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  • January 7, 2011 |

    White & Case recruits Simmons City partner as corporate duo quit firm

    Simmons & Simmons' London corporate practice is to see two partners depart, with Gavin Weir set to leave next month to join White & Case, while US securities partner Daniel Winterfeldt quit the firm in December. Weir will formally leave Simmons at the end of February to become the ninth M&A partner in White & Case's London office. He has been a partner at Simmons since 2006, when he joined from Allen & Overy.

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  • January 4, 2011 |

    Holman Fenwick recruits Mayer Brown partner for Hong Kong construction launch

    Holman Fenwick Willan has launched a construction practice in Hong Kong with the hire of Mayer Brown JSM partner Nick Longley. Longley joined the firm as a partner on 1 January 2011 alongside Mayer Brown associate Richard Lyons and Vincent Liu, who joins from Minter Ellison.

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  • January 4, 2011 |

    CC, Mayer Brown act on £495m sale of former Lehman HQ to JP Morgan

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Mayer Brown have taken lead roles on JP Morgan's £495m acquisition of Lehman Brothers' former London headquarters. The 25 Bank Street building in Canary Wharf will now serve as JP Morgan Investment Bank's new European headquarters, with the bank granted a 999-year lease on the building, which has more than one million sq ft of floor space. The building's current tenants include the Financial Services Authority, NYSE Euronext and Jones Lang LaSalle. However, it will be completely vacated by March this year and will then be occupied exclusively by JP Morgan.

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  • December 16, 2010 |

    Ex-Freshfields corporate partner joins White & Case's London office

    White & Case has added to its City M&A capabilities with the hire of former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner David Crook. Crook, who was a partner for over a decade at the magic circle firm before leaving last year, focuses on domestic and cross-border transactions for UK and international corporate and financial institution clients.

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  • December 15, 2010 |

    White & Case signs up Mayer Brown finance partner duo for London base

    White & Case has boosted its London finance practice with the hire of Mayer Brown partners Lee Cullinane and Jacqueline Evans. Cullinane, who focuses on leveraged finance and associated restructuring, spent more than 10 years as a partner in Clifford Chance's leveraged finance practice before joining Mayer Brown in 2009.

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  • December 6, 2010 |

    Former Mayer Brown London employment chief joins Russell Jones & Walker

    Russell Jones & Walker (RJW) has boosted its employment practice with the hire of Mayer Brown's former London group head. Julian Roskill, who became a consultant at Mayer Brown in 2008 after stepping down as a partner, will join RJW in the New Year. In addition to heading up the London employment practice at Mayer Brown, he also formerly co-chaired the firm's global employment group.

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  • December 1, 2010 |

    Nomura hands coveted Europe panel roles to CC and Mayer Brown

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Mayer Brown have won hotly-contested places on Nomura's new EMEA legal roster. The Japanese investment bank finalised the line-up last week (22 November), with CC and Mayer Brown joining existing advisers Allen & Overy (A&O), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Travers Smith and Ashurst on the seven-firm line-up.

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  • December 1, 2010 |

    Liverpool's former owners head for High Court in takeover damages bid

    Liverpool FC's former owners are set for a return to the High Court in the latest twist in the long-running saga over the takeover of the football club. US businessmen Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who are being represented by City firm Peters & Peters and Paul Girolami QC of Maitland Chambers, are due to return to the High Court on 9-10 February next year. Hicks and Gillett are seeking to overturn an anti-suit injunction granted by Mr Justice Floyd in the High Court on 14 October, which dismissed a restraining order taken out in Texas by the pair to block the sale of the club.

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  • November 23, 2010 |

    Mayer Brown makes up London six in 32-strong global partnership round

    Mayer Brown has announced its annual partner promotions with 32 lawyers made up across the firm, including six in the City. The London promotions include Angus Duncan and Ian Roberts in insurance and reinsurance, Richard Goldstein in pensions, Rani Mina and Kristy Zander in litigation and dispute resolution and Sangeeta Puran in intellectual property (IP). The remaining promotions comprise eight in Chicago, five in New York, one in Charlotte, six in Hong Kong, three in Paris, two in Frankfurt and one in Cologne.

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  • November 16, 2010 |

    Mayer Brown heads up raft of US firms on multibillion-dollar Caterpillar deal

    A line-up of US firms have taken roles on Caterpillar's $7.6bn (£4.7bn) acquisition of mining equipment manufacturer Bucyrus International, reports The Am Law Daily. Mayer Brown advised Caterpillar on the the all-cash transaction - which when including debt, is valued at $8.6bn (£5.4bn) - with a team led by Chicago M&A partners John Sagan and William Kucera. Last month Mayer Brown advised Caterpillar on its €580m (£517m) acquisition of German engine maker MWM Holding, a deal with also handed roles to Clifford Chance and SJ Berwin.

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