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  • September 2, 2009 |

    Clifford Chance set for leadership vote as Childs tipped for second run

    Clifford Chance (CC) is gearing up for a series of senior leadership elections with David Childs expected to stand for re-election as the City giant's managing partner. Childs is viewed as likely to stand for a second four-year term at the firm's helm, with elections due to take place this autumn. If Childs were to stand successfully, he would start his second term in May 2010.

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  • September 1, 2009 |

    Gibson Dunn and Debevoise get top marks in closely-watched associate survey

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has the highest mid-level associate satisfaction rate among AmLaw 100 firms, according to research by Legal Week sister title The American Lawyer. The magazine's annual survey of US associates with three to five years' experience at law firms across the US shows Gibson Dunn, which features at number four in the rankings, is the highest placed AmLaw 100 firm, with only three of the 100 largest firms in the US making it into the top 10 for workplace satisfaction.

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  • July 23, 2009 |

    Ashurst takes Europe role for Intel on €1bn EC fine appeal

    Ashurst has won the lead European adviser role for Intel on its appeal against one of the largest fines ever dished out by the European Commission (EC). Last May Intel was handed a penalty of €1.06bn (£914m) by the EC for anticompetitive behaviour and abusing its leading position in the market for the production of microchips, in a case which dates back to the beginning of the decade.

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  • July 12, 2009 |

    US firms in London - no retreat, no surrender (and a few new faces)

    Unsurprisingly, given their size and diversity, international firms in London continue to defy easy categorisation. Having entered the UK market at different times, for different reasons, with different models, picking overall themes from Legal Week's annual survey of the largest foreign firms in London, is tricky.

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  • July 9, 2009 | International Edition

    International law firms: Batten down the hatches

    If ever there was a market to test the commitment of international firms to their London office, this would be it. Plummeting workloads and high operating costs have meant more so than ever the City is proving an expensive toehold.

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  • July 9, 2009 |

    International law firms: Batten down the hatches

    If ever there was a market to test the commitment of international firms to their London office, this would be it. Plummeting workloads and high operating costs have meant more so than ever the City is proving an expensive toehold.

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  • July 9, 2009 |

    CC slims down as nearly 50 partners leave since March

    Clifford Chance (CC) has seen the departure of nearly 50 partners since the beginning of March, it has emerged. London and New York have been most affected by the exits, which include normal retirements and those choosing to leave as well as those affected by its partner restructuring.

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  • July 2, 2009 |

    Germany and Austria

    Hengeler Mueller and Gibson Dunn look at major developments in Germany

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  • June 30, 2009 |

    Fourth CC litigation partner joins Gibson Dunn in New York

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has recruited another Clifford Chance (CC) partner in New York, a move which means the US firm has now taken on 11 litigation lawyers from CC during the past month. CC litigation partner George Schieren, who resigned from the US practice earlier this month, has joined CC's global head of litigation Mark Kirsch, litigation partner Joel Cohen and counsel Christopher Joralemon at Gibson Dunn, with the US firm confirming that it has also recruited seven associates from CC.

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  • June 25, 2009 |

    Germany and Austria: Broad measures

    On April 24, 2009, almost unnoticed by the public, an important amendment to the German Foreign Trade and Payments Act (Aussenwirtschaftsgesetz - AWG) entered into force. The amendment materially impacts a significant number of transactions involving German businesses and allows the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (MET) to prohibit investors outside Europe from buying German enterprises or voting stakes of 25% or more in German companies if such acquisitions constitute a threat to the security or public policy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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