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  • July 20, 2008 |

    Seeing shadows

    Note to foreign clients of US law firms - this call may be monitored.With all the secrecy surrounding the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay,…

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  • July 17, 2008 |

    GE Real Estate names new GC for Europe

    General Electric (GE) Real Estate has appointed Marianna Nitsch as general counsel of its European arm. Nitsch, who was formerly the legal head of the company's French division, took up the post at the beginning of July following the promotion of predecessor Theirry Leleu to the role of European managing director of GE Real Estate's Global Investment Management platform.

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  • July 14, 2008 |

    Shearman, Wachtell lead on $19bn chemicals sale

    Shearman & Sterling has taken the lead role alongside Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz on a chemical company acquisition worth approximately $18.8bn (£9.5bn). US chemical giant Dow Chemical Company agreed to buy Rohm and Haas in the deal, which closed on 10 July. Leading the Wachtell team advising Rohm and Haas is corporate partner and co-chairman of the executive committee Daniel Neff and corporate partner Stephanie Seligman in New York. The Shearman team, advising Dow, is being led by New York-based M&A partners John Marzulli Jr and Scott Petepiece.

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  • July 11, 2008 |

    Nokia names Pentland as new in-house legal chief

    Nokia has formally appointed Louise Pentland as its chief legal officer after handing her the role on a temporary basis in September last year. Pentland took up the post nine months ago while the communications company sought a replacement for former chief legal officer Carl Belding.

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  • July 9, 2008 |

    US Firms in London: Business benefits

    On 6 May this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed significant changes to its cross-border M&A rules, aiming to expand and enhance their usefulness. The rules, first adopted in 1999, provide relief from the US tender offer and registration requirements that would otherwise apply to takeovers of non-US public companies with US shareholders, whether or not such companies have a US listing. They encourage bidders to include US shareholders in bids for non-US companies, while providing US shareholders with the protections of the US federal securities laws where necessary.

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  • July 8, 2008 |

    Mayer Brown makes capital markets hire in Paris

    Mayer Brown has bolstered its French capital markets practice with the hire of Robert Flanigan to its Paris office. Flanigan, who joined the firm on 16 June, will head the capital markets practice and brings the total Paris partnership to 15.Prior to joining the Anglo-American firm, Flanigan headed up the capital markets practice at US rival Winston & Strawn in Paris for three years. He also previously worked at Shearman & Sterling.

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  • July 7, 2008 | International Edition

    French indie signs up Freshfields partner

    Parisian independent Bredin Prat has recruited leading employment lawyer Pascale Lagesse from the local offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to launch a new practice area. Lagesse, who heads the employment department at the local office of Freshfields, is set to join Bredin Prat in October this year. The hire represents the first foray into employment law for the corporate boutique, which operates a 'best friends' relationship with Slaughter and May in the UK.

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  • July 7, 2008 |

    French indie signs up Freshfields partner

    Parisian independent Bredin Prat has recruited leading employment lawyer Pascale Lagesse from the local offices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to launch a new practice area. Lagesse, who heads the employment department at the local office of Freshfields, is set to join Bredin Prat in October this year. The hire represents the first foray into employment law for the corporate boutique, which operates a 'best friends' relationship with Slaughter and May in the UK.

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  • July 7, 2008 |

    Shearman corporate chief set to join Weil Gotshal

    Shearman & Sterling's respected head of corporate Peter King is set to join Weil Gotshal & Manges as a partner in the US firm's corporate team. King will join Weil Gotshal at the end of the month and will be charged with building the firm's M&A practice.King joined Shearman in 2003 from Linklaters, where he trained and became a partner in 1990. At Shearman he was responsible for the development of the London M&A and equity capital markets strategy.

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  • July 4, 2008 |

    Weil Gotshal freezes London NQ pay at £90k

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has frozen its salaries for newly-qualified (NQ) lawyers at £90,000 this year after last year's 20% boost. The mid-Atlantic firm is set to keep all pay bands static. Three-year qualified lawyers at the firm currently take home £144,660.Despite not making any changes to its pay scale, the firm's NQ rates still make it one of the top payers in London, in line with many of the Wall Street elite.

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