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  • July 8, 2010 |

    BLP and Mishcons advise as Weil signs deal to relocate City base

    Weil Gotshal & Manges is set to move all of its London lawyers to a new building after signing a deal to take on new space in the 110 Fetter Lane Rolls Building.

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  • July 8, 2010 |

    BLP and Mishcons advise as Weil signs deal to relocate City base

    Weil Gotshal & Manges is set to move all of its London lawyers to a new building after signing a deal to take on new space in the 110 Fetter Lane Rolls Building.

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  • July 5, 2010 |

    Are WASP law firms finally dead?

    Harvard law professor Noah Feldman had some very nice things to say about WASPs (in case you weren't aware, that stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) and their contribution to diversity in a recent New York Times article. So nice, in fact, that I wondered if I missed something. Feldman starts off by noting that if Elena Kagan is confirmed as a US Supreme Court Justice, the court will consist of six Catholics and three Jews - a dramatic departure from as recently as five years ago when the court "had a plurality of white Protestants". The change, he adds, "is a cause for celebration" in that "no one much cares about the nominee's religion".

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  • June 30, 2010 |

    White & Case wins lead role as creditors question Lehman reorganisation plan

    White & Case has won a role to represent a group of creditors objecting to Lehman Brothers' proposed reorganisation plan, reports The Am Law Daily. The ad hoc group have filed a motion which claims that the plan shortchanges bondholders and favours counterparties in derivative deals and creditors with claims against multiple Lehman entities, court records show.

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  • June 28, 2010 |

    Bingham expands into Germany with local partner hire

    Bingham McCutchen is set to launch in Germany with the hire of partner Jan Bayer from Broich Bezzenberger, marking the firm's first European office outside of London.

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  • June 24, 2010 |

    Norton Rose & Weil land $1.3bn Polish IPO

    Norton Rose has lined up on one of the largest initial public offerings (IPOs) this year as Polish power utility company Tauron Polska Energia goes public in a $1.3bn (£867m) listing.

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  • June 23, 2010 |

    New study concludes alternative fees are here to stay

    Alternative billing is set to outlast the recession according to new research, which found most large US law firms now offer clients options other than hourly rates, writes The American Lawyer.

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  • June 16, 2010 |

    International firms in London: Swoop to conquer

    June 2009, and it was just another not-so-hectic day in the finance department of Addleshaw Goddard's London office - which, after some busy years in the middle of the decade, had slowed dramatically following the onset of the credit crunch in 2007. The firm had recently posted its annual financial results, announcing a fall in revenue of 11.4% and a 30.9% decline in profits per equity partner (PEP), having earlier that year cut 10% of its partnership. Needless to say, acquisition finance partner Phil Slater was on hand to answer his phone when it rang that morning.

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  • June 16, 2010 |

    Watson Farley adds partner to Munich base with Weil Gotshal corporate hire

    Watson Farley & Williams boosted its Munich office with the hire of a Weil Gotshal & Manges' corporate and M&A lawyer. Dirk Janssen, who will join the Watson Farley partnership on 1 July, spent just seven months at Weil Gotshal as a senior associate after a six-year spell at Ashurst.

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  • June 11, 2010 |

    Weil leads on French private equity firm's billion-pound IPO exit

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has taken a lead role advising on the DKK12.4bn (£1.4bn) initial public offering (IPO) of Danish food company Chr Hansen. The Weil Gotshal team advising on the flotation was headed up by capital markets partners James Cole and Peter Schwartz, assisted by associates Jesse Zigmund, Aparna Ravi and Augustine Bourne.

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