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  • December 17, 2013 |

    Dentons continues Middle East push with hire of V&E's Abu Dhabi head

    Dentons has hired Vinson & Elkins' (V&E) Abu Dhabi managing partner Jonathan Nash, in an expansion of its energy practice. Nash, an international project finance and development lawyer, joined V&E from Chadbourne & Parke's London office in 2010. He becomes Dentons' third senior lateral hire in the region in a little over a month, following the recruitment of DLA Piper construction partner Ian Dalley in Abu Dhabi and banking and Norton Rose Fulbright finance partner Alex Roussos in Dubai.

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  • December 17, 2013 |

    Dealmaker: Stephen Blackshaw

    The Sidley Austin partner on underground car parks, student pranks and biker leathers

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  • December 16, 2013 |

    Eversheds to run Shanghai base with no partners

    Eversheds will run its Shanghai office without any partners following the departure of its two most senior lawyers. The firm's senior partner in the office, Jean-Marc Deschandol has already left the firm, while Iris Duchetsmann, the firm's current head of employment for Asia, will depart at the end of this month.

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  • December 12, 2013 |

    British Legal Awards 2013: who won what - and why...

    A run-down of all the winners at this year's British Legal Awards, including full details of the judging panel's reasoning for each award.

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  • December 2, 2013 |

    Linklaters appoints Marc Harvey as new Asia managing partner

    Linklaters has appointed Marc Harvey as its new managing partner for Asia from 1 February 2014. Harvey, who currently heads Linklaters' greater China and global litigation and arbitration practices, will also join the firm's executive committee.

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  • December 2, 2013 |

    DAC Beachcroft seals Colombian tie-up with insurance firm

    DAC Beachcroft has merged with two-partner Colombian insurance firm De La Torre & Monroy Abogados Asociados. The new office which began trading yesterday (1 December) under the name DAC Beachcroft Colombia, will work with international insurers and reinsurers, advising on claims as well as arbitration, corporate, commercial and regulatory issues. DAC will also provide full service legal support for international investors in Colombia and local clients.

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  • November 28, 2013 |

    Turning a corner? Cautious optimism about Ireland's economic recovery

    Dublin's most celebrated question mark is mapped out through the city streets in Ulysses – to which James Joyce's novel provides no clear answer. Nor does the immediate question facing Dublin's most celebrated lawyers: have we turned the corner? Having endured one of the deepest recessions in the eurozone, Ireland's €85bn (£71bn) troika bailout is scheduled to complete in December. "Ireland appears to have turned a corner," says Julian Yarr, managing partner at A&L Goodbody, Ireland's largest firm. "It's been a very positive year for Ireland," agrees Tim Scanlon, partner at Matheson.

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  • November 27, 2013 |

    Siemens legal chief Solmssen resigns as GC role removed from board

    Siemens general counsel Peter Solmssen is to resign from the company at the end of the year, after six years in the role. The company said Solmssen, who served as both GC and head of legal and compliance, is leaving by mutual agreement.

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  • November 21, 2013 |

    K&L Gates and Sidley lead on Philippines 'largest ever' IPO

    K&L Gates and Sidley Austin have advised Robinsons Retail Holdings on its $622m IPO on the Philippine Stock Exchange. The offering, which closed earlier this month, is thought to be the largest-ever IPO in the Philippines. K&L Gates advised the issuer on the US law aspects of the listing, fielding a team of four led by Hong Kong-based corporate partner David Johnson.

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  • November 15, 2013 |

    DAC Beachcroft and BLM bolt on Morgan Cole's PI arm

    DAC Beachcroft and Berrymans Lace Mawer have between them acquired Morgan Cole's personal injury business. The firm's are the latest to expand its PI offering, after Irwin Mitchell announced today that it has acquired Manchester firm McCool Patterson Hemsi (MPH) Solicitors.

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