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  • March 22, 2011 |

    Mayer Brown signs up former Orrick Europe chief for City banking team

    Mayer Brown has strengthened its City banking practice with the hire of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe's former European managing partner Stuart McAlpine. McAlpine, whose practice focuses on cross-border asset and project finance deals, in particular the shipping, offshore and energy industries, will join Mayer Brown's London banking and finance practice next week (28 March).

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  • March 16, 2011 |

    Norton Rose wins adviser role for Australian sovereign wealth fund

    Norton Rose has won a coveted client mandate in Australia, with the firm appointed as a legal adviser to a local sovereign wealth fund with assets worth A$70bn (£45bn). The firm won the appointment in January this year after the Future Fund conducted the first review of its local law firm arrangements since it was formed in 2006. The review launched in October last year, with Norton Rose securing an initial three-year appointment, with the possibility of a one or two-year extension to its term.

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  • March 2, 2011 |

    HSBC adds quartet of US law firms to knowledge-sharing venture

    Banking giant HSBC has added four US firms to its knowledge-sharing venture in a bid to improve its understanding of the US legal market. White & Case, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Wilmer Hale and New York State law firm Phillips Lytle have been added to the bank's in-house SmartSearch database - taking the roster of firms sharing their know-how with the bank to 17.

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  • March 1, 2011 |

    Norton Rose signs up to initiative to identify minority candidates for vac schemes

    Norton Rose has partnered with a not-for-profit organisation to help the firm sign up more black and ethnic minority (BME) candidates for its summer vacation scheme. The UK top 10 firm has signed an agreement to work with Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), an organisation which arranges placements with London professional services firms, including law firms and banks. The move is part of a diversity push at Norton Rose, with the firm hoping that the cooperation will help it identify BME interns for its two summer vacation schemes, which between them offer a total of 30 places.

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  • March 1, 2011 | International Edition

    GTM defies initial doubts but the going will only get harder

    Given the initial scepticism that greeted the flashy launch of Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM), the first thing that must be acknowledged is that the firm has defied critics to build a large practice at an astonishing pace. With 27 lateral partner hires joining since its launch was announced in June 2009, the firm has made more hires in the last 18 months than all other US firms have managed in the last five years bar Reed Smith. US firms have often promised this kind of aggressive growth but rarely, if ever, has it been delivered.

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  • March 1, 2011 |

    GTM defies initial doubts but the going will only get harder

    Given the initial scepticism that greeted the flashy launch of Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM), the first thing that must be acknowledged is that the firm has defied critics to build a large practice at an astonishing pace. With 27 lateral partner hires joining since its launch was announced in June 2009, the firm has made more hires in the last 18 months than all other US firms have managed in the last five years bar Reed Smith. US firms have often promised this kind of aggressive growth but rarely, if ever, has it been delivered.

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  • March 1, 2011 |

    US invaders back on the offensive

    The number of partner promotions in the City offices of US law firms is on track to exceed last year's tally, with 33 new partners made up in London in 2011 so far out of a global promotions total of 382. Legal Week's annual survey of US firms' lateral partner hiring and internal appointments found there have been only five fewer partner promotions in London so far this year than in the whole of 2010.

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  • February 23, 2011 |

    City trio among 18 firms named on insurer QBE's UK claims panel

    CMS Cameron McKenna, Barlow Lyde & Gilbert and Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) are among 18 firms to have been appointed to Australian insurer QBE's UK claims panel. The insurer has cut the roster down from 24 firms to 18, with 10 firms appointed to a core panel for England and Wales, three firms appointed for Scotland and Ireland and a further five firms selected for specialist advice.

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  • February 23, 2011 |

    US firms in London push City partner hiring to record levels in 2010

    Lateral partner hiring by US firms in London picked up last year after the financial downturn, with firms bringing in more partners in 2010 than in any year since the start of 2006. Legal Week's annual survey of hiring trends at the City operations of some of the largest US and transatlantic firms found there were 84 partner hires during 2010 across the 35 firms which took part in the survey.

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  • February 22, 2011 |

    Gide and Salans - the French empires

    Gide Loyrette Nouel is the pinot noir of law firms. The most exquisite of wine grapes, pinot grows in small quantities in many regions around the world and sometimes fails to flourish - but always thrives best in its native France. With 19 offices, Gide is one of only two firms with French roots and international ambitions. About half of its approximately 650 lawyers are based in France and half abroad, mostly practising civil law for French clients. As Samantha Campbell, the firm's Vietnam practice leader, notes: "If you want a French cultural connection and an international experience, then Gide is the only choice."

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