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Watson Farley to open in Hong Kong with Goodwin Procter partner hire

Watson Farley & Williams has announced plans to open a Hong Kong office with a partner hire from Goodwin Procter. The UK top 40 firm is recruiting Loretta Lau, a corporate and capital markets lawyer qualified in England and Hong Kong.
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DLA Piper continues global growth with Mexico office launch

DLA Piper has today (14 February) opened a new office in Mexico City with the hire of a four-partner team from the local arm of US law firm Thompson & Knight. The team joining DLA includes tax partner Manuel Rajunov, projects partner Miguel de Erice, capital markets partner Guillermo Uribe and corporate partner Carlos Valencia, who specialises in telecoms, media and technology.
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Four-partner Cobbetts capital markets team exits firm to join Gowlings in London

A four-partner equity capital markets team has left Cobbetts to join the London office of Canadian law firm Gowlings. The City team, which comprises partners Andrew Wright, Charles Bond, Sefton Collett and Dominic Prentis as well as directors Susan Johnston and David Brennan, will join Gowlings' energy, infrastructure and mining industry group at the end of this month.
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US duo win key legal roles as Facebook files for $5bn IPO

US law firms Fenwick & West and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have secured the lead advisory roles on Facebook's much-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) aftter the social networking giant filed for the $5bn (£3.2bn) listing yesterday (1 February), reports The Am Law Daily. According to the S-1 filing, Fenwick chairman Gordon Davidson and securities group co-chair Jeffrey Vetter are leading the team from the firm that has won the much-coveted lead counsel role for Facebook.
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Hogan Lovells equity capital markets chief quits to join Latham's City arm

Hogan Lovells equity capital markets (ECM) head Richard Brown has resigned from the firm to join Latham & Watkins. Brown's hire was confirmed through a partner vote at Latham last night (31 January) with his start date yet to be announced.
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A&O and Linklaters top slim 2011 EMEA capital markets rankings as volumes dip

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters have topped Thomson Reuters' EMEA rankings for bank roles on debt and equity capital markets (ECM) transactions in 2011 – a year in which the volume of debt issues fell more than 7%. A&O advised managers on 472 debt issues generating proceeds of $272.5bn (£175.1bn) to head the bank-side rankings across the EMEA region, with Linklaters, Clifford Chance (CC), Davis Polk & Wardwell and Cahill Gordon & Reindel making up the rest of the top five.
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MoFo wraps up Hong Kong capital markets deal hat-trick

Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has completed three multimillion-dollar listings on the Hong Kong stock exchange in recent weeks, as Asian capital markets continues to grow in importance for international law firms. The US firm advised the underwriters - China International Capital Corporation, UBS and RBS - on the $300m (£194m) initial public offering (IPO) of Chinese power company Guodian Technology and Environment Group, which listed on 30 December.
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Davis Polk launches UK law team with Freshfields heavyweight

Wall Street leader Davis Polk & Wardwell has launched an English law practice in the City with the hire of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate veteran Simon Witty. Witty is set to join the US law firm's London arm in April this year. It is not yet known whether he is bringing any associates with him.
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A&O continues global growth with launch of new base in Istanbul

Allen & Overy (A&O) has become the latest law firm to announce a launch in Istanbul, with London banking partner Charles Lindsay set to relocate to Turkey to head up the new office. The office will focus on providing English law advice on project finance, capital markets, general lending and M&A, with A&O stating that its motivation for the move was to capitalise on the Turkish Government's privatisation programme and its demand for new infrastructure.
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Proskauer opens new base in Beijing with transfer of Hong Kong team

Proskauer Rose has opened an office in Beijing, three years after the firm first declared its intention to launch in the city, reports The Am Law Daily. The US firm announced last Thursday (10 November) that its thirteenth office, in Beijing's Chaoyang District, had officially opened for business.
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