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  • March 15, 2007 | International Edition

    Shipping firm takes Reed Smith Paris partner trio

    Specialist shipping firm Thomas Copper & Stibbard is to launch in a new office in Paris following the hire of a three-partner shipping team from the local arm of Reed Smith Richards Butler, including the US firm's local managing partner. Lars Lewis, who has headed Reed Smith's Paris office since 2002, will join Thomas Cooper next month alongside local shipping head Peter Iglikowski and shipping partner Christophe Hunkeler.

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  • March 15, 2007 |

    Shipping firm takes Reed Smith Paris partner trio

    Specialist shipping firm Thomas Copper & Stibbard is to launch in a new office in Paris following the hire of a three-partner shipping team from the local arm of Reed Smith Richards Butler, including the US firm's local managing partner. Lars Lewis, who has headed Reed Smith's Paris office since 2002, will join Thomas Cooper next month alongside local shipping head Peter Iglikowski and shipping partner Christophe Hunkeler.

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  • March 14, 2007 |

    Dewey raids Reed Smith for NY finance duo

    Dewey Ballantine has raided Reed Smith for two partners for its New York headquarters. John Altorelli and Jeffrey Potash have both joined Dewey's structured finance group as partners. Altorelli's clients include Capmark Financial Group, Blackstone and State Street Bank, while Potash has acted for clients including Sara Lee Corporation and the World Bank.

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  • February 14, 2007 |

    Richards Butler faces JP Morgan as Reed Smith calls time on bank claims

    Reed Smith Richards Butler is in the final stages of preparing for a claim against JP Morgan Chase Bank in what looks likely to be one of its final cases against a bank.

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  • February 7, 2007 |

    Paul Weiss bucks US trend with modest results

    Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has unveiled its financial results for 2006, with the Manhattan outfit posting modest rises in both turnover and profits despite the boom in transactional work in the US. The firm announced a 6% rise in revenues to reach a mark of $594m (£302m), with profits per equity partner (PEP) up just 1% to $2.5m (£1.3m).

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  • February 1, 2007 |

    Stephenson Harwood eyes Asia with Reed Smith hire

    Stephenson Harwood has hired Reed Smith partner Vinay Ganga to join its corporate practice and bolster its exposure to the India and China markets. Ganga, who joined the firm earlier this month, specialises in private equity and project finance for Indian and Chinese clients.

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  • January 31, 2007 |

    First among equals

    The news that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is to shed some 50 or so partners in the next year may have surprised a few at the firm's Fleet Street HQ, but at Linklaters the shock was that its arch rival had not acted sooner. Over at Silk Street, they have long shed the softly, softly approach to partnership that used to characterise the profession and managing partner Tony Angel has taken the firm in hand with obvious results.

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    Clients maketh the merger

    While queuing up at the cloakroom in the Royal Courts of Justice for the Reed Smith Richards Butler party last night I got talking to a client of the firm…

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    Reed Smith recruits GC relations director

    Reed Smith has selected Martha Candiello as its new director of general counsel relations. Candiello will work in the clients and markets group, working with Meirion Jones, who heads the group in the firms London office. She will be resident in Reed Smiths Philadelphia office and will communicate directly with the general counsel and in-house attorneys atReed Smiths clients. Prior to joining Reed Smith she was general counsel at Sunoco Chemicals.

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  • January 24, 2007 |

    Email therapy

    Change brings its own challenges, as early visitors to the new legalweek.com will be able to confirm. Following Reed Smith's takeover of - sorry, merger with - Richards Butler, there have (unsurprisingly) been a few teething problems, not least with synchronising the two firms' IT systems.According to one legacy Richards Butler partner, the IT crowd battled day, night and weekend throughout the first week of the merger to eliminate any unforeseen technical glitches."They really worked hard and I have no doubt they're a bit traumatised by it all," the partner said admiringly. "In fact, now we're part of a US firm, they'll probably all get therapy."Now if only that pesky Hong Kong office could be integrated so easily...

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