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• Juris Corp partner and Banking & Finance expert leaves firm

  May 06 2012 Juris Corp Mumbai Partner Nisar Ookabhoy has resigned from the firm for personal reasons, and is now 'looking for opportunities to join an organization which wishes to... more

• Stephenson Harwood promotes three to partnership

  May 03 2012 London firm Stephenson Harwood has promoted three associates to the partnership in its annual promotions round, down from four last year. Promotions went to... more

• BLP promotes 11 in annual promotions round

  Apr 23 2012 Berwin Leighton Paisner has promoted 11 lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round - a slight decrease on the 13 promotions made last year. Managing... more

• Freshfields promotes 20 to partnership

  Mar 29 2012 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has promoted 20 lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round, the same number as were promoted last year. This year’s... more

• Clifford Chance makes 13 London associates redundant

  Mar 26 2012 Clifford Chance has announced that 13 London associates from the capital markets and finance practices face redundancy. The firm is in consultation with the 13... more

• US firm Holland & Knight to launch in Columbia

  Mar 02 2012 Miami-based law firm Holland & Knight has announced further expansion in Latin America with the imminent launch of new office in Bogotá, Colombia. The firm will... more

• US firms Bingham McHale and Greenebaum Doll & McDonald to merge

  Dec 22 2011 US firms Bingham McHale and Greenebaum Doll & McDonald have announced plans to merge. The combined firm will maintain offices in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, and have a... more

• Herbert Smith to de-equitize 15 partners

  Dec 12 2011 Herbert Smith is set to de-equitize around 15 partners – ten per cent of its total equity partnership – in order to reach profits on the same scale as the so-called... more

• Herbert Smith boosts Asia finance practice with A&O hire

  Dec 06 2011 Herbert Smith has boosted its Asia finance capacity with the hire of Philip Lee, a former international capital markets consultant in Allen & Overy's Singapore office.... more

• Akin Gump boosts Abu Dhabi finance practice with Norton Rose hire

  Oct 11 2011 US firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has boosted its Abu Dhabi finance practice with the hire of Norton Rose partner Oli Charlesworth. Charlesworth specialises in... more

• Without bank funding, UK sole practitioners are folding in numbers

  Jul 25 2011 The number of sole practitioner firms in the UK fell from 4,056 in March 2010 to just 3,692 one year later, says independent finance provider, Syscap. According to... more

• Hunton & Williams downsizes in London after mass departures

  Jul 18 2011 The London office of Hunton & Williams has downsized in response to a torrent of departures. The office has lost 60 per cent of its headcount in less than three... more

• Simmons & Simmons hires group of partners from Berwin Leighton Paisner

  May 26 2011 Simmons & Simmons has bolstered its finance department with the hire of a group of partners and former partners from Berwin Leighton Paisner. The newest additions... more

• Ashurst makes up 12 lawyers to partnership

  Apr 15 2011 Ashurst has promoted 12 lawyers to its partnership, up from 11 last year. The corporate practice saw the most promotions in this round, with five new partners. Two... more

• Winston & Strawn launches in Houston with 40 Howrey recruits

  Mar 18 2011 Winston & Strawn has launched its Houston office after the hire of 40 intellectual property and commercial litigation lawyers from the failed firm Howrey. The... more

• Irish firm McGrigors to launch in Doha

  Mar 17 2011 Irish firm McGrigors has been granted a licence to establish a branch office in Doha, Qatar by the Qatar Financial Centre Authority.The Dohar office will be led by... more

• Gulf firm Al Tamimi promotes three to partnership

  Mar 03 2011 Gulf firm Al Tamimi has promoted three lawyers to the partnership. The honours go to Khaled Saqqaf, who heads the firms Jordan and Iraq offices, and to Qatar-based... more

• Comment: CCI says “All izz Well” with Pre payment Penalty

  Feb 15 2011 After nearly eighteen months from the date of notification of the substantive provisions of the Competition Act (Act) pertaining to anti competitive agreements and... more

• Indian Supreme Court: Black Money is theft of national money

  Jan 25 2011 The Supreme Court is taking no excuse for stashing black money abroad and wants answers from the Government. A Supreme Court Bench comprising of Justices B.... more

• Krishna Iyer wants thorough inquiry of former CJI Balakrishnan’s assets

  Dec 28 2010 Former Supreme Court Judge Krishna Iyer, who completed 95 years last month, wants a thorough inquiry into the allegations claimed by a local Malayalam news channel,... more

• Core Investment Companies: A step forward?

