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February 02, 2011 | International Edition

Nabarro has strengthened its recently-opened Singapore office, bringing in a new partner from Norton Rose. Glenn Cheng has joined Nabarro in Singapore from the local office of Norton Rose, where he was serving as a senior foreign counsel in the construction and engineering practice.

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February 02, 2011 | International Edition

Spanish independent Gomez Acebo & Pombo has posted a 2% increase in turnover during 2010, with the firm also announcing its new partner promotions and ditching its pure lockstep remuneration structure for partners. Revenue for the 2010 financial year stood at €68.9m (£59m) compared with €67.6m (£58m) in 2009, when turnover increased by 10.3%.

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February 01, 2011 | International Edition

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has appointed five external members to its education and training committee as the body gears up for the imminent wide-ranging review of the sector. The new appointments include Slaughter and May HR head Louise Meikle, the General Pharmaceutical Council's head of education and quality assurance Damian Day, and Chitra Karve, director of performance and development at the Parole Board.

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February 01, 2011 | International Edition

Offshore firm Mourant Ozannes has bulked up its London and Jersey offices with the hire of two partners from Walkers and Maples and Calder. The firm has doubled the partner count in its London office with the hire of Robert Duggan for its investment funds practice. Duggan has joined from the London arm of Walkers where he was a partner for the past three years, having also spent time in the firm's Cayman Islands office.

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February 01, 2011 | International Edition

Field Fisher Waterhouse has expanded its Brussels arm with the hire of an employment team from local practice Laga. Partner Stefan Nerinckx joined Field Fisher on 1 February to co-head the UK law firm's Belgian employment and benefits practice alongside current head Olivier Rijckaert. He has brought with him senior associate Liesbet Vandenplas and paralegal Nathalie Blauwblomme from Laga.

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February 01, 2011 | International Edition

Olswang has launched an employment practice in Madrid with the hire of Bird & Bird employment partner Daniel Cifuentes. Cifuentes joined Olswang's Madrid arm at the end of December to establish and head Olswang's Spanish employment practice. Bird & Bird associate Maria Eugenia has also joined Olswang alongside Cifuentes to help launch the employment team.

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February 01, 2011 | International Edition

SJ Berwin has grown its Dubai arm with the hire of Al Tamimi regional arbitration head Mark Hoyle as a partner for its local litigation and arbitration practice. Hoyle joined the City law firm on 1 February from the Dubai office of Al Tamimi. He marks the third partner for SJ Berwin's local practice. He specialises in litigation and arbitration with a particular focus on the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Kuwait and Afghanistan.

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January 31, 2011 | International Edition

Watson Farley & Williams' highest- paid member took home £1.26m during the last financial year, marginally more than the equivalent figure of £1.23m in 2008-09. The figure is contained within the firm's recently-filed LLP accounts, which also show that turnover for the LLP, which does not include all of the firm's international offices, stood at £56.9m, against £18.4m of profit available for discretionary division between the 60 members.

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January 28, 2011 | International Edition

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has challenged the £150m cap on Tesco law licensing breaches recently set out by the Legal Services Board (LSB). The SRA has questioned the maximum penalty recommended by the LSB last month, citing the miners' compensation case that saw 500 firms paid £1bn for acting for sick coalminers. A raft of firms involved later faced claims over their conduct in handling the work.

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January 26, 2011 | International Edition

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has strengthened its Middle East real estate practice with two partner hires in Abu Dhabi. Simmons & Simmons Middle East head of real estate David Nunn joined BLP earlier this month to take up a newly-created role as real estate head for the Middle East and North Africa. Before relocating to the region five years ago, Nunn, who was based in Abu Dhabi, was a partner at Simmons' City arm for eight years.

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