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  • July 23, 2008 |

    GlaxoSmithKline signs up Sidley partner as new GC

    Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has completed its hunt for a new general counsel with Sidley Austin life science partner Daniel Troy set to take the role. Troy, who will also take up the position of senior vice president, is set to join the company on 2 September.

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  • July 23, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 23/07/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts

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  • July 10, 2008 |

    Magic circle trio break into profits top 10 as City firms move up Global 100

    Profits per equity partner (PEP) at top US law firms still narrowly exceed key UK rivals - despite the significant increases the magic circle have achieved in turnover and profitability in recent years. Figures compiled by Legal Week and The American Lawyer show that just three UK firms make it into the global top 10 by PEP - Slaughter and May, Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. In contrast, seven US firms make the grade - headed by elite firm Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz.

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  • July 10, 2008 | International Edition

    Magic circle trio break into profits top 10 as City firms move up Global 100

    Profits per equity partner (PEP) at top US law firms still narrowly exceed key UK rivals - despite the significant increases the magic circle have achieved in turnover and profitability in recent years. Figures compiled by Legal Week and The American Lawyer show that just three UK firms make it into the global top 10 by PEP - Slaughter and May, Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. In contrast, seven US firms make the grade - headed by elite firm Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz.

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  • July 8, 2008 |

    Sidley makes up 34 to global partnership

    Sidley Austin has promoted 34 associates to its partnership, with only one promotion in London. Securities lawyer David Howe is the only London associate to be made up, with the Chicago-based firm promoting associates across its US, Asian, Australian and European offices. Howe, who joined Sidley Austin in 1999 from Clifford Chance, where he qualified in 1998, advises clients on 'plain vanilla' Eurobonds, capital markets and securities.

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  • June 27, 2008 |

    US Briefing: Goodwin ups ante with Latham lateral

    Goodwin Procter has built a buzz in California by hiring from notable law firms like Morrison & Foerster, Munger Tolles & Olson and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. On Monday (23 June), the firm upped the ante, adding a Latham & Watkins corporate partner to its trophy case. Bradley Bugdanowitz became the ninth partner in Goodwin's San Francisco office, bringing the firm from zero to 90 total attorneys in California in just two years.

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  • June 19, 2008 | International Edition

    Ex-Olswang partner makes return to firm

    Olswang has bolstered its corporate department with the recruitment of Duncan McDonald, who returns to the firm after a stint in-house. McDonald joined Olswang this week as a partner after spending 18 months at Japanese private equity house Nikko Principal Investments. The move brings McDonald back for a second stint at the City firm. He initially joined Olswang as a partner from Pinsent Masons in 2004.

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  • June 19, 2008 |

    Ex-Olswang partner makes return to firm

    Olswang has bolstered its corporate department with the recruitment of Duncan McDonald, who returns to the firm after a stint in-house. McDonald joined Olswang this week as a partner after spending 18 months at Japanese private equity house Nikko Principal Investments. The move brings McDonald back for a second stint at the City firm. He initially joined Olswang as a partner from Pinsent Masons in 2004.

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  • June 11, 2008 |

    The Am Law 100: The giving tree

    Over the last 10 years, dozens of Am Law firms have scrambled to find merger partners. New practice areas, geographic advantages, economies of scale-the rationales for these couplings are endless. But does all the happy talk really translate into bigger clients, busier associates and fatter pay packets? To find out, we assessed the fortunes of eight firms from this year's Am Law 100 that engaged in name-changing mergers with similarly sized partners in the past decade. We scrutinised their performances based on post-merger growth in revenue per lawyer (RPL), profits per partner and average compensation for all partners. Combinations with non-US firms were not included, nor were mergers with fewer than three years of post-merger results to analyse. As a benchmark, we looked at the average growth of The Am Law 100 by RPL, profits per partner and compensation-all partners. For firms where data was available, we also compared the growth of the merged firms with that of their predecessors.

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  • June 11, 2008 |

    Sex and the Sidley

    After Sue Yoo and Robin Cheatham have graced the pages of The Diary in recent weeks, more noteworthy names from the super-smooth charmers at Sidley Austin, whose City office might be a good place for any aspirant Carrie Bradshaws to start looking to bag a Mr Big of her (or his) own. Among the lawyerly ladykillers at the US firm's City arm are the promisingly named partner trio of Andrew Bliss, John Casanova and Julian Goodman, who have all set hearts a-fluttering in the structured finance practice.

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