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  • October 18, 2012 | International Edition

    Simon Cowell's production company gets talent with new head of legal

    Syco Entertainment, the joint venture between Simon Cowell and Sony Music, has recruited a senior lawyer from All3Media to take up a new role as head of legal and business affairs at the company. Matthew Angel, who is controller of legal and business affairs at TV production and distribution company All3Media, will start at Syco next Monday (22 October).

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  • October 18, 2012 |

    Simon Cowell's production company gets talent with new head of legal

    Syco Entertainment, the joint venture between Simon Cowell and Sony Music, has recruited a senior lawyer from All3Media to take up a new role as head of legal and business affairs at the company. Matthew Angel, who is controller of legal and business affairs at TV production and distribution company All3Media, will start at Syco next Monday (22 October).

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  • October 11, 2012 |

    Simmons seals boost for funds practice via alliance with New York outfit Seward & Kissel

    Simmons & Simmons has secured a boost in the US by sealing an alliance with specialist funds outfit Seward & Kissel for hedge fund and asset management work.

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  • October 11, 2012 |

    Linklaters advises PwC on agreement over $38bn Lehman claims

    Linklaters has advised PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on an agreement in principle to resolve all claims between Lehman Brothers (LBI) and Lehman Brothers International (Europe) (LBIE), totalling $38bn (£23.7bn). The agreement, which marks a key milestone in the Lehman Brothers administration, means assets owed to LBIE's customers can now be distributed to customers and creditors.

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  • October 4, 2012 |

    Simmons secures US alliance with New York funds boutique

    Simmons & Simmons has secured a boost in the US by sealing an alliance with funds specialist outfit Seward & Kissel. The non-exclusive alliance will focus on the firms' hedge fund and asset management practices in London, New York and Hong Kong. Seward, which has offices in New York and Washington DC, also has a referral relationship with Norton Rose. Both firms will continue to work with their other referral firms.

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  • September 21, 2012 |

    Dewey filing reveals full breakdown of partner payments to settlement plan

    Details of the individual contributions made by former Dewey & LeBoeuf partners to the defunct firm's settlement plan have been made public for the first time in a new court filing, reports The Am Law Daily. The filing, submitted late Thursday (20 September), contains a full breakdown of which partners have agreed to participate and how much they have agreed to pay the defunct firm's estate (click here for the full breakdown), including details of contributions from ex-partners from the US firm's London and international offices.

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  • September 20, 2012 |

    SJ Berwin City disputes partner duo exit to join US firms in London

    SJ Berwin's London disputes partners Justin Michaelson and Tim Beale are set to depart for two US firms. Michaelson, who is head of the firm's international arbitration practice in London, has resigned to take up a position at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson.

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  • September 12, 2012 |

    Addleshaws, Simmons and Weil confirm autumn retention rates

    Addleshaw Goddard, Simmons & Simmons and Weil Gotshal & Manges have confirmed their autumn 2012 retention rates, with the US firm's result falling to 69%. Addleshaws is keeping on 27 of its 32 newly-qualified (NQ) lawyers, resulting in an 84% retention rate. The September qualifiers are split across the firm's offices in London, Leeds and Manchester.

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  • September 10, 2012 |

    Linklaters and Weil Paris partners exit for Simmons and Freshfields

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Simmons & Simmons have both bolstered their Paris offices with partner hires from Weil Gotshal & Manges and Linklaters respectively. Freshfields has hired Weil's Paris banking head Emmanuel Ringeval as a partner for the magic circle firm's finance practice in the French capital.

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  • September 6, 2012 |

    Weil, Olswang among firms on sale of Graham Norton's production company to ITV

    Weil Gotshal and Manges, Olswang and Taylor Wessing have taken roles on the high-profile sale of TV presenter Graham Norton's production company to ITV.

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