  Dec 20 2010 The Reserve Bank of India officially added a new term ‘Core Investment Companies’ (CICs) to the Indian finance lexicon earlier this month. In doing so, the central... more

• French firm Gide Loyrette Nouel launches London funds practice

  Nov 17 2010 French firm Gide Loyrette Nouel has launched a London funds practice. The launch is part of an attempt to diversify the practice, after the downturn in finance and... more

• Head of German banking practice at Hogan Lovells jumps ship

  Sep 28 2010 Hogan Lovells has lost its head of German banking practice to German independent firm Noerr. Olaf Grabowski will join Noerr’s corporate finance practice as a... more

• Barclays poaches top talent Erica Handling from Ashurst

  Sep 24 2010 Barclays Capital has hired Ashurst head of securities and structured finance Erica Handling, appointing her to the role general counsel. Ashurst senior partner... more

• Cleary and Freshfields take lead on €9.8bn Deutsche Bank deal

  Sep 17 2010 Deutsche Bank has called upon Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to advise on its project of raising €9.8 billion to bolster the balance sheet and complete the proposed... more

• Latham & Watkins release iPhone app for Wall Street jargon

  Sep 15 2010 Latham & Watkins has launched an iPhone application to assist lawyers working in finance with the terminology, including capital markets and banking slang, legal and... more

• Morrison & Foerster boosts London finance team with Mayer Brown hire

  Sep 09 2010 Morrison & Foerster has bolstered the London finance department with the hire of Mayer Brown structured finance and capital markets partner Elana Hahn. Hahn has... more

• UK Firm Addleshaw Goddard called in £15.6m in partner contributions

  Sep 06 2010 Addleshaw Goddard partners contributed a massive £15.6 million to the firm in the last financial year, according to recent reports. The news highlights the... more

• Freshfields hires finance partner from Allen & Overy

  May 03 2010 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has finance partner Alan Rae Smith from Allen & Overy, in its first London lateral hire since 2008. Rae Smith is set to join... more

• Lovells invites 21 lawyers to partnership

  Apr 15 2010 Lovells has promoted 21 lawyers to the partnership in the annual promotions round – an increase from the 19 that were appointed in 2009’s round, but down from the 31... more

• The need for improvement in Indian Corporate Governance Practices: Part I

  Apr 13 2010 The Satyam scandal stunned the Indian business community and shook the confidence of foreign investors in Indian corporate governance. Naturally, questions have since... more

• White & Case redeploys partners in wake of Latham departures

  Feb 12 2010 White & Case has begun drafting in additional finance partners in the City and Middle East after the walkout of 13 partners to Latham & Watkins. New York bank... more

• Norton Rose hires Denton's banking co-head Nick Grandage

  Feb 11 2010 Norton Rose has continued to expand its finance practice with the hire of Nick Grandage, Denton Wilde Sapte’s co-head of banking. Grandage will lead Norton Rose's... more

• Cleary scores coup with rare City hire from Simmons

  Feb 10 2010 Simmons & Simmons finance litigation head Jonathan Kelly will leave the firm to join Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Kelly, one of the City's best-known banking... more

• Ropes & Gray expands new City office with Freshfields hire

  Feb 10 2010 Ropes & Gray has hired Matthew Cox, counsel at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, as its fifth partner in London alongside Maurice Allen, Michael Goetz, Jonathan Bloom,... more

• Latham & Watkins snares four White & Case partners in London

  Feb 01 2010 White & Case has been hit by the departure of four banking and capital markets partners of its London office to US rival Latham & Watkins, reports Legalweek. White... more

• Former A&O finance partner joins Fried Frank's London office

  Nov 10 2009 Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has made a rare lateral hire in London, bringing in former Allen & Overy (A&O) leveraged finance partner Mark Wesseldine.... more

