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Bar Council's Brussels move leads Euro push

The Bar Council has relocated to new office space in Brussels as part of a push by the regulatory body to deepen its ties with a number of European counterparts. The launch of the new office was announced yesterday (3 June) and presided over by Bar Council chairman Timothy Dutton QC. The Bar Council will now share premises with bodies including the German Federal Bar, the Austrian Bar and the law societies of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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Freshfields offers German students UK/US opportunity

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has launched an initiative to send German LLM students to the UK and US as part of their training. The initiative, which will start this autumn, is part of a drive by Freshfields to increase its international profile, also includes a mentoring programme for the students abroad.Students can apply for a €5,000 (£3,930) travel scholarship to help complete their LLM degree in an English-speaking country, with Freshfields also offering the option of further support through personal mentoring from a Freshfields partner and an online community.
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A&O makes Romania bow with local tie-up

Allen & Overy (A&O) has launched an outpost in Romania after signing an agreement with local firm Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu (RTPR). The association, which takes effect from 1 July, sees the magic circle firm expand its Central and Eastern European (CEE) presence to Bucharest.
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Linklaters CEE offices break away to create spin-off firm

Linklaters is pulling out of four of its six offices in Central and Eastern European (CEE), as the City giant moves to aggressively target the world's key emerging markets through a new 50-partner group. The firm is launching a new practice to service emerging markets in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa (EEMENA), to be led by capital markets partner Nick Eastwell (pictured).
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France's Lefevre sets sights on Shanghai in latest stage of global expansion drive

French independent Lefevre Pelletier & Associes is to open in Shanghai in September. The firm, which is still waiting to receive its licence, expects to have around 10 lawyers in the office, including local head Paul-Emmanuel Benachi. The launch will add to Lefevre's existing offices in Hong Kong and Guangzhou, and comes just months after the expansive French firm entered North Africa at the end of last year with offices in Algeria and Morocco.
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Maples looks to MOP for Dublin corporate boost

Maples and Calder has moved to bolster its Irish practice with the hire of Dublin corporate partner Edward Miller. Miller will join the offshore firm next week (3 June) from Matheson Ormsby Prentice (MOP), where he made partner in 1999.
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Ashurst adds fourth partner to Frankfurt

Ashurst has bagged White & Case leveraged finance partner Anne Force for its loan markets group in Frankfurt. She becomes the fourth addition to Ashurst's Frankfurt partnership this year, with the firm hiring Hengeler Mueller corporate lawyer Claudia Junker as a partner in January and making two internal promotions in the office last month. Force was previously an in-house counsel at German giant Deutsche Bank.
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Law firm networks: Model of understanding

During the past three years, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), including Russia, generated 15 deals, each with a value exceeding E3.5bn (£2.8bn), according to Mergermarket. In the same period, Clifford Chance acted on 98 CEE deals with a total value of more than E48bn (£38bn), Baker & McKenzie acted on 95 deals while White & Case acted on 85. This is a stark contrast with 15 years ago when the deal volumes in the CEE region were among the lowest in the world and the local independent law firms typically consisted of two people sharing a desk in an apartment building somewhere in a dusty capital city. Now the local lawyers are no longer the poor relatives: Ion Nestor was on the cover of Business Week Romania. His firm, the 182-people strong Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen, was recognized as one of the Business Superbrands Romania 2007-08.
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Russia: Strategy redefined

At the beginning of this month, a long-awaited draft law on the procedure for foreign investments in commercial organisations deemed of strategic importance for the national security of the Russian Federation was signed into law by Russian president.
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Norton Rose competition partner in Paris switch

Paris heavyweight De Pardieu Brocas Maffei has raided Norton Rose for competition partner Laure Givry, who joins the French boutique this week. Givry joins De Pardieu as a partner from Norton Rose's local office, along with associate Chantal Andrioti.
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