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Dealmaker of the Week: Avril Martindale, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

In 1999, Avril Martindale, an intellectual property (IP) partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, was tapped by the Ford Motor Company to negotiate the IP aspects of its $6.45bn (£4m) acquisition of Volvo Cars. A decade later, Martindale's IP advice was sought after once more in a deal with Ford, but this time it was China's privately-held Zhejiang Geely Holding Group that was seeking her expertise. Could Freshfields help the Chinese carmaker acquire Volvo, the Swedish auto company Ford was looking to sell? It was an audacious plan: a $625m (£392m) per year grossing Chinese company with no international experience going after a $15bn (£9.4bn) per year grossing Swedish company owned by the oldest car maker in America.
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Clydes recruits Middle East IP chief from DLA

Clyde & Co has boosted its Middle East intellectual property (IP) group with the hire of a partner from DLA Piper. Joycia Young, who specialises in IP and franchising, was head of IP for the Middle East, South Asia and Africa (MESA) region at DLA and was based in the UK top 10 firm's Dubai office. Major deals she worked on at DLA included advising Abu Dhabi media city twofour54 on on filing for trademark registration of its brand in 20 countries throughout the MESA region.
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Howrey boosts presence in Germany with Duesseldorf office launch

Howrey is set to launch in Duesseldorf with the hire of Christoph Lenz, the local office head of intellectual property (IP) firm Bardehle Pagenberg. The new base will open for business in September 2010 and will specialise in patent litigation. Lenz will head up the office alongside one associate, and work closely with Joachim Feldges, the managing partner of Howrey's Munich office and co-chair of the firm's IP practice.
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Expansive RPC recruits intellectual property partner from Arnold & Porter

Reynolds Porter Chamberlain has added to its intellectual property (IP) practice with the hire of Arnold & Porter partner Clive Thorne. Thorne, who joined the firm on Monday (5 July), specialises in IP litigation and arbitration and has acted in a wide variety of patent, industrial design, copyright, trademark and IT litigation and arbitration matters.
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Dealmaker: David Aitman

Freshfields antitrust co-head on his concert pianist dreams and the bishop keeping his kids in line...
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Intellectual property boutique hires highly-rated Howrey litigator

Intellectual property (IP) specialist firm Rouse Legal has recruited rated patent litigator Richard Willoughby from Howrey. Willoughby, who joined Rouse Legal at the beginning of the month, had been at Howrey since 2001 when he was brought in from Simmons & Simmons to build up the firm's European practice.
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CMS Shanghai arm brings in Eversheds partner to lead IP team

CMS Cameron McKenna's newly-launched China arm has recruited an Eversheds partner to head up its intellectual property (IP) practice in Shanghai. IP and competition specialist Steven Yu is set to join the CMS office as its seventh partner and head of IP on 10 May after making partner at Eversheds last year.
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Former Linklaters IP chief joins Powell Gilbert after seven years as a barrister

Powell Gilbert has recruited Linklaters' former head of intellectual property (IP) Anna Carboni in a boost for the firm's trademark practice. The highly-rated trademark lawyer joins the City IP boutique from Wilberforce Chambers, where she has been a barrister since leaving Linklaters in 2003.
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Withers adds Shepherd and Wedderburn tech partner to City team

Withers has bulked up its London office with the hire of Shepherd and Wedderburn partner Kenneth Mullen in its European commercial practice. Mullen joined from the London office of Shepherd and Wedderburn where he has been a partner in the media and technology team for the last four years. He has a particular focus on transactional intellectual property (IP), technology and outsourcing, and technology-sector regulation, particularly data protection and freedom of information, e-commerce and competition law.
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Austria

Austria's leading law firms are in resilient mood, while Schoenherr sizes up the state of of local IP enforcement...
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