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Wragges LLPs reveal one-off £10.5m cost of delayed Birmingham move

Wragge & Co's highest-paid partner took home £734,000 in 2010-11, up from £444,000 the preceding financial year, according to accounts recently filed with Companies House. The UK top 25 firm's audited turnover was £112.9m, up from £98.2m in 2009-10, but reported operating profit fell from £30.2m to £28m due to a one-off £10.5m property expense. Operating profit before the property cost stood at £38.6m.
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Beachcroft pre-merger LLPs reveal bank loans for international growth

Legacy Beachcroft agreed £3m in new loans during the last financial year to finance its Singapore launch and revamp its Birmingham office, according to 2010-11 limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts recently filed with Companies House. The accounts state that the firm, which merged with Davies Arnold Cooper on 31 October 2011 to form DAC Beachcroft, secured loans totalling £3m to finance the ventures.
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Eversheds LLP filings show £6.4m cost of Middle East acquisition

Eversheds' acquisition of Middle Eastern law consortium KSLG will cost the firm £6.4m, according to the firm's 2010-11 accounts, recently filed with Companies House. The firm's limited liability partnership (LLP) filings include details of the predicted costs of the May 2011 acquisition, which gifted the top 10 UK firm new bases in Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Dubai.
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LG LLPs reveal loan reduction as firm eyes international expansion

LG repaid almost half of its £9.6m worth of loans during 2010-11 due to "continued positive cashflow", according to the firm's latest limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts. The Companies House filings show that LG paid back £4.1m of its loans and overdrafts, which had been largely used to fund the property refurbishment carried out when the firm moved to its London Bridge offices in 2007, reducing its debt to £5.5m.
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GTM posts strong revenue growth in first full-year London LLPs

Greenberg Traurig Maher's (GTM) burgeoning London office has posted turnover of £8.7m for its first full year in the City, according to the firm's new LLP accounts. The revenue figure, which covers the period between 31 March 2010 and 31 March 2011, is significantly up on the £3.5m the firm took in during its first eight months in London after launching in 2009 with the hire of ex-Mayer Brown heavyweight Paul Maher.
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Top paid Barlows partner makes £623k as LLP filings reveal finances

Legacy Barlow Lyde & Gilbert's highest paid member took home an estimated £623,030 last year, marking a 46.6% increase on the highest profit share in 2009-10, which stood at £425,043.
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Partnership ranks at top UK law firms still in flux, research shows

DLA Piper has seen more partners resign from its limited liability partnership (LLP) since January 2010 than any other top 10 firm, according to Legal Week research that shows the extent to which leading law firms are continuing to reshape their partnerships. Filings with Companies House show DLA Piper has seen 75 partners resign from its international LLP since January 2010, of which 60 have left the firm entirely. Of the remaining 15, eight have stayed with DLA in non-partner roles, with seven set to rejoin the LLP on 1 May when the merger with former Australian alliance partner DLA Phillips Fox takes effect.
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Ince switches to LLP in one of last top 50 conversions

Ince & Co is set to convert to a limited liability partnership (LLP) on 1 May, becoming one of the last firms in the UK top 50 to do so. The move, which comes a decade after firms were first permitted to limit their liability, will see seven of Ince's nine offices included in the LLP. Hong Kong and Paris will be excluded for the time being.
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Dentons accounts show partnership shrank 15% in year before US tie-up

Denton Wilde Sapte saw partner headcount fall by 15% in the last full financial year before its US merger, the firm's limited liability partnership (LLP) filings have revealed. The accounts show that Dentons' partnership shrank by 21 during 2009-10, from 159 to 138, alongside an 11% decrease in total staff numbers. SNR Denton co-chairman Howard Morris said that some of the departures had come in light of partnership restructuring, but that natural attrition had also been a factor behind the decrease.
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Field Fisher LLPs reveal completed phase-out of salaried partner rank

Field Fisher Waterhouse has completed the phase-out of its salaried partner rank, the firm's recently-filed limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts have revealed. The filings show that Field Fisher's sole remaining salaried partner retired during the 2009-10 financial year.
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