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  • December 15, 2011 |

    Shearman adds four to City partnership in annual promotion round

    Shearman & Sterling has become the latest US firm to announce its global partner promotions, with nearly half of new partners joining in the firm's City office. Thomas Donegan is joining the global financial regulatory practice area in London, while Peter Hayes will be joining the finance department. M&A lawyer Jeremy Kutner and bankruptcy specialist Solomon Noh have also been promoted in London.

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  • December 14, 2011 |

    BLP grows projects practice with hire of Allen & Overy partner

    Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has turned to Allen & Overy (A&O) for its latest hire, taking projects partner Andrei Baev. Baev joins the top 15 UK firm's finance practice today (14 December) from A&O's London office. He has worked at the firm for 11 years, including in the firm's Moscow and New York offices. At BLP, he is due to split his time between London and Moscow.

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    Freshfields faces £68m claim over Department for Transport advice

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is facing a potential negligence claim worth more than £68m from the Department for Transport (DfT) for advice it gave the organisation in 2006 in relation to a rail franchise agreement with Stagecoach South Western Trains (SSWT)...

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    Commercial Team of the Year: Herbert Smith

    The size, complexity and originality of Herbert Smith's work advising Man Group on a landmark outsourcing deal caught the eye of the British Legal Awards judging panel. The transaction in question was an outsourcing deal struck between Man Group and Citi Global Transaction Services Securities and Fund Services. Corporate partners Nick Pantlin and Tim West led a multi-disciplinary team on the deal which drew on the firm's expertise in outsourcing, funds, tax, insurance, corporate, litigation and employment law.

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  • November 24, 2011 |

    Employment partners welcome plans to overhaul UK regulations but warn conciliation service may struggle with demand

    City employment partners have come out in broad support of fundamental changes to the UK's employment laws proposed by Business Secretary Vince Cable and intended to significantly reduce the number of cases reaching tribunal each year. In a speech yesterday (24 November) Cable announced a consultation on the most significant shakeup of the UK's employment regulations in decades.

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  • November 23, 2011 |

    Hong Kong horizons - what will the Asian legal market look like in 2021?

    Key Asian economies have established themselves globally as the West falters. 
Sofia Lind asks what the regional economy will look like in 2021

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  • November 22, 2011 |

    Mayer Brown makes up six in the City as Gibson Dunn promotes one in London

    Mayer Brown has promoted six London lawyers to its partnership as part of a 39-strong global promotions round. The London promotions, which take the City office to 100 partners, are on par with last year when the transatlantic firm made up six new partners in the City out of a 32-strong round globally.

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  • November 16, 2011 |

    GTM sees two Birmingham departures as partner takes consultant role

    Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) has seen two of the three partners in its Birmingham office leave the firm, with energy & infrastructure partners Francis Patalong and Paul Kirkby both departing earlier this month. The pair, whose new destinations are unclear, joined GTM in 2010 from DLA Piper to launch the Birmingham office alongside fellow energy & infrastructure partner Andrew Herring and DLA's then UK energy chief Neil Upton.

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  • November 16, 2011 |

    Bakers names City partner as new 
global head of banking

    Baker & McKenzie has appointed London partner Bernard Sharp as the new chair of its global banking & finance practice following the law firm's annual partners' meeting in Beijing last month. Sharp takes over from Hong Kong-based banking partner Andrew Lockhart, who will return to full-time fee earning after three years in the role.

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  • November 16, 2011 |

    Bright lights, big city - meet the young barristers making their mark

    Ben Rigby profiles 10 promising junior barristers singled 
out as some of the best in the profession

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