After what has been a challenging couple of years for TMT firm Olswang, chief executive Paul Stevens is launching a series of initiatives in a bid to ‘re-ignite the firm’s entrepreneurial spirit’.
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Dentons has enhanced its competition and antitrust offering by appointing longstanding Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) partner Adrian Magnus to join its City practice.
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King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) and Dentons have leveraged their considerable Asia platforms to secure roles as lead advisers on a landmark agreement between Germany and China to create the first dedicated platform for yuan-denominated trading outside China.
Global 100 heavyweights Ropes & Gray and Clifford Chance announced key lateral hires last week, while White & Case saw the head of its Polish disputes practice leave the firm.
Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has boosted its German capability with the launch of an office in Düsseldorf – its third base in Germany, and hired former Clifford Chance (CC) arbitration partner Thomas Weimann.
Continue reading “‘Naturally a key market’: HSF launches in Düsseldorf with former CC hire”
Macfarlanes has scored a lead role advising US company Visa on its €21.2bn acquisition of Visa Europe alongside US firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, while Linklaters also secured a leading role advising the other side.
Nearly two years after opening in Manchester, Fieldfisher has swelled its partner headcount with two lateral hires from regional firms.
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I speak to a lot of people who have recently moved into new roles. It is a tough period and after three months there is often a striking contrast between their negative emotional response to their new role then, compared to the anticipation and excitement they felt on joining their new company.
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HSBC is planning to move about 20 of its London lawyers to Birmingham by 2017 in line with the new ring-fencing reforms, Legal Business has learned.
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As part of its quest to seek a local tie-up Reed Smith has secured the double hire of Ince & Co‘s Singapore managing partner and the head of its local alliance firm, putting Ince’s own Singapore law alliance at risk.
Continue reading “Ince & Co hits choppy water in Singapore as Reed Smith appoints leadership duo”
Eversheds is moving closer to its much sought-after US merger, with Foley & Lardner identified as the primary candidate for a deal.
Continue reading “Eversheds inches closer to US tie-up as Foley & Lardner emerges as front runner”
Almost half the lawyers made partner in Latham & Watkins’ latest 25 partner promotion round are female, following global chair Bill Voge’s pledge for diversity.
Clyde & Co has continued its seemingly relentless international push of the last 18 months, this time recruiting ten new lawyers including five partners in South Africa, bringing the total number of legal staff across its Johannesburg and Cape Town offices to 30.
Continue reading “Clyde & Co ramps up South African offering with Norton Rose, ENS hires”
Oman’s largest sovereign wealth fund has hired Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to take Bulgaria to arbitration over its role in the collapse in Balkan bank KTB, while the Bulgarian government has instructed Arnold & Porter to defend the claim ahead of preferred law firm White & Case.
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Private equity heavyweights Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Latham & Watkins have acted on the spin-off of Barclays’ natural resources private equity arm through a management buyout.
Wilberforce Chambers continues to expand, adding Fenner Moeran QC and Andrew Child from 3 Stone Buildings, just weeks after bringing three silks and five junior barristers from soon-to-dissolve London commercial and chancery set 11 Stone Buildings (11SB).
Forsters is defending a £70m professional negligence claim filed by businessman Rupert Galliers-Pratt in which he alleges the firm failed to execute a deal for three oil blocks in Russia.
Continue reading “Forsters faced with £70m negligence lawsuit over Siberian oil deal”
Third party litigation funder Burford Capital is investing €30m in US competition law boutique Hausfeld so it can open in Germany.
Several Lloyds Banking Group institutional clients have instructed Mishcon de Reya after breaking away from the shareholder action group involved in a multi-billion pound court battle against the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS).
Linklaters has made a statement of intent in New York by hiring Baker & McKenzie’s Manhattan litigation head Douglas Tween, its first lateral hire in the US in almost two years.
