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• Clifford Chance hires Linklaters partner Reiko Sakimura for Tokyo office

  
  Sep 26 2008 Clifford Chance has hired a Linklaters capital markets partner Reiko Sakimura for its Tokyo office. Sakimura became a Linklaters partner in 2005 after spending four years with... more
  
  

• Indian lawyers heading westward

  
  Sep 25 2008 Lawyers from India are increasingly joining overseas law firms to represent cases involving Indian companies abroad. Firms such as Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Darlington’s... more
  
  

• Allen & Overy strengthens regulatory practice with Clifford Chance hire

  
  Sep 22 2008 Allen & Overy has hired Damian Carolan from magic circle rival Clifford Chance to strengthen its regulatory practice. Carolan specialises in the regulation of wholesale market... more
  
  

• Slaughter and May, Linklaters, Freshfields top UK law firm rankings

  
  Sep 09 2008 Slaughter and May took the top spot in the UK for the third consecutive year. The top-ten UK law firms for prestige, as ranked in the 2009 Vault Guide to the Top 50 UK Law... more
  
  

• Gender gap at London's elite law firms

  
  Sep 08 2008 Women make up an average of just over 14 per cent of the partnership at the UK's four largest "Magic Circle'' firms - Clifford Chance, Linklaters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance takes steps to improve its public image

  
  Sep 08 2008 City law firms have drawn criticism for being excessively profit-driven and for lagging behind other employers in hiring and promoting women and ethnic minorities. Clifford... more
  
  

• Top law firms excel in sexual diversity index

  
  Sep 05 2008 Clifford Chance, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and White & Case are among 64 law firms to receive a perfect score in the Human Rights Campaign... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance hires Linklaters tax lawyer Robert Smith

  
  Sep 04 2008 Clifford Chance has turned to magic circle rival Linklaters for its latest New York partner hire, signing up tax lawyer Robert Thornton Smith. more
  
  

• Clifford Chance advises on French-Chinese nuclear energy deal

  
  Sep 02 2008 Clifford Chance is advising French energy company Electricite de France (EDF) on its joint venture agreement with the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Co (CGNPC) to construct,... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance adds capital markets specialist Guptan to target Indian market

  
  Aug 25 2008 Clifford Chance has hired Indian capital markets expert Rahul Guptan from Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co in India. Guptan will be based in Clifford Chance’s... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance and Freshfields lead on £13.3bn BAA refinancing

  
  Aug 21 2008 Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have landed the leading roles in BAA's £13.3bn refinancing deal. Freshfields represented BAA, having advised its owner... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance eyes Indian market with Amarchand hire

  
  Aug 20 2008 Clifford Chance has significantly bolstered its Indian group with the hire of capital markets partner Rahul Guptan from top Indian firm Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance, Eversheds make savings by offshoring paralegals to India

  
  Aug 12 2008 Clifford Chance has embarked on a plan to ramp up its offshore paralegal capacity. This will see its Indian staff handle much of the work that is currently undertaken by... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance to open second office in Abu Dhabi

  
  Aug 12 2008 Clifford Chance’s new office in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, opened with three partners and eight associates. Its Dubai-based banking & finance partner... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance to elect new Asia chief in September

  
  Aug 11 2008 Clifford Chance is expected to hold elections for a new Asia managing partner in September after Jim Baird stepped down due to ill health. more
  
  

• Clifford Chance Asia managing partner Jim Baird steps down due to ill health

  
  Aug 08 2008 Magic Circle firm Clifford Chance has revealed that its Asia managing partner, Jim Baird, has stepped down from his post, effective immediately. Baird is believed to have fallen... more
  
  

• Freshfields, Clifford Chance on $1.5 Billion Barclays Reinsurance Acquisition

  
  Aug 06 2008 Swiss Reinsurance Company, the global reinsurance powerhouse, agreed to buy Barclays Bank's U.K. life insurance unit for $1.5 billion in cash. Swiss Re is advised by a... more
  
  

• Allen & Overy ousts Clifford Chance on BA/Iberia merger

  
  Jul 31 2008 Allen & Overy (A&O) has edged out magic circle competitor Clifford Chance to win the lead role advising Spanish airline Iberia on its proposed merger with British Airways (BA).... more
  
  

• Gay associate who sued Sullivan joins Clifford Chance

  
  Jul 30 2008 The ex-Sullivan & Cromwell associate who brought a highly-publicised sexual orientation discrimination suit against his former firm has been hired by Clifford Chance. Aaron... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance sends funds team to Dubai

  
  Jul 23 2008 Clifford Chance has highlighted the Middle East’s importance to the firm’s ­bottom line by relocating a funds team to the region. Partner Nigel Clark, who was made up this... more
  
  

