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  • July 17, 2008 |

    Field Fisher signals financial services drive with regulatory partner hire

    Field Fisher Waterhouse has bolstered its financial services practice with the hire of Dechert partner Duncan Black. Black, a partner with Dechert since 1992, will advise on regulatory matters for the financial services sector, with a focus on asset management and hedge funds. Black, who joined Field Fisher this week (14 July) as part of a wider strategy to develop the firm's asset management capacity, takes the firm's financial services and funds group to two partners.

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  • July 16, 2008 |

    Rising in the east

    UK-qualified lawyers are in huge demand in China, with law firms looking for people with partnership potential. Philip Hoult looks at the state of play in the Asia-Pacific legal markets

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  • July 8, 2008 |

    Mayer Brown makes capital markets hire in Paris

    Mayer Brown has bolstered its French capital markets practice with the hire of Robert Flanigan to its Paris office. Flanigan, who joined the firm on 16 June, will head the capital markets practice and brings the total Paris partnership to 15.Prior to joining the Anglo-American firm, Flanigan headed up the capital markets practice at US rival Winston & Strawn in Paris for three years. He also previously worked at Shearman & Sterling.

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  • July 7, 2008 |

    Billion-dollar RUSAL dispute set for UK courts

    The long-running $4bn dispute between two Russian businessmen for a 20% stake of aluminium giant RUSAL is set to be heard in the UK courts. In a judgment handed down last week (3 July), Mr Justice Christopher Clarke confirmed Michael Cherney could pursue his claims against RUSAL owner Oleg Deripaska in England.Israeli-based businessman Cherney claims that as a result of a deal struck in London in 2001, Deripaska agreed to hold a 20% stake in RUSAL in trust for him.

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  • July 7, 2008 |

    Bryan Cave makes France debut with Dechert hires

    Bryan Cave has expanded its European reach with the opening of its first French office in Paris. The US firm has recruited corporate and M&A partner Kathie Claret and public and private funds partner Joseph Smallhoover, who will start up Bryan Cave's French practice after leaving Dechert's Paris office last week.

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  • July 3, 2008 |

    National duo recharge with roles on retail group's revamped panel

    National law firms Pinsent Masons and DLA Piper have landed roles on the revamped legal panel of electrical retailing group DSG International (DSGi). The FTSE 250 group, which is the parent company of retail chains Dixons, Currys and PC World, has drawn up a new advisory group, with the other firms on the panel understood to be Baker & McKenzie and Linklaters.

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  • July 2, 2008 |

    US appeal court upholds sanctions against Cleary

    The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed sanctions against Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton for allegedly trying to convince a non-party witness not to attend a deposition, reports the New York Law Journal.The circuit's summary order came less than a week after Cleary appeared before the appeals court to argue for the reversal of the sanctions imposed last August by Southern District of New York Judge Loretta Preska.However, the panel of judges ruled that nothing in the record indicated Preska had ruled incorrectly.

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  • June 26, 2008 |

    Cleary appeals sanctions over Congo witness row

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton yesterday (25 June) took to the courts in a bid to overturn sanctions brought against the firm for improperly attempting to dissuade a witness from testifying, writes The American Lawyer. Lawyers from the firm, led by managing partner Mark Walker, filled a number of the gallery seats in the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeal as Cleary attempted to reverse a stinging sanctions order by Southern District of New York Judge Loretta Preska last August saying the firm had shown "a willingness to operate in the murky area between zealous advocacy and improper conduct" in attempting to interfere with the deposition of a non-party witness.

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  • June 20, 2008 |

    US Briefing: Milberg - the morning after

    In the end, says William Taylor III, the lawyer who defended the Milberg firm for more than four years, he had no choice: if Milberg was to survive as a law firm, it had to reach a deal to avoid a guilty plea or conviction in the federal probe of kickbacks to lead plaintiffs in securities class actions. Taylor declined to comment on reports that Milberg had asked spin-off firm Coughlin Stoia to contribute to Milberg's $75m payment of fines. Coughlin Stoia was never indicted in the kickback case.

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  • June 16, 2008 |

    Media trio exit Howard Kennedy to open new boutique

    City firm Howard Kennedy has confirmed the break-up of its six-partner media team following the news that three of the partners have quit to launch their own specialist firm. Partners Susan Aslan, Sue Charles and Hakan Kousetta will launch specialist media boutique Aslan Charles Kousetta next month.

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