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  • March 29, 2012 |

    The teeming crowd - is India's dynamic legal elite built to last?

    Riding a dynamic private sector in one of the world's most touted emerging economies, Indian law firms have rapidly evolved in recent years. Friederike Heine asks if this legal elite is ready to compete on the global stage

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  • March 27, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including Wragges, Salans and Maclay Murray

    Wragge & Co has appointed a new head of international construction disputes with the hire of Anthony Wilson from the Cairo office of Middle East arbitration firm Hafez. Wilson, who was a partner and head of construction disputes at Hafez, has joined Wragges' London dispute resolution practice. Firms he has previously worked at include Clifford Chance and Shearman & Sterling, where he spent six years as an associate in Paris and London.

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  • March 26, 2012 |

    CC lines up for key Permira role on €3bn frozen foods business sale

    Clifford Chance (CC) has taken the lead role as Permira prepares to sell off its frozen foods business Iglo Group for as much as €3bn (£2.5bn). CC is advising the private equity house, which has appointed Credit Suisse to handle an auction sale of the company. Global corporate head Matthew Layton is believed to be leading the team at the magic circle firm. Iglo, Europe's largest frozen foods business, owns household name brands including Birds Eye and Findus.

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  • March 22, 2012 |

    New York Bar association to review block on non-lawyer ownership of law firms

    The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) is set to review the issue of outside ownership of law firms, but has confirmed that at present lawyers practising in New York cannot be part of a foreign firm in which non-lawyers hold a stake. The NYSBA has launched a taskforce, chaired by former State Bar president Stephen Younger, to reconsider its "historical opposition" to non-lawyer ownership of law firms. The 77,000-member association, founded in 1876, is the largest voluntary state Bar association in the US.

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  • March 15, 2012 |

    Jones Day and Fasken advise on $1.25bn settlement in Africa mining dispute

    Jones Day and Fasken Martineau have taken lead roles on Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation's (ENRC) $1.25bn (£1bn) settlement with First Quantum Minerals in the dispute over the Kolwezi copper mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The dispute, which concerns Canadian mining company First Quantum's stake in the Kolwezi project, kicked off after the mine was seized from First Quantum by the DRC Government in 2009. ENRC subsequently purchased a majority stake in the mine in 2010, prompting its former owner to launch litigation proceedings.

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  • March 15, 2012 |

    Commercial litigation in 2011 - the 10 cases you need to know

    Macfarlanes sizes up the 10 key commercial litigation judgments of 2011

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  • March 15, 2012 |

    Aggressive US firms push London partner hiring to five-year high

    Partner hiring by US firms in London increased by over 25% in 2011, with firms adding more partners to their City bases than at any time over the last five years. Legal Week's annual survey of hiring trends at the City operations of some of the largest US and transatlantic firms found there were 116 partner hires during 2011 across the 45 firms taking part in the survey. The overwhelming majority of these (101) were partners at their previous firms.

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  • March 12, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including SNR Denton, Jones Day and Dickinson Dees

    SNR Denton has seen the departure of its London telecoms head Rod Kirwan, who has left to take up a new role as regional general counsel for the Caribbean at Cable & Wireless Communications. Kirwan left SNR Denton in January this year and will now be based in Barbados with Cable & Wireless. TMT partner Jan Willem van den Bos has taken over the leadership of SNR's City telecoms team.

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  • March 8, 2012 |

    DLA's Mexico entrance flags up growing interest in burgeoning LatAm markets

    Robust insurance and infrastructure sectors are drawing legal advisers to Mexico and Brazil. Rose Orlik reports

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  • March 7, 2012 |

    Weil billings on Lehman near $400m as bank exits bankruptcy protection

    Weil Gotshal & Manges' fees on the Lehman Brothers administration have reached almost $400m, as the bank emerges from bankruptcy more than three years after its abrupt collapse, reports The Am Law Daily. Lehman officially exited from bankruptcy protection on Tuesday morning (6 March), after its September 2008 fall prompted the largest Chapter 11 case in US history.

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