• City firms Clifford Chance, BLP, DLA Piper win pro bono awards

  
  Jul 04 2008 Clifford Chance, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and DLA Piper have all picked up prizes at the annual LawWorks Pro Bono Awards 2008. BLP and DLA won the Best Contribution by... more
  
  

• Norton Rose lures Clifford Chance Shanghai partner Justin Wilson

  
  Jun 29 2008 Norton Rose has announced that Justin Wilson will join the firm as a partner in the Shanghai office. Wilson joins from Clifford Chance Shanghai where he was a counsel... more
  
  

• Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and Norton Rose win £4.5bn Barclays deal

  
  Jun 26 2008 Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and Norton Rose have scooped lead roles on Barclays' £4.5bn share issue. more
  
  

• Clifford Chance scoops landmark Goldman Sachs SIV bailout

  
  Jun 19 2008 Clifford Chance is advising Goldman Sachs on its groundbreaking restructuring series of structured investment vehicles (SIVs). Lovells has joined Clifford Chance on several of... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance hires White & Case insolvency man

  
  Jun 17 2008 Clifford Chance has bolstered its French insolvency team with the hire of a partner from White & Case. Reinhard Dammann joins the City giant’s Paris arm as a partner in the... more
  
  

• Freshfields, Clifford Chance, Shearman lead €2.4 bn Evonik sale in Germany

  
  Jun 09 2008 International trio Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Clifford Chance (CC) and Shearman & Sterling are leading the €2.4bn sale of a 25.01% stake in Evonik Industries; the third... more
  
  

• German Clifford Chance litigator seals Siemens in-house move

  
  Jun 09 2008 Telecoms giant Siemens has appointed Clifford Chance partner Anke Sessler as its new chief counsel of litigation. Sessler will take up her new post on 1 September after... more
  
  

• Ashurst secures senior Clifford Chance telecoms hire

  Jun 05 2008 Dhana Doobay, director of the international telecommunications projects at Clifford Chance, is set to leave the firm and join Ashurst as a partner. With the... more

• Freshfields shakes off tough year to break £1bn barrier for first time

  
  Jun 03 2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has broken the billion-pound revenue mark for the first time. One week after its "magic circle" rival Clifford Chance announced a record... more
  
  

• Britain could lose out in a global game of chance, Clifford Chance partner warns

  
  Jun 02 2008 The global managing partner of Clifford Chance, David Childs, believes that government plans to amend the tax on business could backfire. “We know that a number of UK... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance revenue rises to record £1.3bn

  
  May 30 2008 Clifford Chance has retained its position as the world’s biggest law firm after announcing revenue of £1.33 billion for the last financial year, in defiance of predictions of... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance leads on $1.15bn Kuwaiti LSE float

  
  May 23 2008 Clifford Chance has snared a lead role on a $1.15bn (£580m) Kuwaiti listing on the London Stock Exchange. Clifford Chance partners Simon Sinclair and Robert Trefney led the... more
  
  

• Long road to the top for associates as partner track continues to grow

  
  May 22 2008 Despite significant drops in the partnership track this year for the London offices of a number of firms including Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Clifford Chance, the track... more
  
  

• UK law firm salary reviews: a bit of an anticlimax

  
  May 21 2008 There were several pay-freezes and a couple of modest increases in this year's first round of associate salary reviews, unlike during the previous downturn there have been no... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance taps Thacher Proffitt for US banking hire

  
  May 20 2008 Clifford Chance has hired a securitisation partner from Thacher Proffitt & Wood to beef up its US financial products practice. Robert Villani will join the firm's New York... more
  
  

• Lawyer Swaps Big Salary to Represent Detainees

  May 20 2008 Tina Monshipour Foster was a fourth-year associate in the midtown Manhattan office of Clifford Chance LLP, one of the world's largest law firms, with annual pay of... more

• Clifford Chance advises Staples on Dutch €1.33bn hostile bid

  
  May 18 2008 American office goods giant Staples, which is being counselled by Clifford Chance (CC), has increased its €1.33bn hostile bid for Dutch company Corporate Express by around... more
  
  

• Indian law colleges: International law firms pick cream of the crop

  
  May 14 2008 The placement period at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore won't end for another month. But the batch of 80 students in the final year have already been... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance bags White & Case partner for Prague

  
  May 12 2008 Clifford Chance has beefed up its Prague office with the hire of White & Case partner David Kolacek. Kolacek, whose practice focuses on M&A, privatisations, joint ventures and... more
  
  

• Salary reviews - Freshfields leads Magic Circle

  
  May 11 2008 Following the recent salary reviews, RollOnFriday has published a detailed "Table of Dosh" currently including City law firms such as Shearman & Sterling, Freshfields, Allen &... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance cuts canteen hours and doubles meal prices to save costs

