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Field Fisher posts 8% turnover rise with profits expected to fall

Field Fisher Waterhouse has become the latest firm to announce its financial results, with turnover growing by 8% but the firm predicting a slump in profits per equity partner (PEP). The UK top 40 firm saw revenues rise to £95m during the 2008-09 financial year, up from £88m the previous year. The firm has yet to finalise its PEP figure, but confirmed that it does not expect profits to reach last year's high of £750,000.
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BT legal chief steps down after 18 years at telecoms giant

BT Global Services general counsel and commercial director Tim Cowen is stepping down after 18 years at the company. Cowen, a former regulatory lawyer at Lovells, joined BT Ignite as head of legal in 1991. Ten years later he became general counsel of successor organisation BT Global Services and subsequently took on the role of commercial director.
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International Edition

Freshfields' French jumps to Beijing to head ACT

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer competition partner Nicholas French is relocating from London to Beijing to co-head the China antitrust, competition and trade (ACT) practice.
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International Edition

McGrigors competition chief joins Fulbright in the City

Fulbright & Jaworski has secured its first lateral partner hire in London for more than a year, with the US firm bringing in McGrigors competition head Rod Lambert. Lambert joins the disputes practice in Fulbright's City arm.
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International Edition

OC partner promotions see trio made up in Germany

Osborne Clarke has announced its 2009 promotions round, with all of the new partner in the firm's Cologne office. Cologne-based Oliver Esch, Thomas Schnabel and Thomas Funke have been made up in the commercial, construction and competition practices respectively from 1 May.
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International Edition

NCTM secures third merger deal in past two months

NCTM has added a Brussels office as the fast-growing Italian independent completes its third merger in the past two months. The firm has opened its second office outside of Italy with a tie-up with Brussels-based boutique O'Connor and Company. The office will be headed up by the boutique's founding partner Bernard O'Connor, who joins NCTM's equity partnership.
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International Edition

Crisis management Q&A - Mark Jones

Companies need to increase their awareness of competition issues as the UK Office of Fair Trading and the European Commission toughen their stance on unfair trading, warns Norton Rose competition partner Mark Jones.
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Legal Week

WilmerHale wins OFT apology for Morrisons

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has been forced to issue an apology to supermarket giant Morrisons following a successful defamation suit brought by Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr. City-based competition partner Suyong Kim took the lead for WilmerHale as Morrisons claimed compensation totalling £100,000 after a dispute with the OFT relating to the regulator's dairy cartel investigations.
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International Edition

WilmerHale wins OFT apology for Morrisons

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has been forced to issue an apology to supermarket giant Morrisons following a successful defamation suit brought by Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr. City-based competition partner Suyong Kim took the lead for WilmerHale as Morrisons claimed compensation totalling £100,000 after a dispute with the OFT relating to the regulator's dairy cartel investigations.
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International Edition

Comac places emphasis on investor relations.

Investor relations activities are becoming even more critical for hedge funds as regulation requirements and greater demand for information by investors propels IR activity into the limelight
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