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  • April 21, 2011 |

    Clydes recruits DLA Piper partner for insolvency practice

    Clyde & Co has bulked up its City restructuring practice with the hire of DLA Piper partner Stewart Perry. Perry is set to join Clydes next month as the second partner in the firm's insolvency and reorganisation team. He leaves DLA Piper's City base two years after making partner in 2009.

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  • April 13, 2011 |

    Paul Weiss launches in Canada with double Shearman partner hire

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has announced plans to open an office in Toronto with a double hire from Shearman & Sterling. The office, which will practise only US law, will be the US firm's first presence in Canada, alongside its other international bases in Beijing, Hong Kong, London and Tokyo.

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  • March 30, 2011 |

    Aviation team loss leaves Barlows up in the air

    It's all very well having a strategy, but at a certain point a law firm has also got to be able to hold on to good partners. On that basis, news last week that Barlow Lyde & Gilbert's eight-partner aviation team is quitting to join Holman Fenwick Willan doesn't look good. The loss of such a highly-rated team - on some measures the largest switch between top 50 UK law firms since DLA Piper helped itself to a large chunk of Denton Wilde Sapte's media team back in 2004 - will raise fresh questions about Barlows' efforts to get back on track.

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  • March 28, 2011 |

    Slaughters instructed by Linklaters for Credit Suisse and Gianni claims

    Linklaters has instructed fellow magic circle firm Slaughter and May to advise in relation to the firm's professional negligence dispute with banking giant Credit Suisse and Linklaters' subsequent related claim against former Italian alliance partner Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners. Linklaters has appointed Slaughters dispute resolution partner Deborah Finkler to defend the firm against the €136m (£115m) claim brought by Credit Suisse earlier this month, which relates to advice given by the magic circle firm to the bank on a bond deal with Italian food company Parmalat nearly 10 years ago.

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  • March 23, 2011 |

    Axa names firms on global panel as tender process ends

    French insurer Axa has finalised its global legal panel after a five-month tender process, with the company appointing at least eight firms to its roster of preferred advisers. Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells, Clyde & Co and Holman Fenwick Willan have all been reappointed to the panel alongside US firms Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, Dewey & LeBoeuf and Mayer Brown. French law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel has also been reappointed.

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  • March 21, 2011 |

    Links to sue former Italian ally Gianni over Credit Suisse-Parmalat deal

    Linklaters has filed negligence claims against Italian law firm Gianni Origoni Grippo & Partners relating to advice given by the magic circle firm to Credit Suisse on a deal with Italian food company Parmalat nearly 10 years ago. The claims, which were filed in the Admiralty and Commercial division of the High Court earlier this month (10 March), see Linklaters suing the Italian independent law firm as well as launching a number of claims against individuals. These include Gianni's former UK managing partner Bruno Bartocci, now a partner at Legance in Italy, and former London associate Andrea Platania. Gianni founding partners Francesco Gianni and GianBattista Origoni are named as legal representatives of the firm.

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  • March 10, 2011 |

    Damn Brussels, forcing us to be more profitable

    Normally, a story involving actuarial valuations struggles to inflame passions, let alone one about a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on actuarial valuations. But throw in a bit of well-timed Euro-bashing – the judgment coming in the wake of a controversial ruling on prisoner voting – and a large dollop of self-serving insurance industry lobbying and voila: the outrage flows freely.

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  • March 8, 2011 |

    Clydes recruits O'Melveny insurance chair as ninth partner in New York

    Clyde & Co has grown its New York arm with the hire of O'Melveny & Myers insurance and reinsurance chair Paul Koepff. Koepff, who is joining the UK firm this month, will take the total number of partners in Clydes' New York insurance and reinsurance practice to six. He specialises in litigating in insurance and reinsurance-related disputes, and will be the ninth partner in Clydes' New York base.

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  • March 7, 2011 |

    Clyde & Co in talks to launch in Canada through local tie-up

    Clyde & Co is in discussions to open in Canada through a tie-up with a local firm, with the UK firm bringing in one of the former senior partners of Canada's Stikeman Elliott to help with its plans. Clydes has appointed Clyde & Co is in discussions to open in Canada through a tie-up with a local firm, with the UK firm bringing in a former senior partner of Canada's Stikeman Elliott to help with its plans.Clydes has appointed Senator David Angus QC, currently chairman of the Senate Energy Committee and formerly senior partner at Stikeman, to help with its bid to establish a presence in Canada.

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  • March 4, 2011 |

    Macfarlanes partner duo exit firm for Clydes and Fladgate moves

    Macfarlanes is set to see the departure of two City partners, with planning head Ian Ginbey and real estate partner Richard Reuben joining Clyde & Co and Fladgate respectively. Ginbey, who specialises in appeals, environmental impact assessments and High Court litigation, is set to join Clydes at the end of April to lead the firm's London planning group, while Reuben will also leave Macfarlanes next month.

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