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  • December 22, 2010 |

    Ashurst IP litigation team leaves firm for move to City boutique

    Ashurst has closed down its intellectual property (IP) litigation practice following the departure of its sole partner Ian Starr. Starr will join IP boutique D Young & Co on 1 January alongside senior associate Tamsin Holman, who will become a partner at the firm. They will also be joined by junior associates Cam Gatta and Anna Reid and two secretaries. Prior to joining Ashurst in 1993, Starr had been a partner at Clifford Chance (CC) since 1984. His practice focuses on the protection, enforcement and licensing of IP and related technology rights.

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  • December 17, 2010 |

    Norton Rose recruits Ashurst partner to lead Asia-Pacific oil & gas team

    Norton Rose has bulked up its Singapore arm with the hire of Ashurst energy partner Ashley Wright to lead the firm's Asia-Pacific oil and gas team. Wright is set to join Norton Rose in the New Year from the Singapore office of Ashurst, which he joined as a partner in 2007 from Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy. He specialises in energy and project finance deals advising sponsors, lenders, projects companies and contractors in the oil, gas, liquefied natural gas, power and petrochemicals sectors.

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  • December 14, 2010 |

    Apax set to hire Goldman Sachs lawyer for senior in-house role

    Apax Partners is set to bring in Goldman Sachs lawyer Simon Cresswell for a senior in-house position with the buyout house. The appointment, which is expected to take effect from the New Year, follows an 18-month search for a legal chief by Apax.

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  • December 13, 2010 |

    Kirkland promotes City trio to equity in 24-strong global promotions round

    Kirkland & Ellis has promoted three of its London salaried partners to the firm's equity as part of a 24-strong global equity promotions round. The appointments, which also include one promotion in Munich, come nearly four months after Kirkland made nine salaried partner promotions in London, with 58 making the grade globally. The equity promotions at the US firm are effective as of January.

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  • December 7, 2010 |

    Commercial Team of the Year

    The UK's health sector is in a state of perpetual change. It is the ability of Wragge & Co's 70-strong health team to keep pace with the constant reforms in the sector that has earned it the Commercial Team of the Year Award. Wragges wins this award for its work advising the East of England Strategic Health Authority (EESHA) on the first-ever 'sale' of an NHS Trust. EESHA had set a deadline for all NHS trusts under its remit to become Foundation Trusts by December 2010. This goal was beyond the reach of the 'failing' Bedfordshire & Luton Mental Health & Social Care Partnership Trust (BLPT).

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  • December 1, 2010 |

    SNR Denton and Eversheds get client vote on cost and billing practices

    SNR Denton has emerged as the highest ranked top 20 UK law firm by clients for cost and billing practices, according to Legal Week research. The merged firm was closely followed by Eversheds, Simmons & Simmons and CMS Cameron McKenna, according to Legal Week Intelligence's seventh annual Client Satisfaction Report, which is based on responses from 1,265 senior in-house lawyers.

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  • December 1, 2010 |

    Target Ashurst - an uneasy firm needs to remember its successes

    Sometimes law firms make it hard for themselves. Take Ashurst, which has been looking well off its game for over a year now without an obvious cause for its malaise. The firm argues that there is nothing wrong with its strategy or performance relative to its peer group –and it is largely right. Likewise, its belief that it belongs in a club of premium, internationally-credible firms alongside Herbert Smith and a dozen or so US practices - and that this will be a good place to be as the market evolves - is broadly correct, even if Ashurst will have hustle over the coming years to remain in that select company.

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  • December 1, 2010 |

    Nomura hands coveted Europe panel roles to CC and Mayer Brown

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Mayer Brown have won hotly-contested places on Nomura's new EMEA legal roster. The Japanese investment bank finalised the line-up last week (22 November), with CC and Mayer Brown joining existing advisers Allen & Overy (A&O), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Travers Smith and Ashurst on the seven-firm line-up.

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  • December 1, 2010 |

    Ashurst, Latham and Travers act on £450m sale of Britax to Nordic Capital

    Ashurst, Latham & Watkins and Travers Smith have taken lead roles on the £450m sale of Britax Childcare to Nordic Capital. Ashurst fielded a team led by corporate head Stephen Lloyd advising Nordic on the deal, which represents the first buyout of a UK company for the Scandinavian-based private equity group. The City firm has advised Nordic in the past on deals in the Scandinavia region.

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  • November 26, 2010 |

    Dealmaker: Jonathan Angell

    Dechert corporate partner Jonathan Angell on 'misplacing' £40m and his passion for the theatre...

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