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  • September 3, 2013 |

    Kinstellar launches in Kazakhstan with forrmer Dentons partner

    Kinstellar is launching in Kazakhstan with the hire of Dentons' Central Asia banking head Joel Benjamin. Benjamin joins the independent firm as managing partner of the new Almaty office alongside Adlet Yerkinbayev who also joins from Dentons as a partner and six associates.

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  • September 3, 2013 |

    Linklaters hires former A&O partner to lead Asian restructuring practice

    Linklaters has appointed former Allen & Overy (A&O) partner David Kidd to lead its restructuring and insolvency (R&I) practice in Asia, as the firm looks to strengthen its finance and litigation teams in the region. The magic circle firm, which is best known in Asia for its corporate, capital markets and projects work, has hired Kidd to join its Hong Kong base just weeks after recruiting Herbert Smith Freehills' former Asia disputes head, Gavin Lewis.

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  • August 28, 2013 |

    Bakers grows revenues by 5% to $2.4bn as partner profits jump 10%

    Baker & McKenzie has posted a 5% increase in global revenues to reach a new record high of $2.419bn (£1.56bn), with profits per equity partner (PEP) up 10% to $1.2m (£775,000). The results - which cover the year to 30 June 2013 - make Bakers the second-highest grossing global law firm, just behind DLA Piper, which posted revenues $2.44bn for its 2012 calendar financial year.

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  • August 27, 2013 |

    Transfer Window Asia: recent moves including Ashurst and Simmons

    Ropes & Gray has added to its corporate practice in Seoul with the hire of counsel Jaewoo Lee from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Lee, who joins the US firm as a partner, will initially be based out of New York and Hong Kong but will relocate to Ropes and Gray's Seoul office when his license to practice in the North Asian state is approved.

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  • August 14, 2013 |

    Charles Russell becomes latest firm to enter Qatar market with Doha launch

    Charles Russell is launching a new office in Qatar as the UK top 50 firm moves to ramp up its presence in the Middle East. The firm has received its licence from the Qatar Financial Centre Authority, effective as of 29 July, and will officially open the new Doha base in early September.

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  • August 2, 2013 |

    Client demand and intense competition set the agenda as law firm leaders look back on another difficult year

    "This is a rapidly changing market and you cannot afford to stick to one formula. You have to be responsive..." Emerging markets provide source of comfort as law firm leaders lament patchy deal flow...

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  • August 2, 2013 |

    Sidley continues to ramp up Singapore with fourth partner hire since local licence win

    Sidley Austin has hired its fourth partner in Singapore since receiving a local licence in the city-state in February, giving it a total partner headcount of eight. The US firm this week recruited project finance partner Nicholas Grambas from Gilbert + Tobin (G+T)in Melbourne, in a bid to ramp up its infrastructure-focused team.

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  • August 1, 2013 |

    Bakers promotes two in Singapore as office founder appointed Judicial Commissioner

    Baker & McKenzie has promoted two partners to senior roles in its Singapore office following the appointment of tax partner Edmund Leow as a Judicial Commissioner in the Supreme Court of Singapore. Leow, who will leave the firm at the end of August, was one of the founding partners of Bakers' member firm in Singapore, Baker & McKenzie Wong & Leow, with the role of managing principal and head of the firm's Singapore tax and wealth management practice.

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  • July 24, 2013 |

    A&O partner takes up two-year secondment to Takeover Panel

    Allen & Overy corporate partner Seth Jones has been appointed as secretary of the Takeover Panel, becoming the latest City partner to take up a secondment at the regulator. Jones will take up a two year placement in September, replacing Ashurst corporate partner Tom Mercer in the role, who is now returning to the firm. Jones will be the fifth A&O partner to be appointed, the two most recent being Richard Hough in 2000 and Mark Gearing in 1992. He has advised on a wide range of corporate transactions including public and private M&A and joint ventures. He also has a broad international experience, having spent three years in Allen & Overy's Dubai office.

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  • July 23, 2013 |

    Credit Agricole kicks off review of external legal advisers

    Credit Agricole is conducting a review of its external legal advisers, with all firms previously appointed to the French bank's panel asked to re-pitch for a place. Clifford Chance (CC), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Ashurst, Hogan Lovells, Linklaters, Gide Loyrette Nouel, Norton Rose Fulbright and Baker & McKenzie are all understood to be re-applying for places on the bank's global roster.

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