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  • December 7, 2011 |

    The political pay cheque - unrest in the Middle East creates more roles for lawyers

    Unrest in the Middle East has prompted a prominent 
role for lawyers as scrutiny grows over the assets of the 
region's key political players, as Bakers' Paul Stibbard reports

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    Private client

    The virtues of FLPs, how unrest in the Middle East has prompted a role for lawyers, succession planning and the evolution of private client work in China

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    Law Firm Innovation Award: QualitySolicitors

    "Our aim is to become the legal equivalent of Specsavers," states the new high street legal chain QualitySolicitors. QualitySolicitors has brought a network of local law firms under a single brand with the aim of competing with consumer giants such as Co-op and The AA that are entering the market as a result of the Legal Services Act.

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  • December 5, 2011 |

    A&O continues global growth with launch of new base in Istanbul

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has become the latest law firm to announce a launch in Istanbul, with London banking partner Charles Lindsay set to relocate to Turkey to head up the new office. The office will focus on providing English law advice on project finance, capital markets, general lending and M&A, with A&O stating that its motivation for the move was to capitalise on the Turkish Government's privatisation programme and its demand for new infrastructure.

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  • November 30, 2011 |

    Cleary and Paul Hastings lead the way for US firms to launch in South Korea

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Paul Hastings look set to be among the first law firms to launch in South Korea, with both firms confirming plans to open in Asia's fourth-largest economy. The news comes after a free trade agreement (FTA) between South Korea and the US was ratified by both governments late last month, paving the way for the country's legal market to open up to US law firms for the first time.

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  • November 23, 2011 |

    Hong Kong horizons - what will the Asian legal market look like in 2021?

    Key Asian economies have established themselves globally as the West falters. 
Sofia Lind asks what the regional economy will look like in 2021

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  • November 17, 2011 |

    Bakers hires former A&O finance director as global CFO

    Baker & McKenzie has hired Allen & Overy's (A&O's) former finance director Ian Dinwiddie as its global chief financial officer (CFO). Dinwiddie, who succeeds Robert Spencer in the role at Bakers, will take up the post in the New Year when he will become responsible for developing and driving the firm's strategic financial initiatives.

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  • November 16, 2011 |

    Bakers names City partner as new 
global head of banking

    Baker & McKenzie has appointed London partner Bernard Sharp as the new chair of its global banking & finance practice following the law firm's annual partners' meeting in Beijing last month. Sharp takes over from Hong Kong-based banking partner Andrew Lockhart, who will return to full-time fee earning after three years in the role.

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  • November 16, 2011 |

    US firms win spots as Hewlett Packard draws up global panel

    Hewlett Packard (HP) has put together a new global legal panel, with US law firms featuring heavily among those selected to advise the company over the next three years. Baker & McKenzie, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Cravath Swaine & Moore are among the firms to have been appointed to the roster alongside magic circle representative Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. The firms will provide international advice to the technology giant, which has operations in 170 jurisdictions.

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  • November 16, 2011 |

    SJB, CC and others act as music company EMI split in two and sold

    SJ Berwin and Clifford Chance (CC) are among a host of firms to win roles as beleaguered music company EMI is split into two, with Universal Music set to take over the recording unit for £1.2bn and a Sony-led consortium bidding $2.2bn (£1.4bn) for the publishing business. EMI, home to artists including Pink Floyd, the Beatles and Blur, has been under Citigroup's ownership since February this year when it took it over from buyout house Terra Firma.

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