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  • October 14, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including Reed Smith, Linklaters and RPC

    Reed Smith has added a partner to its London media team with the hire of Askandar Samad from DLA Piper. Samad's practice focuses on film and media financing, structured finance, co-production funding and tax. The hire for Reed Smith comes after the firm recruited Nick Swimer from Channel 4 - where he was head of legal for governance, regulatory and trading - in November last year.

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  • October 12, 2012 |

    Berezovsky agrees to near-£40m payout of legal costs

    Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has agreed to pay £35m of Roman Abramovich's £40m legal costs today (12 October) following his high-profile litigation defeat to the Chelsea FC owner earlier this year. Berezovsky, who has been represented by Addleshaw Goddard on the long-running litigation since 2008, has agreed to pay the majority of Abramovich's costs after losing the $6bn (£3.8bn) court battle.

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  • October 11, 2012 |

    Skadden and Clifford Chance take lead roles as Greek bank consolidation continues

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have advised on a Greek banking merger which has seen Alpha Bank acquire Emporiki Bank from Credit Agricole for a token price of €1 (80p).

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  • October 11, 2012 |

    New York elite reshape junior ranks amid sustained fee pressure

    Some of New York's leading law firms have taken steps to reposition their business in response to falling client demand and pressure on fees for the most junior US lawyers.

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  • October 11, 2012 | International Edition

    Moods in Manhattan – mixed messages from the world's legal capital

    You don't really appreciate until you talk to Manhattan lawyers in their own habitat how Wall Street firms at times seem weighed down by history. In London, partners often struggle to remember as far back as the 1990s. But their counterparts in the bustling yet conservative Manhattan community still find their focus drawn to key moments in their firm's past.

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  • October 11, 2012 |

    Moods in Manhattan – mixed messages from the world's legal capital

    You don't really appreciate until you talk to Manhattan lawyers in their own habitat how Wall Street firms at times seem weighed down by history. In London, partners often struggle to remember as far back as the 1990s. But their counterparts in the bustling yet conservative Manhattan community still find their focus drawn to key moments in their firm's past.

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  • October 9, 2012 |

    Kirkland promotes five London lawyers to partnership in 84-strong round

    Kirkland & Ellis has announced five partner promotions in both London and Hong Kong as part of an 84-strong global promotions round. This year's promotions, which are effective from 1 October, mark a slight increase on last October, when three partners were made up in both London and Hong Kong in an 80-strong round.

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  • October 4, 2012 |

    Freshfields takes global M&A crown but deal slump continues

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has overtaken Clifford Chance (CC) to lead global and Asia-Pacific corporate markets for the first three quarters of 2012, but the gloomy environment for dealmakers has seen M&A values slide 19% against 2011.

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  • October 1, 2012 |

    News Corp hires ex-WilmerHale and Davis Polk lawyers in compliance push

    News Corporation has appointed five group chief compliance officers (GCCOs) in a shake-up of its global compliance structure, including an ex-US federal prosecutor and a former lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The new compliance structure will be headed up by the recently installed group GC and chief compliance officer Gerson Zweifach, who was brought in this February to steer News Corp's efforts to shake up its governance following the phone-hacking scandal.

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  • September 20, 2012 |

    Honeymoon period for foreign firms in Hong Kong seems over as IPO slowdown prompts fee drop

    Slump in HK IPO market has seen pricing fall by as much as 40%, as Elizabeth Broomhall discovers

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