Friederike Heine

November 18, 2010 | International Edition

Latham & Watkins has promoted 22 lawyers to its partnership around the world, with three made up in the firm's London office. The trio of City promotions, which will take effect in the New Year (1 January), come in the US firm's London project finance, employment and capital markets practices. The three new partners are: Matthew Brown, whose practice focuses on project development and project finance; Catherine Drinnan, an employment and benefits lawyer; and Scott Colwell, who specialises in international capital markets.

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November 17, 2010 | International Edition

Barclays Capital has rejigged its legal function in the wake of two high-profile appointments earlier this year, while rival Deutsche Bank has lost its deputy general counsel for the UK and Western Europe. BarCap global general counsel Judith Shepherd has taken on additional responsibility for managing the bank's compliance division and will now take the title of global head of legal and compliance.

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November 16, 2010 | International Edition

CMS Hasche Sigle has appointed Dr Hubertus Kolster as its new managing partner, following the firm's annual partner conference last week (13 November). Kolster is set to succeed current incumbent Cornelius Brandi, who has managed the firm for a total of 12 years. Kolster, a corporate partner in the firm's Frankfurt office, specialises in corporate and business law, as well as M&A. He has been the firm's Frankfurt managing partner since 2009.

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November 16, 2010 | International Edition

White & Case's London office was charged around £7.4m towards running the firm in 2009 by New York - an increase of nearly 60% on the previous year. The US firm's UK limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts for 2009 show the London office paid out in excess of £7.4m in contributions towards its share of joint costs, up from slightly less than £4.7m in 2009.

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November 15, 2010 | International Edition

Ashurst has enhanced its European equity capital markets (ECM) team with the hire of a Dewey & LeBoeuf partner in Frankfurt. Matthias Von Oppen, who will join the firm next month (1 December), has spent three years as a corporate partner at the US firm's Frankfurt base. After qualifying at White & Case in Frankfurt in 1999, he was seconded to Swiss banking giant UBS, as well as the firm's London office. He made partner in 2004 and moved to Dewey in 2007.

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November 15, 2010 | International Edition

SNR Denton has won a lead role advising KPMG on the administration of 64-year-old British holiday company Pontin's. London restructuring partner Rachel Anthony is leading the SNR Denton team advising KPMG as administrators of the holiday parks operator, which employs around 850 staff across five sites at Brean Sands in Somerset, Camber Sands in Sussex, Pakefield in Suffolk, Prestatyn Sands in Wales and Southport on Merseyside.

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November 15, 2010 | International Edition

The University College London (UCL) Faculty of Laws is launching the UK's first-ever judicial institute, in an effort to help law students better understand the judicial system and its workings. The institute, which is launching with immediate effect, will be dedicated to the study of how judges are appointed, how they reach decisions, the operation of the courts, and the relationship between the judiciary, other social institutions and other branches of government.

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November 12, 2010 | International Edition

Baker & McKenzie's City office has teamed up with employee benefits company My Family Care to offer emergency care services for the firm's London employees. The new scheme, which will launch next week (16 November), will allow the US firm's City staff to search for and book a qualified and vetted nanny or childminder in the UK at as little as 30 minutes' notice. It will also enable staff to find home care for adult dependents in a location convenient to them.

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November 12, 2010 | International Edition

The number of students accepted onto law courses this year saw a slight dip for the first time in three years, according to new research by admissions service UCAS. The total number of students starting a law course at university or college in September 2010 fell by 2.6% to 16,890, down from the 2009 high point of 17,346. The figure had risen steadily until this year, with the number of students accepted onto law courses this year now up around 13% on 2006's figure.

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November 11, 2010 | International Edition

Ogier has appointed finance partner James Bergstrom as the offshore firm's new Hong Kong managing partner. The appointment, which will take effect in the New Year, will see Bergstrom relocate to Hong Kong from the Cayman Islands, where he has been managing partner for eight years. He is also the head of Ogier's global investment funds team.

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