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Stars and Gripes: Merging Firms Need a ‘Superstar Culture’ to Crack the U.S.

Herbert Smith Freehills and others need to adopt a Paul Weiss-style focus on key individuals if they want to compete in America
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Latham, Jones Day and Wachtell Lead on Anglo American's $3.8B Coal Business Sale

Energy is among the largest deal drivers in 2024, with law firms capitalising on both large companies offloading their fossil fuel-based assets and the wheel towards green energy transition.
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Weil US Partner Exits Raise Questions About Future Firm Leadership

Elizabeth Stotland Weiswasser and Ray Schrock, both among Weil’s top 10 rainmakers with significant books of business, were unwelcome departures, sources say. Weiswasser in particular was seen as a potential future leader of Weil.
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Anatomy of a Law Firm Merger

Property, compensation, debts, pensions and insurance are just some of the areas that need to be agreed in frank and transparent discussions, writes a partnership expert.
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Baker McKenzie Accepts Defeat on Australian Integration with Asia

The decision follows a partner vote against financial and administrative integration.
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Is Big Law Too Shortsighted on the Rule of Law?

This fundamental value is being tested, but lawyers don't often say much, writes The Global Lawyer.
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Travers Gives Holiday Bonus, Ropes & Gray Reduces Time Off Allowance

Travers brought in a holiday incentive for its funds associates while Ropes & Gray has reduced time off for its London associates.
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Armstrong Teasdale's London Creditors Face Major Losses

Armstrong Teasdale’s ill-fated London expansion ended in administration, leaving creditors facing significant losses amid unresolved debts and frozen assets.
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Billables and Bad Partners: Why Associates Are Still Not Happy

A survey of nearly 200 London associates has outlined the most common frustrations among junior lawyers.
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Baker McKenzie’s Australian Partners Reject Plan to Join Asia

Votes for financial integration came in below the 75% threshold, according to a report.
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Squire Patton Boggs Associate Dies Following Methanol Poisoning in Laos

The London-based IP lawyer is the fifth tourist to have died from the exposure.
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Linklaters Sees Latest Partner Exit as UK Leveraged Finance Partner Walks To Simpson Thacher

Simpson Thacher has been looking to replenish its ranks following the departures of London's Ian Barratt and Sinead O'Shea last year.
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White & Case, Cleary Among Firms Gearing Up for Biggest London IPO Since 2022

French premium broadcasting channel Canal+ is being spun out by its media conglomerate owner Vivendi.
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UK Competition Watchdog Greenlights Google’s $2B Anthropic Investment, Lawyers Weigh in

The Competitions and Markets Authority will not launch an investigation into Google’s $2 billion investment into AI startup Anthropic—signalling a relaxed approach to AI partnerships.
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To Thrive in Central and Eastern Europe, Law Firms Need to 'Know the Rules of the Game'

Large U.S. and U.K. firms have found that rates and profitability in the Central and Eastern European region fall short of expectations. But some firms are doing well there.
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Cravath Matches Year-End and 'Special' Bonuses, Others Follow

Cravath, Paul Hastings and McDermott have all confirmed they are granting "special bonuses" that are in line with Milbank's summer bonus scale.
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Big Law Players Land Roles on UK Entertainment Deals

One of the deals includes a U.S-based PE house snapping up beloved U.K-founded arthouse cinema company Curzon.
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DLA Piper Eyes Cairo Entry

The Egypt capital is home to a thriving legal market, among the largest on the continent, and is a gateway to the Middle East.
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Ranking

Private Equity Rising Stars: The Best Up-and-Coming Lawyers in the UK and Europe, 2024

After months of analysis, Law.com International names the top 25 private equity lawyers aged under 40 across the commercial legal market.
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Simpson Thacher Promotes Largest Ever Partner Class

The firm is promoting 44 lawyers to partner, 12 more than in 2023. Most of the new partners are located in New York but seven of the cohort are in London, including one who is dually based in Brussels, while two are based in Hong Kong.
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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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