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CIS leader Magisters set for London launch

Eastern European independent Magisters has opened a London office, with Moscow-based partner Andrew Mac appointed to oversee operations in the City on a part-time basis. The CIS-based firm's City base will be purely a representative office, intended to raise the firm's commitment to existing relationships and add quality of service to the European client base. More than two-thirds of Magisters' clients are US or European clients.Mac's practice focuses on M&A, commercial law, real estate, investment, securities, and privatisation.
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Loyens & Loeff promotes six to boost partnership

Loyens & Loeff has boosted its partnership with the promotion of six new partners. The bulk of the promotion are in Rotterdam, which has gained four new partners with Luxembourg and Amsterdam gaining one apiece.
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Norton Rose, Freshfields lead on E9.3bn takeover

Norton Rose has advised German utility giant RWE on its E9.3bn (£8.4bn) takeover of Dutch rival Essent, the latest in a series of big-money mergers involving European utility companies. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised Essent as RWE, Germany's second-largest utility and the fifth-largest in Europe, paid around 9.6 times Essent's estimated pre-tax annual earnings to complete the deal.
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Trio of firms take flight on E323m airline deal

Debevoise & Plimpton, Legance and Bonelli Erede Pappalardo have taken lead roles on Air France-KLM's purchase of a stake in Alitalia. The French-Dutch airline beat Lufthansa to buy a 25% stake in the Italian carrier at a much reduced price of €323m (£293m), after last spring's failed €1.5bn (£1.4bn) bid to buy a minority stake.Italian independent Legance advised Air France-KLM with a team led by corporate finance partners Filippo Troisi and Andrea Fedi. US firm Debevoise & Plimpton's Paris office advised the airline on the French aspects of the deal, led by office co-managing partner Patrick Laporte and international counsel Severine Canarelli.
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Taylor Wessing secures triple hire in Paris

Taylor Wessing has bolstered its Paris arm after recent losses in the French capital with the hire of two new partners and a senior associate. The firm has moved to shore up the office with the hire of Simon Christiaen and Evelyne Friedel as partners. Christiaen joins from Landwell, where he was a partner, while Friedel arrives from Jones Day, where she was a counsel. Senior associate Valerie Aumage has joined from Field Fisher Waterhouse in Paris.Christiaen is an intellectual and industrial property lawyer with a particular focus on patent law related issues. Friedel focuses on economic and commercial law and is also a competition litigator.
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Weil Gotshal takes lead as Kaupthing sues UK Govt

Weil Gotshal & Manges has landed a leading role advising Kaupthing after the Icelandic bank decided to bring a suit against the UK Government. Weil Gotshal's City arm has been advising Kaupthing since last year and has been asked to look into the decision taken by Kaupthing Bank's Resolution Committee to bring an action on the Bank's behalf against the Treasury.
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A&O signs up Dewey capital markets partner

Allen & Overy (A&O) has bolstered its Polish practice with the hire of an equity capital markets (ECM) partner from Dewey & Leboeuf in Warsaw. Zbigniew Mrowiec will co-lead the magic circle firm's ECM practice in Warsaw alongside corporate partner Jacek Michalski.Mrowiec has a longstanding history of advising on a variety of listings and issuances, including hostile takeovers on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
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BLP set for Russia launch with Moscow entry

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is on the verge of completing a tie-up with partners from one of Russia's leading firms in a move which would represent the UK firm's first foray into the country. According to Russian media reports, Moscow's Pepeliaev Goltsblat & Partners is to break up following a fallout between the firm's name partners that will lead to the creation of a joint practice with BLP.BLP confirmed that the firm is in advanced discussions with Andrey Goltsblat to take a number of partners from the Russian firm as part of the new launch, with an announcement of the full details imminent.
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Head of Pinsents' French ally voted in as Paris Bar chair

The managing partner of Pinsent Masons' French ally Granrut Avocats has been voted in as chairman of the Paris Bar in elections held last week (10 December). Jean Castelain will take up the post on 1 January 2010 for a two-year term, replacing current chairman Christian Charriere-Bournazel, who is a partner with August & Debouzy.Castelain, who beat Xavier Normand-Bodard of Cabinet Normand & Associes to take the role, will work alongside high-profile French criminal lawyer Jean-Yves Le Borgne, who becomes the first-ever vice-chairman of the Paris Bar.
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Paul Hastings adds three new partners to ranks

Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has recruited a trio of partners, including Bonelli Erede Pappalardo's banking and finance head. Alberto Del Din, who heads up the Italian firm's banking and finance group, dividing his time between London and Milan, will join Paul Hastings' Milan office, along with former Bonelli senior associate Alessandro Stoppa, who joins as a partner.Stoppa left Bonelli in 2006 to go in-house with Australian-listed investment firm Babcock & Brown. He focuses on project finance, real estate finance, acquisition finance, restructurings and private equity.
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