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  • July 5, 2013 |

    Baker & McKenzie hires King & Wood Mallesons duo in Australia

    Baker & McKenzie has boosted its tax and employment teams in Australia with the appointment of two senior lawyers from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM). The duo Ellen Thomas and Sean Selleck were previously employed as senior associate and of counsel at KWM respectively, but both join Bakers in Australia as partners.

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  • July 4, 2013 |

    Pharma, medical and biotech sector three-year overview

    A detailed overview of the sector's biggest deals, featuring mandates for Dechert, Baker & McKenzie and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

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  • July 1, 2013 |

    Bakers promotes 71 to partnership including one third female lawyers

    Baker & McKenzie has made up 71 lawyers to its partnership around the world, including one in London, bringing total partner headcount at the firm to almost 1,500. The promotions round represents a rise of eight on last year, when 63 were made up, with the 71 new partners taking total partner count across the firm to 1,450.

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  • June 27, 2013 |

    Mission in Manila – Asia Development Bank's GC on switching from private practice

    Christopher Stephens, the new general counsel of the Asian Development Bank, tells Elizabeth Broomhall about 'desperate' times at Coudert Brothers and why Asian companies don't need panels

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  • June 20, 2013 |

    Pharma, medical and biotech sector three-year overview

    A comprehensive look at the top advisers and biggest deals in the pharma, medical and biotech sector from 11 June 2010 to 10 June 2013, featuring mandates for Baker & McKenzie, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Cravath Swaine & Moore.

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  • June 20, 2013 |

    Diageo advisers on alert as new general counsel takes reins

    Diageo has appointed Siobhan Moriarty as its new general counsel, replacing current global legal chief Tim Proctor, who is retiring after 13 years in the role. Moriarty (pictured), who was previously European GC at the drinks giant, will formally step into the top legal role on 1 July, following a transition period that began in January. One of the largest corporates in the FTSE 100, Diageo counts Smirnoff, Jose Cuervo and Guinness among its brands.

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  • June 13, 2013 |

    Linklaters recruits Bakers antitrust partner in Hong Kong

    Linklaters has hired rated antitrust lawyer Clara Ingen-Housz from Baker & McKenzie for the magic circle's Hong Kong office. Ingen-Housz, who is ranked band two by Chambers and Partners for China antitrust work, will join Linklaters in October in a boost for its pan-Asian practice. The firm's existing China competition practice will continue to be led by Fay Zhou and Cheng Yuan in Beijing.

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  • May 30, 2013 |

    Habib to adopt Bakers' career structure as merger date nears

    UAE firm Habib Al Mulla is set to align its career framework and development systems with merger partner Baker & McKenzie's as the firms gear up for their combination this July. The Dubai-based firm will adopt Bakers' more stringent training and development programme, bringing in a more rigorous career path for its lawyers, who will follow Bakers' structure. This will include Bakers' partnership structure. The model will be introduced in stages after the tie-up goes live, with a six-month bedding-down period in which Habib's current ratings system will continue to run internally. Appraisals for all of the firm's lawyers – including partners – have already been tightened in the run-up to the union.

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  • May 22, 2013 |

    Norton Rose, Simmons and Dentons among winners in Shell review

    Shell has concluded a comprehensive review of its global external legal advisers, with a host of UK and US firms winning appointments to advise the world's largest company by revenue...

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  • May 16, 2013 |

    Post-merger Dentons plans first steps into Latin America

    Dentons is planning its first moves into Latin America, with the newly merged firm considering a series of launches in countries including Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil. Speaking to Legal Week, global chief executive Elliott Portnoy (pictured) said that the region was of "strategic and economic importance" to Dentons' clients, confirming the firm was actively looking at opportunities there. Following the merger of SNR Denton, Salans and Canadian firm Fraser Milner Casgrain in March, Latin America is the only continent in which Dentons does not have an office or alliance.

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