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April 05, 2011 |

Energy and private equity sectors buck lacklustre market in 2011 Q1

Given M&A trends clearly reflect what's happening in the global economy, Mergermarket's latest quarterly M&A data covering the first three months of the 2011 calendar year largely confirms the general feeling of uncertainty in the market currently. While there has been a visible increase in private equity mandates and big-ticket transactions such as AT&T and T-Mobile and BP/Rosneft, Mergermarket's data shows deal volumes are broadly down on both the equivalent quarter last year and Q4 2010 - leaving law firms' corporate practices facing another uninspiring year. Even those deal markets that have so far seemed to defy the impact of the recession, such as the Middle East and Africa and Asia, saw bid volumes down significantly. In Africa and the Middle East, volumes were down by 25% in Q1 2011 compared with the last quarter of 2010, and by 30% looking at Q1 last year, with 58 transactions worth $11.4bn (£7.1bn). Meanwhile, volumes fell by nearly 32% in the Asia-Pacific region between Q4 2010 and the beginning of 2011, and by 8.2% looking at January to March last year.
14 minute read
March 29, 2011 |

Reaching out - can a globalising funds market help buyout houses regain their former vigour?

Can a globalising investor market for private equity help the leading houses fulfil their funding needs? Charlotte Edmond reports
30 minute read
March 10, 2011 | International Edition

Howrey partnership votes to dissolve firm as of next week

Howrey partners have voted in favour of dissolving the firm as of 15 March, reports The Am Law Daily. In a statement issued late Wednesday, firm chairman and CEO Robert Ruyak (pictured) said: "The firm had experienced disappointing financial performance over the past two years and subsequently several partners had resigned. This resulted in the conclusion that an orderly wind down of the firm's activities over time was the only practical alternative."
4 minute read
March 03, 2010 |

US firms paused expansion in 2009 but are back on the hunt

As Legal Week's survey of lateral hiring by US firms in London recently demonstrated, partner moves were thin on the ground in 2009, at least by the yardstick of recent years. The research found 59 hires across 37 of the largest US firms. This was substantially down on the senior recruitment seen at US firms over the last five years - this group managed 77 partner hires in 2008 - but in many ways it is surprising that the figure wasn't even lower. Lateral hiring virtually shut down in the first half of 2009 as firms drastically slashed costs in the worst phase of the global recession. The second half of the year, which saw an aggressive hiring spree from Greenberg Traurig Maher claim no less than 15 partners, was pretty active in contrast.
34 minute read
February 10, 2010 |

Latham makes a statement with lucky 13

For a firm of its size and ambition, Latham & Watkins has remained curiously under the radar outside the US, emerging only occasionally for significant moves such as 2008's three-pronged launch in the Middle East, before it all goes quiet again. This tendency makes this month's news that the firm is to bring in no fewer than 13 partners from White & Case across London, New York and the Middle East all the more striking.
28 minute read
December 21, 2009 |

Law firm management: The hard sell

"A consultant is a man who asks you for your watch and then tells you the time with it." Probably one of the more polite descriptions by one managing partner of the band of consultants circling law firms as the recession batters a profession that had grown used to unbroken growth. Though the legal sector has not been a major target for the consultancy industry until very recently, there are an increasing number of widely varying consultants aiming to advise firms on everything from marketing, client relationship management, IT general strategy and everything inbetween.
63 minute read
December 13, 2009 | International Edition

Hogan Lovells

The 2010 merger of Lovells and Hogan & Hartson created a a top 10 global practice with 2,500 lawyers and revenues of around $1.8bn (£1.1bn)...
8 minute read
December 02, 2009 |

Ashurst wins role for Nakheel bondholders on Dubai debt crisis

Ashurst has become the latest City firm to win a role in relation to Dubai's debt crisis. The top 10 City firm is advising a group of bondholders who collectively hold more than 25% of bonds in Nakheel - the Dubai World-owned property company at the heart of the crisis.
11 minute read
September 23, 2009 |

Renewable energy: Great light hope

There are growth markets, there are long-term bets and then there is renewable energy. But however many false dawns alternative energy has had over the years, in the long run the business of green energy and nuclear power looks certain to ultimately establish itself as a huge, globally-significant industry.
84 minute read
July 23, 2009 |

Commentary: Private equity - tough for the committed, worse for the rest

It's not easy to write about private equity right now – half of London's buyout partners seem to have headed to the beach early and, in the current market, who can blame them? With deal volumes plummeting and brand name houses including Candover, Permira and Terra Firma going through very public difficulties, there does not seem much reason to stay in the office.
15 minute read

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