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  • September 28, 2011 |

    Orrick to launch City regulatory team with senior in-house duo

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is launching a regulatory practice in the City with the hire of two in-house lawyers from London-based liquidity provider Liquid Capital Markets (LCM). The US firm is set to bring in LCM's head of legal, Sam Millar, and fellow legal counsel Tony Katz as partners next month. Millar initially joined LCM from Jones Day in 2008, with Katz following in 2009 from the Financial Services Authority (FSA).

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  • September 26, 2011 |

    Jones Day continues Paris growth with hire of Latham competition partner

    Jones Day has strengthened its French antitrust and competition law practice with a partner hire from Latham & Watkins. Eric Barbier de La Serre is set to join Jones Day's Paris office next month (19 October) as the second partner in its local antitrust and European law practice.

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  • September 23, 2011 |

    Wachtell and Jones Day lead on $18.4bn aircraft manufacturing buyout

    Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Jones Day have taken lead roles on the $18.4bn (£11.9bn) acquisition of aircraft equipment maker Goodrich by United Techonologies Corporation (UTC), a deal that marks the conglomerate's largest-ever acquisition, reports The Am Law Daily. UTC is being advised by longstanding outside counsel Wachtell on the deal, which will see it pay $127.50 (£83) per Goodrich share in cash to acquire the target company and assume $1.9bn (£1.2bn) in debt.

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  • September 21, 2011 |

    Jones Day makes Simmons and Addleshaws hires for London base

    Jones Day has made a double partner hire in London with the addition of one partner apiece from Simmons & Simmons and Addleshaw Goddard. The US firm has hired Simmons corporate partner Paul Exley for its London energy practice, while Addleshaws financial institutions regulatory partner John Ahern is joining the equivalent team at Jones Day. Exley, who joined Simmons as a trainee and became a partner in 1995, has worked with clients including the Ministry of Defence. His practice focuses on cross-border M&A and commercial work in the energy and infrastructure sector, with a particular emphasis 
on oil and gas.

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  • September 21, 2011 |

    Moving on up - the realities of the journey from Bar to bench

    As the only High Court appointee from a five-strong round this year to already carry a judicial title, Judge Henry Globe QC marks the exception rather than the rule. Called to the Bar at Middle Temple in 1972, Globe started out like most, working with his set, Exchange Chambers, and practising as a junior counsel on the local circuit. Now, having been a circuit judge for the past eight years, Globe is joining the select few who make it as far as the High Court.

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  • September 21, 2011 |

    McDermott adds Paris partner amid busy local lateral market

    McDermott Will & Emery has strengthened its fledgling Paris office with a hire from local firm Jeantet Associes, with the hire marking the latest in a string of partner moves in the city in recent weeks. Jonathan Wohl joined McDermott as a partner in its Paris corporate practice last month from Jeantet, where he was a senior counsel specialising in cross-border M&A. Wohl joined Jeantet as a partner in 2006 after 27 years with now-defunct firm Coudert Brothers. When he moved to Jeantet in January that year he became the final partner from Coudert's flagship Paris office to find a new home in the wake of the firm announcing plans to wind up in the summer of 2005.

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  • September 21, 2011 |

    Weil Gotshal invited to tender for RBS panel after first-ever mandate

    Weil Gotshal & Manges is set to be invited to tender for the Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS') legal panel next year after completing its first-ever mandate for the bank. The US law firm's London office advised the bank on the $300m (£191m) sale of its shares in luggage manufacturer Samsonite, which floated in Hong Kong in June. Weil Gotshal fielded a team led by London corporate partner Mark Soundy on the transaction, which marks the US firm's first piece of work for the bank.

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  • September 20, 2011 |

    Orrick London restructuring team leaves to join US rival Dewey

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is set to lose its London restructuring team to US rival Dewey & LeBoeuf. The two-partner team is led by Orrick's European co-head of restructuring and insolvency, Mark Fennessy, who is joining Dewey's seven-partner London business solutions and governance practice alongside fellow restructuring partner Hazel Miller.

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  • September 14, 2011 |

    After the impact - how 9/11 is still affecting the legal market

    Just days after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, then Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor kept a longstanding commitment to help dedicate a new building at New York University (NYU) School of Law. She visited Ground Zero first and told her NYU audience: "I am still tearful from that glimpse." O'Connor went on to predict: "The trauma that our nation suffered will and already has altered our way of life, and it will cause us to re-examine some of our laws pertaining to criminal surveillance, wiretapping, immigration and so on… As a result, we are likely to experience more restrictions on our personal freedom than has ever been the case in our country."

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  • September 12, 2011 |

    Norton Rose Paris corporate chief takes team to Jones Day

    Jones Day has hired a four-lawyer team from Norton Rose in Paris including the head of the UK firm's French corporate practice. Herve Castelnau joined the Paris office of Jones Day on 1 September along with three associates, two of whom - Silvain Fock-Yee and Thibaut Kazemi - have been promoted to counsel in the move.

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