• Dechert adds two Clifford Chance partners to New York office

  Aug 20 2009 Clifford Chance hast lost finance partners Stuart Strauss and Richard Horowitz to Dechert in New York. With the departures the loss of partner headcount in Clifford... more

• Debevoise expands finance practice with Goodwin Procter hires

  Jul 29 2009 Debevoise & Plimpton LLP announced the expansion of its financial institutions group with the addition of two lawyers, Gregory J. Lyons and Satish M. Kini, as partners... more

• Mayer Brown hires finance partner trio in London

  Jul 14 2009 Mayer Brown has hired three leveraged finance partners for its London office in a move to ramp up its finance practice in the City. Leveraged finance partners Lee... more

• Mayer Brown loses top US finance partner Marshall Stoddard to Dewey

  Jul 07 2009 Finance lawyer Marshall Stoddard, co-chair of Mayer Brown's global finance practice, will leave the firm to become the US head of bank and institutional finance at... more

• Gide launches Hong Kong finance team with Sidley partner

  Jun 04 2009 French firm Gide Loyrette Nouel has hired Sidley Austin finance partner Balbir Bindra to launch a banking and finance team in its Hong Kong office. Bindra will be... more

• Clifford Chance boost Kiev office with Moscow partner transfer

  May 18 2009 Clifford Chance has relocated Moscow-based banking and finance partner Jared Grubb to its Kiev office. Grubb joins Kiev office head Nick Fletcher, bringing the... more

• Allen & Overy axes half of its leveraged finance partners

  Mar 09 2009 Five partners Allen & Overy's leveraged finance team in London will leave the firm after collapsing buyout activity has brought leveraged finance work to an all-time... more

• Clifford Chance and Latham line up for £7bn Barclays financing

  Nov 01 2008 Clifford Chance is leading a quartet of legal advisers to secure principal roles on the £7bn cash injection into Barclays from the Middle East. Latham & Watkins... more

• Herbert Smith taps Allen & Overy for Moscow finance hire

  Oct 29 2008 Herbert Smith has hired a senior associate from Allen & Overy's Moscow office in a bid to shore up its local finance capacity... more

• Bird & Bird adds Matthew Wong to Hong Kong corporate practice

  Oct 22 2008 Corporate finance specialist Matthew Wong has been appointed to global firm Bird & Bird's Hong Kong corporate practice. Matthew joins the firm from the Hong Kong... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf to close North Carolina office

  Oct 21 2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf has announced that it will close its Charlotte, N.C., office by the end of this year, citing the consolidation of the banking sector and slowdown in... more

• Willkie Farr adds finance partner from Shearman

  Oct 20 2008 Willkie Farr & Gallagher has recruited a finance partner Michael Zinder from Shearman & Sterling. Zinder will join Willkie as co-chair of its banking and debt finance... more

• Weil Gotshal in post-crunch shake-up of City finance

  Oct 16 2008 Weil Gotshal & Manges has merged its London banking and securitisation practices, as the New York firm moves to deal with the dearth of structured finance work brought... more

• Finance fiasco slows business at US law firms

  Sep 29 2008 A recent Citibank survey of the nation's top 160 law firms found the number of hours billed by lawyers to their clients for the first half of the year was down as much... more

• Former SEC Commissioner Annette Nazareth joins Davis Polk

  Sep 22 2008 Former Securities and Exchange Commissioner Annette Nazareth will be joining Davis Polk & Wardwell as a partner, as the firm tries to bolster its financial regulation... more

• Offshore law firm Walkers continues Asian growth

  Sep 19 2008 Cayman Islands based law firm Walkers has added four new members to its Asian market team to service the increase in work that the firm has seen from the region.... more

• Wachtell, Shearman head up $50bn Merrill takeover

  Sep 16 2008 Elite US firms Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Shearman & Sterling have taken the lead advisory roles on the $50bn all-stock sale of banking giant Merrill Lynch to... more

• Cravath, Davis Polk acting on $70bn cash lifeline set up after Lehman collapse

  Sep 16 2008 Cravath Swaine & Moore and Davis Polk & Wardwell have won places advising JP Morgan Chase and Citibank on the creation of the $70bn (£39.6bn) liquidity facility set up... more

