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Clark Hill Acquires Boutique Firm in Mexico City, Adding 5 Lawyers
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Swiss Mining Company Initiates Arbitration Case Against Guatemalan Government

International Metal Supply Holding says the Guatemalan government has refused to renew the export license for its Mayaniquel nickel operations, which were cleared from OFAC sanctions in January.
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UK Supreme Court Upholds €1.3B Judgment Against Argentina

The judgment secured by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan orders Argentina to pay investors slighted by a change in methodology for calculating the South American country's gross domestic product.
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'Lawyers Are Pigeonholed, Wrongly So': Prosus GC Says It's High Time for In-House Lawyers' Business Savvy to Be Seen, and Valued

Paul Peake also discusses some of his pet peeves about working with outside counsel. No. 1 on his list: "Law firm coffee is terrible."
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ECIJA Launches in Peru in Combination with Local Firm

The Spanish law firm continues its rapid expansion with the integration of Lima-based Berninzon & Benavides Abogados.
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'Who By Fire?': Reflecting On Law Firms in a Tumultuous Year

In a year punctuated by law firm mergers, office closures, and wars, law firms might want to take time to reflect on what has transpired and what they might see in the coming year, writes The Global Lawyer. Even in an industry that acts like it knows where it's going, there are no certainties.
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Canadian Mining Company Settles Decadelong Lawsuits Over Human Rights Abuses at Former Guatemalan Mine

Neither the company, Hudbay Minerals, nor lawyers for the13 Mayan plaintiffs would say what prompted the settlement after so many years. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
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Linklaters, Davis Polk Advise on $6.7B Rio Tinto Acquisition of Lithium Business

Former Shearman & Sterling co-managing partner George Casey, who joined Linklaters in January, is helping to lead the deal.
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Analysis

Will Private Credit Produce Another Kirkland?

"If [law firms] don't have the right volume, the right connections, the right associates and the right knowledge management tools, they will burn out. The big players won't," said Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld's Ranesh Ramanathan.
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What About Wachtell? The Link Between Growth and Profits

Research shows a correlation between revenue growth and PEP growth, which has implications for smaller, high-quality firms, writes the Global Lawyer.
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US Supreme Court Will Scrutinize Mexico's Lawsuit Against American Gun Industry

A federal appeals court has held that the federal 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act does not provide gun makers immunity from claims that they facilitated the illegal sale of firearms.
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IFC Settles With Victims of Palm Oil Project in Honduras

A US court has approved the plan to compensate victims of a violent land-grabbing campaign that plaintiffs argued was aided and abetted by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
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Gibson Dunn, GBS Advise in Colombia's $20 Billion Sunken Treasure Dispute

The dispute over the $20 billion treasure believe to be aboard the the sunken San José galleon pits Gibson Dunn & Crutcher against GBS Disputes for the second time.
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Kirkland, Skadden Top Global M&A League Tables for First Nine Months

Latham & Watkins, Sullivan & Cromwell, Paul Weiss and Simpson were also in the top of the rankings, as deal activity continues to rebound from last year.
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Dechert Hong Kong Quintet Finds New Home at Hogan Lovells

Two partners and three associates are moving over following Dechert's decision to cease operations in the city.
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New Economic Crimes Law in Chile Stirs Worry, Work

Criminal charges may now apply for a host of environmental violations in a country whose economy is anchored by mining.
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UK-Argentine Arbitration Boutique Launches Uruguay Office with Freshfields Hire

Dechamps International Law's third office builds on the firm's deep experience in Latin America, which is a nexus for many cross-border investment disputes.
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Womble Bond Makes Big Play for International Disputes Work

The trans-Atlantic firm seeks to offer top-shelf arbitration practitioners, combined with a competitive rate structure and substantive acumen in key industries that regularly find themselves in disputes.
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Linklaters Hires International Arbitrator in Brazil 

Caio Campello joins the firm's São Paulo office as demand for litigation and arbitration accelerates in the Latin American country.
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Sterlington New York Hires Former Withers Asset Finance Head as Partner in Hong Kong

Paul Jebely will continue to be based in Hong Kong and will be travelling extensively around Asia, the Middle East and North America to see and deal with clients.
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Features

4,000 Joint Matters and Referrals: Europe's Lesser-Known Law Firm Network

Four independent firms—Chiomenti, Cuatrecasas, Gide Loyrette Nouel and Gleiss Lutz—have been collaborating as the European Network for a dozen years now.
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Michael G. Bongiorno, Andrew Scott Dulberg and Elizabeth E. Driscoll from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have stepped in to represent Symbotic Inc., an A.I.-enabled technology platform that focuses on increasing supply chain efficiency, and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The case, filed Oct. 2 in Massachusetts District Court by the Brown Law Firm on behalf of Stephen Austen, accuses certain officers and directors of misleading investors in regard to Symbotic's potential for margin growth by failing to disclose that the company was not equipped to timely deploy its systems or manage expenses through project delays. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton, is 1:24-cv-12522, Austen v. Cohen et al.

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Edmund Polubinski and Marie Killmond of Davis Polk & Wardwell have entered appearances for data platform software development company MongoDB and other defendants in a pending shareholder derivative lawsuit. The action, filed Oct. 7 in New York Southern District Court by the Brown Law Firm, accuses the company's directors and/or officers of falsely expressing confidence in the company’s restructuring of its sales incentive plan and downplaying the severity of decreases in its upfront commitments. The case is 1:24-cv-07594, Roy v. Ittycheria et al.

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Amy O. Bruchs and Kurt F. Ellison of Michael Best & Friedrich have entered appearances for Epic Systems Corp. in a pending employment discrimination lawsuit. The suit was filed Sept. 7 in Wisconsin Western District Court by Levine Eisberner LLC and Siri & Glimstad on behalf of a project manager who claims that he was wrongfully terminated after applying for a religious exemption to the defendant's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The case, assigned to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anita Marie Boor, is 3:24-cv-00630, Secker, Nathan v. Epic Systems Corporation.

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David X. Sullivan, Thomas J. Finn and Gregory A. Hall from McCarter & English have entered appearances for Sunrun Installation Services in a pending civil rights lawsuit. The complaint was filed Sept. 4 in Connecticut District Court by attorney Robert M. Berke on behalf of former employee George Edward Steins, who was arrested and charged with employing an unregistered home improvement salesperson. The complaint alleges that had Sunrun informed the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection that the plaintiff's employment had ended in 2017 and that he no longer held Sunrun's home improvement contractor license, he would not have been hit with charges, which were dismissed in May 2024. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer, is 3:24-cv-01423, Steins v. Sunrun, Inc. et al.

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Greenberg Traurig shareholder Joshua L. Raskin has entered an appearance for boohoo.com UK Ltd. in a pending patent infringement lawsuit. The suit, filed Sept. 3 in Texas Eastern District Court by Rozier Hardt McDonough on behalf of Alto Dynamics, asserts five patents related to an online shopping platform. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Rodney Gilstrap, is 2:24-cv-00719, Alto Dynamics, LLC v. boohoo.com UK Limited.

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