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  • February 26, 2014 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy and Norton Rose Fulbright

    The Transfer Window is a regular round-up of recent legal moves in the UK and abroad.

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  • February 18, 2014 |

    Record number of solicitor advocates take silk in 100-strong round

    International arbitration heads at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith Freehills and Berwin Leighton Paisner are among five solicitor advocates to be appointed Queen's Counsel.

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  • February 17, 2014 |

    MoFo hires recently departed Reed Smith finance partner Phillip Slater

    Reed Smith partner Phillip Slater has joined Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) in London, three weeks after exiting his old firm. Slater, who previously led Reed Smith's acquisition and leveraged finance practice in London, practices across a number of areas, including acquisition finance, leveraged finance and corporate banking.

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  • February 13, 2014 |

    Reed Smith picks up Travers leveraged finance partner as Phillip Slater steps down

    Reed Smith has hired Travers Smith finance partner Ben Davis, as banking partner Phillip Slater has left the firm. Davis, who starts his new role on 18 March, will work with Reed Smith's EMEA and US finance practices, and support the development of the firm's UK and pan-European private equity practice. He joined Travers in 2005, making partner six years later. During his time at the firm he acted for a number of Travers' major private equity clients including Equistone, Exponent and Bridgepoint Advisers.

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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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