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Baker & McKenzie hires King & Wood Mallesons duo in Australia

Baker & McKenzie has boosted its tax and employment teams in Australia with the appointment of two senior lawyers from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM). The duo Ellen Thomas and Sean Selleck were previously employed as senior associate and of counsel at KWM respectively, but both join Bakers in Australia as partners.
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DLA Piper hires Mayer Brown JSM Asia finance head in Hong Kong

DLA Piper has added to its Hong Kong finance team with the hire of Mayer Brown JSM's former head of structured finance for Asia, Ben Standstad. The UK firm, whose Hong Kong office has traditionally been heavily focused on equity capital markets work, is currently looking to strengthen its projects and finance group in Asia whilst regional IPOs remain thin on the ground.
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Camerons disputes partner duo join Covington's fast-growing City base

Covington & Burling has hired two disputes partners from CMS Cameron McKenna, bringing its London partner headcount to 28. Ben Holland and Jeremy Wilson will both practice in Covington's arbitration and commercial litigation practice, focusing on energy-related disputes.
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Jones Day grows Hong Kong team with hire of Orrick finance partner

Jones Day has grown its Hong Kong office with the appointment of banking and finance partner Michelle Taylor from US rival Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe. Taylor, who was previously the Asia managing partner for Orrick in Hong Kong before IP partner Xiang Wang took over the role in April, joins Jones Day with one associate, and boosts the total number of partners at the firm's Hong Kong office to 18.
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Dentons boost Hong Kong cap markets team with O'Melveny hire

Dentons has boosted its Hong Kong capital markets practice with the hire of corporate partner Gordon Ng from O'Melveny & Myers. Ng, who is best known for his work on Hong Kong IPOs, will join the firm as head of corporate finance and capital markets for Asia, effective July 1.
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Speechly posts steady turnover as firm eyes 25% PEP boost from partnership shake-up

Speechly Bircham has posted flat revenues for 2012-13 following a series of management changes and partner exits that are expected to see the firm's partner profits rise 25% next year. The City firm took in fee income of £57.5m for the last financial year, broadly in line with the 2011-12 figure of £57.6m, while profits per equity partner (PEP) fell 3% from £303,000 to £293,000. Over the last financial year around 17 partners have left the firm – six of which were retirements, with one more to take effect in October. Meanwhile, six partners have been asked to leave, alongside a number of departures to other law firms and moves in-house.
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Walker Morris turns to Deloitte for first non-exec board member

Walker Morris has appointed former Deloitte managing partner Stuart Counsell as its first non-executive board director. Counsell joins Walker Morris following more than 30 years at Deloitte, during which time he held a variety of senior management positions including UK managing partner. More recently, Counsell headed up the finance and legal division at the accountancy giant where he was responsible for the financial and legal aspects of a £2 billion professional services business. He was also heavily involved in the firm's continuous systems improvement and acquisition programmes.
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DLA Piper gives Edinburgh transfers three-month trial in new home

DLA Piper has taken the unusual step of giving staff transferred to its Edinburgh office three months to decide whether they are happy to make the move permanent or would prefer redundancy. The offer was made after 30 employees and 10 partners were asked to move to Edinburgh after the closure of the firm's Glasgow office at the start of April. The trial ends on 1 July but DLA will subsidise the expenses of both staff and partners as part of the relocation for 12 months. Employees not happy in Edinburgh will be eligible for a redundancy package.
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Olswang targets female partner boost with flexi-work push and gender bias training

Olswang is urging all of its partners to attend unconscious bias training as part of a push to increase its proportion of female partners, as the firm looks to ramp up the use of flexible working. The UK top 30 firm has introduced training sessions to raise awareness of unconscious bias across all of its offices, with the scheme coming as part of a wider overhaul of its flexible working policy, which is now being made more readily available. Currently, 22% of lawyers and staff in its London and Thames Valley offices work flexibly, while internationally the figure is 20%, a quarter of whom are male.
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US firm Seyfarth Shaw launches in Australia with eight partner hires from HSF, Ashurst

Chicago employment firm Seyfarth Shaw has launched in Australia this week with the hire of eight partners from three firms. The US outfit took five partners from Herbert Smith Freehills, two from Ashurst and one from Arnold Bloch Leibler, for the opening of offices in Sydney and Melbourne.
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