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  • October 18, 2010 |

    Jones Day Madrid chief relocates to Sao Paulo to launch new Brazil base

    Jones Day's Madrid head Luis Riesgo is relocating to Sao Paulo to launch a Brazil office for the US firm, reports The Am Law Daily. Riesgo, the chair of the firm's Latin American practice, will be followed by partners Sanjiv Kapur and Wade Angus, who have begun the process of becoming licensed as consultants in foreign law in Brazil. The partner trio will be joined two associates who are qualified to practise in New York and Madrid.

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  • October 12, 2010 |

    Weil Gotshal leads as $3.9bn PE sale ends record hotel group bankruptcy

    A raft of US firms have taken roles on the bankruptcy of Extended Stay Hotels, the largest Chapter 11 case ever filed by a US hotel owner, reports The Am Law Daily. The hotel chain operator, which operates 700 hotels throughout the US and Canada, was sold to a private equity consortium last Friday (8 October) in a $3.9bn (£2.5bn) deal after filing for bankruptcy in New York in June 2009.

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  • October 6, 2010 |

    Gibson Dunn boosts Dubai with Ashurst hire

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has launched a funds practice in its Dubai office following the hire of Ashurst partner Chezard Ameer. Ameer, who specialises in investment funds, including private equity, venture capital, infrastructure and real estate funds, is set to join the law firm in the coming months from the private investment funds group in Ashurst's Dubai practice.

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  • September 28, 2010 |

    Gibson Dunn, Debevoise advise as Vivendi sells $2bn NBCU stake to GE

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Debevoise & Plimpton have taken roles as French media conglomerate Vivendi has sold a portion of its stake in NBC Universal to General Electric (GE) for $2bn (£1.3bn), reports AmLaw Daily.

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  • September 22, 2010 |

    Latin America: Tomorrow's country today

    From the dark days of the 1980s, a newly-confident Brazil has emerged. Alex Aldridge reports on one of the most hotly-tipped emerging economies and the lawyers scrambling to keep up

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  • September 14, 2010 |

    Freshfields takes antitrust role on $1.5bn Hewlett-Packard acquisition

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won a role alongside Gibson Dunn & Crutcher on Hewlett-Packard's $1.5bn (£972m) acquisition of security software maker ArcSight, reports The Am Law Daily. Russell Hansen, the partner-in-charge of Gibson Dunn's Palo Alto office, is leading the US firm's team on the deal, while Freshfields partner Alan Ryan and senior associate Martin McElwee are serving as European antitrust counsel.

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  • August 3, 2010 |

    Travers and Taylor Wessing advise on $475m broadband company buyout

    Travers Smith and Taylor Wessing have won roles on the $475m (£308m) acquisition of US broadband manufacturing company 2Wire by Yorkshire-based set-top box maker Pace. Travers head of corporate finance Spencer Summerfield advised longstanding client Pace on the purchase, which was announced last week (26 July) and will now see Pace look to raise debt from banks, with the deal set to close by the end of the year.

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  • August 2, 2010 |

    Gibson Dunn launches in Hong Kong with hire of General Electric veteran

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher is to open an office in Hong Kong this year as the top 20 US law firm moves extend its compliance and white collar crime practice into Asia. The new office will be led by Kelly Austin, who joins the firm as a partner from General Electric International in Hong Kong, where she has been for the last eight years. She specialises in Asia-wide Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and compliance matters. Austin will be joined by Gibson Dunn corporate partner Joseph Barbeau, who is relocating from the firm's Palo Alto office, and associate Kate Yin, who is relocating from its Los Angeles office.

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  • July 9, 2010 |

    A lifetime of litigation - the fall of Yukos

    Seven years have passed since Russia began the campaign against Yukos Oil Company that led to the re-nationalisation of a business controlling more than 3% of world oil production, comparable in scale to Chevron. The dispossessed owners call it the biggest political expropriation in history. The fall of Yukos has generated history's biggest arbitrations - and by far the largest human rights claim ever - with stakes as high as $100bn (£66bn). The director of the majority shareholder group, Timothy Osborne, vowed a "lifetime of litigation" against those responsible, and he is well on his way.

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  • June 15, 2010 |

    CC elects Sandelson as London litigation head alongside global role

    Clifford Chance (CC) has voted in Jeremy Sandelson as leader of the firm's London litigation group alongside his existing role as global litigation head. Sandelson, CC's former London managing partner, will take over the position from Nick Munday, who was seconded to the magic circle firm's Moscow office earlier this year.

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