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  • April 13, 2010 |

    Reed Smith seals hire of seven-strong employment team in Paris

    Reed Smith has significantly bulked up its employment capabilities in Paris with the hire of a seven-strong team from French firm Courtois Lebel. Partners Nicolas Sauvage and Caroline Masson joined the US firm on 1 April 2010 along with four associates and one legal counsel. Prior to the hires, Reed Smith had just one senior associate, Severine Martel, specialising in employment and labour law in the French capital.

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  • April 6, 2010 |

    Reed Smith signs up McDermott partner for City restructuring team

    Reed Smith has taken steps to bolster its restructuring and insolvency practice in London with the hire of a partner from McDermott Will & Emery. Georgia Quenby joined Reed Smith on 1 April, becoming the fifth partner in the US firm's City restructuring and insolvency team.

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  • March 17, 2010 | International Edition

    Pharmaceuticals: The game changer

    The pharmaceutical industry is facing uncertain times as a once-lucrative business model buckles under a globalising world economy. Charlotte Edmond reports on the companies and lawyers battling to secure all-important intellectual property in a rapidly changing market

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  • March 17, 2010 |

    White & Case City base posts 20% drop in revenues for 2009

    White & Case's London office has emerged as the worst performing City arm of a US law firm in 2009 - a year in which results varied significantly between firms. White & Case saw London revenues plunge by just under 20% to $197m (£130m) during the 2009 calendar year, with profits per equity partner (PEP) dropping by 11% to $1.32m (£872,000).

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  • March 17, 2010 |

    Pharmaceuticals: The game changer

    The pharmaceutical industry is facing uncertain times as a once-lucrative business model buckles under a globalising world economy. Charlotte Edmond reports on the companies and lawyers battling to secure all-important intellectual property in a rapidly changing market

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  • March 17, 2010 |

    Pharmaceuticals: Shocks to the system

    The pharmaceutical industry is going through a turbulent period. Patents protecting companies' blockbuster drugs are expiring - according to consultancy firm Evaluate Pharma, around half of the $383bn (£255bn)-worth of patented drugs sold worldwide last year will lose patent protection in the next five years - while barriers preventing makers of generic drugs from selling their own versions of leading products continue to fall.

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  • March 10, 2010 |

    Norton Rose adds partner in Singapore with Links hire

    Norton Rose has hired a new partner who will relocate to Singapore to head up the firm's local insurance practice. Anna Tipping is set to join Norton Rose as a partner from Linklaters' City base, where she was a counsel.

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  • March 10, 2010 |

    Harbottle bulks up media practice with Reed Smith partner duo

    Harbottle & Lewis has recruited two television and film partners from Reed Smith. Jonathan Berger and Peter Armstrong joined the media and entertainment specialists as partners last month.

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  • March 3, 2010 |

    Reed Smith hires team for advertising practice

    Reed Smith has taken steps to bolster its advertising law capability in London, with the hire of a team from the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA). Marina Palomba, legal director of the IPA, has joined the firm as a partner in it's advertising group along with two associates.

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  • March 3, 2010 |

    GTM brought in 15 new partners in 2009, leading US firm hires in the City

    Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) emerged as the most active US law firm in London in terms of lateral partner hiring last year, with the new City entrant responsible for a quarter of all partner-level hiring activity.

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