Sofia Lind

July 16, 2008 | Law.com

After a six-year absence, Eversheds has sealed its re-entry into the Netherlands market by signing an alliance agreement with 12-partner Dutch practice Faasen & Partners. The tie-up will go live on Oct. 1, giving the U.K. firm a presence in both Amsterdam and Rotterdam. As a full member of Eversheds International, the firm will operate as Eversheds Faasen. Eversheds previously had a Dutch alliance with Boekel de Neree, but split from the firm in early 2002 after three years.

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December 10, 2008 | Law.com

White & Case is set to lose its global co-head of M&A, as Tim Goodell quits the firm to become senior vice president and general counsel with oil company Hess Corp. Goodell, who will take up his new role in January, has been one of the six members of the firm's partnership committee. Hess is a client of White & Case and Goodell in particular. Goodell worked on the 2000 sale of the New York Jets football franchise on behalf of late company founder Leon Hess' estate.

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July 28, 2008 | Law.com

Highly regarded Romanian independent Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen, a referral partner of Slaughter and May, will lose three partners this August. M&A co-heads Cristina Filip and Carmen Peli and real estate leader Francisc Peli are expected to be joined by around 10 Nestor associates, as well as lawyers from other firms. The new firm, to be called Peli Filip, will launch with five partners covering real estate and corporate work in addition to energy, competition and capital markets matters.

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March 04, 2008 | National Law Journal

Nabarro has extended its European "best friends" network with the addition of new preferred firms in Italy and Spain. Nunziante Magrone comes aboard as the firm's best friend in Italy, with Rodes & Sala Abogados named as Nabarro's new Spanish ally. Nunziante has offices in Rome, Milan and Bologna. Rodes & Sala has offices in Madrid and Barcelona. Nabarro's network, which also includes German outfit GSK Stockmann & Kollegen and French practice August & Debouzy Avocats, will now work as a five-firm alliance.

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September 23, 2009 | Law.com

Fasken Martineau has opened an office in Paris through a local merger and the addition of a four-lawyer team from Dewey & LeBoeuf. The 650-lawyer Canadian firm has merged with seven-lawyer Paris firm Gravel Leclerc & Partners and added a Dewey team led by senior counsel Jean-Claude Petilon, who joins as a partner. The new office will be headed by Serge Gravel, an M&A specialist and one of the founding partners of Gravel Leclerc.

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March 22, 2011 | New York Law Journal

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February 07, 2008 | Law.com

Ashurst has hired a new project finance partner in Japan with the addition of White & Case partner Matthias Schemuth, who joined the British giant on Monday. Schemuth becomes the third partner in Ashurst's Tokyo finance group. He spent seven years at White & Case, where he was a partner in the Hong Kong energy, infrastructure, project finance and asset finance group. The hire "shows we are keen to bolster our presence in Asia," said Ashurst senior partner Geoffrey Green.

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November 25, 2009 | Law.com

Mayer Brown has sealed a merger deal in Paris that will give the firm a seven-lawyer litigation and arbitration team in the French capital. The firm's Paris office has completed a merger with boutique Ayela Semerdjian & Associes, which is led by Christophe Ayela and Renaud Semerdjian, who both join Mayer Brown as partners. Two counsel and three associates will also join Mayer Brown. The hires take the number of lawyers in the firm's Paris dispute resolution practice to 12.

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April 08, 2011 | Law.com

Clifford Chance has plans to launch a Morocco office -- its first location in Africa and the latest international effort by the firm. Clifford Chance still has to seek regulatory approval for the office, which is expected to focus on infrastructure, energy, mining and international corporations doing business in the region.

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September 14, 2011 | Law.com

Clifford Chance has made a high-profile hire in Brussels with the addition of former Linklaters competition partner Johan Ysewyn. The hire of Ysewyn, who was head of Linklaters' Brussels antitrust group and co-head of the firm's global cartel group, fits into Clifford Chance's plans for a more broad-based practice, the firm said.

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