  
  May 10 2008 Clifford Chance has slashed its staff canteen subsidies and cut the opening hours of its deli and restaurant, in the latest cost-saving measure at the firm. The firm has doubled... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance anounces 4% pay-rises to match rivals

  
  May 09 2008 Pay for newly-qualified lawyers at Clifford Chance is increasing from £63,500 to £66,600 – equal to what Linklaters pays and just above the £66,000 at Freshfields. Lawyers... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance Monitors Trial of Charles Taylor

  
  May 03 2008 The Open Society Institute has joined forces with the legal firm Clifford Chance LLP and the International Senior Lawyers Project to develop and maintain a blog, which gives... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance Paris called in on €7.66bn telecom buy

  
  Apr 29 2008 Clifford Chance is working for SFR, a Vivendi-owned company, on its improved €7.5bn-plus bid for telecoms group Neuf Cegetel in one of the largest French M&A deals in the last... more
  
  

• Herbert Smith Tries More Management

  
  Apr 21 2008 For the last 15 years the United Kingdom's Herbert Smith has been one of the few international firms in London without a managing partner. That ended last week when the firm... more
  
  

• DLA launches in Abu Dhabi while other top firms still waiting for licenses

  
  Apr 20 2008 DLA Piper is to formally launch in Abu Dhabi later this month, with projects and finance partner Stephen Webb -- currently based at the firm's Dubai office -- appointed office... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance targets India-related work with Singapore securities team

  
  Apr 18 2008 Clifford Chance is set to form a capital markets group in its Singapore office, which will focus solely on Indian clients, later this year. Capital markets partner Edward... more
  
  

• DLA Piper launches NY patent team with former Clifford Chance IP chief

  
  Apr 10 2008 DLA Piper has snared former Clifford Chance America IP head to lead its IP practice group in the New York office. Drew Wintringham, who joined the firm as partner on April 7, is... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance promotes 35 worldwide, banking top priority

  
  Apr 08 2008 Clifford Chance has made new partners across the globe in its latest promotion round, with 35 new partners spread across 12 of the firm’s 27 different locations. After two... more
  
  

• Indian salaries rocket as UK firms poach talent

  
  Apr 08 2008 A full-blown salary war has erupted in India in response to increased local and international competition for talent, resulting in pay increases of more than 50 per cent at most... more
  
  

• Freshfields makes friends with White & Case

  
  Apr 01 2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer finance partners Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz are setting up an informal conflicts referral relationship in London with their previous firm White... more
  
  

• Is Dubai overlawyered?

  
  Apr 01 2008 More than 160 years after the discovery of a few gold nuggets turned San Francisco into a boomtown, a different type of gold rush is underway 13,000 miles east in the Persian... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance loses antitrust head to Paul Hastings

  
  Mar 31 2008 Clifford Chance has seen the head of its US regulatory antitrust practice, James Holden, exit for the Washington DC office of Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker. Holden, who... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance and Simmons clinch £13bn fleet deal

  
  Mar 29 2008 Simmons & Simmons and Clifford Chance advised on the £13bn deal to replace the RAF air-to-air refuelling fleet, one of the UK’s largest ever PFI projects. The Future... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance in on $1.35bn Pepsi Russia Purchase

  
  Mar 28 2008 Clifford Chance is advising on one of the largest US investments in Russia in recent months after bagging the role representing JSC Lebedyansky on the sale of a majority holding... more
  
  

• Skadden Arps' funds specialist joins Clifford Chance in Tokyo

  
  Mar 25 2008 Clifford Chance has cherry-picked Tokyo-based funds lawyer John Fadely from his role as head of Skadden Arps' Asian private funds practice and brought him in as a partner. ... more
  
  

• Indian law firms fight attrition with fatter paychecks

  
  Mar 23 2008 These may still be early days for foreign law firms to set foot in India, but they sure are shaking up the legal fraternity here. Top foreign law firms like Clifford Chance and... more
  
  

• Woman Sues Clifford Chance Over Blacklisting

  
  Mar 20 2008 A Haitian woman is suing one of the world's largest law firms for $75 million, claiming that the firm used her only as window dressing because of her race, fired her for... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance Loses Rome Partners to Dewey & LeBoeuf

  
  Mar 19 2008 Clifford Chance has seen partner Tiziana Del Prete and counsel Guido Masini leave its Rome office to join Dewey & LeBoeuf as the US firm looks to beef up its one-partner branch... more
  
  

• Allen & Overy and the UN most attractive employers say students

  
  Mar 13 2008 The United Nations and Allen & Overy have emerged as the most popular employers among students who are interested in a career in the law. Market research company Trendence... more
  
  

