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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 9, 2009
Clifford Chance’s office in Budapest, Hungary will spin off from the firm, to form the new Lakatos, Köves & Partners. London’s Clifford Chance says it is dropping the office as part of a reorganization of international resources. All of Clifford Chance’s lawyers and staff in Budapest will transfer to the new firm by the end of this [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Chicago’s Baker & McKenzie, which in April laid off 124 employees, announced today it is laying off 11% of its lawyers and staff in China. The firm has released no further details. It has 350 lawyers and staff across offices in Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai. If you have any details about layoffs at Baker’s China offices, [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 6, 2009
Diaz Reus & Targ has launched a new office in Shanghai, China. Firm partners Robert Q. Lee and Adam Ehrlich will manage the office. They are joined by associates Federico Tabja, Xiaomin Hu and Xin Zhang. Miami, Florida-based Diaz Reus & Targ LLP focuses on trade and business transactions; complex commercial, civil, and criminal litigation; and arbitration [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Baker Botts, which in March laid off an undisclosed number of attorneys, has opened a new office in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and is expanding its other two Middle Eastern offices in Dubai, UAE and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Greg Golden, a partner at Baker Botts’s Washington DC office, relocated to the region to serve as [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 18, 2009
Miller Canfield has established an office in Toronto, Ontario. The new office was formed through a merger with the 10-lawyer Toronto firm of Gaertner Tobin, run by name partners Dennis Tobin and Arie Gaertner. Miller Canfield also employs 25 attorneys in Windsor, Ontario, on the US border. Last week, the firm held an event celebrating the merger, [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Gibson Dunn will open a new office in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the next few weeks. The office will consist of New York corporate partner Lisa Alfaro, who is moving to Sao Paulo with her family, and an associate. Various teams of corporate and litigation lawyers will rotate through for active matters. Corporate partners Kevin Kelley and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Greenberg Traurig has launched a London office, a new UK firm called Greenberg Traurig Maher LLP. Paul Maher joins from Mayer Brown as founding member and office chair. He will also co-chair the firm’s global mergers & acquisitions practice. Greenberg Traurig LLP is an international, full-service law firm with more than 1,800 attorneys and governmental affairs professionals [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 16, 2009
K&L Gates has snagged a four-lawyer team from the Berlin office of Freshfields. Partner Ludwig Hausmann joins the Berlin office of K&L Gates, along with principal associate Annette Mutschler-Siebert, who joins as counsel. They bring along two associates. K&L Gates’ German offices, in Berlin and Frankfurt, now have 45 lawyers. K&L Gates LLP employs over 1900 attorneys worldwide, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Davis Polk, home of stealth layoffs, will permanently close its office in Frankfurt, Germany in August. The office’s long-time resident partner, Patrick Kenadjian, is retiring at the end of the year. His successor, Harald Halbhuber, has decided to leave the firm as well. Much of the office’s work will be taken over by Davis Polk’s 31-lawyer London [...]
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