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  • July 13, 2011 |

    BNP Paribas GC launches global panel review with expansion aim

    BNP Paribas has kicked off its first global panel review since bringing in the former head of Herbert Smith's Paris banking practice, Georges Dirani, in October 2010 as general counsel. The France-headquartered bank sent out a tender document to more than 20 firms last month, with a view to increasing the size of the roster to take into account the bank's geographic reach.

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  • July 13, 2011 |

    Herbert Smith advises as high-profile IT group wins bid for Nortel patents

    Herbert Smith has taken a lead European role as a consortium including Apple, Microsoft and Sony Ericsson won a contest against Google to buy 6,000 strategic Nortel Networks patents for $4.5bn (£2.8bn). Herbert Smith advised Ernst & Young, the administrator to Nortel's entities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, on the competitive auction.

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  • July 6, 2011 |

    Five firms win first-time spots on new Santander UK legal panel

    Bird & Bird, Wragge & Co and Taylor Wessing are among five firms to have been added to Santander's own-account panel in the UK following a three-month competitive tender process. Santander turned to online procurement company Aquanima to handle the first review of its merged UK panel since 2009, which covers the legacy Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley brands.

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  • July 6, 2011 |

    Disruption as usual - Google's legal staff takes law where it hasn't gone before

    Win or lose, Google's staff is taking the law and legal departments where they haven't gone before. David Hechler reports

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  • July 1, 2011 |

    Elite US trio added to Barclays panel after review of bank's advisers

    Barclays has added three US firms to its general advisory panel, following a comprehensive panel review intended to increase value for money from the bank's regular advisers. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Shearman & Sterling and Sullivan & Cromwell have been added to the bank's main general advisory panel after Barclays decided to include the creation of a US sub-division for the first time.

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  • June 28, 2011 |

    Cleary takes Stanley Black & Decker role on $1.2bn Swedish takeover bid

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton is acting for Stanley Black & Decker on its billion-dollar bidding battle with Securitas to acquire Swedish security systems company Niscayah, reports The Am Law Daily. Stanley Black & Decker's offer of $1.2bn (£753m) is roughly 25% more than Securitas' earlier offer of $910m (£571m). Securitas, which spun off from Niscayah in 2006 and moved to repurchase the company earlier this year, is now likely to make a counterbid.

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  • June 27, 2011 |

    Ex-Simmons chief Dawkins quits for Bingham after senior partner defeat

    Simmons & Simmons' former managing partner Mark Dawkins is set to join the London office of US firm Bingham McCutchen. Dawkins, who stepped down as Simmons' managing partner at the end of April, is expected to join the US firm's securities and financial institutions litigation group as a partner in early September after taking a sabbatical over the summer.

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  • June 17, 2011 |

    Freshfields loses Hong Kong head as Sullivan launches local law practice

    Sullivan & Cromwell has launched a Hong Kong law practice with recruits from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, writes The Asian Lawyer. Kay Ian Ng, formerly Hong Kong managing partner for Freshfields, will lead the new group for Sullivan, with counsel Gwen Wong is also coming aboard. Both focus on capital markets work.

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  • June 15, 2011 | International Edition

    Going organic: finding the balance between organic growth and lateral hiring in London

    Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between 
organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends

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  • June 15, 2011 |

    Going organic: finding the balance between organic growth and lateral hiring in London

    Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between 
organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends

    1 minute read