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  • February 10, 2010 |

    Latham makes a statement with lucky 13

    For a firm of its size and ambition, Latham & Watkins has remained curiously under the radar outside the US, emerging only occasionally for significant moves such as 2008's three-pronged launch in the Middle East, before it all goes quiet again. This tendency makes this month's news that the firm is to bring in no fewer than 13 partners from White & Case across London, New York and the Middle East all the more striking.

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  • February 10, 2010 |

    Supportive firms will attract more talented women

    We all know the statistics: recruitment at trainee level is equal between women and men. Yet the number of women at partnership level remains low. It is a path that usually lasts no longer than 10 years but along the way almost two-thirds of women fall by the wayside.

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  • February 5, 2010 |

    Ashurst powers up energy practice with hire of Centrica Energy GC

    Ashurst has secured a boost for its energy team with the hire of Centrica Energy & Europe general counsel Peter Roberts. Roberts will join the City firm's global energy team, which is headed up by Geoffrey Picton-Turbervill.

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  • February 3, 2010 |

    Placing of new Tullow Oil shares hands roles to Ashurst and Dickson Minto

    Ashurst and Dickson Minto have advised on the share placing by FTSE 100 oil company Tullow Oil, which is expected to raise around £1bn. The company will issue 80.4 million new shares, representing roughly 10% of the group's existing shares.

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  • February 2, 2010 |

    Ashurst top earner takes home £931k in 2008-09

    Ashurst's highest paid partner took home £931,000 in the 2008-09 financial year, according to limited liability partnership (LLP) accounts recently filed with Companies House.The figure marks a significant drop on the previous year when the highest paid member took home £1.46m.

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  • January 29, 2010 |

    White & Case City partner quartet quit to join Latham's London office

    White & Case's London office has been hit by the departure of four banking and capital markets partners, including the co-head of its London bank finance practice Chris Kandel, to US rival Latham & Watkins, Legal Week can reveal. Kandel will join Latham alongside partners Sam Hamilton, Brian Conway and Jayanthi Sadanandan, in one of the most significant team hires by a US firm in London in recent years.

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  • January 29, 2010 |

    White & Case departures – no easy fightback this time

    White & Case's City arm is looking increasingly like the unhappy child of the credit boom. While the practice could do no wrong in 2006 and 2007, achieving City revenues of around £100m after a period of explosive growth, the news revealed today by Legal Week that it is losing four finance partners leaves it looking badly off the blistering pace it managed a just few years back.

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  • January 27, 2010 |

    Stephenson Harwood adds Holman Fenwick partner in the City

    Stephenson Harwood has strengthened its London commodities sector group with the hire of a partner from Holman Fenwick Willan. Peter Bennett joined the City law firm this week (25 January) after 17 years as a partner in the insurance leader's London office.

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  • January 21, 2010 |

    Litigation funder recruits Lightman QC as investments committee chair

    Harbour Litigation Fund has strengthened its ranks with the appointment of Mr Justice Gavin Lightman. Lightman, a retired High Court Judge, joined the third party litigation funder at the beginning of the year (1 January) as chairman of its investments committee, as part of a recruitment drive from the funder to bring in 'heavy hitters' from the UK legal profession.

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  • January 21, 2010 |

    Vodafone appoints former Reuters general counsel as new legal chief

    Telecoms giant Vodafone has appointed former Reuters legal chief Rosemary Martin as its group general counsel and company secretary. Martin will take up her new role on 1 April, replacing Stephen Scott, who is retiring after 30 years with the company.

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