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  • February 9, 2014 |

    Singapore's Drew & Napier hires Reed Smith's former Dubai office head

    Singapore outfit Drew & Napier has hired Reed Smith's former Dubai office managing partner Lee Chau Ee to lead its construction and engineering practice. He replaces the firm's previous construction head Liam Beng Tan, who left at the end of 2013. Lee, who worked for Drew & Napier between 1995 until 2000 as an associate, departed from US firm Reed Smith in November 2013 to return to his home base.

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  • February 9, 2014 |

    Reed Smith grows US legal processing team to support European offices

    Reed Smith will expand its Pittsburgh-based legal and business process support team to offer greater assistance to lawyers in its European offices. The team will be restructured to provide additional document, pricing and administrative services to lawyers in the EMEA region, and is being led by the firm's head of client value Vince Cordo.

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  • February 4, 2014 |

    HSF South East Asia disputes head leaves for Hogan Lovells

    The head of litigation for Herbert Smith Freehills in South East Asia is to leave the firm to lead the regional disputes practice for Hogan Lovells. Maurice Burke, who is based in Singapore with HSF, will begin his new role in May this year and will also be based with Hogan Lovells in the island city-state.

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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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