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Travers takes lead role on Pinewood real estate and community project

Travers Smith is advising Pinewood Studios on planning matters as it creates a working community in Buckinghamshire. The City firm has been advising Pinewood on real estate, planning, environment and real estate management issues connected with the studio's plans to build a living and working community for the creative industry.
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Partnership for Schools unveils expanded 17-firm panel

Partnership for Schools (PfS), the delivery body for the Government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative, has unveiled the firms on its new legal panel. Seventeen law firms feature on the roster. They are: Addleshaw Goddard, Beachcroft, Bevan Brittan, Burges Salmon, Dickinson Dees, DLA Piper, Eversheds, Mills & Reeve, Nabarro, Norton Rose, Pinsent Masons, Sharpe Pritchard, TPP Law, Trowers & Hamlins, Walker Morris, Ward Hadaway and Wragge & Co.
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Public and regulatory law

DLA Piper and Reed Smith take on the practice issues as Alex Aldridge investigates legal careers in the public sector.
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DLA Piper lays off 9% of workforce in Middle East offices

DLA Piper has launched a second round of job cuts in the Middle East, with the firm cutting 9% of staff in the region, including one partner. In total, 22 staff will lose their jobs in the region, including nine fee earners. Staff were informed last week, with the cuts taking effect immediately.
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Trowers builds up City real estate with Olswang recruit

Allen joined the top 40 firm's real estate group in London earlier this month (1 June) after four years at Olswang, including two as a partner. Before Olswang, he spent four years at Clifford Chance and five years at Norton Rose. Allen, who advises on property development, investment transactions, joint ventures and lettings, most recently advised REIT Asset Management on its £635m portfolio acquisition from the administrators of the Dawnay Day Group.
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International Edition

Public and regulatory law: At your service

As City law firms cut jobs and freeze pay levels, the public sector has become an increasingly attractive option to lawyers. Part of the allure is, no doubt, the relative security offered by government employers. But that's not the whole story. City associates who are tired of handling repetitive tasks such as due diligence and document review have long looked enviously at the more challenging work carried out by their peers in government bodies such as the Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) and the Treasury Solicitor's Office, but shied away from moving because of the carrot of law firm partnership and higher salaries. However, with uncertainty about future employment prospects – let alone partnership prospects – rife, increasing numbers have begun to consider a move into public service roles.
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International Edition

BLP completes redundancy consultation with 85 staff laid off

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has completed its redundancy consultation, with the firm laying off 85 members of staff. More than half of the cuts (47) were compulsory, with 32 staff opting for voluntary redundancy and six choosing to take early retirement.
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International Edition

Freshfields quartet quits to join K&L Gates Berlin office

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has lost a four-lawyer team in Berlin with the departure of public procurement partner Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann to K&L Gates. Hausmann will join the US firm along with principal associate Annette Mutschler-Siebert - who joins as counsel - and two other associates. Hausmann has been with the magic circle firm since 1996, making partner in 2002. He and his team advise on public procurement and public private partnerships (PPPs) as well as antitrust, state aid and trade.
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International Edition

Eversheds secures Tyco-style mandate from Smiths Group

Eversheds has been appointed as the preferred legal adviser for technology company Smiths Group in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The law firm will provide commercial, litigation, employment, real estate and company secretarial advice across the region, with London-based head of international litigation and dispute management John Heaps acting as the relationship partner to Smiths. Eversheds will use its global account management system - first developed for its relationship with Tyco - with the London Stock Exchange-listed Smiths.
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Northern Ireland

L'Estrange & Brett and A&L Goodbody address the practice issues facing the Northern Irish legal market.
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