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By Friederike Heine | June 22, 2011
Ashurst structured funds head Nick Terras is set to leave the firm to join Brown Rudnick's London office. Terras, who will become the US firm's 28th partner in the City, joined Ashurst last year from New York hedge fund specialist Schulte Roth & Zabel, when he was recruited as a consultant and handed a role to liaise between the UK firm's funds and derivates groups.
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By Sofia Lind | June 15, 2011
Travers Smith’s former senior partner Alasdair Douglas (pictured) has been named as the next chairman of the City of London Law Society (CLLS). Douglas…
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By Sofia Lind | June 15, 2011
Herbert Smith has hired Taylor Wessing's financial services regulatory team head Clive Cunningham in a bid to target more non-contentious regulatory work. Cunningham, who is expected to join Herbert Smith after the summer, has been a partner at Taylor Wessing since November 2006, when he joined from Merrill Lynch's in-house legal team. He previously worked at both Linklaters and KLegal.
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By Simon Petersen | June 15, 2011
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 the firm's local office.
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By Simon Petersen | June 15, 2011
Osborne Clarke has hired its first dedicated funds partner, bringing in Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) partner Tim Simmonds. Simmonds, who was based in London until he left BLP at the end of May, is set to join Osborne Clarke in Bristol next week (20 June), where he will be responsible for developing the firm's funds practice across all types of investment funds, including private equity, venture capital, real estate and hedge funds.
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By Simon Petersen | June 15, 2011
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 practices operating in the Square Mile, found that 93 lateral partner hires were made across the 62 firms surveyed, up 41% from just 66 the previous year.
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By Sofia Lind | June 15, 2011
US firms' aggressive European private equity drive continues as Weil Gotshal makes significant team hire from CC
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By Alex Novarese | June 15, 2011
Legal Week's in depth strand has been timely of late. While May's focus on libel and privacy coincided with sustained hysteria about injunctions, this month's international firms in London focus comes as Weil Gotshal & Manges pulls off arguably the most significant City raid yet inflicted on a leading UK law firm. If nothing else, the resignation of a four-partner funds team from Clifford Chance (CC) is evidence that a select band of US law firms is becoming a steadily more menacing threat to the City's finest.
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By Charlotte Edmond | June 15, 2011
Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends
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By Charlotte Edmond | June 15, 2011
Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends
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By Andrew Maloney | November 9, 2020
While demand for legal services fell by 2.4% in the third quarter, profitability was buoyed by increased work rates and a drop in hiring and expenses, according to a new Peer Monitor report.
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By Suzette Parmley | November 6, 2020
Mariellen Dugan, a partner at Gibbons in Newark, and Richard Spatola, senior attorney and trust & compliance officer with IBM in New York, add to the firm's expansion in the last 12 months, in which it has brought on six attorneys total.
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By Meredith Hobbs | November 6, 2020
David Chaiken, who spent nine years as a federal prosecutor, said, "particularly in Atlanta, there is room in the market for a white-collar trial and investigations boutique like those that have emerged in other major cities."
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By Patrick Smith | November 6, 2020
A slower week for laterals, there was still some non-election related news coming out of D.C. and a couple of higher-profile hires by litigation funder Validity.
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By Dan Packel | November 6, 2020
Recently announced job cuts haven't weighed down the latest stats from the BLS. But many of these new cuts are permanent job losses for workers that had previously been furloughed.
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By Aleeza Furman | November 5, 2020
New hires from across the California legal market.
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By Jonathan Erway | November 5, 2020
Luers Joins Cohn Lifland to Launch Public Records Practice Walter M. Luers has joined Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf in Saddle Brook as…
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By Aleeza Furman | November 4, 2020
Robinson & Cole added eight White and Williams lawyers, Cipriani & Werner hires a new co-chair of its cybersecurity, information privacy and data security team, and other midsize moves.
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By Dylan Jackson | November 4, 2020
Those who witnessed the carnage of the Great Recession say associates are faring much better this year. Some even floated the possibility of increased compensation come end-of-year.
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By Aleeza Furman | November 4, 2020
Attorney Steven B. Patton joined the Law Offices of McMonagle Perri McHugh Mischak and Davis as an associate, and Wisler Pearlstine announced that the firm recently hired four new lawyers to deal with increasing client demand for legal services in Greater Philadelphia.
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