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  • February 7, 2011 |

    K&L Gates seals hire of US firm's London head for City office

    K&L Gates has boosted its London financial services practice with the hire of the London managing partner of US firm Katten Muchin Rosenman. Martin Cornish, who joined the firm today (7 February), advises hedge funds, commodities and derivatives brokers and dealers and banks on a variety of matters involving funds, financial services regulation and derivatives. Before joining Katten in 2001, Cornish held several in-house roles including a stint at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Before this period, he was a partner at UK firm Simmons & Simmons.

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  • February 2, 2011 |

    Shearman makes up seven to partnership outside of the UK

    Shearman & Sterling has made up seven lawyers to its partnership, equalling the number the firm promoted last year. The new partners are spread scross the firm's Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Tokyo, New York and Washington DC offices. In the US, Paula Howell Anderson and David Connolly have been made up in the firm's New York litigation and M&A practices respectively, while Christopher Ryan has joined the partnership in Washington in the international arbitration group.

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  • January 19, 2011 |

    K&L Gates adds two partners to London base

    K&L Gates has strengthened its project finance and regulatory practices with the hire of two partners in its London office. Project finance partner Matthew Kidwell joins K&L Gates from fellow US law firm Shearman & Sterling, where he was a partner in the energy team. He advises international oil and gas companies on all aspects of the energy chain including oil and gas exploration, production, refining, pipelines and transportation, regulation and power generation and transmission.

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  • November 24, 2010 |

    Slaughters, Simmons and Bird & Bird top-rated by clients in new research

    Slaughter and May, Simmons & Simmons and Bird & Bird have emerged as the City's top-performing law firms based on client feedback, as part of a major research project from Legal Week. The trio were the top-rated international firms according to Legal Week Intelligence's seventh annual Client Satisfaction Report, which is based on responses from 1,265 senior in-house lawyers and finance directors. The flagship project from Legal Week's independent research arm is its most comprehensive client survey to date and includes rankings of 71 UK and US firms based on responses from 903 companies operating in the UK. The report covers 71% of the FTSE 100.

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  • November 22, 2010 |

    Davis Polk hires second magic circle Beijing chief for Hong Kong office

    Davis Polk & Wardwell has recruited Linklaters' Beijing head for its burgeoning Hong Kong law practice, marking the US firm's second recent senior magic circle hire, reports The Am Law Daily. The New York-based firm has announced that Paul Chow is set join its Hong Kong office next May, following the hire of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Beijing chief Antony Dapiran. Chow is expected to continue to work on client matters until his departure. Davis Polk has generally been regarded as conservative when it comes to recruiting lateral partners, but the US firm has moved aggressively to assemble a Hong Kong law group in recent months.

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  • November 19, 2010 |

    Nixon Peabody enters HK with local alliance

    Top 100 US firm Nixon Peabody has established an office in Hong Kong through an alliance with local practice Cheng Wong Lam & Partners, reports The Am Law Daily. The affiliation will be known as Nixon Peabody in association with Cheng Wong Lam & Partners, the firms announced this week.

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  • November 9, 2010 |

    Bakers creates pro bono director role to lead on CSR initiatives

    Baker & McKenzie has appointed Madeleine Schachter as global director of pro bono and corporate social responsibility (CSR), with the appointment coming as the firm moves to strengthen its CSR initiatives with clients. In the newly-created role, New York-based partner Schachter will work exclusively on CSR matters, including pro bono work with an emphasis on international humanitarian rights, constitutional law and civil rights issues.

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  • October 26, 2010 |

    Hogan Lovells makes a splash with hire of high-profile marketing chief

    Hogan Lovells has hired a high-profile chief marketing officer (CMO) from DLA Piper to spearhead the firm's growth. Jolene Overbeck has joined the newly-merged firm in New York where she will work alongside her London-based counterpart Serena Simmons. Overbeck has racked up more head of marketing titles over the course of her 27-year career than anyone else working in large law firms, having worked at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Latham & Watkins and Shearman & Sterling before joining DLA Piper in 2006.

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  • October 15, 2010 |

    Mayer Brown acts on late Liverpool bid as £300m takeover goes through

    Mayer Brown has advised investment company Mill Financial on its failed eleventh-hour bid for Liverpool FC, as US sports group New England Sport Ventures (NESV) completes its £300m takeover of the Premier League club. US investor Mill, which was advised by Mayer Brown's UK corporate head Peter Dickinson and corporate partner Kate Ball-Dodd, today (15 October) held negotiations with co-owner Tom Hicks over the acquisition of his stake in the club.

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  • October 13, 2010 |

    Grabiner and Snowden secure court win for RBS and Liverpool FC board

    Lord Grabiner QC and Erskine Chambers' Richard Snowden QC have secured a High Court victory in the Liverpool takeover battle after the presiding judge ruled that the club's £300m sale to New England Sport Ventures (NESV) can proceed. Mr Justice Floyd handed down his judgment this morning in favour of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Liverpool's main creditor, which is owed around £280m by the club's US owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

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