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  • March 3, 2010 |

    Department of defence

    BAE Systems general counsel Philip Bramwell likes to delegate. Last year he charged UK chief counsel Roger Wiltshire with handling the defence company's recently concluded review of its UK legal advisers - its first panel review in 12 years. And he has just handed the job of re-assessing the group of law firms BAE uses for its international work to Andrew Guest, chief counsel for Saudi Arabia.

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  • March 3, 2010 |

    Pinsents moves into new London headquarters at 30 Crown Place

    Pinsent Masons is set to move all of its London lawyers under one roof after signing a deal to take on new space in the recently completed 30 Crown Place building. The national firm is planning to move its 600 London staff into the 16-storey building near Liverpool Street in early 2011 after a three-year hunt for suitable premises.

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  • February 24, 2010 |

    Pinsents and Freshfields take lead on buyout company's £418m listing

    Pinsent Masons and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have taken lead roles on the £418m listing of restaurant entrepreneur Hugh Osmond's corporate acquisition company Horizon on the London Stock Exchange. The initial public offering (IPO), which also handed an advisory role to Morrison & Foerster (MoFo), saw Horizon start trading stock on 9 February.

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  • February 24, 2010 |

    The outsourcers are coming

    The news that Microsoft is sending out legal work to a team of lawyers at legal process outsourcing (LPO) provider CPA Global in India is the latest indication that one of the most talked-about trends in recent years is no flash in the pan. That the announcement followed the defection earlier this month of former Rio Tinto managing attorney Leah Cooper to a business development role at CPA only adds further credence to the growing acceptance of legal outsourcing - particularly since Cooper herself was the driving force behind an agreement struck between CPA and Rio last June that saw a team of CPA lawyers take on work such as document review and legal research for the mining giant.

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  • February 22, 2010 |

    Charles Russell and Bird & Bird make line-up on revamped FA legal panel

    Charles Russell, Bird & Bird and Pinsent Masons have all scored roles on the Football Association (FA) Group's new-look legal panel following a tender process which saw a total of eight firms appointed. The two-stage panel process, which came to an end in December last year, saw eight successful firms chosen to work with the FA Group until March 2012.

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  • February 17, 2010 |

    Eversheds and Hammonds head up firms on northwest development agency panel

    Eversheds and Hammonds have won prime roles on the Northwest Regional Development Agency's (NWDA) new-look panel. The NWDA has overhauled its panel, moving away from a single roster comprising six law firms to four separate rosters covering corporate, real estate, litigation and state aid work.

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  • February 10, 2010 |

    A&O and Linklaters among winning firms in rare BAE adviser review

    Aerospace and defence giant BAE Systems has completed the first major review of its external legal advisers in the UK for more than a decade, with law firms including Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters among those making the grade. The review, which kicked off last summer under the leadership of chief UK counsel Roger Wiltshire, has seen the company formalise its relationship with 16 law firms as well as three sets of barristers chambers.

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  • January 27, 2010 |

    Lovells brings in former Reed Smith partner to build Middle East practice

    Lovells has hired former Reed Smith partner Stephen York to head up its Middle East dispute resolution practice. York, who left Reed Smith's London office last autumn, will join Lovells next week (1 February) as a consultant, with a brief to grow the firm's regional disputes practice.

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  • January 27, 2010 |

    Stephenson Harwood adds Holman Fenwick partner in the City

    Stephenson Harwood has strengthened its London commodities sector group with the hire of a partner from Holman Fenwick Willan. Peter Bennett joined the City law firm this week (25 January) after 17 years as a partner in the insurance leader's London office.

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  • January 27, 2010 |

    Pinsents to advise utility company on King's Cross redevelopment contract

    Pinsent Masons has landed a role advising on an infrastructure contract for the redevelopment of King's Cross. The national firm is advising utility infrastructure group Inexus Group and subsidiary Metropolitan Infrastructure (MI) on a deal that has seen MI win the contract to design, construct and operate all of the utility services for the project.

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