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  • November 19, 2007 |

    Lovells raids boutique for Japanese law launch

    Lovells has entered the Japanese domestic market with the hire of an eight-strong bengoshi team from a local boutique. The firm is expanding its Tokyo office with the appointment of bengoshi partner Eiichiro Kubota and a seven-strong team from Kubota Law & Patent Office.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    IT/IP/Life Sciences: The science of outsourcing

    Companies in the life science industry are not strangers to outsourcing - clinical trials and product manufacture are frequently outsourced. Contract research organisations (CROs) are often called upon to provide traditional clinical research and data management functions. More recently, the industry has witnessed a trend for more outsourcing of mainstream functions such as finance, accounting, IT and human resources to offshore outsourcing service providers.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    The transformers

    It was ingenious and audacious, and officials at the Internal Revenue Service were upset.

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  • November 13, 2007 |

    Norton Rose hit by Wright move to Morgan Lewis

    Morgan Lewis & Bockius has bolstered its corporate finance practice with the hire of a partner from City giant Norton Rose, it was announced today (13 November). Iain Wright, who specialises in M&A and equity capital markets work, joins the London arm of Morgan Lewis as a partner.

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  • November 7, 2007 | International Edition

    Jones Day builds debt capital markets group

    Jones Day is attempting to break into the London debt capital markets with a hire from Nomura International's in-house legal team. Andrew Chen joined the London office this week (5 November) from the Japanese bank where he was director and head of the debt capital markets legal team.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Jones Day builds debt capital markets group

    Jones Day is attempting to break into the London debt capital markets with a hire from Nomura International's in-house legal team. Andrew Chen joined the London office this week (5 November) from the Japanese bank where he was director and head of the debt capital markets legal team.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Sidley edges in to advise on $80bn 'superfund' creation

    Top US securitisation practice Sidley Austin has secured a high-profile instruction to advise alongside rival Mayer Brown on the cutting-edge $80bn (£38bn) 'superfund' designed to restore confidence in the credit markets, as firms look to secure roles on the process. The fund, created by Citi, Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase, was announced at the end of last month and aims to halt a further drop in market prices by offering to buy assets from structured investment vehicles (SIVs), helping them to avoid dumping securities.

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  • November 1, 2007 | International Edition

    Simmons scores client double on back of new energy financing deal expertise

    Simmons & Simmons has won two new clients on the back of its experience of a new financing structure, as the firm continues to build on its energy credentials. The firm has advised Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital on its subsidiary's $850m (£415m) purchase of oil and gas exploration company Rally Energy Group.

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  • November 1, 2007 |

    Bunzl in-houser joins London firm as partner

    An in-house lawyer at outsourcing company Bunzl has left to join London law firm Winckworth Sherwood as a partner in its commercial team. Neil Morgan specialises in UK and international acquisitions and disposals, commercial contracts and risk assessment. Before joining Bunzl, Morgan spent six years with Allen & Overy. Winckworth's head of commercial, Richard Tinham, said Morgan's experience would help the firm understand its clients.

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  • November 1, 2007 |

    Simmons scores client double on back of new energy financing deal expertise

    Simmons & Simmons has won two new clients on the back of its experience of a new financing structure, as the firm continues to build on its energy credentials. The firm has advised Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital on its subsidiary's $850m (£415m) purchase of oil and gas exploration company Rally Energy Group.

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