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Freshfields names new head of global private equity practice

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed Cologne partner Ludwig Leyendecker as the new head of its global private equity practice. Leyendecker replaces London partner Chris Bown and Hamburg partner Nils Koffka, who have reached the end of their four-year term as co-heads of the group.
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Shearman takes lead role for SocGen on €4.8bn cash call

Shearman & Sterling has advised Societe Generale on a €4.8bn (£4.4bn) cash call that will allow the bank to repay state aid it received from the French Government during the credit crunch. The US firm fielded a team led out of Paris by corporate partner Herve Letreguilly and capital markets partner Robert Treuhold.
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Swedish firm brings in former Sony Ericsson GC

Swedish firm Magnusson has hired former Sony Ericsson general counsel Per Hendar as part of an expansion drive that has also seen the firm form an alliance in Belarus. Hendar, who has joined Magnusson from Swedish rival Wistrand, will head the firm's new Gothenburg base, launched last week (1 October). Before joining Wistrand as a partner, Hendar was general counsel and corporate vice president of Sony Ericsson between 2001 and 2005.
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Orrick and Taylor Wessing sign up Clifford Chance partner trio

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Taylor Wessing have boosted their European practices with Clifford Chance (CC) partner hires. Orrick's French base, Orrick Rambaud Martel, has added former CC Paris partner Diane de Mouy as a partner in its finance team. Her practice focuses on infrastructure finance, asset finance and debt restructuring.
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DLA recruits seven-strong Italy litigation team

DLA Piper has appointed a new head of litigation in Italy as part of a seven-lawyer team hire. The group joined today (1 October) from Italian litigation boutique Giuffre Scorcelli Rosa & Partners. The team is led by the boutique firm's former managing partner, Bruno Giuffre, who will now lead DLA's Italian litigation group, and also comprises litigation partner David Marino and five associates.
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Eversheds wins role on €1bn Kosovo motorways project

Eversheds has won a E1bn (£912m) infrastructure mandate in Kosovo as the country moves to improve transport connections with its neighbouring nations. The 120km Morine to Merdare motorway project marks the largest investment by the Kosovo Government in 20 years and will connect the country with neighbouring Serbia, as well as Albania and the Adriatic coast.
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Cleary Gottlieb wins headline role on €4.3bn BNP Paribas rights offering

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has won a mandate as deal counsel to BNP Paribas on its €4.3bn (£3.9bn) rights offering launched today (29 September). The Wall Street firm's Paris office fielded a team led by capital markets partners Pierre-Yves Chabert and John Brinitzer.
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Freshfields, Cleary and Salans head up $1.6bn Russian energy deal

A trio of international law firms have won roles on a $1.6bn (£1.0bn) Russian energy deal as Gazprom moves to grow its share of the market. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has advised Gazprom on the deal, which closed last week (23 September) and saw the Russian energy giant buy a 51% stake in SeverEnergia from Italian utility companies Enel and Eni.
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CC's former Spain senior partner joins Uria's corporate team

Uria Menendez has boosted its Madrid base with the hire of Clifford Chance's (CC's) former Spanish senior partner Jaime de San Roman. De San Roman, who also headed CC's Spanish banking and finance practice, left the magic circle firm at the end of July without announcing his next move. The Madrid-based partner had been senior partner for two years at the time of his departure, and also previously served as Spain co-managing partner between 2001 and 2007.
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De Brauw names new managing partner in top-level overhaul

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek has appointed a new managing partner, with competition partner Martijn Snoep set to replace Mark Biesheuvel at the helm of the Dutch firm. The appointment, made last week (24 September), will take effect from the beginning of 2010, when Snoep will start a four-year term. Biesheuvel, who has served one term in the post which he took up in 2006, will return to full-time fee earning in the litigation practice.
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