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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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  • September 8, 2010 |

    Switzerland: Letting the outside in

    Switzerland's legal market has long been dominated by domestic law firms but recent changes in the banking sector and in financial legislation are encouraging a more international outlook, says Suzanna Ring

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  • September 8, 2010 |

    Business as usual - the next step for Rio Tinto's outsourcing deal

    Leah Cooper's decision in February to quit her job as Rio Tinto managing attorney and EMEA general counsel to take a business development role at legal outsourcing provider CPA Global caused quite a stir. At the time, the outsourcing deal she struck with CPA on behalf of Rio - which since last May has seen the mining giant send out low-level legal tasks to a team of CPA lawyers in India - was less than a year old. And few expected the brains behind - and recognisable face of - the headline-grabbing initiative to jump ship so soon.

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  • September 8, 2010 |

    Reviews put UK firms on alert for high-profile panel places

    The UK's leading law firms are set to compete for a raft of coveted panel roles as adviser reviews at Rio Tinto, Nomura and Ireland's National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) reach the advanced stages. Mining giant Rio Tinto is set to launch a global review of its panel relationships - overseen by group executive of legal and external affairs Debra Valentine - aimed at streamlining the number of firms it instructs.

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