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  • May 5, 2010 |

    Weil Gotshal recruits CC funds partner for Hong Kong office

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has grown its Hong Kong funds practice with the hire of Clifford Chance (CC) partner John Fadely. Fadely joins Weil from the magic circle firm, where he had been a partner in the funds group since 2008. Prior to working at CC he was at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.

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  • April 27, 2010 |

    Goldman lines up big-name legal team to fight SEC fraud charge

    Goldman Sachs has put together a high-profile legal team to defend itself against the fraud charges brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), reports The Am Law Daily. The global financial services firm has recruited a number of big-name lawyers to work alongside its current legal team, which consists of litigation specialists Richard Klapper and Gregory Craig of Sullivan & Cromwell and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom respectively.

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  • April 23, 2010 |

    Four firms take top spots on on $10.6bn telecoms tie-up

    A quartet of US firms have taken lead roles on the $10.6bn (£6.9bn) acquisition of Qwest Communications by rival telecoms company CenturyTel, reports The Am Law Daily. Qwest was advised by US firms Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr. Skadden provided M&A advice with a team led by partner Charles Mulaney, while WilmerHale advised on antitrust and regulation with a team led by partners James Lowe, Lynn Charytan and Samir Jain.

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  • April 21, 2010 |

    Media and internet: The content business

    Once, life was simple in the media business. Media companies produced content - though they didn't call it that - for the masses. Film studios, record companies, publishers and broadcasting groups either owned or had significant control over distribution channels for that content. Life was also much simpler for media lawyers. Work was filled with low-level litigation, turning out fairly standard copyright agreements and, if you worked for one of the acquisitive media conglomerates, bringing in external counsel for intermittent bouts of empire building

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  • April 14, 2010 |

    US Briefing: Road trip

    At around 3pm on 6 October 2009, roughly 100 lawyers and executives filed into a conference room in Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom's Manhattan office. It had taken three years, 11 months and 29 days to get to this moment: Delphi was emerging from the depths of bankruptcy and passing into the hands of its former parent, General Motors Company (GM), as well as two lenders. There was a palpable sense of exhaustion in the room; the close had been convened seven hours earlier. The Veuve Clicquot, selected by Delphi lead lawyer John 'Jack' Butler Jr but poured prematurely, was flat.

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  • April 8, 2010 |

    Freshfields, Sullivan take the wheel on Daimler-Nissan-Renault tie-up

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Sullivan & Cromwell have advised on a joint venture between Daimler, Nissan and Renault that will see the automakers team up to develop a new wave of energy-efficient cars. The agreement will see the German, Japanese and French car manufacturers take stakes in each other to share technologies and build smaller, electric-powered vehicles.

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  • March 26, 2010 |

    Shearman spin-off launches in Frankfurt with Skadden hires

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has lost its Frankfurt tax team to German firm Schilling Zutt & Anschutz, which is set to launch in the city. Skadden tax partner Hans-Georg Berg, counsel Rolf Schmich, and associate Bjoern Enders are to join the firm on 1 April.

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  • March 24, 2010 |

    SRA set to offer fast-track qualification rights to Asia lawyers

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has approved new regulations for the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS) that could see the scheme expanded to a host of new jurisdictions including China and Japan. The proposed changes, which will come into effect in September if approved by the Legal Services Board, are intended to better regulate internationally-qualified lawyers seeking admission in England and Wales.

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  • March 19, 2010 |

    Kirkland and Freshfields take lead roles on $5bn pharma buyout

    Kirkland & Ellis and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have advised on the $5bn (£3.3bn) acquisition of German drugmaker Ratiopharm by Teva Pharmaceuticals, the world's leading generic drug company, reports The Am Law Daily. Kirkland took a lead role for Teva on the deal, while Freshfields advised Ratiopharm's parent company, with partners Andreas Fabritius and Oliver von Rosenberg leading the magic circle firm's team.

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  • March 17, 2010 | International Edition

    Pharmaceuticals: The game changer

    The pharmaceutical industry is facing uncertain times as a once-lucrative business model buckles under a globalising world economy. Charlotte Edmond reports on the companies and lawyers battling to secure all-important intellectual property in a rapidly changing market

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