three months.
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Dentons UK and Middle East Arm Appoints New CEO
The new CEO will be based in Abu Dhabi and succeeds Jeremy Cohen in the position.
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Hogan Lovells Hires Seven-Strong Paris Baker McKenzie Team
The team will concentrate on private equity deals in technology and life sciences.
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Linklaters Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gaps Widen
The ethnicity bonus gap, however, has narrowed significantly.
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Opinion in Data Privacy Facebook Case Could Lead to More GDPR Investigations
The highest adviser to Europe's top court has said national privacy regulators can take legal action against tech giants who flout GDPR rules even if they are headquartered in another EU country....
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IMPEACHED: After Capitol Mob, House Votes a Second Time for Trump's Removal
Trump's defense team is expected to look different than the team that represented him in his first impeachment, as several top lawyers are distancing themselves from the fray.
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'Difficult Business for London Litigators': Judgment Enforceability Limbo...
The universal belief among U.K. practitioners is that accession to the Lugano Convention now that the U.K. has left the EU would make life "dramatically easier." But the EU has thus far been silent....
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IBA Names Zimbabwe Lawyer as President
Sternford Moyo, chairman and senior partner of the Zimbabwe law firm Scanlen and Holderness, is the IBA's first African president in the history of the 74-year-old organization.
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Magic Circle Duo Lead 2020 Asia Pacific M&A League Tables
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Clifford Chance both advised on a $49 billion reorganization deal of China's state-owned oil and gas sector.
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Milbank's Private Equity Hires in Hong Kong Reflect a Changing Market
The firm's zigzags in its Hong Kong practice are in keeping with broader trends in the market over the past two decades.
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Allen & Overy's Fuse Incubator Startup StructureFlow Partners With Indian...
Mumbai-based Jerome Merchant + Partners will benefit from transactions visualization tools.
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Another Private Client Partner Leaves BCLP
The Hong Kong-based partner, who joined in 2016, is joining a London boutique.
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A&O Global Arbitration Co-Head Leaves
Matthew Gearing QC has been a partner at A&O since 2005 and took silk in 2014.
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Mark Mansell SDT Case Scrapped Over 'Risk to Life'
The tribunal recognised that the A&O partner's health was at risk.
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Shearman & Sterling London Partner Jumps to Squires in UAE
The move underlines the growing importance of the UAE to the firm's Middle East and global work.
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Legal Tech Predictions For 2021
Six UK experts offer their thoughts on where the sector is heading after last year's unprecedented disruption.
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Clyde & Co Raids Norton Rose for Munich Office Launch
The eight-strong team is led by three insurance partners. More are expected to follow.
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CMS Grabs Herbert Smith Freehills Disputes Partner
This is the second partner loss for HSF in January.
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DWF Overhauls Structure, Resumes Investments Paused Due to COVID-19
Firm CEO Sir Nigel Knowles said no more redundancies or office closures are expected as part of the latest shake up.
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Goodwin Adds Frankfurt Investment Funds Partner From US Rival
The firm has its eye on European expansion.
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Shearman & Sterling Relaunches Munich Office, Hires 2 Finance Partners From...
Clyde & Co also announced it is opening an office in Munich.
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PAG Law Strengthens Brazil Muscle With Hires for NY Office
Attorneys with experience in Latin America's biggest economy are a coveted asset as Brazil work booms.
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Hogan Lovells 'Star' Moscow M&A Partner Leaves to Start Own Firm
Oxana Balayan used Instagram to announce that she is launching her own firm. She was with Hogan Lovells for 19 years.
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Clyde & Co Hires White Collar Expert For Dubai Consultancy Launch
The move is a bid to help clients in the middle east manage increasingly complex regional regulatory oversight.
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'We Have a Lot to Learn': Ex-Linklaters Arbitration Head on Launching a New Firm
Duprey spoke this week with Law.com International about the new firm's values, his decision to leave big-firm life, and how arbitrators often have a different way of looking at the law.
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Our Approach to Teaching Law Must Change With the Times
The way we work has changed beyond measure in the last year, which is why our approach to teaching law must change as well.
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Norton Rose Cuts 132 Roles, London Hit Hardest
The restructuring is taking place across the firm's Europe, Middle East and Asia operation.
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Lewis Silkin Launches IP Practice in Hong Kong
David Swain joins from Deacons and will now lead Lewis Silkin's IP practice in Asia
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Greenberg Traurig Hires Tokyo Partner From Morrison & Foerster
Real estate lawyer Mori Inada moves over.
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Former HSF Paralegal Banned For Falsifying Overtime
The former disputes paralegal submitted claim forms using the initials of a former manager.
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Beckwith: The High Cost of the SRA's Failed Case Unveiled
The regulator's total spend in its investigation into the former Freshfields partner's conduct has been discovered by Law.com International.
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