Suzi Ring

August 23, 2010 | International Edition

Berrymans Lace Mawer is set to launch a healthcare practice in Cardiff with the hire of RadcliffesLeBrasseur's local office head. Jane Lang joined Berrymans today (23 August) after leaving her role as head of Radcliffes' Cardiff office, where she has been a partner since 2008. She has over 20 years' experience advising clients in the healthcare sector and specialises in clinical negligence, mental health, crime and child protection.

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August 19, 2010 | International Edition

The case against the presence of foreign law firms in India is set to be discussed this weekend at a meeting between India's Government, Bar Council and Ministry of Law. The meeting, scheduled for this Saturday (21 August), comes after a new petition was brought against foreign firms earlier this month in an attempt to further clamp down on foreign lawyers' activities in the region.

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August 19, 2010 | International Edition

Australia's Slater & Gordon, the first-ever law firm to go public, has posted a 21% increase in revenue for 2009-10, taking total turnover to A$124.7m (£71.8m). Profits also saw double-digit growth over the year, rising 16% from A$17m (£9.8m) in 2008-09 to A$19.8m (£11.4m). The firm's Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listing reported a total dividend of 5c per share for the whole of 2009-10 for the firm.

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August 18, 2010 | International Edition

Latham & Watkins and Shepherd and Wedderburn have lined up alongside two Indian law firms on the $9.6bn (£6.1bn) acquisition of a majority stake in oil company Cairn India by Vedanta Resources, India's largest mining company. Vedanta is looking to purchase between 51% and 60% of Cairn India, which is 62% owned by the Edinburgh-based FTSE 100 oil firm Cairn Energy.

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August 17, 2010 | International Edition

King & Spalding has added to its global energy transactions practice in New York with the hire of a partner from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy. Crayton Bell joined the firm yesterday (16 August), taking the number of partners in the New York office to 50. Bell specialises in M&A, leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions in the energy sector.

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August 17, 2010 | International Edition

Mayer Brown JSM has bulked up its Beijing and Hong Kong offices with the hire of two partners from Winston & Strawn and Sidley Austin. Xiang Yang Ge joined Mayer Brown last month to head up the Beijing projects practice from Winston & Strawn's local office, where he was also office head. Prior to joining Winston & Strawn in 2009 he had spent 18 years at Baker & McKenzie.

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August 16, 2010 | International Edition

Clifford Chance (CC) and Latham & Watkins have advised on Intesa Sanpaolo's $1bn (£642m) bond issue as the Italian bank gears up for a potential $15bn (£9.6bn) bond offering via a medium term note program. Latham advised Intesa with a team led by corporate partners Michael Immordino and Jeff Lawlis alongside corporate partner Antonio Coletti and tax partner Jiyeon Lee-Lim.

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August 13, 2010 | International Edition

DWF has recruited two former Halliwells lawyers for its commercial litigation team in Manchester. Stephen Morris and James Lappin have joined the firm's commercial litigation practice as a partner and director respectively. Morris has 17 years' experience in commercial litigation, the last eight of which he spent as a partner at Halliwells.

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August 12, 2010 | International Edition

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is set to lose a team of real estate lawyers from its Hamburg office as the group departs to launch a spinoff firm. The team, which is led by partner Erwin von Bressensdorf, will leave Freshfields at the end of the month, leaving three real estate partners in the magic circle firm's Hamburg base and a total of 10 real estate partners across Freshfields' German offices. Bressensdorf has been a partner at the firm since 1989 and specialises in advising domestic and foreign developers, investors and financial institutions on commercial property law.

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August 10, 2010 | International Edition

Norton Rose and DLA Piper's Australian arms have helped to found a new alliance of law firms which will aim to reduce the legal profession's carbon footprint in the country. The Australian Legal Sector Alliance (AusLSA), which is modelled on the UK's Legal Sector Alliance (LSA), aims to promote environmentally friendly sustainable practices and encourage corporate social responsibility. The UK LSA was founded in 2007 and now has a membership of around 200 legal firms.

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