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  • February 10, 2014 |

    Norton Rose Fulbright LLPs reveal 75% drop in net debt

    Norton Rose Fulbright reduced its net debt by £18.6m during the 2012-13 financial year, according to the firm's latest limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts. The report, filed with Companies House, showed that overall net debt dropped from £26.1m to £7.5m.

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  • February 9, 2014 |

    Norton Rose Fulbright set to pass global chair role to South African partner

    Norton Rose Fulbright is set to name South Africa chairman Sbu Gule as the new global chairman of the firm. The agreement to name a South African partner as chair was part of the merger deal between Norton Rose and legacy Deneys Reitz when the firms combined in 2011.

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  • February 2, 2014 |

    Norton Rose Fulbright launches global regulatory and investigations practice

    Norton Rose Fulbright has launched a global regulatory and investigations practice to help businesses navigate matters relating to risk and enforcement.

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  • January 30, 2014 |

    The compass points south – how do in-house legal teams in Africa rate their external advisers?

    Ian Isdale, group company secretary and general counsel of leading African food and consumer goods company Tiger Brands and immediate past president of the Corporate Lawyers Association of South Africa, is putting it mildly when he says: "There has been a heightened interest in Africa and in the next five years I don't see that interest waning." Recent years have seen a host of UK and US law firms – ranging from Norton Rose Fulbright and Linklaters to Hogan Lovells and even Slaughter and May – attempting to come up with ways to penetrate a market where activity levels have remained buoyant, despite economic challenges elsewhere in the world. So with law firms and corporates increasingly turning their attention south, Legal Week Intelligence has, for the first time, extended its flagship Client Satisfaction Report to Africa, to uncover the key trends affecting in-house legal teams in the continent and their satisfaction with external legal advisers

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  • January 30, 2014 |

    Vedder Price grows City aviation team with hire of Norton Rose practice head

    US firm Vedder Price has raided Norton Rose Fulbright to hire its aviation chief Neil Poland. Banking partner Poland will join Vedder Price's highly regarded transportation finance practice in London as a partner next month.

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  • January 27, 2014 |

    Freshfields and Barclays back Aspiring Solicitors career advice initiative

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells and Barclays bank are among a group of ten private practice and in-house legal teams to sponsor a free academic and careers advice service for future solicitors. Aspiring Solicitors is the creation of former Norton Rose Fulbright corporate associate Chris White, who has now left the firm to work on the initiative full-time.

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  • January 23, 2014 |

    McLaren F1 team puts Norton Rose in driving seat as firm secures global adviser mandate

    Norton Rose Fulbright has becoming the first law firm to form a partnership with Formula 1 team McClaren Mercedes. The firm will work closely with McLaren Group's in-house legal team to advise on corporate and M&A, contractual and intellectual property, real estate and employment law.

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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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