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  • December 21, 2011 |

    Bakers & Slaughters at the fore as GSK sells over-the-counter brands

    Baker & McKenzie and Slaughter and May have lined up to advise on the $660m (£420m) sale of 17 healthcare brands, including Gaviscon, by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). Bakers has advised consumer products group Prestige Brands, which acquired the products, led by Chicago M&A partner Dieter Schmitz and London M&A partner Jane Hobson, alongside Chicago partners Edward Harrison (corporate) and Chris Bartoli (securities).

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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 14, 2011 |

    Norton Rose adds two to international natural resources practice

    Norton Rose has added to its international natural resources expertise with one partner hire each in Australia and South Africa. Baker & McKenzie construction and engineering lawyer Simon Bellas has moved to Norton Rose in Perth, while Bowman Gilfillan commodities-specialist finance partner Lodewyk Meyer has joined the firm's Johannesburg office.

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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 8, 2011 |

    Stephenson Harwood adds two partners in Asia with Bird & Bird and Bakers hires

    Stephenson Harwood has made a double corporate partner hire in Greater China, including a partner from UK rival Bird & Bird. Bird & Bird corporate partner Matthew Wong has joined the top 30 City firm in Hong Kong, while Baker & McKenzie special counsel ChunFai (CF) Lui has joined as a partner in Shanghai.

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    Rising capital - the evolution of China's private client legal market

    At Legal Week's Private Client Forum Asia earlier this year, KhattarWong's Gurbachan Singh and Baker & McKenzie's Michael Olesnicky discussed the evolution of the private client legal market in China

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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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