• December 6, 2011 |

    Trio advise as SAP makes $3.4bn acquisition

    Allen & Overy (A&O), Jones Day and Morrison & Foerster have lined up to advise on the $3.4bn (£2.2bn) acquisition of solution provider SuccessFactors by software maker SAP, writes The Am Law Daily.

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  • December 1, 2011 |

    Bingham enters mainland China with Beijing launch

    Bingham McCutchen is set to launch in Beijing with a lateral hire from US rival Jones Day, as well as a senior relocation from its Tokyo arm. Beijing-based Jones Day partner Xiaowei Ye and Bingham corporate partner Brian Beglin will act as joint heads of the new office, which marks the firm's third location in Asia in addition to Tokyo and Hong Kong.

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  • November 29, 2011 |

    Eversheds appoints new head of Paris-based China practice

    Eversheds has turned to Norton Rose for the new head of its Paris-based China practice. Norton Rose Beijing corporate partner Virginie Deslandres joined Eversheds' Paris office this month, and will act as the cross-border coordinator of the firm's China practice in Europe, working across a number of the firm's Asian and European offices.

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  • November 29, 2011 |

    Eversheds appoints new head of Paris-based China practice

    Eversheds has turned to Norton Rose for the new head of its Paris-based China practice. Norton Rose Beijing corporate partner Virginie Deslandres joined Eversheds' Paris office this month, and will act as the cross-border coordinator of the firm's China practice in Europe, working across a number of the firm's Asian and European offices.

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  • November 25, 2011 |

    Norton Rose corporate partner quits for Orrick London

    Norton Rose is set to lose a City corporate partner with Anthony Riley joining the London office of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe. Riley, who is based in Norton Rose's City base, specialises in domestic and cross border M&A and joint ventures, with a particular emphasis on the energy and infrastructure sectors. He is dual-qualified in England and Wales as well as with the New York Bar.

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  • November 23, 2011 |

    Hong Kong horizons - what will the Asian legal market look like in 2021?

    Key Asian economies have established themselves globally as the West falters. 
Sofia Lind asks what the regional economy will look like in 2021

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  • October 27, 2011 |

    CC, Jones Day and Fried Frank advise on $1.5bn private equity buyout

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Jones Day are among a trio of major firms to have won roles on the $1.5bn (£938m) sale of Alcatel-Lucent's Genesys business to European private equity house Permira. Alcatel-Lucent announced last week (19 October) that it has received a binding offer for its call-centre software company Genesys from Permira.

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  • October 26, 2011 |

    Jones Day and Cleary advise on $1bn pharma notes offering

    Jones Day and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have won lead roles on a $1bn (£626m) US notes offering by pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi. Jones Day advised Sanofi with a team headed by Paris capital markets partner Linda Hesse. Meanwhile, Cleary advised the underwriters – Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities and Natixis – led by Paris capital markets partner Andrew Bernstein.

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  • October 26, 2011 |

    'He's a human rights lawyer, you know' - barrister Adam Wagner on what drew him to a career in human rights law

    Barrister and leading blogger Adam Wagner explains what drew him to human rights law – apart, of course, from Bridget Jones's Diary – and offers a few tips for aspiring practitioners...

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  • October 14, 2011 |

    China's Jun He continues recent growth with Weil Gotshal hire

    Leading Chinese firm Jun He Law Offices has bolstered its Beijing corporate practice with a hire from Weil Gotshal & Manges, marking the firm's fourth new partner addition since August. Jasson Han is set to rejoin Jun He as a partner, after leaving in 1993 to pursue a degree in commercial law. Since then, he has worked at Simmons & Simmons in London and Hong Kong, and then in Weil Gotshal's Beijing and Hong Kong offices as a partner-level senior consultant.

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