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News about global law firms -- expanding offices overseas, closing offices overseas, hiring and movement of lawyers and partners from firm to firm. Also, major deals - who is getting the work.
By Brian Baxter | June 4, 2017
Kirkland & Ellis, which has been busy this year on the transactional and bankruptcy fronts, has picked up M&A roles for one of the world's largest farm equipment manufacturers and one of its many private equity clients.
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By Brian Baxter | June 4, 2017
The firm's high-powered bankruptcy practice has picked up two more notable Chapter 11 cases. Kirkland & Ellis is serving as lead counsel to teen fashion retailer Rue21 Inc. and 21st Century Oncology Inc., as well as energy industry manufacturer AFGlobal Corp., in their recent bankruptcy filings.
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By Meredith Hobbs | June 2, 2017
As it makes its international debut, Womble Bond Dickinson is billing itself as a "new breed of transatlantic law firm" that unites two middle-market shops with strong regional roots.
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By Chris Johnson | June 2, 2017
British firms are about to report their financials for the fiscal year that closed on April 30. Expect a post-Brexit bump—in part because a weak pound sterling will inflate overseas revenue.
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By Brian Baxter | June 1, 2017
The global labor and employment giant, which became a Swiss verein in 2013 after expanding into Central America, has hired partner Yeris Nielsen to helm its office in Panama City. Three partners at Littler Mendelson recently left its base in the city to join a leading Panamanian firm.
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By By Anna Zhang | June 1, 2017
Squire Patton Boggs, Norton Rose Fulbright and Osborne Clark have all been targets of China's trademark squatters—entities that register the marks of known brands in the hopes of profiting off the name or extracting money from the brand owner.
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By Anna Zhang | June 1, 2017
The combined firm has 29 partners, but includes only two from the legacy U.K. firm's Singapore office.
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By James Booth | June 1, 2017
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and British firm Bond Dickinson will join forces without combining their finances, adopting a model similar to what Eversheds and Sutherland Asbill & Brennan just formalized.
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By Meghan Tribe | May 31, 2017
Kirkland & Ellis has brought back former senior litigation partner Stephen Patton as of counsel in Chicago, where since 2011 he has served in the $174,000-per-year role of corporation counsel for the Windy City.
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By Meghan Tribe | May 29, 2017
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Kirkland & Ellis and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison grabbed key roles on the $14 billion merger between chemical giants Huntsman Corp. and Clariant AG, as well as another $2.36 billion deal that will create the nation's sixth-largest Internet and cable operator.
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