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  • January 22, 2014 |

    Allure undimmed – why international firms are queuing up to grab a piece of the Canadian market

    Troubles in Canada's energy industry have taken the shine off its economy, but this has done little to deter the host of international outfits eager to tap into the market. With firms such as Dentons and Norton Rose Fulbright already active there, James Boxell asks what attracted them to the country, and whether their 'one-stop shops' can take on the dominant seven sisters

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  • January 15, 2014 |

    Magic circle breaks into Stonewall list as Freshfields makes top 100

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has become the first magic circle firm to break into the top 100 UK employers for LGB staff, according to the charity Stonewall's annual index.

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  • January 15, 2014 |

    Bird & Bird signs up Air Arabia GC for Middle East practice

    Bird & Bird has sealed the hire of former Air Arabia group general counsel Anna Anatolitou in a boost for its burgeoning Middle East operations.

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  • January 14, 2014 |

    HSF, KWM lead on Australia's largest IPO of 2013

    Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) have advised on Australia's largest IPO of 2013. The deal saw Pact Group Holdings, a manufacturer of packaging products in Asia-Pacific, float over 170m shares on the Australian Securities Exchange, raising a total of AUD$649m.

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  • January 13, 2014 |

    Shell GC Peter Rees to step down after three years in the role

    Peter Rees QC has stepped down as legal director of Shell, just three years after joining the company from Debevoise & Plimpton. In a statement, a spokesperson for the energy giant said: "Shell can confirm that Peter Rees is stepping down as Legal Director of the Company with effect from 10 January 2014 to pursue other interests."

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  • January 9, 2014 |

    King & Spalding secures record $500m arbitration award against Kazakhstan

    King & Spalding has secured the third largest treaty arbitration award in history for a group of clients in a case against the Republic of Kazakhstan...

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  • December 18, 2013 |

    Greenberg advises on $325m Bob Diamond-backed Africa fund

    Greenberg Traurig Maher has taken the lead role on the fund raising and initial public offering (IPO) of Atlas Mara, a cash shell founded by former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond.

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  • December 17, 2013 |

    Dentons continues Middle East push with hire of V&E's Abu Dhabi head

    Dentons has hired Vinson & Elkins' (V&E) Abu Dhabi managing partner Jonathan Nash, in an expansion of its energy practice. Nash, an international project finance and development lawyer, joined V&E from Chadbourne & Parke's London office in 2010. He becomes Dentons' third senior lateral hire in the region in a little over a month, following the recruitment of DLA Piper construction partner Ian Dalley in Abu Dhabi and banking and Norton Rose Fulbright finance partner Alex Roussos in Dubai.

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  • December 16, 2013 |

    Sidley Austin to move into larger Singapore base as others downsize

    Sidley Austin is to move into its new larger Singapore premises as a handful of other firms in the city-state are downsizing. The US firm, which told Legal Week in August it planned to triple the size of its Singapore base from 12 to 50 lawyers in the next three years, will move into new premises on Level 31, Six Battery Road before Christmas, with a recently expanded team of 20 lawyers, eight of whom are partners.

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  • December 12, 2013 |

    British Legal Awards 2013: who won what - and why...

    A run-down of all the winners at this year's British Legal Awards, including full details of the judging panel's reasoning for each award.

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