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Dechert has recruited a partner from Clifford Chance (CC) in a boost for the firm's financial services and investment management group in Munich. Hans Stamm joined Dechert this week (1 March) after leaving CC on 31 December. Stamm has been a par...
03 Mar 2010 | 13:42
Dechert and O'Melveny & Myers have become the latest firms to post their financial results for 2009, with both reporting declines in both revenue and profits. Turnover at Dechert fell 12.6% to $713m (£462m) last year, while profits per equity part...
19 Feb 2010 | 17:14
Dechert LLPs highlight 2008 UK revenue drop-off as international offices hold steady
Dechert's LLP accounts have revealed that the firm's UK office saw a £9m drop in fee income during 2008, against a slight increase in turnover for its international network. Over the year the international firm's London base brought in £21.1m in ...
22 Jan 2010 | 14:32
Steady but unspectacular pioneer of the transatlantic merger. Could go either way.
14 Dec 2009 | 00:13
Dechert's London office has won a role advising new client PanGenetics on its $190m (£114m) sale of global rights for an experimental drug to US pharmaceutical company Abbott Laboratories. The US firm has been drafted in to advise antibody enginee...
26 Nov 2009 | 11:39
Dechert has launched a funds practice in its Paris office with the hire of Proskauer Rose funds partner Olivier Dumas. Dumas joins the firm after serving as a partner with Proskauer in Paris since September 2007, most recently co-heading the local ...
26 Nov 2009 | 10:30
Konstantin Konstantinov, a corporate and finance partner who joined Dechert earlier this year as part of the firm's Moscow launch, has rejoined his former firm Chadbourne & Parke after just four months. Dechert originally announced on 8 May that fi...
16 Sep 2009 | 15:17
A trio of law firms have advised on the high-profile sale of iconic clothing brand Aquascutum to fashion entrepreneur Harold Tillman. Dechert was called in to advise Tillman, with the firm fielding a team led by London corporate partner Geoffrey Wa...
16 Sep 2009 | 11:34
Dechert has strengthened its New York offering with the hire of two new partners from Clifford Chance's (CC's) office in the city. CC finance partners Stuart Strauss and Richard Horowitz will join the US firm's financial services group.
19 Aug 2009 | 10:50
Simmons & Simmons has moved to rebuild its Frankfurt corporate practice with the hire of former Haarmann partner Jan Wildberger, who will lead the UK firm’s German private equity practice.
07 Aug 2009 | 11:13
Dechert funds heavyweight Peter Astleford on keeping things simple and thinking like a client
06 Aug 2009 | 08:47
Chadbourne & Parke has announced that two of the five partners expected to join Dechert in Moscow have decided to remain at the firm. Earlier this week (11 May) Dechert announced the launch of a office in the Russian capital with the hire of a five-pa...
15 May 2009 | 10:28
Dechert has confirmed that the firm's 36 highest-paid partners have agreed to take a cut in their annual drawings, reports The Am Law Daily. The news follows a report that firm chairman Barton Winokur would take a $1m (£657,000) pay cut.The Philadelp...
13 May 2009 | 15:25
Dechert has announced that it is to launch in Moscow with the hire of a five-partner team from US rival Chadbourne & Parke, despite a last-ditch effort from Chadbourne to persuade the partners to remain with the firm. The team includes the managing pa...
11 May 2009 | 11:55
Dechert has made another round of redundancies, it has emerged, with the firm set to cut an additional 125 staff members across its international offices. The firm announced to staff today (26 March) that it was expecting to shed 63 fee earners and 62...
26 Mar 2009 | 15:08
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