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  • September 18, 2008 | International Edition

    Bird & Bird set to merge with City boutique

    Bird & Bird is set to merge with City boutique Lane & Partners from next month. Lane & Partners which has more than 30 lawyers, has a particular focus on aviation work with clients operating in this sector as well as the travel, art, construction, engineering and utilities sectors. The firm will be incorporated under the Bird & Bird banner from 1 October, with the tie-up taking Bird & Bird's contentious team to more than 100 lawyers in London.The merger is the latest in a string of moves the expansive firm has made, after significantly boosting its presence earlier this month in Central and Eastern Europe with the launch of four offices - opening simultaneously in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Meanwhile in May, it scored a tie up with Finnish firm Fennica.

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  • September 18, 2008 |

    Bird & Bird set to merge with City boutique

    Bird & Bird is set to merge with City boutique Lane & Partners from next month. Lane & Partners which has more than 30 lawyers, has a particular focus on aviation work with clients operating in this sector as well as the travel, art, construction, engineering and utilities sectors. The firm will be incorporated under the Bird & Bird banner from 1 October, with the tie-up taking Bird & Bird's contentious team to more than 100 lawyers in London.The merger is the latest in a string of moves the expansive firm has made, after significantly boosting its presence earlier this month in Central and Eastern Europe with the launch of four offices - opening simultaneously in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Meanwhile in May, it scored a tie up with Finnish firm Fennica.

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  • September 8, 2008 |

    Bird & Bird secures quadruple CEE launch

    Bird & Bird has significantly boosted its presence in Central and Eastern Europe with the launch of four offices - opening simultaneously in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The office launches follow the May hire of ex-Linklaters partner Stephen Kines to head the firm's Central European (CE) practice. He will oversee the four new bases, supported by newly-hired local office heads.Maciej Gawronski will head the Warsaw office, joining from Polish independent M.Furtek i Wspolnicy, where his practice focused on IT, IP and data protection.

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  • September 3, 2008 |

    Debevoise plucks Bird partner for City litigation

    Debevoise & Plimpton has hired a partner from Bird & Bird in a boost to its City litigation practice. The US firm has taken on Sophie Lamb as an international counsel, with effect from the beginning of the month. Lamb has represented clients in sectors including private equity, investment banking, energy, engineering, life sciences, telecommunications, media and sport.

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  • August 28, 2008 | International Edition

    Field Fisher signs up IT/tech partner from DLA

    Field Fisher Waterhouse has boosted its intellectual property (IP) and technology dispute resolution practice with the hire of partner Andrew Dodd from DLA Piper. Dodd, who is set to join Field Fisher on 8 September, is leaving DLA Piper after seven years with the firm. He will take Field Fisher's IP and technology dispute practice to seven partners, in addition to 14 other lawyers.

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  • August 28, 2008 |

    Field Fisher signs up IT/tech partner from DLA

    Field Fisher Waterhouse has boosted its intellectual property (IP) and technology dispute resolution practice with the hire of partner Andrew Dodd from DLA Piper. Dodd, who is set to join Field Fisher on 8 September, is leaving DLA Piper after seven years with the firm. He will take Field Fisher's IP and technology dispute practice to seven partners, in addition to 14 other lawyers.

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  • August 28, 2008 |

    Bird & Bird makes second Asian IP hire

    Bird & Bird has hired a senior in-house lawyer to head up its Asian intellectual property (IP) enforcement practice. James Luo has joined the firm's Beijing office as a partner-equivalent director from Motorola, where he was senior IP counsel for north Asia. It is Bird & Bird's second hire of an Asian IP group head this year, as the firm also brought in Ai-Leen Lim as head of Asian IP and portfolio management in Hong Kong in February. Lim joined from Singapore-based Colin Ng & Partners. Luo takes the firm's IP partner count across Beijing and Hong Kong to five, with the group comprising 17 lawyers in total. At Motorola Luo was in charge of IP enforcement and litigation in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and Vietnam. His practice focuses on all types of contentious and non-contentious IP work.

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  • August 7, 2008 |

    Fladgate faces £10m claim over fraud case

    Jones Day and Reynolds Porter Chamberlain have won lead roles advising on a claim worth around £10m brought against Fladgate in the High Court last week (1 August).Former dotcom company Izodia alleges that Fladgate's advice allowed fraud to be committed against the company's shareholders

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  • August 6, 2008 |

    Modern magic

    The expansion of the Walt Disney Company has brought fresh challenges for its European general counsel, Peter Wiley. He speaks to Leigh Jackson about international growth, bringing Disney into the digital age and life at Disney castle

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  • August 4, 2008 |

    Bird & Bird signs up McDermott Brussels head

    Bird & Bird has taken McDermott Will & Emery's Brussels head Jose Rivas, less than two years after the competition partner joined the US firm from Hammonds. The Spanish-qualified partner has joined Bird & Bird along with Danish-qualified EU law and competition partner Morten Nissen, with Rivas set to head Bird & Bird's Brussels competition group.

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