• June 12, 2008 |

    Nabarro, DLA set new pay standard for associates

    Nabarro and DLA Piper have both announced their associate salary rates for the year, with regional offices at both firms seeing the biggest boost. From September, newly-qualified (NQ) lawyers at Nabarro's City arm will earn £64,000 - an increase of around 2.5% from the current rate of £62,500. NQs in Sheffield will see an 8.5% increase from the same date - taking pay from £37,720 to £41,000.

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  • June 12, 2008 |

    Linklaters' Swedish arm shrinks further as office head departs

    Linklaters' former Stockholm head, Joergen Durban, is set to leave the firm in November, as it emerges that the magic circle firm's Swedish partnership has shrunk by more than a fifth since its original merger with Lagerloef & Leman in 2001. Durban, who has been with Linklaters and legacy firm Lagerloef for 23 years, headed the office until September last year when Peter Hoegstroem took up the reigns.

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  • June 12, 2008 |

    Ashurst and Latham get long-awaited licences for Abu Dhabi

    Ashurst and Latham & Watkins have received the go-ahead to open in Abu Dhabi after obtaining their licences to practise. Ashurst's office will be headed by energy, transport and infrastructure partner David Wadham, who will initially be the only partner.

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  • June 9, 2008 |

    Camerons faces A&O on £3bn Informa merger bid

    CMS Cameron McKenna has landed a lead advisory role opposite magic circle firm Allen & Overy (A&O) on the proposed merger between United Business Media (UBM) and business data provider Informa - with the deal set to create a media giant with a combined value of more than £3bn. Camerons is understood to be acting on behalf of Informa, with corporate partner Gary Green thought to be leading the team.

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  • June 6, 2008 |

    CC litigator seals Siemens in-house move

    Telecoms giant Siemens has appointed Clifford Chance (CC) partner Anke Sessler as its new chief counsel of litigation. Sessler will take up her new post on 1 September after spending 10 years as a litigation and dispute resolution partner at CC's Frankfurt office.

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  • June 5, 2008 | International Edition

    Euro delivers seven-figure boost to firm profits but drawings squeezed

    Leading City firms have seen multimillion-pound revenue boosts in their latest financial year thanks to the soaring rise in value of the euro against the pound. Some of the City's biggest players, including Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, confirmed that the rising value of the euro had gifted them seven-figure uplifts from their Continental offices.

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  • June 5, 2008 |

    Euro delivers seven-figure boost to firm profits but drawings squeezed

    Leading City firms have seen multimillion-pound revenue boosts in their latest financial year thanks to the soaring rise in value of the euro against the pound. Some of the City's biggest players, including Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, confirmed that the rising value of the euro had gifted them seven-figure uplifts from their Continental offices.

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  • June 5, 2008 |

    Ashurst secures senior CC telecoms hire

    Ashurst has expanded its communications practice in the City with a senior hire from Clifford Chance (CC). Dhana Doobay is set to leave CC - where she was director of the international telecommunications projects - and join Ashurst as a partner by mid-August.

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  • June 5, 2008 |

    Norton Rose continues Dubai drive with new finance partner

    Norton Rose has bolstered its Middle East practice with the hire of corporate partner Andrew Abernethy for its Dubai office. Abernethy joined the firm on 2 June from the Wellington office of New Zealand firm Bell Gully, where he was a partner in the corporate finance practice for five years. Before joining Bell Gully, Abernethy spent six years with Shearman & Sterling in New York and is admitted to practise both US and New Zealand law.

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  • June 4, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 5/06/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts; a new Career Clinic dilemma; and more

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