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Mishcons finalises redundancy consultation with 16 staff laid off
By Legal Week | August 11, 2009
Mishcon de Reya has completed its second redundancy consultation with 16 people losing their jobs. The consultation, which concluded in July, has seen eight support staff lose their jobs alongside eight fee earners in the firm's corporate and real estate groups. No salaried partners were affected by the redundancies.
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Herbies wins role on Resolution's £1.86bn Friends Provident takeover
By Legal Week | August 11, 2009
Herbert Smith is the latest firm to land a role advising on the recommended £1.86bn takeover of Friends Provident by Resolution. The top 10 City firm is advising Resolution's banks, including Credit Suisse and Lazard, on the recommended acquisition, which was announced today (11 August).
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Weil Gotshal and Bakers lead on €250m private equity sell-off
By Legal Week | August 4, 2009
Weil Gotshal & Manges and Baker & McKenzie have taken lead roles on the €250m (£212.2m) private equity disposal of two European food distribution companies. South African trading and distribution company Bidvest is to acquire the Czech Republic's Nowaco and Poland's Farutex from funds associated with JP Morgan, and managed by CCMP Capital Advisors, and from Bancroft Private Equity.
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New SJB group targets private equity disputes
By Legal Week | August 4, 2009
SJ Berwin has pulled together lawyers from its litigation and corporate practices to create a new private equity and partnership dispute resolution practice. The new group - formed last month (15 July) - is headed by litigation partner Hilton Mervis and corporate partner Michael Halford.
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Pinsents leads for HSBC on £200m MBO
By Legal Week | August 4, 2009
Pinsent Masons has taken a role advising HSBC Private Equity on one of the largest private equity deals in Europe so far this year. The firm was one of four national firms to secure a role on the management buyout (MBO) of offshore oil and gas mooring company Viking Moorings, with HSBC Private Equity buying the company from Inflexion Private Equity for around £200m.
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Freshfields opts for Braham as new global head of corporate
By Legal Week | July 31, 2009
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed London corporate partner Ed Braham as new global head of corporate. Braham officially takes over from the current incumbent Andreas Fabritius on 1 August, and has been appointed for a three-year term.
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Freshfields names Pritchard as new US managing partner
By Legal Week | July 30, 2009
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed Julian Pritchard as the firm's new US managing partner. The New York-based M&A partner succeeds finance partner Brian Rance, who will return to full-time work in the New York finance group after finishing his three-year term in the management role.
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Davenport Lyons boosts corporate with Addleshaws partner hire
By Legal Week | July 23, 2009
Davenport Lyons has expanded its corporate team with the hire of John Hiscock from Addleshaw Goddard. Hiscock, who joined the West End law firm as a partner at the beginning of this month, will work with corporate head Michael Hatchwell. His practice covers private equity and venture capital, investment funds, structured finance, M&A and structured real estate work, with his past clients including Matrix Group and Royal Bank of Scotland.
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Partner fired for not meeting billing targets sues firm
By Legal Week | July 22, 2009
A former corporate partner in the New York office of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge is suing the firm after it fired him for failing to meet revenue expectations. Stephen Connoni, who joined the US firm in September 2007 but left one year later, sued the firm in April for allegedly "unilaterally and improperly" firing him without a required vote of the partnership and without paying him all that he was owed.
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CC Milan corporate partner duo join US firm
By Legal Week | July 22, 2009
Clifford Chance (CC) has seen the departure of two partners in Milan, with corporate partners Ian Tully and Massimo La Torre both leaving last week after seven years in the firm's partnership. Tully will join US firm Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle at the start of September as a partner in Milan. He will focus on corporate energy work and M&A. He is the fourth lateral partner hire the firm has made in Europe since January.
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