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  • August 26, 2008 |

    A&O taps Cadwalader for China office hire

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has bolstered its China offering with the hire of the former managing partner of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft's Beijing office.

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  • August 7, 2008 |

    Top firms line up as SocGen kicks off review

    French banking giant Societe Generale (SocGen) is reviewing its global panel of legal advisers, with a raft of City and international firms applying to be considered. Firms will be appointed to the panel for a three-year period starting on 1 January, 2009, with the initial deadline for applications closing at the end of last month. SocGen general counsel Frederic de Brouwer and deputy head of legal for Europe, competition law and group legal David Bourdon are understood to be co-ordinating the review.

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  • August 7, 2008 |

    Shearman sacks associate after student strip club complaint

    Shearman & Sterling has dismissed an associate in its London office after a vacation scheme student made a formal complaint about his behaviour during a night out. The student, who has subsequently accepted a training contract position with another firm, lodged a formal complaint to Shearman alleging that she was taken to a strip club by the associate who then sexually harassed her. An internal investigation at Shearman has resulted in the associate in question leaving the firm.

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  • August 7, 2008 |

    O'Melveny's Puff to join Shearman HK office

    Shearman & Sterling has boosted its Hong Kong office with the hire of O'Melveny & Myers partner and Asian M&A head Gregory Puff. Puff was an associate with Shearman from 1993 to 2002 but has rejoined the firm as a partner specialising in public and private mergers and hostile transactions.

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  • July 30, 2008 | International Edition

    Shearman and Weil to advise on GE's Abu Dhabi investment tie-up

    Shearman & Sterling and Weil Gotshal & Manges have come together to advise on a multibillion-dollar partnership between Abu Dhabi's state investment vehicle, Mubadala, and General Electric (GE). Shearman's New York office has taken the lead role for Mubadala, which last week (22 July) announced it is set to become one of GE's 10 largest institutional investors through the agreement, which will also see each company invest $4bn (£2bn) in a jointly-owned financial services company based in Abu Dhabi.

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  • July 30, 2008 |

    Shearman and Weil to advise on GE's Abu Dhabi investment tie-up

    Shearman & Sterling and Weil Gotshal & Manges have come together to advise on a multibillion-dollar partnership between Abu Dhabi's state investment vehicle, Mubadala, and General Electric (GE). Shearman's New York office has taken the lead role for Mubadala, which last week (22 July) announced it is set to become one of GE's 10 largest institutional investors through the agreement, which will also see each company invest $4bn (£2bn) in a jointly-owned financial services company based in Abu Dhabi.

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  • July 30, 2008 |

    Germany: Internal affairs

    On 15 November, 2006, more than 200 policemen descended on the Munich headquarters of German technology giant Siemens and the homes and offices of 30 Siemens executives around Germany to comb the premises for incriminating documents. It was one of Europe's dreaded 'dawn raids', a term that bears little relation to the time of day but usually denotes the start of a tiresome ballet between the government and a company suspected of wrongdoing. In the traditional European model of prosecution, corporations stonewall and fight to the bitter end.

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  • July 25, 2008 |

    Bar Council of Ireland votes in Collins as chair

    Monckton Chambers door tenant Michael Collins has been elected as chairman of the Bar Council of Ireland. Collins stepped up to his new role earlier this month (18 July) after serving as vice-chair for the past year. He was elected to his new position as chair with the largest vote in the history of the Council.

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  • July 24, 2008 |

    Shearman spin-off makes McDermott partner hire

    German independent Schilling Zutt & Anschuetz has made its first lateral hire, recruiting corporate and M&A partner Stephan Brandes from McDermott Will & Emery. Brandes left the Mannheim arm of Shearman & Sterling at the end of 2007, just months before the office split from the US firm, reverting back to the name it operated under before its 2000 tie-up with Shearman, in April this year. He briefly moved to McDermott's Munich office before now returning to Mannheim.

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  • July 21, 2008 |

    Shearman unveils new European finance head

    Shearman & Sterling's London office has appointed Clifford Atkins as the new head of the firm's European finance group, taking over from Anthony Ward. Ward will step down as the group head on 1 August to concentrate on his role as London office managing partner - as well as his position on the firm's global policy committee.Atkins joined Shearman in 1998 from top 10 City firm Ashurst and focuses on structured and leveraged finance.

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