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  • December 4, 2012 |

    Hong Kong firm HWB announces all-female partner promotions round

    Hong Kong law firm Howse Williams Bowers (HWB) has promoted four of its female associates to partner, one year after the firm was formed by a breakaway group of Reed Smith lawyers. M&A specialist Katherine Chuang, healthcare expert Lisa Nabou and dispute resolution lawyers Lynn Lee and Oonagh Toner will all become partners at the firm as of January next year.

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  • November 29, 2012 |

    Hill Dickinson takes up bigger London office space as mooted partner lock-in abandoned

    Hill Dickinson is ramping up its London presence after securing a deal to move into new offices without the need to subject partners to a previously mooted lock-in. The firm is expecting to make the move to new premises at Broadgate Tower – which at 32,000 sq ft marks an almost 30% increase on the firm's current 25,000 sq ft Irongate House base – by the end of the financial year.

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  • November 29, 2012 |

    Magic circle duo bag roles on £1.7bn rail systems acquisition by Siemens

    Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have advised on Siemens' £1.74bn acquisition of technology company Invensys' rail operations in the UK.

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  • November 25, 2012 |

    Reed Smith, Macfarlanes and BLP lead on $142m Faberge takeover

    Reed Smith, Macfarlanes and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) have won roles on the $142m (£89m) acquisition of iconic jewellery brand Faberge by gemstone company Gemfields. Faberge is majority owned by former BHP Billiton CEO Brian Gibertson's investment company Pallinghurst Resources, which acquired the company in 2007. Gibertson also jointly controls Gemfields with investor grouping Rox.

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  • November 9, 2012 |

    Ex-solicitor general takes role for Lord McAlpine over abuse claims

    Former solicitor general Sir Edward Garnier QC has been appointed to represent former Conservative Party treasurer Lord McAlpine over allegations linking him to historical child abuse. Garnier, who is now at One Brick Court, has been instructed as counsel for the Conservative peer by Andrew Reid of RMPI, formerly Reid Minty.

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  • November 2, 2012 |

    Asia's focal point - Singapore under the microscope

    While the rest of the world wallows in the aftermath of the financial crisis, Southeast Asia is thriving. Neil Hodge focuses on the region's biggest winner so far: Singapore

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  • November 1, 2012 |

    Pannone takes on claims for Savile victims as bank freezes estate

    Pannone has become the latest law firm to take a role related to the Jimmy Savile scandal, with the northwest firm acting for a number of victims allegedly abused by the TV star. City personal injury partner Alan Collins, who specialises in child abuse cases, is currently investigating around 20 allegations of abuse by Savile.

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  • October 25, 2012 |

    Outright sexism still commonplace in law despite profession's push for change

    "The views which sexists share are a national problem which will only be amplified by the increase in the Muslim minority in the country in regards to forced marriages and pedophilia..."

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  • October 25, 2012 |

    Hong Kong Reed Smith spinoff HWB set to ramp up local presence

    Hong Kong law firm Howse Williams Bowers (HWB) is to move offices at the end of this year with a view to boosting its headcount in the region. The firm, which currently has more than 80 staff, will move from its existing base in Exchange Square 2, to bigger, Grade-A office space on the 27th floor of Alexandra House in Central on 31 December.

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  • October 25, 2012 |

    Reed Smith's BBC ties face scrutiny as firm appointed to Savile probe

    The BBC has appointed longstanding adviser Reed Smith to a lead role on the broadcaster's inquiries into the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal. The law firm is set to act as secretariat to both the independent review led by former Sky News head Nick Pollard into why a Newsnight report on Savile was dropped, as well as a separate investigation - led by former Appeal Court judge Dame Janet Smith - into whether culture and practices at the BBC enabled Savile to carry out the sexual abuse of children.

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