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K&L Gates takes on Hogan's entire Warsaw base for Poland launch
K&L Gates is set to launch in Poland with the acquisition of Hogan & Hartson's entire Warsaw office. The base, which has 38 lawyers, comprising six partners, five counsel and 27 associates, will transfer over to K&L Gates on 15 March.
01 Mar 2010 | 14:53
Victory on the Russian front
Matthew Biben works out of a Manhattan office, but for the past two-and-a-half years has spent much of his time in Moscow. As deputy general counsel of Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM), Biben oversaw the bank's defence of a potentially huge tax claim by...
25 Feb 2010 | 00:01
DLA loses five-strong Vienna team including office managing partners
DLA Piper is to see five partners leave its Vienna office, including the office's joint managing partners Stefan Eder and Wieland Schmidt-Schmidsfelden. The team, which also includes finance partner Martin Geiger, regulatory and litigation partner ...
18 Feb 2010 | 16:32
CC transfers UK litigation chief to Moscow in Russia disputes drive
Clifford Chance's (CC's) UK litigation head Nicholas Munday has been seconded to the firm's Moscow office in a bid to strengthen and expand the disputes team in the region. Munday, who is responsible for overseeing the firm's Moscow and UK litigati...
18 Feb 2010 | 00:01
Russia and Ukraine: Standing their ground
The ongoing turf war between Russia's independent and foreign law firms moved up a gear in 2009. Local lawyers, long resigned to sharing their market with the crowd of international firms that began arriving in droves at the end of the Soviet era, ...
18 Feb 2010 | 00:01 | 
White & Case and Linklaters lead on first CIS bond offering of 2010
White & Case and Linklaters have lined up on the first Eurobond offering in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) this year. White & Case was instructed by long-term oil client TNK-BP on its $1bn (£6.4m) issuance, providing English, US and ...
16 Feb 2010 | 07:47
BLP launches Moscow tax practice with PwC recruit
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has launched a dedicated Moscow tax practice with the hire of a senior lawyer from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Andrey Shpak joined BLP's Russian arm Goltsblat BLP as a partner at the end of January and will take the ...
10 Feb 2010 | 11:32
Camerons recruits partner for Warsaw base with in-house hire
CMS Cameron McKenna has added a partner to its Warsaw office with the hire of a senior in-house lawyer. Irek Piecuch has joined the UK top 15 firm from leading Polish telecoms operator TPSA, where he was head of strategy, a role that he took on aft...
27 Jan 2010 | 13:13
K&L Gates recruits Latham trio as firm opens up in Tokyo and Moscow
K&L Gates has announced the launch of two new offices with the expansive US firm opening in both Moscow and Tokyo today (19 January). The firm has launched in Japan with the hire of three corporate partners - Ryan Dwyer, Takahiro Kawaguchi and Robe...
19 Jan 2010 | 12:40
Salans adds City arbitration lawyer to partnership in promotions round
Salans has made up nine lawyers to partner in the firm's annual promotions round, including one in London. City-based arbitration lawyer George Burn has joined the firm's partnership in the latest round of promotions, which were geared towards lawy...
18 Jan 2010 | 13:49
Global 100
A closer look at the key players in Legal Week and The American Lawyer's 2009 Global 100 rankings - including the full table of results...
04 Jan 2010 | 10:12
CMS Moscow cuts 30 jobs in Russian capital in second round of layoffs
CMS Moscow has laid off 30 members of staff, including 10 fee earners, in a redundancy round which closed last week (27 November). News of the latest cuts comes as it emerges that the Moscow office has cut a total of 29 fee earner positions and 32 ...
04 Dec 2009 | 16:24
CMS Moscow partner quits to join Magisters
CMS Moscow has lost a top-rated partner with Kirill Ratnikov moving to CIS heavyweight Magisters today (3 December). Ratnikov, who focuses on public-private partnerships (PPP) and corporate law, led the Moscow infrastructure and project finance gro...
03 Dec 2009 | 11:56
Independent Law Firms in Europe: Numbers crunched
Europe's independent firms have put expansion plans on hold, with the recession prompting fears among many managing partners that the risks of a tie-up with a like-minded firm could outweigh potential the benefits. Despite the opportunistic merger ...
01 Dec 2009 | 18:30
Independent Law Firms in Europe: A model of resilience
The global recession has done little to alter the faith of Europe's independents in the strength of their law firm models. While the global UK and US-based firms have been busy with internal housekeeping and the struggle for position in their home ...
01 Dec 2009 | 18:01
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