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  • September 1, 2009 |

    Macfarlanes adds partner duo with A&O and Jones Day laterals

    Macfarlanes has made a double partner hire to strengthen its restructuring and litigation teams with Francis Bridgeman and Barry Donnelly joining from Allen & Overy (A&O) and Jones Day respectively. Jones Day partner Donnelly and former A&O consultant Bridgeman will both join Macfarlanes' partnership later this month (10 September), with the firm predicting an increase in litigation and restructuring mandates in the wake of the credit crunch.

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  • September 1, 2009 |

    Jones Day hires City partner as construction practice head

    Jones Day has made its second lateral hire in as many weeks, bringing in a partner from Dundas & Wilson's London office to head its construction practice. Hamish Lal will join the US firm at the beginning of October, bringing with him a practice encompassing both contentious and non-contentious advice covering real estate, utilities, engineering, nuclear and project finance matters. His clients include a number of construction and nuclear energy companies.

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  • August 27, 2009 |

    America – another country, legally another world

    I guess it's the same whatever industry you work in, but it's amazing the extent to which...

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  • August 26, 2009 |

    Jones Day seals hire of Mayer Brown's London antitrust head

    Jones Day has made its second lateral hire in the City this year with the recruitment of Mayer Brown competition and antitrust head Frances Murphy. Murphy will join Jones Day on 1 September as London head of antitrust. Her practice focuses on the pharma, biotech, telecoms, retail and construction sectors.

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  • July 3, 2009 |

    How we won the ESU-Essex Court National Mooting Competition

    The winners of the recent ESU-Essex Court Competition on unimpressed judges, appearing in the Royal Courts of Justice and why mooting showed them they wanted to be lawyers.

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  • June 19, 2009 |

    Freshfields lands Europe role on Chrysler/Fiat alliance

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won the European mandate on the high-profile strategic alliance between automotive giants Chrysler and Fiat. Freshfields has been instructed as the main European adviser to Chrysler on the deal, which was announced last week (10 June) and saw the Italian car maker take a 20% stake in the new Chrysler entity, which is emerging from its bankruptcy proceedings.

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  • June 16, 2009 |

    Weil Gotshal bills $54m as GM work pays out to the tune of $80m

    General Motors has paid out more than $80m (£49m) over the past six months to the three firms advising on the troubled automaker's Chapter 11 case, reports the Am Law Daily. Weil Gotshal & Manges, Jenner & Block and Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn have all filed their applications for employment as counsel to GM. As lead bankruptcy counsel, Weil Gotshal has the lion's share of the billings at more than $54m (£33m) - roughly equivalent to the $55m that Weil billed Lehman Brothers between September 2008 and January 2009.

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  • June 3, 2009 |

    Greenberg in hot water over Heller representation

    Greenberg Traurig is facing a malpractice investigation by the Heller Ehrman estate, according to court filings and a lawyer representing Heller's creditors committee, writes The Recorder. At issue is Greenberg's apparent failure to discover that Heller's biggest creditor, Bank of America (BoA), had terminated its security interest in the firm. Lawyers familiar with the matter say that Heller, which retained Greenberg last summer, would have had much better leverage with its banks and other creditors if it had known BoA was not a secured creditor and may have even been able to avoid bankruptcy.

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  • May 28, 2009 |

    Kirkland bankruptcy team defects to Jones Day

    Seven Kirkland & Ellis lawyers have quit the firm's Los Angeles office to join Jones Day, reports The Am Law Daily. Kirkland's West Coast restructuring group head Richard Wynne, partner Bennett Spiegel, of counsel Erin Brady and Lori Sinanyan, and associates Christopher Healey, Stacie Torres, and Lance Miller will all join Jones Day's Los Angeles office, with the exception of Miller, who is based in New York. The lateral hires leave Kirkland with only three restructuring lawyers in Los Angeles. Wynne said the idea of leaving Kirkland had been "percolating" in his head for six months, but that he and the other lawyers were only interested in moving as a group.

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  • May 19, 2009 |

    Lehman-Barclays: the deal that won't die

    In the frenzied week after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy on 15 September last year, lawyers for Lehman (a group that included bankruptcy counsel at Weil Gotshal & Manges, Lehman's longtime outside counsel at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and a team from Sullivan & Cromwell) worked around the clock with lawyers representing Barclays to arrange the sale of Lehman's prized US assets.

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