• Linklaters ranked as 'superbrand' law firm

  
  Mar 10 2008 In a new study by Superbrands, Linklaters appears as the highest law firm on the list of best brands at 259. Clifford Chance is ranked at 296 and national firm Eversheds sits at... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance lands in Ukraine

  
  Mar 08 2008 Clifford Chance (CC) has announced it is to launch an office in Kiev as part of the UK firm’s enhancement of its Central and Eastern European (CEE) practice. The new... more
  
  

• Allen & Overy Claims Pole Position in 2007 Debt Capital Markets Tables

  
  Feb 11 2008 Allen & Overy has held on to the top spot in the latest international debt capital markets rankings, with the Magic Circle firm seizing an 8 percent market share for 2007. Allen... more
  
  

• Laterals Take Another Look at Clifford Chance

  
  Feb 07 2008 With rising revenues, Clifford Chance's U.S. operations seem to be thriving. The firm says an emphasis on unity and consistency has stopped a talent drain and helped it rebuild,... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance celebrates $14bn Chinalco corporate coup

  
  Feb 03 2008 Clifford Chance has won a high-profile mandate to advise the Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) on its joint acquisition with Alcoa of a 12% stake in Rio Tinto for around... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance joins Gulf rush with April Abu Dhabi launch

  Jan 29 2008 Clifford Chance is to strengthen its presence in the Middle East with the opening of a new office in the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Abu Dhabi. The new... more

• London Firms to Redeploy Lawyers as Markets Shift

  
  Jan 27 2008 Allen & Overy is attempting to usher in a new era of flexibility among its lawyers, partly to prepare for fluctuating market conditions, marking the strongest evidence yet that... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance partner Stuart Popham joins Gordon Brown on visit to China and India

  
  Jan 20 2008 Clifford Chance senior partner Stuart Popham is accompanying prime minister Gordon Brown on his current trip to India and China as the only representative of the legal... more
  
  

• UK trainees avoid crunch fallout as top firms’ retention soars above 90%

  
  Jan 17 2008 Trainee retention rates across the UK’s elite legal profession have remained steadfast, with many firms keeping hold of more than 90% of their intake despite a sharp dip in... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance Overhauls Pension Plan to Comply With New Age Discrimination Laws

  
  Jan 16 2008 Clifford Chance has voted to update its early retirement package for partners, with the Magic Circle firm bringing the system in line with age discrimination laws. Under the... more
  
  

• UK law firms bank on emerging markets to ride out credit crunch

  
  Jan 08 2008 Law firms at all levels of the market are bracing themselves for an uncertain year, with management looking at geographic diversification as a means of mitigating tumultuous... more
  
  

• Jones Day secures Clifford Chance Partner Ted Kamman

  
  Jan 06 2008 Jones Day has hired corporate and finance partner Ted Kamman from the French practice of Clifford Chance. Kamman's practice focuses on investment banks and issuers in securities... more
  
  

• Firms Hungry for More Lawyers in Russia

  
  Jan 06 2008 Although Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has been in Moscow since 1992, its office in the Russian capital is still rather modest. Around 30 attorneys handle a typical... more
  
  

• Magic circle dominates 2007 Thomson European M&A league

  
  Jan 05 2008 The magic circle have this year all but sewn up the European M&A market between them off the back of the $193bn Rio Tinto, $99bn ABN Amro and $19bn Boots KKR megadeals, reported... more
  
  

• Clifford Chance named M&A Law Firm of the Year

  
  Dec 17 2007 Clifford Chance was named Law Firm of the Year at the inaugural Financial Times and mergermarket M&A Awards held last night in London. The firm also won Private Equity Legal... more
  
  

• Dewey & LeBoeuf Expands Frankfurt Office

  
  Dec 10 2007 New York's Dewey & LeBoeuf has expanded its Frankfurt office by adding Bela Jansen, a qualified lawyer and tax adviser. Jansen will join as partner in January. His arrival... more
  
  

• Credit Market Collapse Claims Victims as Lawyers Exit

  Nov 21 2007 New York law firms are cutting associates for the first time since 2001 as the collapse of the subprime mortgage and credit markets causes private equity deal volume... more

• Magic Circle Firms on Pace to Become Among World's Most Profitable

  Nov 14 2007 Six months into their current financial year, the United Kingdom's largest firms are continuing the impressive growth that characterized the 2006–07 financial year.... more

• Clifford Chance Lays Off Six Structured Finance Associates

  
  Nov 06 2007 In one of the first clear signs that slumping credit markets are causing economic pain at law firms, Clifford Chance on Monday laid off a group of associates in the structured... more
  
  

• Non-American law firms move up latest list of top dealmakers

  
  Oct 19 2007 The third-quarter tables for legal advisers - those charts that list how many deals firms have worked on - provide few surprises but offer a glimpse into the tight credit... more