Sofia Lind

February 21, 2008 | Corporate Counsel

DLA Piper has appointed a new head of its Spanish equity capital markets practice, with the hire of corporate partner Mar�a Segim�n de Manzanos. De Manzanos joins the trans-Atlantic firm's Madrid office as a partner after a spell in-house with infrastructure giant Grupo Ferrovial, where she headed the corporate legal team and advised on deals, including its acquisitions of Cespa, Swissport and BAA.

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September 12, 2011 | New York Law Journal

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January 30, 2008 | National Law Journal

Lovells has moved to boost its Chinese banking practice, hiring for its Hong Kong location Fred Chang, who will join as a partner from White & Case's Beijing office on Feb. 7. Chang came to White & Case in 2006 from Chinese practice King & Wood. Notably, he advised on the $1.9 billion initial public offering of Chinese property developer Country Garden on the Hong Kong stock exchange last year.

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April 27, 2010 | Law.com

In an overhaul of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's management structure, the Magic Circle firm has opted to phase out its joint senior partner role following a firmwide vote last week. Freshfields will elect a sole senior partner when incumbent duo Guy Morton and Konstantin Mettenheimer step down later this year. The dual role is a legacy of Freshfields' 2001 merger with Germany's Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Loeber, with Morton based in the U.K. and Mettenheimer in Germany.

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January 10, 2011 | Law.com

U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on Friday set out plans to bring new defamation laws to that country and end "libel tourism." Libel tourism involves foreign claimants exploiting the U.K.'s rigorous laws by bringing cases against overseas publications to the British courts.

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July 19, 2011 | Law.com

London-based Simmons & Simmons is set to finalize its move to a three-tier partnership this month. Overhauling its traditional route to partnership, the firm will now first promote all of its associates into a fixed-share partnership rank, which is not expected to contribute capital.

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June 30, 2008 | Law.com

Pedersoli & Associati is set to lose three of its 13 equity partners, with commercial and litigation heavyweight Enrico Zattoni leaving to join new firm Labruna Mazziotti Segni. Zattoni will join Labruna in September, having spent four years at Pedersoli after the break-up of private equity boutique Morano & Associati in 2005. It is believed that four associates will join him at Labruna.

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August 18, 2010 | Law.com

Linklaters has taken the lead role for BP as the oil giant moves to borrow $5 billion by pledging sales revenues from two oil fields. BP has raised the multibillion-dollar sum via a banking deal involving oil revenues from two separate fields in Azerbaijan and Angola, with Herbert Smith advising the arranging banks on the $3 billion Angola loan and Baker & McKenzie advising the banks on the Azerbaijan deal. BP is selling off global assets to finance the big cleanup bill from the Gulf of Mexico spill.

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April 19, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

Clifford Chance (CC) has re-opened last year's recruitment programme in a bid to bring the number of recruits for its next two trainee intakes back to "normal" levels.

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May 05, 2011 | New York Law Journal

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