Good morning! Today is Wednesday, January 20, and here’s a look back at Tuesday’s news. Jones Walker picks up a former US Attorney… Gibson Dunn has launched an E-Discovery practice… Patton Boggs expanded its international arbitration group… Drinker Biddle announced its new merit based compensation plan… Mischon de Reya opened its doors in NYC… Jackson Lewis added six attorneys in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 19, 2010
William E Wallace has joined Clifford Chance as a partner in the US Litigation & Dispute Resolution practice. Wallace joins Clifford Chance from Milbank Tweed Hadley McCloy LLP, where he was a senior partner. Wallace will lead the US Corporate and Financial Services Litigation group in Washington, D.C. Wallace’s practice focuses on commercial disputes, insolvency [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 14, 2010
White & Case, one of six international firms awarded a license to practice in Singapore at the end of 2008, is launching an arbitration practice in its Singapore office. The practice will be headed up by Aloke Ray, who will relocate from London. Also joining the firm is Nandakumar Ponniya who comes on [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The economic crisis in Dubai is creating a large amount of legal work for firms involved in the debt restructuring negotiations. Firms with deep roots in the country are getting the bulk of the work, and most of those are UK firms. Clifford Chance has scored big as the primary advisor to Dubai [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 1, 2009
The American Lawyer has published its Global 100 list for 2009. Even with the recession in full bloom, the top 100 law firms managed to increase revenues by two percent, but revenue per lawyer dropped by three percent. In the category of number of lawyers, US firm Baker McKenzie topped the list with 3,949 attorneys [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 20, 2009
Two New York-based lawyers have left Clifford Chance to join Dechert. Finance partners Stuart Strauss and Richard Horowitz are joining Dechert’s financial services group. Strauss focuses on securities law and investment advice. He represents investment companies, banks and other financial institutions. Horowitz represents mutual funds, hedge funds and investment advisers. The New York office of Clifford Chance has [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 14, 2009
DLA Piper’s Frankfurt office has brought on a three-lawyer team from Clifford Chance. Juergen Taschke joins as partner, to head up DLA Piper’s corporate crime and international investigations team in Germany. He focuses on criminal law relating to business offenses. He has been with Clifford Chance since 1992. His law degree is from Johann Wolfgang Goethe [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Freshfields has lost two top partners, both of whom joined the firm from White & Case less than two years ago. Maurice Allen is one of the UK’s top banking lawyers, having worked at Clifford Chance and Weil Gotshal. He and Mike Goetz joined Freshfields in March 2008. The firm describes the split as amicable — but [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 31, 2009
Law firm SJ Berwin has announced that profits per equity partner, which were £801,000 ($1.33 million) for 2008, fell to £410,000 ($680,000) for 2009. The firm saw revenue fall 14% to £184 million ($305 million). The other British firms that have seen the largest drop in profits are Travers Smith, Clifford Chance, Ashurst and Berwin Leighton Paisner.
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Lovells has brought on two partners from Simmons & Simmons for its Milan office. Federico Del Monte and Corrado Fiscale specialize in structured finance and securities work, and will co-head Lovell’s Italian capital markets practice. They bring with them two associates. Del Monte and Fiscale came to Simmons in 2004 from Clifford Chance. Lovells is an international law [...]
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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