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  • October 1, 2013 |

    Mayer Brown raids SJB real estate team for second London lateral in a week

    Mayer Brown has recruited SJ Berwin real estate partner Pat Jones, marking the firm's second lateral hire in London in less than a week. Jones joins the firm today, after 10 years at SJ Berwin. She advises clients in the real estate and retail sectors on complex structured development, investment and joint ventures.

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  • September 30, 2013 |

    BLP confirms 40% PEP fall during 'challenging' 2012/13

    Berwin Leighton Paisner has confirmed its average profit per equity partner (PEP) figure for 2012/13 has dropped by nearly 40%, as previously reported by Legal Week in its UK Top 50 Following months of speculation about the scale of its profit decline BLP has revealed that this year's PEP figure stands at £401,000, down 39% from £660,000 in 2011/12. In addition net profit dropped 38% to £39.4m, from £63.6m last year.

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  • September 25, 2013 |

    Weil and Jones Day lead on $29bn Applied Materials mega-merger

    Weil Gotshal & Manges and Jones Day have landed roles on the $29bn (£18bn) merger of Applied Materials (AMAT) with fellow semiconductor producer Tokyo Electron (TEL). Weil took the lead for AMAT on the all-stock merger, which will create a global powerhouse in semiconductor and display manufacturing technology, with a team spread across Silicon Valley, New York and Washington lead by Silicon Valley M&A partners Keith Flaum and James Griffin.

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  • September 25, 2013 |

    Transfer Window Asia: recent moves including Clifford Chance, Mayer Brown and Eversheds

    Australian firm Gadens has added to its corporate team in Perth with the hire of King & Wood Mallesons partner David Perks. Having spent a decade at Mallesons, Perks has significant experience in Australia's M&A market, specialising in energy, projects and resources and advising clients such as BHP Billiton, CITIC Resources, Goldcorp and Focus Minerals.

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  • September 23, 2013 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including Eversheds, Bakers and OC

    Eversheds has hired Wragge & Co's head of UAE projects Gurmeet Kaur in a boost for the firm's Middle East projects team. Kaur, who will take on the same leadership role at her new firm, joined Wragges' Dubai office in 2011 from DLA Piper, where she had been a partner for three years. She will be based in Eversheds' Dubai office, and is also qualified to practise in Australia and Malaysia.

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  • September 19, 2013 |

    Will Dentons deliver? After a succession of mergers does Dentons add up to more than the sum of its parts?

    If this year's three-way mega-deal between SNR Denton, Salans and Canada's Fraser Milner Casgrain (FMC) still generates a large dose of scepticism among rivals, it does not seem to have knocked the confidence of the merged firm's chairman. Indeed, in an interview with Legal Week, Joe Andrew, an approachable American corporate lawyer, says that far from being the 'merger of weakness' that critics portray, his new 'polycentric' firm should be a blueprint for the world's leading legal practices.

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  • September 19, 2013 |

    Weir continues to build legal team with new deputy GC role

    FTSE 100 constituent Weir Group has created a new deputy general counsel role, as part of an expansion of its legal team. The Glasgow-headquartered engineering company is advertising for a candidate – either a partner at a "major" law firm or an experienced in-house lawyer – to fill the new role to support GC Keith Ruddock (pictured). Ruddock joined Weir in May 2012, following the retirement of Weir Group legal and commercial director Alan Mitchelson.

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  • September 19, 2013 |

    Hong Kong Law Society urges Taiwan to open legal market to local firms

    Hong Kong law firms could soon be permitted to open offices in Taiwan following a campaign by the city's law society to encourage fair treatment of foreign outfits in the country. Firms based in Hong Kong are not currently allowed to launch in Taiwan or advise on Taiwanese law, despite an absence of such restrictions on firms from the UK and US.

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  • September 16, 2013 |

    DLA beefs up corporate team with BLP and Debevoise hires

    DLA Piper has secured the hire of former Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) corporate heavyweight Patrick Somers. The firm has also hired Debevoise & Plimpton associate James O'Donnell as a partner in its London funds team.

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  • September 12, 2013 |

    US M&A three-year overview

    An overview of the biggest deals in the US from the past three years, with mandates for Baker & McKenzie, Slaughter and May, and Jones Day.

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