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Seven-strong employment team quits Gide in Paris

Leading French law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel has lost high-profile employment partner Joel Grange along with a six-lawyer team to labour and employment law boutique Flichy Avocats. Grange, who has co-ordinated the employment law department at Gide, will become a name partner at the boutique, which will now rebrand as Flichy Grange Avocats. Marine Conche, Blandine Allix and Nabila El Aougri will also join as partners.Grange's practice focuses on employment and social security law, advising on M&A, restructuring, transfer of companies, collective negotiation and litigation. Conche, Allix and El Aougri all specialise in labour law.
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Maples growth drive stays on target with latest hires from A&L Goodbody

Maples and Calder has bolstered its Dublin office with the hire of two partners from Irish leader A&L Goodbody. Partners Barry McGrath and Nollaig Murphy are set to join the offshore leader's financial services practice in Ireland.
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Bird & Bird recruits from Greenberg in the Hague

Bird & Bird has boosted its Dutch presence after hiring the head of Greenberg Traurig's civil law notary group. Rene Rieter will join Bird & Bird's office in The Hague as part of the firm's Dutch notary group. Rieter joins the City firm from the Amsterdam arm of Olswang ally Greenberg Traurig, which he helped set up and where he also headed the civil law notary group.
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DLA signs up W&C capital markets team in Germany

DLA Piper's German arm has bolstered its capital markets practice with the hire of a two-partner team from local rival White & Case. Dr Andreas Meyer-Landrut and Kerstin Schnabel are set to join DLA Piper's Cologne office on 1 August from White & Case in Duesseldorf. They will become partners in the firm's corporate team.
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Mayer Brown makes capital markets hire in Paris

Mayer Brown has bolstered its French capital markets practice with the hire of Robert Flanigan to its Paris office. Flanigan, who joined the firm on 16 June, will head the capital markets practice and brings the total Paris partnership to 15.Prior to joining the Anglo-American firm, Flanigan headed up the capital markets practice at US rival Winston & Strawn in Paris for three years. He also previously worked at Shearman & Sterling.
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Bryan Cave makes France debut with Dechert hires

Bryan Cave has expanded its European reach with the opening of its first French office in Paris. The US firm has recruited corporate and M&A partner Kathie Claret and public and private funds partner Joseph Smallhoover, who will start up Bryan Cave's French practice after leaving Dechert's Paris office last week.
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Linklaters hit with $55m negligence claim

Linklaters is gearing up to defend itself in court after a $55m (£25m) negligence claim was brought by a former client in one of the largest cases against a top UK law firm in recent times. The magic circle firm is preparing for a 20-day trial in the High Court next January over claims it gave negligent advice to Baltic telecoms company Levicom.
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Hextalls takes AXA claim to High Court

Insurance specialist Hextalls has brought a claim worth just under £390,000 against an offshoot of insurance giant AXA after a dispute over unpaid fees. The City firm is suing AXA Liabilities Managers (AXA LM), an arm of French insurer AXA, claiming fees were outstanding after it was instructed to provide consultancy services earlier this year.
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Eversheds bulks up in Spain with addition of litigation duo

Eversheds has strengthened its Spanish litigation practice with two new partner hires. The firm has hired Amadeu Blasco from Blasco & Advocats Associats, where he was a partner, and Gomez Acebo & Pombo associate commercial litigator Antonio Bravo.
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Italian leader Pedersoli loses partner trio

Pedersoli & Associati is set to lose three of its 13 equity partners, with commercial and litigation heavyweight Enrico Zattoni leaving for Italian heavyweight to join new firm Labruna Maziotti Segni. Zattoni will join Labruna in September, having spent four years at Pedersoli after the break-up of private equity boutique Morano & Associati in 2005. It is believed that four associates will join him at Labruna.
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