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  • February 14, 2011 |

    Olswang recruits Reed Smith partner for City restructuring team

    Olswang has bolstered its insolvency and restructuring group with the hire of Julian Turner from Reed Smith. Turner joined the UK top 50 firm's London office this month as a partner in the finance group and will work closely with Olswang's head of restructuring and insolvency Alicia Videon.

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  • January 25, 2011 |

    Watson Farley recruits Hogan Lovells Italy banking chief for Milan base

    Watson Farley & Williams has bulked up its Milan office with the hire of Hogan Lovells Italian banking head Francesco Curreli. Curreli has joined Watson Farley as a partner in its international project & structured finance group from the Milan arm of Hogan Lovells.

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  • January 18, 2011 |

    Mishcons makes Reed Smith hire in corporate growth drive

    Mishcon de Reya has bolstered its corporate practice with the hire of Saul Sender from Reed Smith. Sender will become the 13th corporate partner at Mishcons when he joins the City law firm as a partner in its London office next month (7 February). He specialises in corporate finance, capital raisings and M&A work and has recently advised on a number of mining deals in Africa.

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  • January 11, 2011 |

    Reed Smith recruits London tax chief from Eversheds

    Reed Smith has expanded its London tax practice with the hire of Eversheds' head of corporate tax, Caspar Fox, who joined the firm's London office last week (4 January). Fox will work alongside partner Harriet Morgan, who has been the only tax partner in Reed Smith's London office since former tax head Huw Witty left to join City firm Fladgate Fielder in 2009.

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  • January 10, 2011 |

    Howard Kennedy brings in non-lawyer chief exec to lead firm

    Howard Kennedy has overhauled its management structure and appointed a chief executive for the first time, as senior partner Trevor Newey retires from the firm. Mark Dembovsky joins the firm today (10 January) from his role as chief executive at City outfit Dawsons, marking Howard Kennedy's first appointment of a non-lawyer to its management.

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  • January 5, 2011 |

    Reed Smith adds City quartet to partnership in promotions round

    Reed Smith has made up new four partners in its London office as part of a 25-strong global promotions round. The City promotions, which took effect on 1 January, are spread across the US firm's London litigation, finance and shipping practices.

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  • December 8, 2010 |

    Reed Smith loses London transport finance team to Watson Farley

    Watson Farley & Williams has boosted its London asset finance practice with the hire of a team of transportation finance lawyers from Reed Smith. Reed Smith finance partners Rex Rosales and Siva Subramaniam are due to join Watson Farley's London office next Monday (13 December) accompanied by three associates. The departures leave Reed Smith without a UK transport finance team.

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  • December 7, 2010 |

    Assistant Solicitor/Associate of the Year

    When Paul Groves qualified at Harbottle & Lewis in March 2006 he was offered a place in every department he trained in. With great prescience he made the case that he should straddle two groups that were regarded as very different at the time: the interactive entertainment group and the sports and sponsorship group. Paul foresaw that the two sectors would become increasingly linked through digital media. Since then, he has become instrumental in developing one of the firm's niche expertise areas - granting and exploiting sponsorship rights across new media platforms. Only three years after qualifying, Groves had developed his own practice and started instructing trainees and junior assistants.

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  • November 3, 2010 |

    Hammonds set for US merger vote as combined firm's name emerges

    Hammonds partners face seeing the firm's name pushed into second place if the merger with Squire Sanders & Dempsey goes ahead, with the brand being dropped entirely in countries where Hammonds does not have an office. Legal Week has learned that the merged transatlantic firm would be known as Squire Sanders Hammonds in those jurisdictions where Hammonds has a presence, including the UK, Europe and Asia. However, in the US and Eastern Europe, where Hammonds has no offering, the combined firm would be branded as Squire Sanders & Dempsey.

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  • October 22, 2010 |

    Nationwide cuts commercial lending legal panel from 60 to 17 firms

    Nationwide Building Society has cut back the number of advisers on its commercial lending panel from 60 to 17, following a rigorous selection process which kicked off in August. The building society has added seven new firms to the roster, including Addleshaw Goddard, DLA Piper, LG, Reed Smith, Shoosmiths, Taylor Wessing and TLT. Aside from the new appointments, Nationwide has retained four of the firms that were already on the panel - Burges Salmon, Nabarro, Olswang and Eversheds.

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