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By Sofia Lind | June 15, 2011
US firms' aggressive European private equity drive continues as Weil Gotshal makes significant team hire from CC
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By Alex Novarese | June 15, 2011
Legal Week's in depth strand has been timely of late. While May's focus on libel and privacy coincided with sustained hysteria about injunctions, this month's international firms in London focus comes as Weil Gotshal & Manges pulls off arguably the most significant City raid yet inflicted on a leading UK law firm. If nothing else, the resignation of a four-partner funds team from Clifford Chance (CC) is evidence that a select band of US law firms is becoming a steadily more menacing threat to the City's finest.
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By Charlotte Edmond | June 15, 2011
Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends
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By Charlotte Edmond | June 15, 2011
Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends
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By Suzi Ring | June 15, 2011
Macfarlanes corporate and M&A partner Garrett Hayes has left the firm to join Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker in London. Hayes, who specialises in M&A and private equity advice and acts primarily for private equity sponsors and portfolio companies on leveraged buyouts, restructurings and auctions, joins the US firm after 16 years at Macfarlanes. He had been a partner since 2005.
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By Simon Petersen | June 15, 2011
Addleshaw Goddard has boosted its Manchester corporate team with the hire of a partner from DLA Piper. Neal Shepherd, who has been at DLA in 1992 and made partner in 1996, is set to join Addleshaws at the end of August.
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By Friederike Heine | June 8, 2011
Ropes & Gray has launched a tax and benefits practice in its fledgling London office with the hire of tax partner John Baldry from Kirkland & Ellis. Baldry, who joined Kirkland's London office in 2006 from Weil Gotshal & Manges, advises on most areas of corporate tax, including structured finance, private equity fund structuring, M&A and restructurings.
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By Sofia Lind | June 8, 2011
Bird & Bird is set to target standalone UK tax advisory work after sealing the hire of a second City tax specialist. The law firm has recruited LG partner Julian Hickey to practise alongside UK tax head Mathew Oliver – currently the firm's only dedicated London partner in the practice area.
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By Simon Petersen | June 6, 2011
German firm Noerr has hired two real estate partners from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, leaving the magic circle firm with no property partners in Duesseldorf. Partners Alexander Goepfert and Christoph Brenzinger are expected to join Noerr in July, when Goepfert will lead the German firm's real estate investment group.
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By Simon Petersen | June 2, 2011
Norton Rose has strengthened its Paris office with the hire of Hogan Lovells corporate partner Jon Harry. Harry, who had worked at Hogan Lovells and legacy Lovells since 1988, is set to join Norton Rose on 6 June.
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By Anna Zhang, The Asian Lawyer | September 16, 2019
As political protests continue in Hong Kong, the Chinese government has issued a plan to transform the nearby city of Shenzhen into a "top cosmopolis" worldwide by the middle of this century.
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By Gina F. Rubel | September 16, 2019
When most lawyers think of the word "brand," we think of a visual image such as a logo, fonts, colors, and how an image will play out in various platforms. A law firm brand, however, is much more than its visual identity.
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By Jonathan Erway | September 16, 2019
Lisa Atlas Genecov, national co-chair of Katten Muchin Rosenman's health care practice, who is based in the firm's Dallas office, was recently named president of the executive committee for the Center for Women in Law at the University of Texas in Austin.
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By Zach Schlein | September 16, 2019
Quinn Emanuel New York partners Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro represented the tennis star and her family.
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By Zach Schlein | September 13, 2019
Quinn Emanuel New York partners Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro represented the tennis star and her family.
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By Zach Schlein | September 13, 2019
Quinn Emanuel New York partners Luke Nikas and Alex Spiro represented the tennis star and her family.
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By Dylan Jackson | September 13, 2019
Plenty of other Florida attorneys are also pitching in to aid with relief efforts.
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By Aleeza Furman | September 13, 2019
Bar association news, new hires and promotions from across the California legal market.
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By Mike Scarcella | September 13, 2019
"I would like to support Governor Carney's efforts to uphold the political balance provision for judges in the 1897 Delaware Constitution," Wilson Sonsini's Randy Holland, formerly a longtime Delaware Supreme Court justice, wrote in a letter to Gov. John Carney's office, according to public contract records obtained by The National Law Journal. "That provision has served Delaware well for more than 100 years."
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By Samantha Stokes | September 12, 2019
Cristine Pirro Schwarzman, daughter of Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, has also practiced at Weil Gotshal & Manges.
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