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  • April 2, 2014 |

    The Woolf of Walbrook: Fiona Woolf's rise from McKenna's first female partner to Lord Mayor of London

    City lawyer and Lord Mayor of London, Fiona Woolf, tells Pui-Guan Man she didn't get where she is today by being afraid to ask

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  • April 2, 2014 |

    DLA Singapore loses corporate head to Norton Rose Fulbright

    DLA Piper's Singapore corporate head Sheela Moorthy has left the firm to join Norton Rose Fulbright, making this the fourth partner exit from the base since mid-2012.

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  • March 30, 2014 |

    Clydes eyes up to 20% Asia revenue growth in coming year

    Clyde & Co is hoping to boost its Asia revenues by between 15 and 20% in the coming year as it continues to ramp up its capacity on the continent.

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  • March 27, 2014 |

    Taking London – the US firms swooping in on the City's top talent

    The Olympic stadium wasn't the only venue for record setting in London in 2012.

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  • March 20, 2014 |

    BP kicks off first UK panel review in three years

    BP has launched a review of its UK legal panel with advisers currently re-tendering for a position on the oil giant's roster.

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  • March 20, 2014 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including DWF, Olswang and Norton Rose Fulbright

    The transfer window is a regular round-up of recent moves in the UK and abroad.

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  • March 19, 2014 |

    BLP eyes Indonesia move as part of South East Asian growth plan

    Berwin Leighton Paisner is understood to be considering a tie up with a local firm in Indonesia as part of its wider plan to tap emerging markets via its new BLP Asia network. The firm, which recently formed an alliance with Legal Network Consultants (LNC) in Myanmar, is keen to boost the amount of work coming from existing clients whilst also acquiring new mandates in fast-growing countries where interest from multinationals is mounting.

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  • March 18, 2014 |

    Transfer Window Asia: recent moves including Reed Smith, HSF and Clifford Chance

    Reed Smith Richards Butler in Hong Kong has brought on board shipping counsel Terry Floyd from Ince & Co. He focuses predominantly on admiralty and casualty work, and is the lastest addition to the Asia-wide shipping group, which has grown in the past two years in response to increased activity in the market.

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  • March 13, 2014 |

    KWM-SJB tie-up gets cautious thumbs up as other merger moves fail to convince

    SJ Berwin's merger with King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has been met with guarded optimism by law firm partners, who are more cynical about other recent high-profile tie-ups. Legal Week's latest Big Question survey has found that nearly 50% of partners believe legacy SJ Berwin's merger with Asia-Pacific giant KWM, which went live last November, looks like a good deal, while a further 6% believe the tie-up will be game-changing. However, 44% of respondents have a 'negative' or 'very negative' view of the union. Nearly half (46%) of partners see the KWM combination as being on a par with other sizeable international mergers in recent years, namely Norton Rose's tie-up with Texas firm Fulbright & Jaworski, which went live last June, US firm Hogan & Hartson's merger with City firm Lovells in 2010 and the three-way union between SNR Denton, Salans and Canada's Fraser Milner Casgrain last March forming Dentons.

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  • March 13, 2014 |

    Trailblazers – what next for post-merger King & Wood Mallesons?

    July 2013. In a meeting room in King & Wood Mallesons' Hong Kong office, a group of journalists wait for an announcement about the firm's pending merger with UK outfit SJ Berwin. The press invitation had been sent out a day before voting closed – a sign the firms were confident about winning partner approval for the union. Cheering and clapping from a room next door confirms the tie-up will go ahead; office staff having just been informed. At the press conference, management finally announces the details, with all of the partners visibly excited – not to mention relieved – after months of deliberation. Today, four months after the merger went live on 1 November 2013, the new entity – not so catchily named King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) SJ Berwin in the UK and Europe for the time being and KWM elsewhere – is very much a reality. SJ Berwin lawyers have moved into the China/Australian firm's offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong, London-based KWM teams have switched to legacy SJ Berwin's City headquarters, global practice coordinators have been appointed in nine core areas and management bodies with representatives from China, London and Australia have already started meeting regularly.

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