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  • August 5, 2009 |

    Greenberg's new London office makes first lateral hire

    Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) has made its first lateral partner hire since it launched in London earlier this summer, with the appointment of former White & Case partner Tim Jeveons. Jeveons, who resigned from the White & Case partnership in July, will launch a capital markets practice for GTM in London.

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  • August 4, 2009 |

    Mayer Brown partner seconded to Merrill Lynch

    Mayer Brown London finance litigation partner Ed Sautter has gone on secondment to longstanding client Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Sautter, who sits within Mayer Brown's City financial institutions group, is currently the only Mayer Brown partner on secondment to a bank and will remain with the client for almost five months until November 2009.

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  • July 30, 2009 |

    Mayer Brown advises new bank rising from Kaupthing's ashes

    Mayer Brown has taken a lead role advising on the creation of Banque Havilland, a newly-formed bank emerging from the collapse of Iceland's Kaupthing Bank in Luxembourg. The international law firm landed the instruction from the Rowland Family, a longstanding client, as it acquires Banque Havilland, which was formed through the court-sanctioned demerger of Kaupthing Bank Luxembourg.

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  • July 17, 2009 |

    Twelve firms sign up for College of Law disputes training

    Twelve City law firms have signed up to the College of Law's dispute resolution training consortium. The programme of twelve courses concentrates on the basics of litigation and alternative dispute resolution, and will be taught to lawyers from zero to three years' post qualification experience. It follows similar pooled training programmes that have been introduced during recent years in the areas of corporate, property and banking.

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  • July 15, 2009 |

    Mayer Brown partner convicted in $2.4bn Refco fraud

    Mayer Brown partner Joseph Collins has been found guilty of conspiracy and four other charges in connection with a massive fraud at now-bankrupt Refco, writes the New York Law Journal. Collins, who testified that he was kept in the dark about more than $2.4bn (£1.5bn) in debt hidden by officials at the financial services firm, bowed his head as the jury foreman gave the verdict to Southern District of New York Judge Robert Patterson on 10 July.

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  • July 13, 2009 |

    Mayer Brown hires trio for London finance practice

    Mayer Brown is to bolster its London finance practice with a trio of partner hires from UK firms. The international firm is bringing in Lee Cullinane, Nicola Marley and Graham Wedlake as partners in the City, with the hires taking the headcount in the London leveraged finance team to 10 and the wider finance practice to 16.

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  • July 13, 2009 |

    Mayer Brown partner convicted in $2.4bn Refco fraud

    Mayer Brown partner Joseph Collins has been found guilty of conspiracy and four other charges in connection with a massive fraud at now-bankrupt Refco, writes the New York Law Journal. Collins, who testified in his own defence that he was kept in the dark about more than $2.4bn (£1.5bn) in debt hidden by officials at the financial services firm, bowed his head as the jury foreman on Friday (10 July) recited the guilty verdicts before Southern District of New York Judge Robert Patterson.

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  • July 12, 2009 |

    US firms in London - no retreat, no surrender (and a few new faces)

    Unsurprisingly, given their size and diversity, international firms in London continue to defy easy categorisation. Having entered the UK market at different times, for different reasons, with different models, picking overall themes from Legal Week's annual survey of the largest foreign firms in London, is tricky.

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  • July 9, 2009 | International Edition

    International law firms: Batten down the hatches

    If ever there was a market to test the commitment of international firms to their London office, this would be it. Plummeting workloads and high operating costs have meant more so than ever the City is proving an expensive toehold.

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  • July 9, 2009 |

    International law firms: Batten down the hatches

    If ever there was a market to test the commitment of international firms to their London office, this would be it. Plummeting workloads and high operating costs have meant more so than ever the City is proving an expensive toehold.

    1 minute read