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Chiomenti in Asia boost after Birindelli tie-up

Chiomenti has secured a major boost for its Asian coverage after agreeing to merge with Birindelli & Associati - one of the first Italian firms to launch in China. The two firms will combine under the Chiomenti banner from 1 May, with the Italian leader taking over Birindelli's offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing, Singapore, Hanoi and Pyongyang, which together house around 25 lawyers.
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International Edition

Shearman parts with 30-lawyer Mannheim arm

Shearman & Sterling has parted company with its Mannheim office, which has broken away to launch its own firm. The break-off of the Mannheim office was announced to partners in an internal email today (22 April), with Shearman set to lose around 30 lawyers, including nine partners.
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International Edition

DLA Rome hires administrative law expert

DLA Piper has boosted its Rome litigation and regulatory team with the hire of Alfonso Celotto, the former head of the legislative office at the Ministry of European Affairs. Celotto is an expert in public law and has lectured at institutions including the Luiss University in Rome. He has represented clients at Italy's supreme administrative court, the Consiglio di Stato, and the constitutional court.
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International Edition

Bakers makes slick move with lead role on $2.25bn Russian oil merger

Global law firm Baker & McKenzie has taken a lead role on a cross-border merger worth $2.25bn (£1.14bn). The firm advised West Siberian Resources as it merged with Alliance Oil to form a combined oil company operating across Russia and Kazakhstan. The mandate is a coup for the firm's corporate team, which worked opposite Clifford Chance (CC) on the deal, which took three months to complete.
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International Edition

Bird & Bird hires for Spain team launch

Bird & Bird has launched a dedicated competition practice in Spain with the hire of a partner from DLA Piper. The top 30 UK firm has hired Antonio Creus as a partner in its Madrid office to lead the new practice group. Creus has more than 20 years' experience advising on competition matters before the European Commission and had been a partner at DLA since 2004.
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International Edition

Lovells partner quits for German property firm

Lovells real estate partner Michael Buetter has left the firm to join German property company Deutsche Annington Immobilien. Buetter, who previously headed Lovells' Hamburg real estate practice, took up his new role as head of legal affairs and shareholdings on 1 April.
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International Edition

Finland's Roschier adds one to disputes roster

Finnish firm Roschier has hired a leading dispute resolution partner in Sweden. Claes Lundblad will head the practice group in Stockholm, joining from Swedish giant Mannheimer Swartling. The hire gives Roschier its first entrance into the Swedish arbitration market. Office managing partner Axel Calissendorff said: "Having already established a strong transactional practice in Sweden, the timing was right to move on to dispute resolution."
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International Edition

Top hire marks Roschier Swedish disputes debut

Roschier has launched a dispute resolution practice in Sweden, taking on board rated Mannheimer Swartling litigation partner Claes Lundblad to head up the new group. The hire marks the Finnish firm's debut in the dispute resolution and arbitration field in Sweden, with the 50-lawyer Stockholm branch having previously concentrated largely on transactional work.
2 minute read

International Edition

Lovells loses Milan private equity man to Simmons

Lovells has lost Italian private equity head Andrea Accornero, who is heading for the Milan office of rival City firm Simmons & Simmons. Accornero begins at Simmons on 1 May, joining an international private equity team headed up by Milan-based partner Marco Franzini. The branch opened in 1993 and currently numbers around 50 fee earners, including 11 partners.
2 minute read

International Edition

Bloody Sunday inquiry 10 years on: £182m in costs and no end in sight

The Bloody Sunday inquiry faced its 10-year anniversary this month with a scathing verdict from the profession after senior lawyers strongly criticised the inquiry for waste, having swallowed nearly £100m in legal costs. The Saville Inquiry, which this month marked the 10th anniversary of its 1998 opening statement by Lord Saville, has generated mounting disquiet in the profession, including from many who have worked on the process.
5 minute read

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