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  • November 21, 2013 |

    HSF loses second partner in Singapore since September

    Former Freehills Singapore head John Dick has become the second partner to leave the firm's regional base since September. Dick, who specialises in South East Asian corporate energy and resources work, and who helped establish Freehills' Singapore office in 2000, is set to exit from the firm early December to establish a Singapore base for another international firm.

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  • November 21, 2013 |

    Gide, Norton Rose Fulbright and Bakers among firms winning spots on Credit Agricole's global roster

    Gide Loyrette Nouel, Baker & McKenzie and Norton Rose Fulbright are among a number of firms to have been appointed to Credit Agricole's global legal panel, following a competitive tender process led from Paris. The review concluded in the last few weeks after firms were invited over the summer to pitch for a slot on the roster. Other law firms understood to have been appointed include Ashurst, Hogan Lovells and Linklaters.

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  • November 21, 2013 |

    African Legal Awards 2013: who won what – and why...

    Two hundred lawyers gathered at the African Legal Awards in October to celebrate the achievements of the continent's leading business lawyers. The ceremony was hosted by Legal Week in association with the Corporate Lawyers Association of South Africa (CLASA) and featured leading South African investigative journalist Derek Watts in the role of master of ceremonies.

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  • November 21, 2013 |

    A continent on the rise – why top law firms are eager to tap into the African market

    Andrew Jones of Linklaters is doing it. Kem Ihenacho of Clifford Chance (CC) is doing it. Philip Stopford and Stuart Matty of White & Case, Dentons' Paul Bugingo, Covington & Burling's Witney Schneidman – turns out they're all at it too. Regularly. What is it they're up to? The answer is short: travelling to Africa. They are among an expanding cadre of senior lawyers and advisers from leading global law firms who have been told to seek out opportunities and develop their practices on the vast continent.

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  • November 21, 2013 |

    Norton Rose Fulbright axes 30 jobs in Australia

    Norton Rose Fulbright has made 30 staff redundant across its Australian offices. Those affected include 12 fee earners and 18 support staff. It is not clear whether any partners are among those being laid off.

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  • November 21, 2013 |

    Norton Rose Fulbright advises on major £1.5bn London port project

    Norton Rose Fulbright has acted on the £1.5bn development of London Gateway, the UK's first port to open in more than two decades. The site - which officially opened this month - is based in a 1,500 acre port and logistics park on the north bank of the Thames in Thurrock, Essex.

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  • November 20, 2013 |

    CC and Links lead $1.3bn Tanzanian oil and gas sale

    Linklaters and Clifford Chance (CC) have acted on Ophir Energy's sale of its stake in a Tanzanian oil and gas development to Singapore investment company Temasek. Temasek has acquired the 20% stake in the offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) development from Ophir for $1.3bn (£810m), although the Lakshmi Mittal-controlled company will remain an investor in the joint venture.

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  • November 19, 2013 |

    Slaughters, A&O among firms on Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi's debut panel

    Slaughter and May, Allen & Overy and Linklaters are among a raft of firms to have won a spot on The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) first ever legal panel. The panel covers Europe, the Middle East and Africa and is split into a preferred firms' panel and a transactional panel.

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  • November 19, 2013 |

    Hogan Lovells takes competition partner Jones from Norton Rose Fulbright

    Hogan Lovells has sealed the hire of antitrust partner Mark Jones from Norton Rose Fulbright, continuing its expansion drive of recent months. Jones, who will join Hogan Lovells antitrust, competition and economic regulation practice in London in the New Year, has been a partner at Norton Rose for ten years. He works in particular in the in the energy, infrastructure, insurance and retail sectors.

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  • November 14, 2013 |

    Trainee retention rates at UK top 10's HK bases remain high as firms continue to invest in Asia

    Trainee retention rates at the Hong Kong offices of the UK's top 10 law firms have remained broadly static on last year as firms continue to invest in Asian markets, despite a comparatively uncertain year for the local economy. Ninety percent (55 out of 62) of newly qualified lawyers (NQs) at the UK's top firms in Hong Kong were offered jobs this September, all of whom accepted, according to research by Legal Week.

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