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  • August 20, 2010 |

    Hire, fire and hire again

    Some people find silver linings in life's misfortunes. Me - I tend to find dark linings even when the news seems bright and cheery. Recently, there's been a flow of upbeat stories about increased retention rates at many firms, including a number of US firms giving out offers to 100% of their summer associates, including Latham & Watkins, Ropes & Gray and Shearman & Sterling.

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  • August 17, 2010 |

    King & Spalding hires Milbank energy partner

    King & Spalding has added to its global energy transactions practice in New York with the hire of a partner from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy. Crayton Bell joined the firm yesterday (16 August), taking the number of partners in the New York office to 50. Bell specialises in M&A, leveraged buyouts and other private equity transactions in the energy sector.

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  • August 16, 2010 |

    Freshfields Beijing managing partner joins Davis Polk for HK law launch

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Beijing managing partner is leaving the firm to launch a Hong Kong law practice for Davis Polk & Wardwell, reports The Am Law Daily. Antony Dapiran (pictured), a capital markets lawyer at Freshfields, has taken roles on several high-profile transactions for Chinese state-owned enterprises, including working side-by-side with Davis Polk representing Agricultural Bank of China on its dual listing in Hong Kong and Shanghai, which this week became the world's largest initial public offering (IPO) ever with over $22bn (£14bn) raised.

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  • August 11, 2010 |

    Slaughters bags role on $2bn sale of BP's South American assets

    Slaughter and May has won a role on a $1.9bn (£1.2bn) energy deal as UK oil giant BP has moved to sell assets in South America.

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  • August 10, 2010 |

    Shearman partner joins King & Spalding to help launch new office in Singapore

    King & Spalding is set to open in Singapore with the hire of Shearman & Sterling international arbitration partner John Savage. The firm announced yesterday (9 August) that it has applied for a licence to set up an office in the region specialising in commercial arbitration and energy work.

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  • July 29, 2010 |

    International firms in Brazil under scrutiny as local Bar queries alliance business practices

    The Brazilian Bar Association has asked international firms with associations in Brazil to supply information about their businesses amid concerns they are not complying with local Bar rules. Following several hires made by the associated firms of DLA Piper and Mayer Brown, the Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB) has asked all international firms for information on their alliances, prompted by concerns that international firms are using their associations to recruit local lawyers.

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  • July 28, 2010 |

    Linklaters' Singapore JV firm advises on $2.6bn hospital chain buyout

    Linklaters' Singapore joint venture firm Allen & Gledhill has taken a lead role on the $2.6bn (£1.7bn) acquisition of Southeast Asia's largest hospital chain by Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund, reports The Am Law Daily. The bid by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Khazanah Nasional, an investment arm of the Malaysian Government, beat out a $2.3bn (£1.5bn) bid by India's Fortis Healthcare to acquire hospital chain Parkway Holdings. Khazanah was represented on the deal by Allen & Gledhill, Singapore's largest law firm. M&A co-heads Andrew Lim and Lim Mei led the team, which also included partner Lee Kee Ying. Allen & Gledhill also is advising Deutsche Bank and CIMB Bank Berhad, the financial advisers on the deal.

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  • July 23, 2010 |

    Letter from Asia: Should US firms build local practices in Hong Kong?

    The Agricultural Bank of China's initial public offering (IPO), expected to become the world's largest, debuted this week, landing squarely in the middle of a debate over whether leading Wall Street law firms should build local practice capability in Hong Kong. The IPO on the Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges would seem an obvious rallying cry for those arguing that top US capital markets firms will miss out on deals without their own Hong Kong lawyers - except that the lead lawyers on the AgBank deal are from New York's Davis Polk & Wardwell, which only practises US law.

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  • July 21, 2010 |

    Eversheds and SJ Berwin hit sweet spot with roles on ice cream takeover

    Eversheds has advised R&R Ice Cream on the takeover of French ice cream manufacturer Rolland. The deal will make R&R the second-biggest selling ice cream manufacturer in terms of supermarket sales in the UK, Germany and France. The Eversheds team was led by Eric Knai, a partner in the firm's Paris corporate group.

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  • July 21, 2010 |

    Financial regulation: Hunting the hunter

    The FSA is to be broken up as part of a huge shake-up of regulation by the new Government - despite strong misgivings from City professionals. Alex Aldridge charts the watchdog's rise and fall and looks at the new bodies that will replace it

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