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Travers recruits first US-qualified partner with CC capital markets hire

Travers Smith has made its first US-qualified partner hire, bringing in Clifford Chance (CC) Milan partner Charles Casassa for its City practice. Casassa is due to join Travers' London corporate practice next month from the Milan office of CC, where he has been a partner since 2008. Casassa specialises in capital markets transactions and also has experience of M&A, structured finance, and acquisition finance.
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CC and Cleary lead on $500m float as Russian companies size up City market

Clifford Chance (CC) has advised on a planned $500m (£314m) float on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) by a Russian commodities company. The City law firm has advised Siberian-based Koks Group on its intended initial public offering (IPO), with price ranges announced last week (26 January).
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Wilson Sonsini and Cooley connect for roles on upcoming LinkedIn IPO

US firms Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Cooley have won roles on LinkedIn's upcoming initial public offering (IPO), reports The Am Law Daily. LinkedIn, which had 90 million registered users at the end of 2010, is set to become the first of the major social networking websites to go public. However, the company did not specify a timeframe for the listing in its S-1 prospectus filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last Thursday (27 January).
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Linklaters, A&O top volume charts for EMEA debt and equity capital markets

Linklaters and Allen & Overy (A&O) have topped Thomson Reuters' EMEA equity and debt capital markets rankings for the full 2010 calendar year. Linklaters has held its spot at the top of the equity capital markets (ECM) rankings by manager, advising underwriters on 57 deals worth a total of $39.2bn (£24.8bn). The tally equates to four more deals than in 2009 – although the value is down from last year's figure of $53.3bn (£33.7bn) – putting it significantly ahead of its nearest rival by volume, Davis Polk & Wardwell, which advised on just 14 deals.
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Asia round-up: DLA, White & Case and O'Melveny secure senior lawyers

The former head of the tax practice at leading Chinese law firm King & Wood has joined DLA Piper in Hong Kong, writes the Am Law Daily. Stephen Nelson joined King & Wood's Shanghai office four years ago from Baker & McKenzie, where he had practised for 20 years. Nelson is bucking a recent trend that has seen a number of veteran Western lawyers in China jump from international firms to local ones. He said he hopes to have a broader practice at DLA Piper, focusing on foreign investment into China as well as tax matters.
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Hogan Lovells recruits 10-strong Frankfurt capital markets team

Hogan Lovells is to bulk up its Frankfurt arm with the hire of a 10-lawyer capital markets team from Willkie Farr & Gallagher, with news of the hires coming as the co-head of the transatlantic firm's employment team departs for Allen & Overy (A&O) in Frankfurt with a three-lawyer team. Willkie partners Michael Schlitt and Susanne Schaefer are set to join Hogan Lovells' Frankfurt office on 1 February, taking an eight-lawyer team including one counsel, two senior associates and two associates with them to the international firm.
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Hogan Lovells boosts City DCM group with Sidley appointment

Hogan Lovells has strengthened its London debt capital markets (DCM) practice with the hire of Dennis Dillon from the City arm of Sidley Austin. Dillon, who joined Hogan Lovells this week (17 January), is US-qualified and specialises in structured finance transactions, working with clients such as Merrill Lynch.
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Camerons hires Simmons partner for international capital markets launch

CMS Cameron McKenna has launched an international capital markets (ICM) group with the hire of Simmons & Simmons US securities partner Daniel Winterfeldt. As previously reported by Legal Week, Winterfeldt left Simmons in early December 2010. He will join Camerons next month (1 February) to head up the new team, which will span 13 offices in the UK and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and include around 40 partners.
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CC hands new four-year terms to finance and capital markets heads

Clifford Chance (CC) has re-elected its global heads of finance and capital markets, with Mark Campbell and David Dunnigan both set to serve a second term in their respective roles. The London-based pair have been re-elected by the firm's partnership in uncontested elections, with both appointed for a further four-year period effective from 1 January this year.
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Freshfields adds London partner duo with CC and Linklaters DCM hires

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has bolstered its City debt capital markets practice with two new partners, including the lateral hire of Peter Allen from magic circle rival Linklaters. Allen joins Freshfields' finance practice in London alongside Duncan Kellaway, who joins as a partner from Clifford Chance (CC), where he was a senior associate. Allen specialises in a wide range of securities work, including advising underwriters and issuers in connection with issues of debt, equity and equity-related securities in international markets. He has particular expertise in emerging markets debt issuance.
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