Pui Guan Man

September 11, 2014 | International Edition

Norton Rose Fulbright's US LLP has rejected claims that it should withdraw from representing client Duke University in a case against the John Wayne Estate after the claimant flagged a conflict of interest between legacy Fulbright & Jaworski and Norton Rose Canada.

By Pui-Guan Man

4 minute read

September 09, 2014 | International Edition

Davis Polk & Wardwell and Sidley Austin have landed the leading roles advising Swedish manufacturer Electrolux on its $3.3bn (£2bn) purchase of US-based General Electric's (GE's) appliances business.

By Pui-Guan Man

2 minute read

September 09, 2014 | International Edition

Berwin Leighton Paisner could take decisions on partner exits out of the hands of the wider partnership in a move that would effectively increase the power of the firm's management team.

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4 minute read

September 08, 2014 | International Edition

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has sealed the hire of McDermott Will & Emery London corporate partner Mark Crofskey to bulk up its UK legal arm's M&A team.

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2 minute read

September 05, 2014 | International Edition

Lord Mayor of London and CMS Cameron McKenna partner Fiona Woolf is set to lead a UK government inquiry into historical child abuse, after retired judge Baroness Butler-Sloss stepped down from the role.

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3 minute read

September 04, 2014 | International Edition

Clifford Chance has signed Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) London corporate and capital markets star Alex Bafi to its finance and capital markets group and relocated him to its burgeoning Paris office.

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2 minute read

September 03, 2014 | International Edition

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is considering the introduction of a target percentage of female partners across the firm, becoming the latest firm to put diversity at the top of the agenda.

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2 minute read

September 03, 2014 | International Edition

Equity partner headcount among the UK's 50 leading law firms grew by 3.7% across the group in 2013-14, with the impact of global mergers helping to bulk out the numbers.

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4 minute read

September 03, 2014 | International Edition

Clifford Chance has boosted its Paris office with the hire of a trio of former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate lawyers led by partner Fabrice Cohen.

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2 minute read

September 02, 2014 | International Edition

Greenberg Traurig's London arm Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) has sealed the hire of Slaughter and May tax partner Graham Iversen in a rare lateral partner move from the elite UK firm.

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2 minute read