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  • January 31, 2014 |

    Linklaters and Addleshaws new additions as Nationwide cuts panel to four firms

    Linklaters and Addleshaw Goddard have won places on Nationwide's slimmed-down group-wide legal panel following a review of the building society's top advisers.

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  • January 21, 2014 |

    Reed Smith hires ex-Dewey pair in Astana office push

    Reed Smith has hired two former Dewey & Leboeuf partners for its office in Astana, becoming the latest international firm to bulk up in the Kazakh capital. The firm, which has been based in the city since 2012, is strengthening the office with the recruitment of its first two partners, both of whom worked at Dewey before the firm collapsed in 2012.

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  • January 13, 2014 |

    Reed Smith adds three to partnership in London in global promo round

    Reed Smith has appointed three of its City lawyers to partner and one to counsel, in the firm's 2014 global promotions round. In total, 26 lawyers were promoted to partner and 18 to counsel across 14 offices, bringing the total number of partners at the firm to 747.

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  • January 13, 2014 |

    Simmons hires Reed Smith's Europe and Middle East investment funds chief

    Simmons & Simmons has sealed the high-profile hire of Dale Gabbert, Reed Smith's head of investment funds for Europe and the Middle East.

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  • January 7, 2014 |

    Transfer Window Asia: recent moves including DLA, Clydes and HSF

    DLA Piper has boosted its corporate practice in Bangkok with the hire of O'Melveny & Myers lawyer Tim Tan. Tan, who was previously a counsel with O'Melveny in Singapore in the firm's corporate finance practice, focuses on banking and leverage finance, corporate debt and restructuring and special situations investment transactions.

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  • December 12, 2013 |

    British Legal Awards 2013: who won what - and why...

    A run-down of all the winners at this year's British Legal Awards, including full details of the judging panel's reasoning for each award.

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  • November 28, 2013 |

    NQ intake at London offices of top US firms dips by 6%

    The intake of newly qualified lawyers (NQs) at the largest US and international firms in the UK fell by 6% in the last year, highlighting the continued uncertainty for lawyers at the junior end of the profession. Just a handful of firms in the group of 21 surveyed by Legal Week posted year-on-year increases in the number of NQs who were offered and accepted a training contract. These included Mayer Brown, Shearman & Sterling, McDermott Will & Emery and Sidley Austin. Sidley Austin, alongside Paul Hastings and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom were the only firms to retain 100% of their intake. The research also highlighted the sizeable impact US and international firms have had on the graduate recruitment market, with Reed Smith, Dentons and Baker & McKenzie each taking on at least 25 NQs in 2013.

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  • November 21, 2013 |

    HSF loses second partner in Singapore since September

    Former Freehills Singapore head John Dick has become the second partner to leave the firm's regional base since September. Dick, who specialises in South East Asian corporate energy and resources work, and who helped establish Freehills' Singapore office in 2000, is set to exit from the firm early December to establish a Singapore base for another international firm.

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  • November 21, 2013 |

    Travers appoints partners to lead sector strategy

    Travers Smith has appointed partners to head its six key sector groups, two years after realigning the firm along sector lines. The firm's corporate chief Spencer Summerfield will lead the energy and natural resources team, while head of commercial, IP and technology Tom Purton is overseeing the business services sector. M&A partner Edmund Reed will take charge of healthcare and head of private equity Phil Sanderson will head up retail, with private equity partner Paul Dolman leading on leisure and IP partner Richard Brown the new head of media. Travers' senior partner Chris Hale (pictured) leads the firmwide sector-based model, which was first launched in September 2011 and was part of the firm's strategy to both strengthen existing client relationships and attract new work.

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  • November 19, 2013 |

    Links, Kirkland and Travers act on sale of Jammie Dodger maker

    Kirkland & Ellis, Linklaters and Travers Smith have taken the lead roles on Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan's (OTPP) acquisition of Burton's Biscuits, the makers of Jammie Dodgers. Burton's, whose range of biscuit brands also includes Cadbury Fingers and Maryland Cookies, employs more than 2,000 people in the UK and boasted recent annual sales of £340m.

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