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Watson Farley set for Spain launch with hire of Lovells team

Watson Farley & Williams is set to enter the Spanish market with the hire of a Lovells team in Madrid. The firm has recruited banking and finance partner Joaquin Sales and energy-focused corporate counsel Maria Pilar Garcia to head up the new Madrid office. Both join as partners and bring along with them four associates from Lovells.
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Akin Gump adds partner to City base with hire of White & Case energy specialist

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has boosted its City energy and corporate practices with the hire of a White & Case partner. Greg Hammond joins the US firm tomorrow after 10 years as a partner at White & Case, working on corporate finance transactions with a focus on the oil and gas, energy, financial services and consumer products sectors.
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Simmons duo depart to join Weil Gotshal in Hong Kong

Weil Gotshal & Manges has boosted its Asia practice with a double hire from Simmons & Simmons in Hong Kong. Henry Ong has joined Weil's Hong Kong office as a partner along with Jasson Han, who joins as a partner-level senior consultant, the same title he held at Simmons.
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Norton Rose and Deacons advise BP on carbon deal

Norton Rose and Deacons Australia have come together to advise oil giant British Petroleum (BP) on their first public deal since finalising their merger. The firms are advising BP on a carbon offset deal that will see 10 million eucalyptus trees, worth A$2.5m (£1.4m), planted across Australia within the next 15 years.
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Protection of IP is essential for clean energy advances

In December, world leaders are meeting in Copenhagen to agree a strategy to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change. The success of any strategy will ultimately depend upon the development and dissemination of clean technology throughout the world. As a result, world leaders are coming under intense pressure to relax patent protection to facilitate the transfer of clean technology to the developing world. However, it is questionable whether such a move would really promote the use of clean technology.
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Ashurst grows Abu Dhabi presence with corporate partner transfer

Ashurst has added a partner to its Abu Dhabi base with the relocation of City corporate specialist Nick Williamson. Williamson joined the top 10 UK firm's Middle East practice last month, becoming the third partner in Abu Dhabi alongside projects partner and office head David Wadham and real estate partner Matthew Hooton.
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McDermott boosts London energy with Dentons partner hire

McDermott Will & Emery has made its third lateral hire in a month, bringing in an energy partner from Denton Wilde Sapte. David Birchall, whose work focuses on deals in the electricity, trading and carbon sectors, will become the eleventh London partner in McDermott's global energy practice. His start date is yet to be confirmed.
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Renewable energy: Reaping the whirlwind

The UK has an obligation under the EU Renewables Directive to derive 15% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. Depending on level of take-up of renewables for transport, heating, etc, this equates to approximately 32% of the UK's electricity being generated from renewable sources by 2020. Offshore wind energy is expected to provide a large share of this increase in renewable generation capacity.
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Renewable energy: The power players

"Renewables is moving from boutique to industrial," says Ian Fairclough, legal counsel for renewables and generation at power company E.ON, citing the London Array wind farm, currently under development in the Thames Estuary as an example of the larger breed of projects that are redefining the sector. London Array will become the world's largest wind farm with an output of around 1,000 megawatts (MW) - of similar capacity to a small nuclear or gas-fired power station.
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Renewable energy: Critical mass

"The nuclear industry was for many years not very glamorous in this country, to say the least," recalls Amec Nuclear legal director Kevin Smith. "Now, though, it has suddenly become fashionable," he continues, "with law firms suddenly claiming they have got a nuclear law department". The shift in attitude began in 2003, counter-intuitively with the establishment of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which subsequently opened up the decommissioning of various ageing nuclear plants, including Sellafield, to private companies. Around this time the Government's commitment to reduce its carbon emission levels, agreed under the Kyoto Protocol, came into force.
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