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  • November 26, 2009 |

    Dechert launches Paris funds practice with Proskauer hire

    Dechert has launched a funds practice in its Paris office with the hire of Proskauer Rose funds partner Olivier Dumas. Dumas joins the firm after serving as a partner with Proskauer in Paris since September 2007, most recently co-heading the local private equity team.

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  • November 17, 2009 |

    Offshore: Weathering the storm

    Few areas of the financial services sector have been left untouched by the credit crunch and the funds industry is no exception. Since the sub-prime crisis began in the summer of 2007, the contagion has spread from structured finance instruments to property to equity markets before taking its toll on the global economy as whole.

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  • October 26, 2009 |

    RPC recruits BLP partner to head up tax disputes team

    Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) has bolstered its tax practice with the hire of Jonathan Levy from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP). Levy, who has been a partner at BLP for almost two years, will lead RPC's five-partner tax disputes practice. He joined BLP at the start of 2008 from tax boutique Levy Watters, where he was a name partner, and has also previously held roles as head of tax litigation at Ernst & Young and deputy head of international tax at the Inland Revenue Solicitors Office.

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  • September 30, 2009 |

    College of Law comes top of the class to seal Ashurst training tie-up

    Ashurst has become one of the last firms in the UK top 20 to sign an exclusive deal to send all its future trainees to a specific course provider. From 2010, all Ashurst trainees will study at the College of Law, with the law school beating competition from rivals including BPP, Kaplan Law School and the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice to secure the agreement.

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  • September 16, 2009 |

    Chadbourne partner rejoins Dechert after just four months away

    Konstantin Konstantinov, a corporate and finance partner who joined Dechert earlier this year as part of the firm's Moscow launch, has rejoined his former firm Chadbourne & Parke after just four months. Dechert originally announced on 8 May that five partners, including Konstantinov, would be joining from its US rival, only to see two of them - finance partner Jennifer Handz and Russian litigator Mikhail Rozenberg - decide to remain at Chadbourne.

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  • September 16, 2009 |

    High-profile sale of Aquascutum hands roles to trio of law firms

    A trio of law firms have advised on the high-profile sale of iconic clothing brand Aquascutum to fashion entrepreneur Harold Tillman. Dechert was called in to advise Tillman, with the firm fielding a team led by London corporate partner Geoffrey Walters. Tax partner David Gubbay, property partner Barry Thorne and intellectual property (IP) counsel Renzo Marchini assisted.

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  • September 15, 2009 |

    Dealmaker: Ciaran Carvalho

    Nabarro real estate partner Ciaran Carvalho on sink-or-swim deals and nauseating Christmas parties...

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  • September 11, 2009 |

    Student round-up: BPP signs Dechert and CoL targets in-house

    Dechert has become the latest law firm to sign an exclusive training deal with an external provider. The agreement, which starts this month, will see the Anglo-American firm's future

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  • September 9, 2009 |

    Fasken hires four-partner team for City energy push

    Fasken Martineau has hired a six-lawyer team from Howard Kennedy to bolster its core energy practice. Chris Gooding, Hardani Azmi, Philip Kornbluth and Philip Leacock have all joined as partners, bringing the Canadian-based law firm's London energy practice to 10 partners. Fasken has also hired Alex Ferrari as counsel and Sukhi Kaler as associate. The group joined the firm's energy practice and will advise on all contentious and non-contentious matters, particularly in aviation, insurance and arbitration.

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  • August 19, 2009 |

    CC finance partner duo quit firm to join Dechert in New York

    Dechert has strengthened its New York offering with the hire of two new partners from Clifford Chance's (CC's) office in the city. CC finance partners Stuart Strauss and Richard Horowitz will join the US firm's financial services group.

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