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  • January 11, 2011 |

    Winston & Strawn targets London IP with Taylor Wessing and DLA hires

    Winston & Strawn has launched a City intellectual property (IP) capacity with lateral partner hires from Taylor Wessing and DLA Piper. The US firm has recruited Taylor Wessing's longstanding City partner Richard Price to spearhead the practice alongside DLA Piper partner Gareth Morgan.

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  • January 11, 2011 |

    Reed Smith recruits London tax chief from Eversheds

    Reed Smith has expanded its London tax practice with the hire of Eversheds' head of corporate tax, Caspar Fox, who joined the firm's London office last week (4 January). Fox will work alongside partner Harriet Morgan, who has been the only tax partner in Reed Smith's London office since former tax head Huw Witty left to join City firm Fladgate Fielder in 2009.

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  • January 11, 2011 |

    TLT to boost mortgage litigation offering with boutique acquisition

    Bristol firm TLT is set to take over mortgage litigation boutique Glenisters. Two of Glenisters' partners, Gavin Dowell and Paul Heeley, joined the national firm this week (10 January), with all of Glenisters' Eastcote-based clients moving over to TLT and Glenisters - which has a turnover of approximately £1.5m - ceasing to trade.

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  • January 10, 2011 |

    Camerons hires Simmons partner for international capital markets launch

    CMS Cameron McKenna has launched an international capital markets (ICM) group with the hire of Simmons & Simmons US securities partner Daniel Winterfeldt. As previously reported by Legal Week, Winterfeldt left Simmons in early December 2010. He will join Camerons next month (1 February) to head up the new team, which will span 13 offices in the UK and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and include around 40 partners.

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  • January 6, 2011 |

    Virgin Media makes internal appointment for new general counsel

    Virgin Media has appointed Scott Dresser as its new general counsel, after longstanding postholder Bryan Hall announced his retirement. Dresser, who has been serving as the media company's deputy GC, takes up his promotion with immediate effect, after Hall decided to leave the company and return to the US. Hall has been Virgin Media's GC since 2004.

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  • January 4, 2011 |

    CC, Mayer Brown act on £495m sale of former Lehman HQ to JP Morgan

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Mayer Brown have taken lead roles on JP Morgan's £495m acquisition of Lehman Brothers' former London headquarters. The 25 Bank Street building in Canary Wharf will now serve as JP Morgan Investment Bank's new European headquarters, with the bank granted a 999-year lease on the building, which has more than one million sq ft of floor space. The building's current tenants include the Financial Services Authority, NYSE Euronext and Jones Lang LaSalle. However, it will be completely vacated by March this year and will then be occupied exclusively by JP Morgan.

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  • December 23, 2010 |

    Norton Rose, CC lead on Malaysian fund's bid for Freshfields City base

    Norton Rose and Clifford Chance (CC) have won lead roles on the proposed £150m sale of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Fleet Street headquarters to a Malaysian pension fund. Norton Rose real estate head Lindsay Morgan is advising Employees Provident Fund (EPF) on the acquisition of the magic circle firm's City office from its current owner, the German property fund Union Investment.

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  • December 17, 2010 |

    Sullivan and Davis Polk advise on $1bn BG Group debt offering

    Sullivan & Cromwell and Davis Polk & Wardwell have taken lead roles on BG Group's inaugural debt offering into the US, with a $1bn (£640m) notes offer. Sullivan advised BG Energy Capital on the deal, which marks the New York firm's first mandate for the company. The firm advised on both English and US law, fielding a team led by London co-managing partner Vanessa Blackmore and corporate partner Bill Plapinger.

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  • December 16, 2010 |

    CC and BLP win lead roles on sale of A&O headquarters to JP Morgan

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) have won lead roles on a major City real estate deal which has seen the ownership of Allen & Overy's (A&O) City headquarters change hands. CC advised Hammerson and Oman Investment Fund (OIF) on the deal, which saw the pair sell their 25:75 joint venture - whose principal asset is the long leasehold interest in the Bishops Square offices in London's Spitalfields - to JP Morgan Asset Management.

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  • December 13, 2010 |

    Freshfields adds London partner duo with CC and Linklaters DCM hires

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has bolstered its City debt capital markets practice with two new partners, including the lateral hire of Peter Allen from magic circle rival Linklaters. Allen joins Freshfields' finance practice in London alongside Duncan Kellaway, who joins as a partner from Clifford Chance (CC), where he was a senior associate. Allen specialises in a wide range of securities work, including advising underwriters and issuers in connection with issues of debt, equity and equity-related securities in international markets. He has particular expertise in emerging markets debt issuance.

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