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  • October 12, 2011 |

    Global 100: Empire builders - does globalisation equal profit?

    Since the early days of the Global 100 survey, globalisation and profit have seemingly grown hand in hand. For the top 50 firms in 1999 – the first year that The American Lawyer published profits per equity partner (PEP) for what was then the Global 50 – the proportion of lawyers employed outside each firm's home country doubled, while PEP more than doubled. But whether there is a causal relationship between global expansion and financial success is unclear, whether one charts the performance of individual firms in a single year or over time. Star performers may be found among the most stubborn homebodies, like Slaughter and May, and the most persistent imperialists, like Allen & Overy (A&O).

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  • October 5, 2011 | International Edition

    Linklaters and Freshfields top Euro M&A rankings amid tough market

    Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have topped Mergermarket's European M&A rankings for the first three quarters of 2011 – with the new research demonstrating the impact of the global sovereign debt crisis as deal volumes plummeted during 
the third quarter. Linklaters held onto the top spot in the European volume rankings, working on 161 deals worth a total of $164.9bn (£107bn), placing the firm ahead of Freshfields, Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy (A&O) and DLA Piper.

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  • October 5, 2011 |

    Linklaters and Freshfields top Euro M&A rankings amid tough market

    Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have topped Mergermarket's European M&A rankings for the first three quarters of 2011 – with the new research demonstrating the impact of the global sovereign debt crisis as deal volumes plummeted during 
the third quarter. Linklaters held onto the top spot in the European volume rankings, working on 161 deals worth a total of $164.9bn (£107bn), placing the firm ahead of Freshfields, Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy (A&O) and DLA Piper.

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  • October 5, 2011 |

    Eversheds adds partner to City regulatory team with FSA hire

    Eversheds has boosted its City contentious regulatory practice with a partner hire from the Financial Service Authority's (FSA) enforcement and financial crime division. Greg Brandman joined the firm's London office on Monday (3 October) in its financial services dispute resolution team.

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  • September 21, 2011 |

    US firms in London to join diversity initiative; more UK firms get on board

    PRIME, the ground-breaking social mobility initiative launched by 23 major law firms earlier this month, looks set to be expanded to include the London offices of several leading US firms, with White & Case and Shearman & Sterling among those lining up to get involved.

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  • September 20, 2011 |

    Mayer Brown's Canning exits to join Ernst & Young as global GC

    Mayer Brown litigation partner Clare Canning is leaving the firm to become global general counsel at Ernst & Young. The appointment, which takes effect on 10 October, comes as current global GC Trevor Faure - who joined the accountancy giant in 2009 from manufacturing group Tyco, where he was EMEA GC - has been handed the role of global leader, legal services sector.

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  • September 19, 2011 |

    BLP signs up Linklaters partners for double Germany office launch

    Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is set to launch two offices in Germany with the hire of a four-strong team from Linklaters, marking the firm's first venture into the country. The firm announced today (19 September) that it will open in Berlin and Frankfurt by the end of the year, with a focus on high-end real estate work.

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  • September 14, 2011 |

    Freshfields and Mayer Brown lead ex-BP chief's $4.2bn Turkey tie-up

    Mayer Brown and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won roles on the planned $4.2bn (£2.7bn) merger of former BP chief executive Tony Hayward's investment vehicle Vallares with Turkish oil company Genel Energy International. Mayer Brown's London office is advising Genel, the largest oil producer in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, fielding a team led by global energy co-head Robert Hamill, working with partners including Kate Ball-Dodd 
and Richard Smith (corporate), James Hill 
(tax) and Mark Compton (financial services). Mayer Brown worked alongside Turkish law firm Yazici, where senior partner and Genel GC Murat Yazici took the lead role.

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  • September 14, 2011 |

    Battle royale - the tussle for global dominance shifts eastward

    With elite Wall Street firms finally breaking into Hong Kong law, the stage is set for a high-stakes struggle across Asia between the world's top law firms. Georgina Stanley and Simon Petersen report

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  • September 12, 2011 |

    'Draconian' Vickers banking reforms face criticism from City lawyers

    City finance partners have criticised Government plans to push ahead with proposals that will force Britain's banks to ring-fence their retail banking operations from the investment banking arms within the next eight years. Banks will have until 2019 to implement proposals in Sir John Vickers' Independent Commission on Banking report, which was released today (12 September) and called on the Government to enact the reforms as soon as possible.

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