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Herbert Smith seals senior Taylor Wessing hire for regulatory push

Herbert Smith has hired Taylor Wessing's financial services regulatory team head Clive Cunningham in a bid to target more non-contentious regulatory work. Cunningham, who is expected to join Herbert Smith after the summer, has been a partner at Taylor Wessing since November 2006, when he joined from Merrill Lynch's in-house legal team. He previously worked at both Linklaters and KLegal.
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BLP brings in senior Linklaters man to boost Russia finance team

Goltsblat BLP has strengthened its Russian banking and finance team with the appointment of a new partner from Linklaters. Oleg Khokhlov will join Goltsblat BLP's Moscow arm later this month from Linklaters, where he was a managing associate in the firm's local office.
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Osborne Clarke hires funds partner from BLP in practice push

Osborne Clarke has hired its first dedicated funds partner, bringing in Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) partner 
Tim Simmonds. Simmonds, who was based in London until he left BLP at the end of May, is set to join Osborne Clarke in Bristol next week (20 June), where he will be responsible for developing the firm's funds practice across all types of investment funds, including private equity, venture capital, real estate and hedge funds.
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City lateral hiring by international firms grew 41% in 2010, research shows

Lateral partner hiring by international firms in London rebounded by almost 50% last year, according to new Legal Week research. Legal Week's annual international firms in London survey, which includes submissions from most major foreign practices operating in the Square Mile, found that 93 lateral partner hires were made across the 62 firms surveyed, up 41% from just 66 the previous year.
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International Edition

Ex-Travers senior partner named CLLS chair

Travers Smith’s former senior partner Alasdair Douglas (pictured) has been named as the next chairman of the City of London Law Society (CLLS). Douglas…
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International Edition

Going organic: finding the balance between organic growth and lateral hiring in London

Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between 
organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends
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International Edition

CC hit as four-partner City funds team exits for Weil as US firms step up UK expansion

US firms' aggressive European private equity drive continues as Weil Gotshal makes significant team hire from CC
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International Edition

Bushwhacked - advances by US firms in the City reach an ominous stage

Legal Week's in depth strand has been timely of late. While May's focus on libel and privacy coincided with sustained hysteria about injunctions, this month's international firms in London focus comes as Weil Gotshal & Manges pulls off arguably the most significant City raid yet inflicted on a leading UK law firm. If nothing else, the resignation of a four-partner funds team from Clifford Chance (CC) is evidence that a select band of US law firms is becoming a steadily more menacing threat to the City's finest.
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Legal Week

Going organic: finding the balance between organic growth and lateral hiring in London

Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between 
organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends
105 minute read

International Edition

Paul Hastings hires Macfarlanes M&A partner for City deal push

Macfarlanes corporate and M&A partner Garrett Hayes has left the firm to join Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker in London. Hayes, who specialises in M&A and private equity advice and acts primarily for private equity sponsors and portfolio companies on leveraged buyouts, restructurings and auctions, joins the US firm after 16 years at Macfarlanes. He had been a partner since 2005.
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