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Clifford Chance boosts French corporate offering with HSF and Willkie Farr hires Last month saw much strategic decision-making by Legal…

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As Dentons hires IDB’s general counsel in hunt for regional mergers Last month saw leading Iberian law firm Uría Menéndez…

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I always wanted to be an architect. Unfortunately I’m very messy and that’s a bad combination. Building useful things, such…

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Outside the UK, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and K&L Gates have expanded their corporate and finance practices respectively, while in…

Mark McAteer

Scottish LB100 firm Shepherd and Wedderburn has acquired out of administration the business and assets of 158-year old Tods Murray,…

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An increasing number of solicitors are facing disciplinary matters with the Solicitors Regulation Authority opening 90 new disciplinary proceedings from…

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The Conservative plan for a ‘British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities’ is finally being made clear today. The tone of…

Jaishree Kalia

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy’s high-yield finance lawyer Peter Schwartz is leaving to join Paul Hastings in London, in a…

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Welcome to the latest instalment of our weekly recap of interesting things that happened in law land this week.

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Reed Smith’s managing partner for Europe, Middle East and Asia, Roger Parker, discusses international expansion, Chinese law firms and trying…

Sarah Downey

As Big Four accountancy giant EY continues to grow its legal services offering, it has today (2 October) announced it…

Jaishree Kalia

Magic circle duo Allen & Overy (A&O) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won roles to advise Virgin Money on its…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  Manfred Heider, secretary general of VIAC, talks to Zeiler. Partners’ Gerold Zeiler about how recent changes…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  Following a high-profile internal squabble, the CIETAC is going global. Yu Jianlong, the institution’s secretary general,…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  Freshfields’ head of international arbitration, Lucy Reed, talks to Singapore International Arbitration Centre chief executive, Lim…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  Armed with a new set of institutional rules, the HKIAC’s secretary general, Chiann Bao, discusses the…

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 MARKET VIEW – ARBITRATION  Why are so few awards rendered by the Swiss Chambers’ Arbitration Institution subject to challenge proceedings…

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 MARKET VIEW – LITIGATION  Maples and Calder’s BVI managing partner, Arabella di Iorio, looks at complex commercial litigation in the…

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 MARKET VIEW – LITIGATION  Al Tamimi & Company’s Hassan Arab, Rita Jaballah and Robert Maxwell Marsh examine the growing role…

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 MARKET VIEW – LITIGATION  Bonn Steichen & Partners’ head of disputes Fabio Trevisan explores the ‘soft alternative’ to bankruptcy and…