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  • September 13, 2012 |

    Salans gears up for SNR Denton merger vote; 75% partnership approval required

    Salans is gearing up to vote on its potential tie-up with SNR Denton, as merger talks between the firms advance.

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  • September 13, 2012 |

    Eversheds makes hires in pensions and banking with CMS and Cobbetts recruits

    Eversheds has bolstered its London and Leeds offices with a series of recruits from CMS Cameron McKenna and Cobbetts.

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  • September 13, 2012 |

    Freshfields and CC win roles on multibillion BAE-EADS mega-merger

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have both scored roles on the proposed merger of EADS and BAE Systems, which is set to create an aerospace and defence giant worth $45bn (£27bn). Freshfields is acting for BAE, led by senior partner Will Lawes, while French outfit Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier is leading for EADS, with CC providing UK advice. Darrois' team is led by founding partner Alain Maillot and M&A partner Bertrand Cardi, while the CC team is headed up by global corporate head Matthew Layton, alongside corporate partners Patrick Sarch and Lee Coney.

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  • September 10, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including Pinsents, DLA and FFW

    Pinsent Masons has recruited a new head of litigation in Manchester with the hire of Julian Diaz-Rainey from Hill Dickinson. Diaz-Rainey, whose practice has a particular focus on the sports sector, has acted for a number of big-name clients including Premier League giants Manchester United and Manchester City, while he has also been involved in high-profile public inquiries such as the Shipman Inquiry and Baha Mousa Inquiry.

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  • September 6, 2012 |

    Graduate intake at top UK law firms falls 11% over post-crunch years

    Graduate recruitment across the bulk of the UK top 20 looks set to shrink by more than 10% between 2008-09 and 2013-14 as firms continue to scale back trainee numbers in response to the dampened economic climate.

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  • September 5, 2012 |

    Kirkland bolsters London white collar team with SFO's bribery head

    Kirkland & Ellis' City arm has secured a high-profile boost for its European practice after recruiting the Serious Fraud Office's (SFO's) head of bribery and corruption, Satnam Tumani. Tumani will join Kirkland as a partner in the US giant's white collar crime practice at the end of the month in what will be regarded as a key hire for the firm.

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  • August 31, 2012 |

    Pinsents secures France launch with hire of nine-partner team

    Pinsent Masons is opening a new office in Paris after recruiting a nine-partner team from Marccus Partners, the legal arm of accounting firm Mazars. The new nine-partner office in the French capital, which will open for business tomorrow (1 September), will mark Pinsents' second continental European base and comes just two months after the firm set up shop in Munich on 1 July.

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  • August 29, 2012 |

    Addleshaws confirms 24 fee earner cuts as attrition remains low

    Addleshaw Goddard has confirmed that 24 fee earners have been made redundant following a two-month consultation at the firm. The firm first announced its intention to trim the number of senior fee earners in June, at the same time as announcing that partner profits had risen by 37% to £450,000.

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  • August 24, 2012 |

    Pinsents cuts 47 back office roles after post-merger consultation

    Pinsent Masons has announced that 47 members of its support team are to be made redundant following its merger with Scottish firm McGrigors. Confirmation of the cuts comes after Pinsents announced in June that around 40 roles were at risk, after a post-merger review found that there were a number of duplicate roles within its support teams.

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  • August 22, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including DLA, Plexus and CC

    DLA Piper has added a partner to its German finance and projects practice with the hire of Linklaters managing associate Wolfram Distler. Distler, who will join DLA's Frankfurt base as of 1 September, has been at Linklaters since 2003, primarily in Frankfurt as well as two spells in the magic circle firm's London office.

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