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  • March 10, 2014 |

    Hong Kong gives higher rights of audience to four more lawyers

    Four additional Hong Kong lawyers have been given the go-ahead to appear in the city's courts following training and assessment, out of a total of 30 who took part in the scheme. The lawyers were named in a Law Society circular, and inlcude Allen & Overy (A&O) senior associate Kevin Kee, Ernst and Young in house attorney Regina Fan, partner Pak Hau from Hong Kong outfit Charles Chu & Kenneth Sit and sole proprietor Paul Kwong.

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  • March 2, 2014 |

    Skadden, Shearman win mandates for Weibo's US IPO

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Shearman & Sterling have snared roles on the upcoming US IPO of Chinese microblogging site, Weibo. News of the hotly anticipated listing emerged last week, with media reports estimating that it would take place in the second quarter of this year and raise around $500m.

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  • February 19, 2014 |

    Latham and Wachtell take headline roles as Actavis buys Forest Labs for $25bn

    Latham & Watkins and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have taken the lead roles on highly-acquisitive pharmaceutical company Actavis' $25bn (£15bn) purchase of Forest Laboratories. As a result of the deal - the second largest announced corporate acquisition of 2014 so far -Irish-American drugmaker Actavis will expand into higher-margin treatments for Alzheimer's, hypertension and other disorders.

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  • February 18, 2014 |

    Record number of solicitor advocates take silk in 100-strong round

    International arbitration heads at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Herbert Smith Freehills and Berwin Leighton Paisner are among five solicitor advocates to be appointed Queen's Counsel.

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  • February 14, 2014 |

    DWF and Hill Dickinson score roles on Everton kit deal

    DWF and Hill Dickinson have bagged the advisory roles on Everton Football Club's new kit deal with Umbro. The partnership, which kicks off in June, ahead of the 2014-15 Premier League season, will see the Merseyside club don the iconic British brand for the next five years.

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  • February 14, 2014 |

    US firms take lead roles on proposed $45bn cable merger

    Four New York heavyweights have secured advisory roles on the proposed $45bn (£27bn) merger between US cable operators Comcast and Time Warner Cable.

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  • February 10, 2014 |

    Skadden and Chelsea's Bruce Buck steps down as London head

    High-profile Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom partner Bruce Buck has stepped down as leader of the US firm's London office. The Chelsea Football Club chairman, who has led the London office since 1988, will continue as European head in a full-time fee-earning capacity.

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  • January 24, 2014 |

    Slaughters makes first ever lateral partner hire to add US capability in Hong Kong

    Slaughter and May has made its first ever lateral partner hire in Asia with the addition of Morrison & Foerster US capital markets partner John Moore in Hong Kong. The magic circle firm, which rarely makes lateral hires, has brought in Moore as part of a strategy to provide US law counsel in the region.

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  • January 16, 2014 |

    Qatar World Cup GC Longmate replaced by deputy

    World Cup organising body the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee has replaced Andrew Longmate as its acting general counsel in a shake-up of its in-house legal team.

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  • January 7, 2014 |

    Eversheds health and life sciences head switches to Addleshaws

    Addleshaw Goddard has hired Eversheds' health and life sciences head Bill Gilliam, in a move to build its Leeds office and litigation team. The firm said Gilliam's hire was central to its plans to expand its large complex disputes work in the healthcare sector.

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