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  • December 4, 2012 |

    Norton Rose takes on PwC general counsel for top-level advisory role

    Norton Rose has appointed former PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) UK general counsel Owen Jonathan to a newly-created role of senior adviser to the firm's global executive committee. The new role, which will commence from January 2013, will see Jonathan advising the committee on global structure and risk management issues as well as on the future development of Norton Rose.

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  • November 30, 2012 |

    Norton Rose bulks up in Beijing with hire of King & Wood banking partner

    Norton Rose has secured a key hire for its Beijing office with the addition of banking partner Li Jinnan from King & Wood Mallesons. Jinnan, who has extensive experience of representing Chinese banks, will be the first native speaker and PRC-qualified partner on the team.

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  • November 29, 2012 |

    The view from 9th Avenue – the emerging challenges facing New York's elite

    "Who we are hasn't changed at all in some ways over the years. At a partners' meeting recently someone showed me a letter written by Paul Cravath in 1920 and it was almost the same format that we use today," reflects Cravath Swaine & Moore incoming presiding partner Allen Parker. "Really, it was almost identical." Welcome to Manhattan, the most singular, individualistic, contradictory and competitive legal market in the world. As the rest of the global legal profession changes to reflect the impact of the post-Lehman Brothers world and the rise of finance hubs and economies in the east, it seems that many lawyers in Manhattan's hermetically sealed environment carry on as if little has changed.

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  • November 22, 2012 | International Edition

    Rage against the machine – can Linklaters still do the vision thing?

    Lauded as a world-beater during the boom, Linklaters found itself in 2012 dogged by controversy and discord after its latest restructuring. Georgina Stanley asks if the City icon can still do the vision thing

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  • November 22, 2012 |

    Norton Rose chief gears up for post-merger expansion in New York and LatAm

    Norton Rose chief executive Peter Martyr is gearing up to expand in locations including New York and Latin America as the firm prepares to go live with its $2bn (£1.26bn) merger with Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski in June 2013. The Norton Rose Fulbright tie-up will give the firm 800 lawyers across 11 offices in the US, with 110 of these in New York, including 50 partners.

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  • November 22, 2012 |

    Changing games – Norton Rose's rise heralds a changing profession

    It looked significant at the time but in retrospect the 2010 tie-up between Lovells and Hogan & Hartson genuinely marked – and itself influenced – the changing shape of the legal industry. Not only because it constituted a transatlantic union between two major firms, but because the pair chose to deploy a multi-profit centre structure that has since been widely used over the last two years. Some deals haven't dazzled but none looks more significant than last week's news that Norton Rose has secured a tie-up with Fulbright & Jaworski. But then arguably it was Norton Rose that created the model for Hogan Lovells with its takeover of Deacons. Rivals scoffed but it kicked off a run of deals in Australia by firms that see themselves as well above Norton Rose's station. The underlying point? The Fulbright deal highlights the extent to which the last five years have seen industry-defining activity occurring outside the magic circle. Of course, claims that London's legal elite would wither in the face of recession were nonsense but, as a group, neither have they displayed quite the dominance we've come to expect, as we address in this week's analysis on Linklaters.

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  • November 22, 2012 |

    Norton Rose's US merger wins plaudits as doubts surround ambitious Dentons deal

    Norton Rose's transatlantic tie-up with Fulbright & Jaworski has received broad approval from law firm partners, against a more sceptical reponse to the other major merger deal of recent weeks – the proposed three-way union of SNR Denton, Salans and Canada's Fraser Milner Casgrain (FMC). Legal Week's latest Big Question survey found that 61% of partners believe Norton Rose's merger with US firm Fulbright – which is set to go live in June 2013 – is a good deal, with 19% unsure and the remaining 20% having a negative view of the tie-up.

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  • November 22, 2012 |

    Travers takes top law firm prize at British Legal Awards 2012

    Travers Smith, Norton Rose and LV= were among the prize winners at last night's (22 November) British Legal Awards, which took place at London's Old Billingsgate Market. Travers saw off competition from Berwin Leighton Paisner, Clifford Chance, Latham & Watkins, Mishcon de Reya and Olswang to scoop the coveted Law Firm of the Year award.

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  • November 22, 2012 |

    Rage against the machine – can Linklaters still do the vision thing?

    Lauded as a world-beater during the boom, Linklaters found itself in 2012 dogged by controversy and discord after its latest restructuring. Georgina Stanley asks if the City icon can still do the vision thing

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  • November 19, 2012 |

    Norton Rose follows up Fulbright merger with hire of A&O IP partner

    Norton Rose has hired high-profile intellectual property (IP) partner Huw Evans from Allen & Overy (A&O). Evans, who joined A&O from Wragge & Co in 2009, focuses on patent litigation and cross-border disputes, and works across a range of sectors, including technology, telecoms and pharmaceuticals.

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