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  • January 12, 2011 |

    Seven law firms cited among UK's top 100 gay-friendly employers

    Seven law firms have been included in this year's Workplace Equality Index compiled by gay rights charity Stonewall, with Simmons & Simmons topping the rankings for the second year in a row. The index, which ranks the top 100 gay-friendly employers in the UK, included Simmons & Simmons in 19th place, down from its 15th-place ranking last year. Other firms to be featured in the rankings include Baker & McKenzie, Eversheds, Herbert Smith, Hogan Lovells, Irwin Mitchell and Pinsent Masons.

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  • January 11, 2011 |

    Linklaters and A&O win spots on National Australia Bank's new UK legal panel

    Linklaters and Allen & Overy (A&O) are among seven firms to have won places on National Australia Bank's (NAB) new UK legal roster. The panel review, which was led out of London by UK co-general counsel Richard Speak and principal counsel Iris Edwards, covers not only NAB but also the Australian bank's UK subsidiaries Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank.

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  • December 17, 2010 |

    Linklaters identified as UK's most diverse law firm by new study

    Linklaters has been named as the UK's most diverse law firm in 2010 according to the Black Solicitors Network (BSN) Diversity League Table, which ranks firms based on information from 48 law firms. The ranking combines law firm demographics across four different strands of diversity - disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation - with policy and practice information from the firms.

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  • December 7, 2010 |

    Assistant Solicitor/Associate of the Year

    When Paul Groves qualified at Harbottle & Lewis in March 2006 he was offered a place in every department he trained in. With great prescience he made the case that he should straddle two groups that were regarded as very different at the time: the interactive entertainment group and the sports and sponsorship group. Paul foresaw that the two sectors would become increasingly linked through digital media. Since then, he has become instrumental in developing one of the firm's niche expertise areas - granting and exploiting sponsorship rights across new media platforms. Only three years after qualifying, Groves had developed his own practice and started instructing trainees and junior assistants.

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  • December 7, 2010 |

    CSR Initiative/Programme of the Year

    The Legal Response Initiative (LRI) is the result of collaboration among lawyers based at Oxfam GB and World Wildlife Fund UK and a number of law firms and barristers' chambers. Its purpose is to provide pro bono legal advice to non-governmental organisations (NGOs) taking part in the ongoing United Nations climate change negotiations. By doing so it seeks to redress the imbalance between the level of legal representation enjoyed by the world's richest nations and the advice at the disposal of the least developed nations, who rely on NGOs to support them. The LRI provided legal advice at last year's Barcelona and Copenhagen sessions and two sessions in Bonn this year. Liaison offices based at the conferences passed on legal queries to a 'situation room' in the London office of Simmons & Simmons.

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  • December 7, 2010 |

    London Office of the Year

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is an undisputed leader in M&A. It also has a clearly articulated policy of focusing on advising on the biggest transactions. It stuck to this policy during the credit crisis - and when deal activity revived, it reaped the rewards. It was ranked the number one firm for European M&A by value for the first half of the year by Thomson Reuters. It advised on 28 announced deals worth a total of £36bn with each deal averaging well over £1bn. Eye-catching deals the team advised on include two hostile takeover battles, an area of historic strength for the firm.

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  • December 7, 2010 |

    Bakers names new management for Kiev base

    Baker & McKenzie has appointed new management for its Ukraine office as its current managing partner retires from the firm. James Hitch is set to retire from Bakers at the end of 2010 after nine years as managing partner of the Kiev office.

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  • December 1, 2010 |

    Carlsberg names Baker & McKenzie as lead global adviser

    Brewing giant Carlsberg has appointed Baker & McKenzie as its primary global legal adviser, with the international law firm seeing off competition from around a dozen firms to secure the mandate. The appointment, which was confirmed last week but will take effect from 1 January, will see Bakers take on all of the beer company's corporate work, as well as its banking and finance, antitrust and major cross-border commercial work.

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  • December 1, 2010 | International Edition

    Emerging wealth - how new money in burgeoning economies is creating a wave of private client work

    Even before the financial crisis it was clear that the growing economies, Africa and Asia in particular, were creating an increasing source of individual wealth and new clients for private client lawyers. The increased activity levels witnessed in these regions by corporate and commercial lawyers are mirrored among the private client community, with the number of wealthy people as a proportion of the population growing more rapidly on continents such as Africa than in many other areas.

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  • December 1, 2010 |

    Emerging wealth - how new money in burgeoning economies is creating a wave of private client work

    Even before the financial crisis it was clear that the growing economies, Africa and Asia in particular, were creating an increasing source of individual wealth and new clients for private client lawyers. The increased activity levels witnessed in these regions by corporate and commercial lawyers are mirrored among the private client community, with the number of wealthy people as a proportion of the population growing more rapidly on continents such as Africa than in many other areas.

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