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  • June 12, 2008 |

    DLA Piper backtracks on full financial integration in global alignment plans

    DLA Piper is backing away from financial integration, Legal Week has learned, with the transatlantic giant instead opting for softer measures to help align the firm around the world. The move represents a U-turn for DLA Piper, which had publicly stated its intention to financially integrate its US and international operations, following its tripartite merger with Piper Rudnick and Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich at the beginning of 2005.

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  • June 11, 2008 |

    Ground control for Camerons with Silverjet insolvency role

    CMS Cameron McKenna has landed the lead role advising the administrators on the collapse of business class airline Silverjet. The airline announced on 30 May that it was grounding all of its flights and appointed administrators shortly afterwards.

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  • June 11, 2008 |

    The Am Law 100: The sky's the limit

    In 2015 - the year that New York Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez will surpass 762 home runs and break the Major League record - Latham & Watkins and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom will both gross more than $5bn (£2.56bn), Baker & McKenzie will have more than 6,600 lawyers and the lucky partners at Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz will bring home about $7.7m (£3.95m) each - a handsome sum, but one that will itself be dwarfed by the $15.7m (£8.05m) Wachtell partners will average in 2025. Or maybe not.

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  • June 10, 2008 |

    Bakers elects new Paris chief Fabre

    Baker & McKenzie has elected a new managing partner for its Paris office, with Regis Fabre stepping into the role from 1 July for a two-year term. The competition partner takes over from previous co-managing partners Denise Broussal and Laurent Epstein.

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  • June 5, 2008 | International Edition

    SJ Berwin strengthens restructuring capabilities with Bakers partner hire

    SJ Berwin has recruited a new partner for its restructuring team, taking Baker & McKenzie partner Jeremy Goldring to bolster its practice. Goldring is set to join the City firm next month as a partner, as the current head of reconstruction and insolvency Stephen Maffey returns to Australia. Goldring has spent around nine years with Bakers, joining from what is now DLA Piper, and has been managing the firm's UK and European restructuring practice. During his time at Bakers he has worked on restructurings of companies including car group MG Rover. He is currently advising parts supplier Dura on its ongoing insolvency. His hire takes SJ Berwin's London insolvency practice to two partners, excluding Maffey.

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  • June 5, 2008 |

    SJ Berwin strengthens restructuring capabilities with Bakers partner hire

    SJ Berwin has recruited a new partner for its restructuring team, taking Baker & McKenzie partner Jeremy Goldring to bolster its practice. Goldring is set to join the City firm next month as a partner, as the current head of reconstruction and insolvency Stephen Maffey returns to Australia. Goldring has spent around nine years with Bakers, joining from what is now DLA Piper, and has been managing the firm's UK and European restructuring practice. During his time at Bakers he has worked on restructurings of companies including car group MG Rover. He is currently advising parts supplier Dura on its ongoing insolvency. His hire takes SJ Berwin's London insolvency practice to two partners, excluding Maffey.

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  • June 4, 2008 | International Edition

    Gibson Dunn grows German real estate

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has bagged a new partner for its Munich property practice, taking Peter Decker from local firm Graf von Westphalen. Decker joins the US firm as a partner in its German real estate practice. He formerly headed the real estate practice at Graf von Westphalen and has experience advising on real estate development, construction and commercial property projects.

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  • June 4, 2008 |

    Gibson Dunn grows German real estate

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has bagged a new partner for its Munich property practice, taking Peter Decker from local firm Graf von Westphalen. Decker joins the US firm as a partner in its German real estate practice. He formerly headed the real estate practice at Graf von Westphalen and has experience advising on real estate development, construction and commercial property projects.

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  • June 2, 2008 |

    US leaders join China quake aid effort

    A clutch of leading US law firms have opened their wallets to help China's recent earthquake victims, writes The American Lawyer, including a number of firms with active China practices. Firms to have contributed to various relief organisations working to aid the Chinese include New York's Dewey & LeBouef and Sullivan & Cromwell; West Coast outfits Heller Ehrman, Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe; and the Chicago pair of Kirkland & Ellis and McDermott Will & Emery.

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  • May 30, 2008 |

    Bakers training head takes up BPP post

    BPP College of Professional Studies has bagged Baker & McKenzie's director of learning and development Colin Dworkin to co-ordinate its tailored in-house education function. Dworkin, who joins in July, will fill the newly-created role of director of talent development programmes. The position will see him take responsibility for working with individual law firms to produce specially designed courses for their employees.

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