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  • August 17, 2011 |

    Bakers posts single-digit increase in both revenue and PEP

    Baker & McKenzie has posted a single-digit increase in both annual revenue and profits for the 2010-11 financial year ending 30 June, reports the Am Law Daily.

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  • August 17, 2011 |

    Bakers and Freshfields lead on Cargill's $2.1bn Provimi acquisition

    Baker & McKenzie and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have taken lead roles on agribusiness giant Cargill's $2.1bn (£1.3bn) acquisition of Dutch company Provimi, reports the Am Law Daily.

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  • August 8, 2011 |

    Bakers adds energy partner to City base with Freshfields hire

    Baker & McKenzie has added a partner to its London energy, mining and infrastructure (EMI) group with a hire from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Marc Fevre joins Bakers' partnership from Freshfields, where he was a counsel in the firm's Abu Dhabi energy and infrastructure team. The hire brings the total number of partners in Bakers' City EMI group to seven.

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  • August 3, 2011 |

    Bakers holds London associate pay levels as US firms set salary rates

    Baker & McKenzie is freezing pay for its City associates at last year's levels, with trainees the only London lawyers to see increases in salary rates. The international firm has opted to hold rates at 2010 levels, meaning newly-qualified (NQ) associates at Bakers' City arm will continue to earn £61,000. Lawyers with one year's post-qualification experience (PQE) will earn £68,000 and two and three-year PQE rates will remain at £74,000 and £82,000 respectively. Associates will progress through the pay bands as normal.

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  • July 13, 2011 |

    Partners sceptical over split-profit mergers but Hogan Lovells seen as strong platform

    Doubts remain about verein-backed mergers but partners believe such unions can deliver a strong service for bluechip clients; Hogan Lovells and Bakers viewed as the most effective platforms. Suzi Ring reports

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  • July 13, 2011 |

    Breaking away - the rapidly globalising trusts market

    Having invented the trust, England has seen its influence over wealth planning wane as thrusting offshore centres have developed their models. JDG Chambers asks how long English law can remain relevant in a rapidly globalising market

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  • July 6, 2011 |

    Bird & Bird relaunches trade and customs practice with Steptoe hire

    Bird & Bird is relaunching its dedicated trade and customs practice with the hire of a partner from Steptoe & Johnson in London. The firm brought in Iain MacVay earlier this week (4 July), with the hire making MacVay the sole partner dedicated to the practice, following the departure of Amsterdam-based trade and customs partner Jasper Helder last year.

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  • July 6, 2011 |

    Competing colleagues - the growing field of inter-law firm sporting events

    Dragon boat racing and sitting volleyball may not be sports that are traditionally associated with lawyers and law firms, but they are two of the more quirky sports in which law firms have got involved in recent years. Keen to attract the best talent, law firms are increasingly up to promote their extra curricular sporting prowess. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is viewed among many as the ones to beat when it comes to both promoting and participating in sport. Official sponsors of the London 2012 Olympics, lawyers at the firm are involved in no less than 18 different sporting activities. Sitting volleyball is the current craze sweeping Freshfields' London office, with staff from across the firm getting involved in a competition which is aimed at boosting the profile of the 2012 Paralympic Games.

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  • July 5, 2011 |

    Legal Week launches video debate series for in-house lawyers

    Legal Week has launched the first in a series of video debates that will see senior in-house lawyers and partners discuss the key legal topics affecting clients. What the briefings say... draws on the most popular briefings from Legal Week Law, the online library of law updates targeted at in-house lawyers. The videos are free to watch for users of Legal Week Law, which has attracted more than 15,000 registrations since its launch in March 2010.

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  • July 1, 2011 |

    Elite US trio added to Barclays panel after review of bank's advisers

    Barclays has added three US firms to its general advisory panel, following a comprehensive panel review intended to increase value for money from the bank's regular advisers. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Shearman & Sterling and Sullivan & Cromwell have been added to the bank's main general advisory panel after Barclays decided to include the creation of a US sub-division for the first time.

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