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  • June 11, 2013 |

    DAC Beachcroft overhauls board as legacy firm's senior partner retires

    DAC Beachcroft has overhauled its management team with the addition of four partners to its board, as former Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) senior partner Danny Gowan prepares to retire from the firm. The new board members are disputes partner Nick Young in London, insurance partner Pablo Wesolowski in Madrid, Dublin head Katie da Gama and Leeds senior partner Virginia Clegg.

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  • June 11, 2013 |

    Clydes boosts revenues 17% as PEP rises 5% in first full post-BLG year

    Clyde & Co has posted a 17% increase in turnover and a 5% rise in profits per equity partner (PEP) following its first full year of trading since its merger with Barlow Lyde & Gilbert. The firm has posted turnover of £337m for the 2012-13 financial year, up from the figure of £287m recorded last year, with PEP rising from £550,000 to £580,000.

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  • June 11, 2013 |

    RPC sees turnover rise 20% after launches in Hong Kong and Bristol

    RPC has defied the continued economic downturn to post a 20% hike in turnover in 2012-12, with the expansive firm's revenue rising from £68m to £82.1m. The results come after the firm's revenue climbed by 13% during the previous financial year, meaning fee income has soared by 36% over the last two years compared with a 2010-11 equivalent of £60.3m.

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  • June 6, 2013 |

    King & Spalding continues London growth drive with Steptoe arbitration partner hire

    King & Spalding's London office has recruited Steptoe & Johnson's Russia and CIS group co-head Egishe Dzhazoyan, in the latest of a series of City partner hires for the US firm. Dzhazoyan is a UK and Russian-qualified litigation and arbitration lawyer with a particular focus on the banking, telecoms and energy sectors.

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  • June 3, 2013 |

    Transfer Window Asia: recent moves including Simmons and Ashurst

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has expanded its Beijing team with the recruitment of corporate lawyer Chen Li from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy. Chen, who was an Of Counsel with Milbank in Beijing, has more than a decade of experience handling cross-border transactions in China, concentrating on outbound M&A and foreign direct investment, with a focus on major Chinese state-owned enterprises.

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  • June 3, 2013 |

    Department of Health appoints 14-strong cross-department roster

    The Department of Health and the NHS Litigation Authority (NHSLA) have appointed a new panel to provide legal advice to 16 health organisations. In total, 14 firms have won places on the panel, which replaces the previous roster which advised the NHSLA alone. The panel is sub-divided into clinical liability, non-clinical liability and regulatory, health and disciplinary. Eleven firms will advise on the clinical negligence roster, while six firms have taken places on the non-clinical panel. Meanwhile, 11 firms have taken places on the newly created regulatory, health and disciplinary panel.

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  • May 30, 2013 |

    SJ Berwin leads as British Land lets landmark City building to insurer

    SJ Berwin has advised longstanding client British Land and its joint venture partner Oxford Properties on the letting of City landmark the Leadenhall Building to insurance group Amlin. The lease is for 111,000 sq ft of office space in the 47-storey building, with the option to take up further space of up to 36,760 sq ft. The annual rental price for the space is around £7m. The SJ Berwin team was led by the firm's international real estate head Bryan Pickup and fellow real estate partner Pat Jones, while Clyde & Co acted for Amlin with real estate partner Malcolm Rogerson in the lead role.

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  • May 30, 2013 |

    Lessons in litigation – NHSLA's legal chief Catherine Dixon on learning from the past

    As chief executive of the NHS Litigation Authority, Catherine Dixon spends £75m a year on lawyers and pays out more than £1bn in compensation. Far from looking to haggle down claims, Dixon says the role is about learning from the mistakes of the past. Grant Murgatroyd reports

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  • May 23, 2013 |

    Law firm layoffs mount up as top 50 job cuts reach 750 over past year

    Nearly half of the UK's 50 largest law firms by revenue have announced job cuts over the past year, with the number of roles placed under threat of redundancy since May 2012 fast approaching the 1,500 mark.

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  • May 23, 2013 |

    Middle East legal community out in force to celebrate region's recovery at CCME Awards

    The Middle East legal community came out in force in Dubai last week to celebrate the achievements of lawyers, law firms and in-house legal teams at the Corporate Counsel Middle East (CCME) Awards. On 16 May, 300 lawyers attended the event at the Westin Mina Seyahi hotel, collectively reinforcing the impression that the legal sector is growing in self-confidence in line with the region's steady recovery from the financial crisis of 2009.

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