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  • September 12, 2007 |

    Tyco names new GC in LatAm overhaul

    Tyco International has named compliance counsel Francisco Hernandez as its new general counsel for Latin America and the Caribbean, as the global conglomerate overhauls its regional legal team.

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  • September 12, 2007 |

    Ashurst boosts Germany with A&O finance hire

    Ashurst has expanded its German operation with the hire of Allen & Overy capital markets associate Christoph Enderstein, who will take up an of counsel position. Enderstein joins the Frankfurt office's structured finance group after nearly six years with the magic circle law firm. His arrival follows Ashurst's recent recruitment of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Frankfurt tax partner Matthias Kuhn.

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  • September 12, 2007 |

    Jones Day bags £585m oil financing role

    Jones Day has scored a role advising Aberdeen-based oil and gas production company Venture Production on its £585m debt financing.

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  • September 12, 2007 |

    Digital Dictation: Dictating the future

    Legal Week's analysis of digital dictation systems (DDS) a year ago revealed a market that was still to be fully convinced that this technology is an absolute 'must have' for law firms. Indeed, the research showed that almost 40% of the top 100 firms had not embraced DDS in any form. Crucially, that statistic included all five of the magic circle firms - a statistic that no longer stands after Linklaters introduced digital dictation firm-wide.

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  • September 12, 2007 | International Edition

    Akin Gump boosts Beijing with DLA Piper partner

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has bagged six new lawyers for its fledgling Beijing arm after a double raid on UK giants DLA Piper and Allen & Overy (A&O). DLA Piper corporate partner Janet Jie Tang joins Akin Gump as a partner along with a three-lawyer team, comprising corporate lawyers Lu Ying and Zeng Linyan and intellectual property (IP) lawyer Wang Yuanming.

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  • September 12, 2007 |

    Akin Gump boosts Beijing with DLA Piper partner

    Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has bagged six new lawyers for its fledgling Beijing arm after a double raid on UK giants DLA Piper and Allen & Overy (A&O). DLA Piper corporate partner Janet Jie Tang joins Akin Gump as a partner along with a three-lawyer team, comprising corporate lawyers Lu Ying and Zeng Linyan and intellectual property (IP) lawyer Wang Yuanming.

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  • September 7, 2007 |

    Latham restocks in Moscow with LeBoeuf raid

    Latham & Watkins has moved swiftly to rebuild its Moscow practice with the hire of respected LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae capital markets partner Mark Banovich, Legal Week can reveal. Banovich, who had been with LeBoeuf since 1995, becomes Latham's sole Moscow-based partner, following the departure of previous Moscow managing partner Anya Goldin.

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  • September 6, 2007 |

    City duo set for autumn management contests

    Simmons & Simmons and CMS Cameron McKenna are gearing up for senior management elections as a spate of top City firms are set to review their leadership this autumn. Simmons is due to start the election process in the next two months as Mark Dawkins' current stint as managing partner ends next spring after a three-year term.

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  • September 5, 2007 |

    DWF boosts four offices with seven new hires

    DWF has completed seven new appointments across four of its offices. In Liverpool, the firm has hired former Allen & Overy corporate associate Lorna Mitchell and DLA Piper Manchester pensions solicitor Philip Woolham. Sarah Hull joins the firm as an associate in the family department from Jones Myers Partnership while senior insurance solicitor Qamar Ayaz joins from Weightmans. Both will be based in the Leeds office. Business recovery specialist Elizabeth Boyes joins in Manchester from the London arm of DLA Piper alongside real estate solicitor Paul Stanley. Corporate solicitor Nicola Green joins DWF's Preston office from northwest rival Keoghs.

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  • September 5, 2007 |

    Willkie plugs in to E200m GE fundraising

    Willkie Farr & Gallagher has landed a lead role advising General Electric (GE)-owned real estate investment group IPBM on a fundraising worth almost E200m (£135m) .

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