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  • June 29, 2010 |

    Skadden lands senior SFO prosecutor for London base

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has hired former Serious Fraud Office (SFO) prosecutor Matthew Cowie as counsel for its London corporate investigations practice. Cowie joined the firm yesterday (29 June) after 11 years with the SFO where he was part of the senior management team of the anti-corruption domain.

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  • June 15, 2010 |

    Herbert Smith leads on News Corp's multi-billion BSkyB takeover bid

    Herbert Smith has secured a lead role advising BSkyB on News Corporation's bid to purchase the remaining share capital in the satellite broadcaster, valuing the company at more than £12bn. Allen & Overy (A&O) and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom are advising News Corp on its bid to take full control of BSkyB by acquiring the remaining 60.1% of shares in the company, with BSkyB today rejecting an initial offer of £7 a share.

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  • June 14, 2010 |

    CC global antitrust chief opts for move to Skadden's Brussels arm

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is set to boost its Brussels office with the hire of Clifford Chance (CC) global antitrust head Simon Baxter. Baxter, who became a partner with CC in 1998, resigned earlier this month (3 June) and will join the US firm on Wednesday (16 June).

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  • June 3, 2010 |

    Baker & McKenzie names Sao Paulo partner as new chairman

    Baker & McKenzie has elected Sao Paulo partner Eduardo Leite as the next chairman of the firm's eight-strong executive committee, reports The Am Law Daily. Leite, who has served as managing partner of the firm's four offices in Brazil since 2003, also heads the firm's global energy, mining, and infrastructure practice group. "Given our brand, our people and our clients expect our leadership to be global," said current chairman John Conroy. "There is some additional excitement because we have never had a chair out of Latin America," he says.

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  • May 28, 2010 |

    A&O boosts energy team with Herbert Smith partner duo

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has boosted its corporate energy team in the City with the recruitment of two partners from Herbert Smith. The transfer of the pair - Paul Griffin and John Geraghty - marks a rare partner-level appointment in the London market for A&O.

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  • May 27, 2010 |

    China: The great search forward

    Victor Liang plows his metallic beige BMW sedan through Beijing's traffic on a crisp February morning as he describes how he came to be the first general counsel at Baidu, China's leading internet search engine. It was five years ago, and he was wrapping up an LLM at the University of New South Wales in Australia after having studied law at Peking University a decade before. "I wanted to do some work to combine Chinese local issues and some overseas issues," recalls Liang, who toiled for a few years as a Beijing bureaucrat before switching careers.

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  • May 27, 2010 |

    Litigation

    Hogan Lovells looks at the rise in disputes work following the recession, while Skadden reports on the global influence of America's tough stance on white-collar crime...

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  • May 26, 2010 |

    Trio of firms lead $23.8bn Ukrainian cell company deal

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Magisters have lined up on a $23.8bn (£16.4bn) deal - the largest merger in Ukrainian history. The deal, completed on 21 April, saw Russia's Altimo and Norway's Telenor combine their stakes in cellular operators Russian Vimpelcom and Ukrainian Kyivstar GSM to create Vimpelcom.

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  • May 26, 2010 |

    White & Case restocks City banking team with hire of Gide partner duo

    White & Case has made a double partner hire from Gide Loyrette Nouel's London office as the firm continues to rebuild its banking and capital markets practice in the City. Gide partners Michael Doran and Christopher Czarnocki are set to join the US firm's banking and capital markets practice.

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  • May 26, 2010 |

    Litigation: The long arm of the law

    The evolving state of extradition law calls to mind the process of ageing. One day you have not a care in the world. Seemingly, the next morning everything has changed and it hurts to put on your socks. The new day of extradition law is upon us. While we were looking elsewhere, the big decisions were made. For at least the past decade, the US has been aggressively reaching out to extradite citizens of other nations who have been charged with business crimes. Since the signing of the new extradition treaty between the US and the UK in 2003, the UK has evidenced its willingness to turn its own citizens charged with white-collar crimes over to the US for prosecution.

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