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Linklaters Holds NQ Pay Decision As Reed Smith Cuts Trainee Spots
By Simon Lock | June 12, 2020
Herbert Smith Freehills has also joined the ranks of firms taking action that affects their junior ranks, as the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic continues.
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HSF Advises French Hospitality Group Accor on €560 Million Credit Line
By Anne Bagamery | June 11, 2020
The credit line will reinforce the liquidity of a company whose lines of business have been severely impacted by the COVID-19 shutdowns worldwide.
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International Edition | Analysis
'A Real Risk of Collapse': An Auditor Analysis of the Top 50 UK Firm Accounts
By Paul Hodkinson | June 11, 2020
'One has to question whether the productivity drives that firms have failed to achieve will come back to haunt them,' explains an auditor in a podcast with Legal Week.
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International Edition | Analysis
Lawyers Uneasy as COVID-19 Delays Africa Free Trade Deal
By Jennigay Coetzer | June 11, 2020
The continent-wide trade deal is expected to create a $3.4 trillion economic bloc, among the largest new trading blocs in the world. But the coronavirus has cast doubts over when it will be implemented.
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Taylor Wessing Furloughs Associates, Splits Bonuses and Approves Reduced Hours Scheme
By Simon Lock | June 10, 2020
The firm had previously announced plans to furlough some fee-earning and business services staff.
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Linklaters, Clifford Chance Advise on $5.3B Cathay Pacific Bailout in Hong Kong
By Anna Zhang | June 10, 2020
The city's flagship carrier will receive a lifeline from the government as well as its major shareholders amid the aviation sector's worst financial crisis in recent memory.
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Legal Team At Risk in BP Redundancy Round
By Varsha Patel | June 10, 2020
The energy giant's 500-strong legal function comprises around 350 lawyers.
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Brazil High Court Orders Government to Resume COVID-19 Updates
By Amy Guthrie | June 9, 2020
The ruling comes after President Jair Bolsonaro said his government would no longer publish the number of new infections or deaths from COVID-19, and the Health Ministry struck months of data from the Health Ministry's website. Brazil has one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates in the world.
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Australian Firms Start to Open, With Office Restrictions in Place
By Christopher Niesche | June 9, 2020
Many firms are limiting staff numbers to ensure social distancing measures required by the COVID-19 pandemic can be met.
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Andersen Global Unveils Sweeping Africa Growth Plan, to Open In South Sudan
By Jennigay Coetzer | June 9, 2020
The advisory giant is aiming to have a presence in 153 countries globally in the next four years, and in Africa bids to overtake PwC in terms of geographic reach.
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