Interview
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Covering all the bases
By Legal Week | July 30, 2009
"I have not followed every opportunity that came along in my career," says Thomas Werlen, general counsel of Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis. "But in hindsight I was right not to, and I have also been right about the opportunities I have pursued." Werlen is referring, in the first instance, to the offers he passed up in the 1990s as a junior lawyer with New York leader Cravath Swaine & Moore to move into investment banking ("short term, it would have been great money; long term, it would have hindered my development as a lawyer") and, more recently, to his decision to leave Allen & Overy's (A&O's) London office three years ago to take up his current position.
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Dealmaker: Spencer Summerfield
By Legal Week | July 23, 2009
Travers corporate finance head Spencer Summerfield on advising in his sleep and cultivating sideburns
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Dealmaker: Ashar Qureshi
By Legal Week | July 13, 2009
Cleary Gottlieb corporate partner Ashar Qureshi unleashes his penchant for untrammelled eloquence
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Dealmaker: John Bennett
By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
BLP's unfailingly upbeat head of corporate on hiring Neville, selling Tottenham Hotspur and 'circling back'
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From Rio to Delhi
By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
Last week Rio Tinto announced a tie-up with legal outsourcing provider CPA Global, which will see it send out legal work to a 12-strong team of lawyers based in India – an arrangement which the mining giant claims will reduce its approximately £60m annual legal bill by 20%. The Indian lawyers, who have been operating in a separate 'Rio-Tinto room' in CPA's Delhi offices since last month, are handling tasks including legal research, document review and contract drafting.
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Dealmaker: David Ereira
By Legal Week | June 10, 2009
Linklaters finance veteran David Ereira on making partner three times and backing a cinematic stinker
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Dealmaker: Nick Angel
By Mark Goddard | May 27, 2009
With a name like Nick Angel, he should have been a PI - instead, he heads Ashurst's restructuring team
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Technobabble: Abby Ewen
By Mark Goddard | May 27, 2009
Simmons & Simmons' Abby Ewen on luddite lawyers, Hollywood lies and her love for Linkin Park
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Thomson vocal
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | May 27, 2009
A year on from the merger between the Thomson Corporation and Reuters - which created the world's largest information multimedia news agency - and there has still been no review of the new company's fused panel of UK legal advisers. And according to Daragh Fagan, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) general counsel (GC) for Thomson Reuters Markets division, there are no plans for one.
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Tough times, tougher questions
By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | May 20, 2009
If we just think about the context of what most boards are dealing with at the moment, there are two things that strike me. One is that if you look over the last 10 years, we are used to what someone described as tame problems - there has been a solution and a precedent. But the kind of problems we are dealing with now are wicked problems, where there is no precedent, and we have got to find our path forward. And when we have to find our path forward, the importance of stopping and really listening to how people are feeling, to what people's experiences are, to what they think the judgement should be, so that the agendas of those getting through this best tend to be more open and more 'let's stand back and really explore our feeling about what's happening and why it is happening' and starting therefore to offer more strategic leadership.
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