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  • June 21, 2007 |

    Summer surge gifts top City firms big-ticket IPOs

    A busy seven days for initial public offerings (IPOs) has gifted corporate mandates to a raft of City law firms as the number of companies coming to market surges before the summer break. White & Case, Norton Rose and Baker & McKenzie were among the main recipients of the listings, which had a combined value of more than £3bn.

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  • June 20, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 20/6/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Freshfields, Ashurst and Wragges among the runners and riders.

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  • June 13, 2007 |

    Herding cats: Gary Senior

    Gary Senior is managing partner of the London office of Baker & McKenzie. His top tips for management success include wearing a suit jacket that matches your trousers.

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  • June 12, 2007 | International Edition

    Hogan hires Freshfields' Paris IP head

    Hogan & Hartson has picked up the latest partner to leave Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Paris arm, taking the magic circle firm's local head of intellectual property (IP), Xavier Buffet Delmas. Buffet Delmas, who helped set up Freshfields' local IP capability, joins Hogan as a partner in its Paris office. He specialises in IP litigation, in particular patent litigation, as well as IT and internet-related matters. He joined Freshfields in 1994 from Baker & McKenzie.

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  • June 12, 2007 |

    Hogan hires Freshfields' Paris IP head

    Hogan & Hartson has picked up the latest partner to leave Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Paris arm, taking the magic circle firm's local head of intellectual property (IP), Xavier Buffet Delmas. Buffet Delmas, who helped set up Freshfields' local IP capability, joins Hogan as a partner in its Paris office. He specialises in IP litigation, in particular patent litigation, as well as IT and internet-related matters. He joined Freshfields in 1994 from Baker & McKenzie.

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  • June 11, 2007 |

    Bakers IP partner takes Warsaw top job

    Baker & McKenzie has appointed intellectual property (IP) partner Marek Rosinski as its new Warsaw managing partner, the firm announced today (11 June). Rosinski takes over the reins from corporate partner Thomas Ujajski, who relinquished the role last week (4 June) after just one year at the helm.

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  • June 6, 2007 |

    Technology, Media & Telecoms: The third way

    Outsourcing is huge; and everyone is unhappy with their deals. Or so a recent survey by Compass concluded, valuing the European market at E4bn (£2.7bn) per year and concluding that two-thirds of deals unravelled before the end of their term. If this is true then why are the courts not full of outsourcing-related disputes?

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  • May 30, 2007 |

    Bakers appoints new finance chief with Camerons UK hire

    Baker & McKenzie's London arm has appointed its first chief financial officer by making an unusual hire from CMS Cameron McKenna.

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  • May 30, 2007 | International Edition

    Bakers calls on Camerons for first City CFO

    Baker & McKenzie's London office has appointed its first chief financial officer after staging an unusual raid on CMS Cameron McKenna. Arthur Ferry is set to join Bakers later this year and will report directly into the firm's newly-reappointed City managing partner, Gary Senior He will fill the void left by Bakers finance director John Raimbach, who is understood to be leaving the firm in August to take a career break. Raimbach joined in October 2001 from Lovells where he spent seven years as financial controller.

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  • May 30, 2007 |

    Bakers calls on Camerons for first City CFO

    Baker & McKenzie's London office has appointed its first chief financial officer after staging an unusual raid on CMS Cameron McKenna. Arthur Ferry is set to join Bakers later this year and will report directly into the firm's newly-reappointed City managing partner, Gary Senior He will fill the void left by Bakers finance director John Raimbach, who is understood to be leaving the firm in August to take a career break. Raimbach joined in October 2001 from Lovells where he spent seven years as financial controller.

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