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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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  • November 15, 2011 |

    Shoosmiths tops diversity rankings as Black Solicitors Network reveals league table

    Shoosmiths has been named as the UK's most diverse law firm according to this year's Black Solicitors Network (BSN) Diversity League Table. The ranking combines law firm demographics across four different strands of diversity - disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation - with policy and practice information at the firms also being taken into consideration. In total, 44 law firms in the UK took part in the report.

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  • November 11, 2011 |

    SJ Berwin and CC lead as Universal and Sony-consortium split EMI

    SJ Berwin and Clifford Chance (CC) are among a host of firms to win roles as beleaguered music company EMI is to be 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.

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  • November 10, 2011 |

    BBC Worldwide appoints first-ever GC

    BBC Worldwide has appointed its first-ever general counsel with the promotion of its director of legal and business affairs to the new role. Martyn Freeman will take up the newly-created post at the BBC's commercial arm as of 21 November. The role will see him handle legal and business affairs and policy and regulatory matters, as well as other responsibilities including the negotiation of deals and joint ventures, rights management, crisis management, compliance, risk management and talent accounting...

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  • November 9, 2011 |

    British Airways calls for alternative fees in first post-Iberia panel review

    British Airways (BA) has kicked off its first panel review since its merger with Spanish airline Iberia went live at the beginning of the year (24 January). The review is being overseen by head of legal Andrew Fleming, who was promoted to the role earlier this year after his predecessor Maria da Cunha took up a new post as director of people, legal and government affairs in the wake of the merger.

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  • November 9, 2011 |

    Taking it personally - consumerisation brings a little style into legal technology

    With budgets under pressure, IT heads are scrambling to adapt to consumerisation, contain costs and find ways to capture and manage commercially-crucial data. Neil Hodge tracks the latest trends in legal tech...

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