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  • December 7, 2007 |

    DLA Piper votes on hiring Will Rosen

    DLA Piper is close to securing former Weil Gotshal & Manges partner Will Rosen for its City private equity team. The firm's partners are currently in the process of voting on the appointment, with final confirmation of the move expected early next week. Rosen handed in his notice at Weil Gotshal this summer (3 July) after 11 years at the New York firm's London arm.

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  • December 5, 2007 |

    SJB, Freshfields see end of mammoth Russian dispute

    A raft of City firm roles came to an end last week when the $2bn (£968m) dispute over Russian telecoms company Megafon finally settled after four years.

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  • December 5, 2007 |

    Weil Gotshal's top-rated bankruptcy co-chief quits for Dewey & LeBoeuf

    The co-head of the bankruptcy practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges has left to launch a new practice group for Dewey & LeBoeuf.

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  • December 4, 2007 |

    US duo carve up $19bn Vivendi video game deal

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have won lead advisory roles on the merger of computer games giants Vivendi and Activision. The $18.9bn (£9.2bn) deal will see the makers of best-selling computer games including James Bond and World of Warcraft come together to form the world's largest video games publisher ahead of market rival Electronic Arts.

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  • December 2, 2007 |

    Hiring Mr Enron for global domination

    If you start from the basis that 90% of partner moves aren’t that interesting, the proportion of the noteworthy 10% this year hailing from bankruptcy…

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  • December 2, 2007 |

    All's too quiet on West Coast bonus front

    Want to kill a conversation with a California law firm leader? Talk about bonuses.Weeks after top New York firms started announcing lavish special bonuses…

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  • November 30, 2007 |

    Weil's top-rated bankruptcy chief quits for Dewey & LeBoeuf

    The co-head of the bankruptcy practice at Weil Gotshal & Manges has left to launch a new practice group for Dewey & LeBoeuf. Martin Bienenstock, one of the nation's most well-known bankruptcy lawyers and the partner who led Weil Gotshal's representation of Enron in its 2001 Chapter 11 filing, will head the business solutions and governance group for Dewey & LeBoeuf and also serve on the firm's executive committee.

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  • November 29, 2007 |

    Pause for thought

    Starting in early 2006, White & Case's London office went on a hiring binge. Within 18 months the firm more than doubled the number of London-based lawyers working on private equity financings, topping 100. Now, thanks to a slowdown in big-ticket private equity deals, White & Case says it will farm out about a dozen London-based partners and associates to other offices, from Moscow to Johannesburg, within the next six months.

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  • November 29, 2007 |

    Conflict revolution

    As the Czech Bar Association (Ceska Advocatni Komora or CAK) tries to crack down on ethics violations, Weil Gotshal & Manges and leading Czech independent Havel & Holasek have been caught up in recent disciplinary investigations for alleged conflicts of interest. While the CAK dropped its Havel & Holasek investigation in late October, at the time of going to press the inquiry involving Weil Gotshal was still under way.

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  • November 29, 2007 |

    The age of independence

    Poland has long been a popular location for UK and US firms eager to capitalise on the flow of work driven by widespread post-Communist privatisation. The global players that have come to dominate the legal landscape in the country include international powerhouses such as Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters as well as top US firms such as Weil Gotshal & Manges and Dewey Ballantine.

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