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  • September 14, 2011 |

    McDermott unveils London growth agenda in wake of restructuring and departures

    McDermott Will & Emery is planning to double its lawyer headcount in London in the wake of a restructuring that will see the firm refocus its City practice around six key practice areas. The US firm wants to build its London operation up to more than 100 lawyers over the next three years, compared with a current team of 53 lawyers. The office will focus on corporate, energy and commodities, tax, employment, intellectual property and private client work, with London managing partner and European chair Hugh Nineham also planning to rebuild an arbitration practice and launch a white-collar defence team within the next year.

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  • September 9, 2011 |

    Greenberg recruits Cadwalader M&A star Block for new senior role

    Greenberg Traurig has hired high-profile Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft dealmaker Dennis Block to take up the newly-created post of senior chairman for global M&A, reports The Am Law Daily. Block, 69, who joined Cadwalader in 1998 from Weil Gotshal & Manges, is considered a major Wall Street dealmaker.

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  • September 8, 2011 |

    Weil's global private equity co-head leaves to take top legal role at Advent

    Weil Gotshal & Manges' global co-head of private equity James Westra is leaving the US law firm to become Advent International's managing director and chief legal officer. Westra, who is set to join the private equity house next month (3 October), will be advising Advent's investment teams globally on deal structuring and general legal matters.

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  • September 7, 2011 |

    Stephenson Harwood boosts energy practice with ex-Ashurst partner hire

    Stephenson Harwood has added another energy-specialist partner to its corporate practice, with the hire of Fulbright & Jaworski's Jeremy Sheldon. Sheldon has been a partner in the US firm's London office since 2007, when he joined from Ashurst, where he was a member of the energy, transport and infrastructure group.

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  • September 7, 2011 |

    A waste of money - is the bonus round at top US firms just money down the drain?

    US law firms are conditioned to doling out tightly banded 'follow-the-leader' bonus awards to associates. But, argues Amy Kolz, there is little evidence this practice reflects market reality or even buys them any staff loyalty

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  • September 6, 2011 |

    Weil boosts London restructuring team with Jones Day partner hire

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has added a partner to its London restructuring team with a lateral hire from Jones Day. Paul Bromfield is set to join Weil later this month, with the move reuniting him with Jones Day's former restructuring head Adam Plainer, who joined Weil in January this year.

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  • August 8, 2011 |

    Weil names City partner as firmwide international arbitration head

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has named London disputes partner Juliet Blanch as firmwide head of international arbitration. Blanch, who joined Weil last year from the City office of McDermott Will & Emery, has replaced Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez, who left Weil at the end of 2010 to join King & Spalding in New York.

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  • August 8, 2011 | International Edition

    Weil names City partner as firmwide international arbitration head

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has named London disputes partner Juliet Blanch as firmwide head of international arbitration. Blanch, who joined Weil last year from the City office of McDermott Will & Emery, has replaced Guillermo Aguilar-Alvarez, who left Weil at the end of 2010 to join King & Spalding in New York.

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  • August 3, 2011 |

    Simpson Thacher's City office wins trophy role alongside CC on €9bn Apax fundraising

    Simpson Thacher & Bartlett's London office has picked up a role working alongside Clifford Chance (CC) on private equity house Apax's latest multibillion-euro fundraising. The US firm's London funds chief Jason Glover has been appointed to work alongside a team of CC partners in London and New York led by Nigel Hatfield and a team from Simpson Thacher in New York on the fundraising for Apax VIII, which is hoped to raise around €9bn (£7.9bn).

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  • August 3, 2011 |

    The great game – can British firms retain their upper hand in Hong Kong?

    Though Hong Kong formally reverted to Chinese rule 14 years ago, it often feels as if the British are still in charge. Place names like Victoria Peak and Queen's Road remain unchanged and expatriates from Essex and Kent continue to throng the bars of Lan Kwai Fong. Pub favourites are as easily available as dim sum.

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