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  • March 15, 2012 |

    White & Case restructuring partner quits for Morgan Stanley

    White & Case City restructuring partner Mark Glengarry is leaving the firm to take up a role at Morgan Stanley as a managing director in its investment banking division in London. Glengarry joined White & Case in 2003 and was made up to a partner in the firm's financial restructuring and insolvency practice (FRI) in 2009.

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  • March 13, 2012 |

    Quinn Emanuel among US law firm trio advising as Yahoo sues Facebook

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is acting for Yahoo on its high-profile Facebook patent infringement lawsuit, reports The Am Law Litigation Daily. Quinn Emanuel's 18-page complaint, which was filed on Monday (12 March) accuses Facebook of infringing 10 Yahoo patents through core features of its website, including its news feed, privacy controls, and pay-per-click advertisements.

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  • March 8, 2012 |

    Banking boon - leading advocates on riding the wave of financial disputes

    "The junior end of the Bar is developing its own relationships with larger firms like ours, something not always seen 10 years ago..." - Ben Rigby speaks to leading barristers about a busy time at the banking Bar

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  • March 4, 2012 |

    Ex-Simmons partner named head of legal at banking client

    Arbuthnot Banking Group has appointed former Simmons & Simmons corporate partner Alan Karter as its new head of legal affairs. Karter, who left Simmons at the end of 2011, will take up the newly-created position this month and will work closely with the bank's existing risk and compliance personnel.

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  • March 1, 2012 |

    Freshfields names new co-heads for London M&A

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed corporate partners Simon Marchant and Ben Spiers to co-head its London M&A practice in a first time role for the magic circle firm.

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  • February 29, 2012 |

    Proskauer City funds partner exits firm to join Morgan Lewis in London

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius has added a partner to its London private funds practice with the hire of William Yonge from Proskauer Rose. Yonge, who joins the US firm today (1 March) after serving a period of gardening leave at Proskauer, advises fund managers, investment funds and private equity firms on financial services regulation and securities law.

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  • February 27, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including Ashurst, BLP and K&L Gates

    Ashurst has added a partner to its City banking practice with the hire of Linklaters London managing associate Nicholas Moore. Moore, who has spent almost 12 years at the magic circle firm, focuses on investment grade loans, an area Ashurst is aiming to expand into. He is currently negotiating his exit terms from Linklaters and is due to join Ashurst's partnership in the summer.

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  • February 27, 2012 |

    Top US firms line up on $7.2bn Apollo-led energy LBO

    Five top US law firms have won roles as a private equity consortium led by Apollo Global Management has agreed to acquire El Paso Corporation's oil and gas exploration and production units in a $7.15bn (£4.5bn) leveraged buyout, reports The Am Law Daily. El Paso announced last week that it had reached an agreement to sell the businesses to a group composed of Apollo, Access Industries and Riverstone Holdings. The deal reportedly marks the second-largest private equity takeover of an energy producer.

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  • February 23, 2012 |

    No apologies - a coalface view on the US market regulator's no-guilt deals

    The Securities and Exchange Commission's no-guilt deals can be a boon to in-house lawyers, writes Corporate Counsel's Sue Reisinger...

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  • February 23, 2012 |

    CC and LG lead on $1.6bn Shell bid as oil giant targets East Africa

    Clifford Chance (CC) and LG have secured lead roles on Royal Dutch Shell's $1.6bn (£1bn) bid for oil exploration company Cove Energy, reports The Am Law Daily. Cove, which is based in London and holds oil and gas assets in Kenya, Mozambique and Tanzania, is being advised by LG, with corporate partners Geoff Gouriet and John Reed heading up the firm's team.

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