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  • April 28, 2011 |

    Olswang recruits new partner for City IP team

    Olswang has strengthened its London intellectual property practice (IP) with the hire of patent litigation partner Campbell Forsyth. Forsyth, who joins from his own IP boutique Forsyth Simpson, focuses on patent litigation in the life sciences sector, where he has advised a range of pharmaceutical companies.

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  • April 14, 2011 | International Edition

    Asset finance - increasingly not for every banking team

    Recent weeks have seen no less than five asset finance partner moves announced, with Berwin Leighton Paisner, Ince & Co, Mayer Brown, and, most notably, Hogan Lovells all moving to strengthen their City practices. While the timing of the appointments is more down to coincidence than any single driver in the market, the moves illustrate the differing approaches to asset finance across large law firms.

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  • April 14, 2011 |

    Asset finance - increasingly not for every banking team

    Recent weeks have seen no less than five asset finance partner moves announced, with Berwin Leighton Paisner, Ince & Co, Mayer Brown, and, most notably, Hogan Lovells all moving to strengthen their City practices. While the timing of the appointments is more down to coincidence than any single driver in the market, the moves illustrate the differing approaches to asset finance across large law firms.

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  • April 14, 2011 |

    Nabarro adds two partners from Reed Smith and Pinsents

    Nabarro has recruited two partners for its London headquarters with a double hire from Pinsent Masons and Reed Smith. The new additions, George Lubega and Philip Olmer, will join Nabarro next month (3 May) in the City law firm's commercial litigation and real estate practices respectively. Litigator Lubega is joining from Pinsents as the 27th partner in Nabarro's commercial disputes practice. He specialises in commercial litigation, arbitration and dispute resolution, and acts for a number of corporate clients and government departments.

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  • March 29, 2011 |

    DLA signs up Reed Smith's Dubai office founder for Middle East role

    DLA Piper has recruited the founder of Reed Smith's Dubai office to head its Middle East finance and projects team. Sean Angle is set to join DLA Piper's Dubai office as a partner in mid-April after around five years with Reed Smith and legacy merger partner Richards Butler.

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  • March 10, 2011 |

    Eversheds names new City tax chief as veteran partner retires

    Eversheds has appointed a new head of tax in London, with partner Clive Jones set to take up the role on 1 May. The appointment will see Jones replace Sue Taylor in the role when she retires at the end of the financial year. Jones, who specialises in direct and indirect tax and has particular expertise advising on the tax aspects of real estate and finance transactions, joined Eversheds as a partner in February 2008, having previously spent 12 years at Clifford Chance.

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  • March 9, 2011 |

    Bakers wins top spot as primary UK adviser for L'Oreal

    L'Oreal has appointed Baker & McKenzie as its primary UK legal adviser, following a review by the beauty products giant of its external legal advisers in the region. The cosmetics company appointed Bakers at the end of last year after a competitive tender process, cementing a longstanding relationship between the firm and L'Oreal.

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  • March 1, 2011 | International Edition

    GTM defies initial doubts but the going will only get harder

    Given the initial scepticism that greeted the flashy launch of Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM), the first thing that must be acknowledged is that the firm has defied critics to build a large practice at an astonishing pace. With 27 lateral partner hires joining since its launch was announced in June 2009, the firm has made more hires in the last 18 months than all other US firms have managed in the last five years bar Reed Smith. US firms have often promised this kind of aggressive growth but rarely, if ever, has it been delivered.

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  • March 1, 2011 |

    GTM defies initial doubts but the going will only get harder

    Given the initial scepticism that greeted the flashy launch of Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM), the first thing that must be acknowledged is that the firm has defied critics to build a large practice at an astonishing pace. With 27 lateral partner hires joining since its launch was announced in June 2009, the firm has made more hires in the last 18 months than all other US firms have managed in the last five years bar Reed Smith. US firms have often promised this kind of aggressive growth but rarely, if ever, has it been delivered.

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  • March 1, 2011 |

    US invaders back on the offensive

    The number of partner promotions in the City offices of US law firms is on track to exceed last year's tally, with 33 new partners made up in London in 2011 so far out of a global promotions total of 382. Legal Week's annual survey of US firms' lateral partner hiring and internal appointments found there have been only five fewer partner promotions in London so far this year than in the whole of 2010.

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