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  • May 11, 2012 |

    RPC signs up Reed Smith partner for bank litigation team

    Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) has grown its City banking litigation team with the hire of Reed Smith partner Simon Hart. Hart joins RPC after seven years as a partner at Reed Smith. Prior to his move to the US outfit he spent time at legacy firm Wilde Sapte, now part of SNR Denton.

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  • May 10, 2012 |

    Industrial scale - can arbitration evolve fast enough to seize its global moment?

    "It's very easy for clients and lawyers to say in the abstract that they want to make arbitration more efficient. But when it comes to your own case and it's a bet-the-company situation, does a client want to take all the procedural points open to it in mounting its defence, or does it want to prioritise efficiency?"

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  • May 8, 2012 |

    Weil hires Dewey West Coast corporate team as Italy prepares to spin off

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has hired a highly-regarded five partner corporate team from Dewey & LeBoeuf's Silicon Valley office led by partner Richard Climan. The sought after team, which also held talks with firms including Greenberg Traurig and Reed Smith, includes Silicon Valley-based corporate partners Keith Flaum, Jane Ross, Jim Griffin and John Brockland.

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  • April 26, 2012 |

    Withers targets major expansion in Asia and new US presence in five-year strategy

    Withers has laid out a new five-year strategy, including ambitious targets for growth in Asia and plans to launch new offices on the west coast of the US.

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  • April 26, 2012 |

    Feuding over funds - key topics at Legal Week's Funds Litigation Forum

    Mourant Ozannes managing partner Robert Shepherd sums up the key topics from this year's Funds Litigation Forum in London

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  • April 26, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including BLP, Wragges and Simmons

    Simmons & Simmons has moved to boost its new asset management sector group with the hire of DLA Piper's UK investment funds team head David Williams, who is joining the firm as a partner in London. Williams, who was also a partner at DLA Piper, advises on investment funds and asset management work, especially private funds investing in private equity, illiquid credit, real estate and infrastructure.

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  • April 19, 2012 |

    Dewey presses to secure debt terms as international losses escalate

    Turmoil at Dewey & LeBoeuf this week spread to the firm's international offices as it emerged that the new management team is pressing to restructure its debts. The firm's Dubai and London offices have seen a string of partner departures, with teams and individuals in countries including Italy and Russia also considering splitting away from the embattled US firm.

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  • April 16, 2012 |

    Dewey to lose recently-hired City private equity team to McDermott

    Dewey & LeBoeuf is set to lose its London private equity team to McDermott Will & Emery, less than a year after hiring a partner duo from Taylor Wessing to launch the practice. The firm launched the dedicated private equity team last summer with the hire of Taylor Wessing's private equity head Mark Davis and fellow partner Russell Van Praagh.

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  • April 13, 2012 |

    Dewey partner departures reach 52 this year as two more exit in the US

    Two more Dewey & LeBoeuf partners have left the firm in the US as the total number of partner departures so far this year reaches 52, reports The Am Law Daily. Los Angeles partner David Smith has left to join the Santa Monica office of Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, a 100-lawyer firm with five offices in California.

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  • April 11, 2012 |

    DLA adds partner to City restructuring team with Goldman hire

    DLA Piper has expanded its London restructuring practice with the appointment of a new partner from Goldman Sachs. During his six years at Goldman, Justin Conway - who held the roles of senior counsel and executive director - specialised in the EMEA debt trading market, advising on private distressed bank loans and high-yield loan trading.

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