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  • September 7, 2011 |

    Freshfields and Mayer Brown head up ex-BP CEO's $4.2bn Turkey tie-up

    Mayer Brown and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won roles on the planned $4.2bn (£2.6bn) 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).

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  • September 5, 2011 |

    Mayer Brown adds partner to City corporate insurance team with Debevoise hire

    Mayer Brown has strengthened its London corporate and securities practice with a hire from Debevoise & Plimpton. Colin Scagell joined the international firm today (5 September) as the newest partner in its London-based insurance industry group. He joins from the City office of Debevoise, where he was an associate.

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  • September 2, 2011 |

    Linklaters Germany partner opts against move to Mayer Brown

    Linklaters competition partner Carsten Grave has decided to remain with the magic circle law firm nearly two months after it was announced that he would join Mayer Brown's practice in Cologne. The news comes after the US law firm last month announced the closure of its Berlin and Cologne offices, with Mayer Brown set to launch an office in Duesseldorf at the start of 2012.

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  • August 31, 2011 | International Edition

    Doubling down - who holds the cards in the scramble for Asia?

    Five years ago the tiny special administrative region of China, Macau, replaced Las Vegas as the world's top gambling destination. Now, as private wealth continues to soar both within China and Asia more generally, and regional markets remain resilient despite the wider global economic turmoil, the UK's largest law firms are attempting to guarantee they retain a significant slice of the market.

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  • August 31, 2011 |

    Doubling down - who holds the cards in the scramble for Asia?

    Five years ago the tiny special administrative region of China, Macau, replaced Las Vegas as the world's top gambling destination. Now, as private wealth continues to soar both within China and Asia more generally, and regional markets remain resilient despite the wider global economic turmoil, the UK's largest law firms are attempting to guarantee they retain a significant slice of the market.

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  • August 22, 2011 |

    Cleary opens new LatAm base with partner relocations to Sao Paulo

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has opened for business in Sao Paulo after receiving approval to launch from the Brazilian authorities. Capital markets partner Juan Giraldez and corporate finance partner Francisco Cestero have relocated from New York and Rome respectively to head up the new base.

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  • August 17, 2011 |

    Mayer Brown to open in Duesseldorf; Berlin and Cologne to close

    Mayer Brown is set to launch an office in Duesseldorf as the firm moves to close its Berlin and Cologne operations. The new office will open at the start of 2012, at which point Mayer Brown's existing Cologne and Berlin offices will merge into the Duesseldorf outfit.

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  • August 9, 2011 |

    A&O and CC take top roles on pre-let deal for new Canary Wharf tower

    Allen & Overy (A&O) and Clifford Chance (CC) have taken lead roles on one of the largest London lettings deals so far this year. The magic circle duo have advised as the European Medical Association (EMA) agreed a pre-let of 250,000 sq ft in a new 20-storey tower which Canary Wharf Group will start building at 25 Churchill Place on the Wharf later this year.

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  • August 8, 2011 |

    Kemp Little appoints first-ever COO as firm gears up for LSA era

    Kemp Little has appointed a chief operating officer (COO) for the first time following the firm's decision to abandon its managing partner role earlier this year. Boodle Hatfield director of operations and IT Siddhartha Mankad has taken up the new position as of 1 August. At Boodle, he was responsible for technology, risk management, compliance and office services.

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  • August 3, 2011 |

    Relief for English lawyers as Supreme Court backs right to choose arbitrator's nationality

    London's position as a global centre for arbitration has been reaffirmed following a Supreme Court ruling that nationality and religion can be used as criteria in the selection and appointment of arbitrators. In a landmark judgment handed down last week, the Supreme Court confirmed that arbitrators are not employees and therefore fall outside of UK equality laws.

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