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  • September 10, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including Pinsents, DLA and FFW

    Pinsent Masons has recruited a new head of litigation in Manchester with the hire of Julian Diaz-Rainey from Hill Dickinson. Diaz-Rainey, whose practice has a particular focus on the sports sector, has acted for a number of big-name clients including Premier League giants Manchester United and Manchester City, while he has also been involved in high-profile public inquiries such as the Shipman Inquiry and Baha Mousa Inquiry.

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  • September 10, 2012 |

    Linklaters and Weil Paris partners exit for Simmons and Freshfields

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Simmons & Simmons have both bolstered their Paris offices with partner hires from Weil Gotshal & Manges and Linklaters respectively. Freshfields has hired Weil's Paris banking head Emmanuel Ringeval as a partner for the magic circle firm's finance practice in the French capital.

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  • September 6, 2012 |

    DLA, Olswang, BLP, Stephenson Harwood among bidders for new Singapore licences

    DLA Piper, Olswang and Stephenson Harwood are among a raft of firms to have bid for licences to practise local law in Singapore, with the deadline for applications passing last week (31 August). The trio have applied for Qualifying Foreign Law Practice (QFLP) status alongside Berwin Leighton Paisner, Jones Day, K&L Gates, Watson Farley & Williams, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Shearman & Sterling, with the latest selection process coming four years after six licences were handed out in 2008.

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  • September 6, 2012 |

    Firms failing on billing practices as 72% of partners note room for improvement

    Large commercial law firms need to improve both the way they price work and bill clients, according to new research.

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  • August 17, 2012 |

    K&L Gates confirms merger talks with Aussie firm Middletons

    K&L Gates has become the latest firm to look to expand into Australia, with the US firm confirming it is in merger discussions with Australia's Middletons. Tie-up discussions between the two firms began several months ago and formal proposals could go to their respective partnerships before the end of the year, the firms said in a joint statement.

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  • August 16, 2012 |

    Stephenson Harwood in pole position for new Welsh racetrack project

    Stephenson Harwood has won a key mandate advising on a new public private partnership behind a new £250m Welsh motor racing circuit. The racetrack, which will be located in Ebbw Vale in Blaenau Gwent, South East Wales, is the largest capital investment programme in automotive infrastructure in the UK over the last 50 years.

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  • August 15, 2012 |

    Burges Salmon, Herbert Smith, Eversheds advise as Virgin loses rail bid

    Burges Salmon, Herbert Smith and Eversheds have secured leading roles on the bidding war that today resulted in Virgin Rail Group losing control of the West Coast mainline franchise to rival rail operator FirstGroup. Herbert Smith advised Virgin on its unsuccessful attempt, with energy and infrastructure partner Adrian Clough at the helm. Virgin Rail - a collaboration between Virgin Trains and Stagecoach, a longstanding Herbert Smith client - has been operating the West Coast service since 1997 and and put the cost of its bid for the contract at £14m.

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  • August 10, 2012 |

    Weil and Quinn lead as Barclay brothers win High Court hotel battle

    Weil Gotshal & Manges and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan have secured wins for their respective clients in a High Court action against the billionaire Barclay brothers over control of London-based hotels the Berkeley, the Connaught and Claridge's.

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  • August 3, 2012 |

    Freehills leads Australia rankings as total revenues for top 35 near $6bn

    Australia's 35 largest law firms took in a combined total of almost A$6bn (£3.9bn) during the 2011-12 financial year, according to a new report by Australian business title Business Review Weekly (BRW). Freehills places top of the rankings, which come after its merger with Herbert Smith was confirmed this June, creating a 2,800-lawyer firm under the name Herbert Smith Freehills that will go live as of 1 October.

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  • August 2, 2012 |

    Family friendly - an in-depth look at the maternity policies of top UK law firms

    Juggling motherhood and career progression has always been notoriously difficult in the legal profession, but with so many women leaving the profession, firms are being forced to face up to the issue. Kate Lofthouse investigates

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