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  • October 6, 2010 |

    Covington boosts City base with employment team hire from Paul Hastings

    Covington & Burling has boosted its City employment practice with a team hire from fellow US firm Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker. The firm has rehired Christopher Walter as a partner in its European employment practice after he left 2005 to join Paul Hastings as London employment chair. He will be joined at Covington by special counsel Chris Bracebridge and associate Helena Laughrin.

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  • October 6, 2010 |

    Chancery and commercial Bar: Stars at the Bar

    The future of the Bar always sparks a fiery debate, and never more so than now, with the Legal Services Act (LSA) opening up new opportunities set to reshape the future of the legal profession. The upcoming changes have split lawyers into two camps: there are those who see it as a dying profession, with barristers unable and unwilling to change, and others who see the Bar as a vital part of our legal system going forward, which is opening up to modern practices.

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  • October 6, 2010 |

    Legal Week forum to highlight huge Asia private wealth growth

    Lawyers from across Asia will gather in Singapore next week (12 October) to discuss the impact of a dramatic rise in private wealth on the region's legal market. The inaugural Legal Week Private Client Forum Asia - Legal Week's first conference in Asia - will bring together senior private client lawyers from across the region to discuss the challenges and opportunities that are posed by Asia's emergence as a private client powerhouse.

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  • October 1, 2010 |

    Bakers opens in Luxembourg with local tie-up

    Baker & McKenzie has launched an office in Luxembourg through a tie-up with local outfit Findling Collin Fessmann. The new office, which went live today (1October) will be headed by Findling founding partner Jean-Francois Findling, alongside Andre Pesch who joins the firm from Ernst & Young.

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  • September 24, 2010 |

    In depth: Latin America

    Bakers, Shearman and Sullivan on how the Latin American market has put a turbulent past behind it to secure a bold new future...

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  • September 22, 2010 |

    Olswang seals hire of Bakers arbitration partner for London office

    Olswang has strengthened its City litigation practice with the hire of an international arbitration and construction partner from Baker & McKenzie. Andrew Aglionby, who will join the firm's London office on 1 October, is based in Bakers' Hong Kong office in the firm's dispute resolution group. He has also headed up the firm's construction group in Hong Kong, as well as its international arbitration practice for the Asia-Pacific region.

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  • September 22, 2010 |

    Latin America: Fifty years to overnight success

    When our firm began opening offices in Latin America 55 years ago, it was a very different world. Most of our initial work centred on helping US companies set up subsidiaries in countries like Venezuela. We later helped clients establish manufacturing plants in Mexico during its industrialisation boom in the 1960s and guided investors through strict foreign investment regulation throughout Latin America. From the beginning we recruited native lawyers to run the offices - those who spoke the local language, knew the culture and understood government processes and how to get things done on a practical level, beyond the mere knowledge of local laws. It's a strategy that has served us well through the liberalisation of trade and investment in Latin America during the 1980s, the privatisation boom of the 1990s and the wave of new investment coming from Asia and the Middle East today.

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  • September 22, 2010 |

    Latin America: Tomorrow's country today

    From the dark days of the 1980s, a newly-confident Brazil has emerged. Alex Aldridge reports on one of the most hotly-tipped emerging economies and the lawyers scrambling to keep up

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  • September 22, 2010 |

    Lawyers on alert as competition bodies issue joint M&A guidance for first time

    The Competition Commission and the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) have published joint merger assessment guidelines for the first time, in a move which has intensified speculation that the two bodies could merge to form a single oversight body. The joint guidelines, which were published last week (16 September), have been created to provide greater clarity to companies and their advisers on how both bodies will assess the competitive impact of a merger. The guidelines revise and expand guidance previously issued separately by the two watchdogs, with partners at City firms praising the move as a "productive step forward".

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  • September 13, 2010 |

    Clarke Willmott launches new base in Manchester with double hire

    Clarke Willmott is set to launch in Manchester with the hire of two intellectual property (IP) lawyers from local firm JMW Solicitors. IP partner Roy Crozier and associate Andrew Stone will open the office on 1 November, marking the sixth UK base for the firm. Crozier joins Clarke Wilmott as co-head of IP alongside his former colleague Paul Cox.

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