Simon Petersen

October 26, 2011 | International Edition

Addleshaw Goddard and Slaughter and May have advised on the merger of Dutch consulting and management services company Arcadis with UK property management company EC Harris. The deal creates one of the largest property advisory and project services companies in the world with a global turnover of €2.3bn (£2bn) and almost 19,000 staff across Europe, the US and Brazil.

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October 26, 2011 | International Edition

Addleshaw Goddard is gearing up for a management election with managing partner Paul Devitt's three-year term in office set to conclude at the end of April next year. The firm's partnership is set to start preparing for a formal nomination process which will take place in the New Year.

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October 25, 2011 | International Edition

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has secured the dismissal of a €1bn (£871m) claim against the Slovak Republic. The case, which was dismissed last week, was lodged by Dutch health insurance consultancy Hicee in 2008 and had been one of Europe's largest ongoing investment disputes.

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October 25, 2011 | International Edition

Gide Loyrette Nouel's London office saw revenues fall 16% for the 2010 financial year, according to the firm's City limited liability partnership (LLP) filings. The French firm's UK arm saw turnover fall from £9m to £7.6m for the year ending 31 December 2010, alongside a slight increase in gross profit, which rose by £19,000 to £3.7m.

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October 24, 2011 | International Edition

The CMS law firm network is set to expand into Portugal with the addition of Rui Pena Arnaut & Associados (RPA). The move, which was approved by the network's executive committee on Friday (21 October), will see RPA rebrand as CMS Rui Pena & Arnaut from 1 January next year, extending CMS's reach to 55 offices across 30 countries.

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October 24, 2011 | International Edition

Osborne Clarke (OC) has strengthened its City banking team with a double partner hire from Taylor Wessing. London banking and finance partners Dominic Ross and Akmal Ghauri are set to join the national firm as equity partners in January next year, bringing the total number of partners in the firm's banking team to seven.

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October 24, 2011 | International Edition

Norton Rose's Canada arm is set to see the departure of a high-profile senior arbitrator, with former Ogilvy Renault chairman Yves Fortier quitting the firm due to conflict concerns. Fortier, 76, will leave Norton Rose OR at the end of the year in the wake of Ogilvy's merger with the top 10 UK firm, which went live this June.

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October 21, 2011 | International Edition

Squire Sanders Hammonds has recruited a partner from Pinsent Masons to head its global outsourcing and procurement group. Garfield Smith joined the firm on 1 October from Pinsents, where he had been a partner for four years and headed the financial services outsourcing practice.

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October 21, 2011 | International Edition

DLA Piper is strengthening its City insurance and reinsurance team with a partner hire from CMS Cameron McKenna. Andrew Symons is set to join DLA's litigation and regulation group after 16 years at CMS.

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October 20, 2011 | International Edition

McDermott Will & Emery has bolstered its German arm with the addition of two new partners across its Munich and Duesseldorf offices. Michael Ruoff, who specialises in renewable energy projects and related transactions, has joined the firm's Munich office as a partner and head of the German energy practice.

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