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Herbert Smith Freehills adds corporate support to Belfast centre

Herbert Smith Freehills is expanding its Belfast document review centre to handle corporate and real estate work for the first time. The Belfast office, which opened in April 2011 as a support arm for the firm's litigation practice, will now offer services in corporate and real estate due diligence and real estate asset management. The firm also plans to develop support for its funds practice as well.
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Ashurst boosts Asia litigation with double partner hire

Ashurst has boosted its disputes practice in Asia with the hire of two Herbert Smith Freehills lawyers as partners. Rob Palmer will join the firm in Singapore early next year where he will work with an existing team led by energy disputes specialist Ben Giaretta. Chris Bailey will initially join Ashurst in Singapore before relocating to Tokyo, where he will launch the firm's dispute resolution practice in Japan.
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Top Herbert Smith litigation partner Lloyd quits to join Debevoise

Herbert Smith Freehills London litigation partner Kevin Lloyd has resigned from the firm to join Debevoise & Plimpton, marking the second high-profile departure for a US firm since the merger between legacy Herbert Smith and Freehills went live in October. Lloyd, who is understood to have handed in his notice in recent weeks, is expected to join Debevoise as a partner next year, when he will work alongside Debevoise's Europe and Asia litigation chair Lord Goldsmith QC. His start date has yet to be confirmed.
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Hong Kong firm HWB announces all-female partner promotions round

Hong Kong law firm Howse Williams Bowers (HWB) has promoted four of its female associates to partner, one year after the firm was formed by a breakaway group of Reed Smith lawyers. M&A specialist Katherine Chuang, healthcare expert Lisa Nabou and dispute resolution lawyers Lynn Lee and Oonagh Toner will all become partners at the firm as of January next year.
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Judge reprimanded after describing burglary as 'courageous'

A judge who described burglary as requiring ''a huge amount of courage'' has been reprimanded for damaging public confidence in the judicial process. Judge Peter Bowers has been issued with a reprimand by the Office for Judicial Complaints (OJC) after complaints were made about his remarks in Teesside Crown Court in September this year, when handing down a sentence to a 26-year-old man for burglary.
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Macfarlanes takes lead role on cycling doping probe in wake of Armstrong scandal

Macfarlanes and 20 Essex Street are acting as legal advisers to an independent commission set up by cycling's world governing body to investigate the Lance Armstrong doping scandal. Armstrong was recently banned for life and stripped of his seven Tour de France titles after a string of revelations over systematic drug abuse.
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Quinn Emanuel seals France launch with hire of Shearman partner

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is to open its fourth European office, with the launch of a Paris base on 7 January next year. The litigation and arbitration focused office will be headed by Shearman & Sterling Paris international arbitration partner Philippe Pinsolle.
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Bakers expands in South Africa with disputes firm takeover

Baker & McKenzie has bulked up its new Johannesburg base with the takeover of three-partner disputes practice Rudolph Bernstein & Associates (RB&A). RB&A founders Gerhard Rudolph and Darryl Bernstein have joined Bakers along with Kate Daniels, with all three becoming partners at the international firm.
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Duane Morris Asia arm to launch in Myanmar, Shanghai and Thailand

Duane Morris Selvam (DMS) is set to launch in Myanmar, Shanghai and Thailand next year in a wide-ranging push to expand its presence across Asia. The firm - a Singapore joint venture between US firm Duane Morris and local firm Selvam - is also considering opening a base in Cambodia following the trio of launches across the continent.
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Watson Farley secures Hong Kong litigation launch with Holman team hire

Watson Farley & Williams has hired dispute resolution partner Richard Wilmot from Holman Fenwick Willan to launch a Hong Kong litigation practice. Wilmot, who also specialises in commercial law, brings with him a team of three associates from his previous firm, all of whom cover corporate, commercial and litigation.
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