• Ashurst raids Dechert for Islamic finance star Kamalpour

  Aug 22 2008 Ashurst has bolstered its Islamic finance practice with the hire of Dechert's London-based Islamic finance head Abradat Kamalpour. Kamalpour is set to join... more

• Cadwalader to Fire 96 Lawyers on Real-Estate Slowdown

  Jul 31 2008 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, the New York-based law firm founded in 1792, will fire 96 salaried lawyers in the U.S. and London because of "a significant slowdown''... more

• White & Case rebuilds with Wall appointment

  Jul 11 2008 White & Case has appointed former chairman Duane Wall as head of the firm’s global bank advisory practice. The move is a response to the loss of prominent financial... more

• Goldman Sachs man in Orrick New York switch

  Jun 24 2008 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has bagged a high-profile structured finance partner in the US, with former Goldman Sachs in-house counsel Howard Altarescu joining the... more

• K&L Gates bags Bear Stearns managing director

  Jun 17 2008 K&L Gates has snared Bear Stearns managing director and in-house lawyer for its New York office. Philip Cedar, who was the head of Bear Stearns mortgage and... more

• Jones Day takes DLA Piper’s Italian Banking Chief Francesco Squerzoni

  Jun 15 2008 Francesco Squerzoni, the head of banking at DLA Piper’s Italian practice, is quitting the firm to join Jones Day in a coup for the US firm’s local team. Squerzoni... more

• Latham names new finance chief

  May 23 2008 Latham & Watkins has announced the appointment of David Heller as the new global chair of the firm’s finance department. Heller is currently co-chair both of Latham’s... more

• Ashurst Frankfurt hires White & Case acquisition finance partner Anne Force

  May 22 2008 Ashurst’s Frankfurt office has hired White & Case local acquisition finance partner Anne Force. She will start at Ashurst as a partner and is qualified in German,... more

• White & Case Expands in Hong Kong with Lovells Finance Team

  Apr 23 2008 Global law firm White & Case LLP has made a major addition to its Bank Finance and Restructuring Practices in Asia with the arrival of partner John Hartley. Hartley is... more

• Bucking Trend, Law Firms Build Structured Finance Groups

  Apr 07 2008 Structured finance, which includes work related to the full spectrum of mortgage-backed securities, is the acknowledged ground zero of the current credit crisis, and... more

• Freshfields hires Allen and Goetz from White & Case

  Mar 15 2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has voted to hire former White & Case banking partners Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz. Freshfields’ hires of Allen and Goetz represent a... more

• U.S. law firm layoffs pick up pace as economy slows

  Mar 12 2008 For the second year in a row, 460-lawyer Chicago firm Jenner & Block has axed equity partners. At least 10 partners have been told to give up their equity and some... more

• Lovells revamps Hong Kong team with White & Case hire

  Jan 30 2008 Lovells corporate team in Asia has hired merchant banking and structured credit partner Fred Chang from Wall Street firm White & Case. Chang advises financial... more

• Eversheds boosts UK banking and adds partners in France and Germany

  Jan 20 2008 Eversheds has bolstered its UK finance and banking practice with the hire of two partners. Alistair Hardie joined the top 10 UK law firm’s Birmingham office earlier... more

• Problems mount for Powell Goldstein

  Jan 15 2008 Last week the Atlanta-based firm lost a big chunk of its health care practice group in Washington -- and yesterday, two partners and two counsel will leave the firm's... more

• American law firms: overpaid, over here and taking over?

  Jan 09 2008 Among her 300 million citizens, America finds room for 2.2 million prisoners, half a million soldiers — and 1.1 million lawyers, increasing numbers of whom find their... more

• IBA's 'Islamic Finance in the Middle East' conference to address Islamic banking regulatory challenges

  Jan 02 2008 Al Tamimi & Company Advocates and Legal Consultants, one of the leading law firms in the Arabian Gulf region, today announced that it will co-chair the upcoming... 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... more

• Norton Rose swoops on Baker Botts’ new recruit

  Sep 21 2007 Norton Rose has poached Baker Botts London corporate finance partner Andrei Yakovlev, who has moved after less than two months at the US firm. Yakovlev, who is... more