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Advisers to Howrey bankruptcy collect fees 10 months after firm's dissolution
The professional services firms working on Howrey's bankruptcy proceedings have collected their fees nearly 10 months after the defunct antitrust specialist voted to dissolve (9 March), writes The Am Law Daily. US bankruptcy court judge Dennis Montali...
19 Dec 2011 | 13:18 | 
Linklaters and A&O lead on Oman power plant debt financing
Linklaters and Allen & Overy (A&O) have advised on the $1.25bn (£795m) debt financing of Oman’s Sur Independent Power Project (Sur IPP) alongside Norton Rose. Norton Rose is advising the project’s sponsors, Phoenix Power Company – a speci...
08 Dec 2011 | 00:00 |
European Law Firm of the Year: Garrigues
Garrigues is the largest law firm in mainland Europe and demonstrates the ambition and the capability to remain a market-leading firm in its home territory in Iberia while continuing to build a formidable international network. In China, Garrigues ...
08 Dec 2011 | 00:00 |
CC heads up double Turkish bond mandate worth £1bn
Clifford Chance (CC) has advised on two Turkish bond deals with a combined value of nearly £1bn. The office picked up an issuer-side mandate for TurkEximBank on the sale of $500m (£323m) of notes due in 2016. The firm fielded a London-based team ...
08 Dec 2011 | 00:00 |
Cleary and Paul Hastings lead the way for US firms to launch in South Korea
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Paul Hastings look set to be among the first law firms to launch in South Korea, with both firms confirming plans to open in Asia’s fourth-largest economy. The news comes after a free trade agreement (FTA) bet...
01 Dec 2011 | 00:00 |
Herbert Smith pulls out of alliance after Gleiss and Stibbe reject merger
Herbert Smith is formally withdrawing from its alliance with European partners Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe in the wake of its failed merger bid with the two firms. Herbert Smith decided to pull out of the alliance yesterday (23 November) at a meeting of i...
24 Nov 2011 | 10:35 |
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SRA puts forward new regulatory regime for international firms
The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has proposed a new series of measures for the regulation of UK law firms' international activities. The SRA launched a consultation process yesterday (8 November) to gauge the profession's views on how to r...
09 Nov 2011 | 12:43 |
Norton Rose and Gide among line-up on France Telecom's purchase of Congo China Telecom
Gide Loyrette Nouel and Norton Rose are among a raft of law firms to have picked up roles on France Telecom-Orange’s acquisition of Congo China Telecom (CCT). The deal saw France Telecom acquire Chinese telecoms equipment manufacturer ZTE Corpora...
03 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
City partners hope for revival in capital markets after Greek bailout
City capital markets partners are optimistic that last week’s €109bn (£96bn) Greek bailout will help increase deal activity in Europe’s markets. The package, agreed little more than a year after an initial bailout last May, saw the heads of ...
28 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
A&O dominates global bond rankings at halfway mark
Allen & Overy (A&O) has topped Thomson Reuters’ debt capital markets (DCM) rankings for international cross-border bonds for the first half of 2011 by both manager and issuer. The firm advised managers on 238 bond deals worth $180bn (£110bn) dur...
28 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
UK body tries to bolster role of arbitration in India but local courts guard their patch
For arbitration lawyers in India, the April ruling from the country’s Supreme Court must have felt depressingly familiar. In a dispute with a railway concessionaire, Tantia Construction, the Indian Government failed to convince the court that the pa...
30 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
Canada’s Gowlings set for Beijing office launch
Canadian law firm Gowling Lafleur Henderson is set to launch its first office in Asia, with a Beijing opening planned for later this year. The firm has applied for a licence to set up a representative office in the Chinese capital, with plans to op...
16 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
BLP brings in senior Linklaters man to boost Russia finance team
Goltsblat BLP has strengthened its Russian banking and finance team with the appointment of a new partner from Linklaters. Oleg Khokhlov will join Goltsblat BLP’s Moscow arm later this month from Linklaters, where he was a managing associate in t...
16 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
City lateral hiring by international firms grew 41% in 2010, research shows
Lateral partner hiring by international firms in London rebounded by almost 50% last year, according to new Legal Week research. Legal Week’s annual international firms in London survey, which includes submissions from most major foreign practice...
16 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
Howrey team hands Shearman brace of clients including Nestle and Hilton
Shearman & Sterling’s Brussels office has picked up a number of clients from defunct firm Howrey, including Nestle and Hilton. The US law firm, which hired a five-partner competition team led by the co-head of Howrey’s global antitrust practice, ...
02 Jun 2011 | 10:16 |
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