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Russia: A clearer view

The first half of 2008 has been a time of great challenges and significant developments in the economic justice system in Russia. Almost all of the developments were dealt with or initiated by the country's Higher Arbitrazh Court (HAC). This commercial court, which is at the top of the Russian arbitrazh courts system, has become a hub for progressive trends in business litigation.
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Orrick's French arm hires project finance head

Orrick Rambaud Martel has recruited Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle partner Yves Lepage to lead the firm's Paris project finance team. Lepage, who joined Orrick earlier this month, was one of the more senior partners at Curtis Mallet-Prevost, having spent 24 years with the US firm. He transferred to the firm's Paris office in 2002, and his practice focuses on project finance in the infrastructure field.
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Travers ties up €630m Unilever acquisition

Travers Smith has advised Spanish food group Grupo SOS on its €630m (£496m) acquisition of Unilever's Bertoli olive oil and vinegar business. Corporate partners Paul Dolman and Chris Hale led the Travers Smith team, which also included commercial partner Richard Brown, intellectual property (IP) partner Dan Reavill and tax partner Kathleen Russ.
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DLA Piper hires Akin Gump duo in Moscow

DLA Piper has signed up two new partners for its Moscow office from the local arm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Jonathan Socolow and Brian Konradi will join the energy finance and corporate practice departments respectively next month. The hires take the number of partners in DLA Piper's Moscow office to 11, with three new partners joining the office this summer alone. Russia banking head Vyacheslav Khorovskiy joined the firm last month from Allen & Overy.
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Romanian indie Nestor loses senior trio

Highly-regarded Romanian independent Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen is set to lose three partners, including the heads of its M&A and real estate groups. The three are planning to leave the firm, a referral partner of Slaughter and May, later this summer (15 August) to launch their own practice in Bucharest.
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French independent opens China office early

The new Shanghai office of Paris independent Lefevre Pelletier & Associes has opened ahead of schedule, with the launch having initially been planned for September. The office is managed by corporate partner and Asia head Paul-Emmanuel Benachi and will advise on matters including investment, M&A, restructuring and infrastructure projects. This is the third office in Asia for the French firm, which opened in Hong Kong in 1998 and Guangzhou in 2005.
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DLA adds finance/projects head in St Petersburg

DLA Piper has appointed a new finance and projects head in St Petersburg with the hire of Alexey Chichkanov, the deputy chairman at St Petersburg's City Property Management Committee. The new partner joined the office earlier this month (1 July) to lead the office's three-lawyer finance and projects group, becoming the fourth partner in the office. He is set to expand the group as well as advising clients on real estate and infrastructure investments.
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Davis Polk wins lead on $43.7bn biotech takeover

Davis Polk & Wardwell has won the lead role on a $43.7bn (£21.9bn) biotech takeover bid, as Swiss healthcare group Roche offers to buy the remaining shares in US biotech company Genentech. Roche already owns 55.9% on Genentech, and the deal to purchase the remaining 44.1% would form the seventh-largest drug maker in the US, with sales of $15bn (£7.5bn) in the country, according to Roche.
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Links boosts HK competition with partner switch

Linklaters is set to relocate competition and antitrust partner Erik Soederlind to Hong Kong this autumn (15 September) to lead the firm's regional competition and antitrust practice. Soederlind, who is currently based in Stockholm, has experience in all aspects of competition law enforcement, as well as working for competition regulatory bodies.
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Eversheds secures new Netherlands alliance

Eversheds has sealed its re-entry into the Netherlands market after signing an alliance agreement with 12-partner Dutch practice Faasen & Partners. The tie-up will go live on 1 October, giving the UK firm a presence in both Amsterdam and Rotterdam. As a full member of Eversheds International, once the alliance is live the firm will operate as Eversheds Faasen.
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