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  • January 5, 2012 |

    Skadden recruits restructuring partner in London with Weil hire

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has strengthened its corporate restructuring practice in London with the hire of partner Dominic McCahill from rival US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges. McCahill, who will become the sixth partner in Skadden's London restructuring practice, will report to London corporate restructuring chief Chris Mallon. The firm's restructuring practice sits alongside the corporate group, which currently comprises 16 partners in the City.

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  • December 23, 2011 |

    Legal Week news round-up: the best of 2011

    After another year of twists and turns in the legal market, including a spate of mergers and international office openings, as well as a number of high profile hires and internal changes, here are the highlights of another 12 months from the legal industry with Legal Week's 2011 news round-up...

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  • December 16, 2011 |

    Soc Gen names new panel with dozen firms winning places

    Societe Generale has concluded a review of its global panel, with firms including Allen & Overy and Herbert Smith appointed. The roster, which will take effect in the New Year (1 January), also sees UK firms Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells, Norton Rose and Simmons & Simmons winning places.

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  • December 15, 2011 |

    Fluxed – it's gonna be a bumpy 2012

    I must confess that when Friederike, the Legal Week reporter who covers Linklaters, told me a few weeks back that she was working on a story about the firm launching another partnership restructuring, my pundit powers had utterly failed me - I hadn't seen that one coming at all. This means the magic circle law firm is going through its second major restructuring in three years, after the ambiguously-named New World programme saw more than 30 partners managed out in 2009.

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  • December 14, 2011 |

    BLP grows projects practice with hire of Allen & Overy partner

    Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has turned to Allen & Overy (A&O) for its latest hire, taking projects partner Andrei Baev. Baev joins the top 15 UK firm's finance practice today (14 December) from A&O's London office. He has worked at the firm for 11 years, including in the firm's Moscow and New York offices. At BLP, he is due to split his time between London and Moscow.

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  • December 13, 2011 |

    City finance partners criticise FSA calls to hold bank directors personally liable for failures

    City finance lawyers have questioned a call by the chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to change the law in order to make is easier to hold directors and board members of failed banks personally liable for the consequences of their decisions. The proposed overhaul is contained in a damning report into the failure of The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) published yesterday (12 December) by the FSA board, in the wake of the bank's £45bn rescue by the Government in 2008.

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    Property Team of the Year: Ashurst

    Ashurst was lead adviser to longstanding client Westfield on its £4bn Westfield Stratford City shopping centre development. It is the largest urban shopping centre in Europe and was visited by 100,000 people on its first day of business.

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    Banking, Finance or Restructuring Team of the Year: Ashurst

    Ashurst has played a potentially defining role in the ongoing saga relating to the future of the Battersea Power Station site in London by advising on the restructuring of the property holding. The judges were impressed both by the complexity and sensitivity of the deal and by its impact on London's cultural heritage.

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    London Office of the Year: Weil Gotshal & Manges

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has dubbed 2011 "the most strategically significant year for its London office since it was launched 15 years ago". The judges were suitably impressed with the evidence to support this statement, including a hugely impressive roster of senior partner hires from leading UK rivals. In recent months the office, which is led by Mike Francies, has hired partners from Jones Day, Ashurst, Shearman & Sterling and Debevoise & Plimpton.

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    British Legal Awards 2011: who won what - and why...

    A full run-down of all the winners at the British Legal Awards 2011, as well as detailed reports of the thinking behind the award in each category...

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