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  • April 4, 2007 |

    Bakers leads Banco Santander on $1.7bn deal

    Baker & McKenzie has won a repeat instruction from the Portuguese arm of Spain's Banco Santander, advising Banco Santander Totta on a $1.75bn (£890m) bond issue.

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  • April 4, 2007 |

    An eye for talent

    More than a few eyebrows were raised in Dublin's close-knit legal market when Matheson Ormsby Prentice (MOP) unveiled plans in February to introduce tiered salaries for its newly-qualified lawyers.

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  • April 4, 2007 | International Edition

    It's good to talk to associates, say talent-hungry City law firms

    Nearly all partners at top UK firms believe regular consultations with associates have become an important part of law firm life as they battle to retain…

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  • April 4, 2007 |

    It's good to talk to associates, say talent-hungry City law firms

    Nearly all partners at top UK firms believe regular consultations with associates have become an important part of law firm life as they battle to retain…

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  • April 4, 2007 |

    Bakers builds in Japan with seven-partner haul

    Baker & McKenzie has boosted its Japanese operation with a seven-partner team hire from domestic firm Asahi Koma Law Offices and a linked operation. The US-based firm has hired name partner Fumio Koma with a team of lawyers from Asahi Koma and its foreign-law practice, which for regulatory reasons operated in a joint venture with Asahi.

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  • March 28, 2007 |

    Dutch law firms aim to boost gender equality

    A slew of firms in the Netherlands, including Baker & McKenzie, Loyens & Loeff and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, have launched a diversity initiative to promote the retention of female lawyers. Female partners in the jurisdiction will mentor other female lawyers, with a view to helping them achieve partner status. The Dutch Bar Association has offered its backing to the initiative, which aims to redress the imbalance in the number of male and female partners in the Netherlands.

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  • March 28, 2007 |

    Middle East and India: Highway to a new world

    According to a taxi driver in Dubai, the only old thing left in the emirate is the sea. It is a common observation, but an outsider could not hope for a more telling insight into the degree of commercial activity in the region. Not surprisingly, that expansion has been mirrored in the legal sector where foreign law firms that have opened up offices in the past three years now significantly outnumber the old hands.

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  • March 28, 2007 |

    Middle East and India: Shifting sands

    With high levels of liquidity in the marketplace, investors within Saudi Arabia have the resources and an increasing desire to break away from their traditional oil-based industries to a more diversified portfolio. For many years their only option was to invest overseas but, increasingly, Saudi Arabian investors are looking for domestic investment opportunities. Sectors of particular interest and growth include banking, telecommunications and the media.

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  • March 28, 2007 |

    Legal Developments: Vietnam: Join the club

    WTO membership heralds Vietnamese liberalisation in an increasingly market-oriented economy Vietnam joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on 11 January, 2007, signalling a major step towards a more market-oriented economy. In the 880-page Working Party Report, Vietnam undertakes to implement a series of measures to liberalise its trade regime and privatise state-owned enterprises, and also to comply fully with WTO rules regarding trade-related aspects of intellectual property (TRIPS), technical barriers to trade and sanitary and phytosanitary measures agreements without restriction.

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  • March 22, 2007 |

    Reid Minty takes international plunge in Kiev

    West End commercial outfit Reid Minty has opened its first international office after launching in the Ukraine, it was announced today (22 March). The new Kiev branch will be staffed by lawyers based in the firm's London hub, with the firm planning to relocate fee earners there permanently only if work-flow demands it.

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