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• Top 100 firms report single digit growth for last year

  May 04 2012 The Am Law Daily has released figures that give a snapshot of the legal services industry over the past year. The top 100 firms saw single digit growth in gross... more

• Dewey continues to lose talent

  May 04 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf continues to hemorrhage its lawyer base, with the Moscow team jumping ship to open a Russia base for Morgan Lewis & Bockius, while London banking and... more

• Former A&O associate given green light to pursue the firm for unfair dismissal in NY courts

  Apr 16 2012 Former Allen & Overy associate Deidre Clark has overcome the firm’s attempt to have her wrongful termination and sexual discrimination claim dismissed from the New... more

• Slaughter & May and Allen and Overy make annual promotions

  Apr 04 2012 Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy have announced their annual partner promotions, with 23 made up at A&O and two made up at Slaughters. Slaughters elevated... more

• Winston & Strawn boost Moscow office with Norton Rose hire

  Feb 13 2012 US firm Winston & Strawn has boosted its Moscow practice with the hire of Norton Rose finance partner Andrei Yakovlev. Yakovlev will divide his time between... more

• US firm White & Case promotes 21 to global partnership

  Dec 03 2011 US firm White & Case has promoted 21 lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round. All promotions are effective as of 1 January 2012. London managing... more

• Quinn Emanuel set to launch in Moscow after Dechert hires

  Oct 19 2011 Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan is set to launch a new office in Moscow with the hire of two senior litigation partners from Dechert. Ivan Marisin and Vasily... more

• Leading Russian firms merge to create market leader

  Jul 21 2011 Two leading Russian firms have announced a merger, in a move that will create the largest law firm in the region, with over 300 lawyers. Moscow-based Egorov Puginsky... more

• US firms look abroad to bolster profits

  Jun 23 2011 This Reuters article reflects upon the fact that as the US economy continues to struggle, law firms are looking abroad to bolster profits. In recent months, Davis... more

• A&O's Moscow office sees 30% of lawyers depart

  Jun 06 2011 RollOnFriday has reported that almost a third of the lawyers in Allen & Overy's Moscow office have departed the firm in the last year, including four partners, five... more

• Berwin Leighton Paisner reports 56% jump in profits

  May 30 2011 Berwin Leighton Paisner has reported a 56 per cent jump in profits per equity partner, up from £455,000 to £712,000, in the last financial year. The firm increased... more

• King & Spalding launch in Moscow with new hires

  May 12 2011 King & Spalding has launched a new Moscow office after the hire of team of lawyers from Hogan Lovells and White & Case. The office will be led by Sergey Komolov,... more

• Herbert Smith promotes 13 lawyers to partnership

  Apr 28 2011 Herbert Smith has promoted 13 lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round – down from 18 last year. The firm has made up six lawyers in London, two... more

• Berwin Leighton Paisner promotes 13 lawyers to partnership

  Apr 05 2011 Berwin Leighton Paisner has promoted 13 lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round, up from eight in 2010. The majority of the promotions – nine of... more

• Freshfields promotes 20 to partnership globally

  Mar 10 2011 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced the promotion of 20 lawyers to the partnership in a new promotions round. Nine of the new partners will join the... more

• Norton Rose hires Freshfields' dispute resolution chief in Moscow

  Jan 07 2011 Norton Rose has hired Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Russian dispute resolution chief, Yaroslav Klimov, and appointed him as head of dispute resolution in Moscow.... more

• Allen & Overy appoint new Moscow managing partner

  Oct 04 2010 Allen & Overy has appointed Brussels banking partner Peter Bienenstock to the role of Moscow managing partner, as head of Russia Tony Humphrey – who currently holds... more

• Chadbourne & Parke hires high-profile banking and finance partner in Moscow

  Aug 30 2010 Chadbourne & Parke LLP has announced the hire of banking and finance lawyer Simon HP Morgan, who joins the firm’s Moscow office as partner. Morgan was previously a... more

• Hogan Lovells loses another partner in Moscow

  Aug 09 2010 Hogan Lovells dispute resolution partner Dominic Pellew has left the Moscow office of the firm to join Baker Botts. This is the second high profile departure from... more

• Berwin Leighton Paisner on the up

  Jun 15 2010 UK firm Berwin Leighton Paisner bucked the trend last financial year, posting an increase in both turnover and profit, with income topping £191 million for the first... more

• Clifford Chance appoints global litigation head to lead London litigation group

  Jun 15 2010 Jeremy Sandelson, the global head of litigation at Clifford Chance, has been voted in as leader of the firm's London litigation group, a role he will take on alongside... more

• Hogan Lovells Moscow partner takes up with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

  May 19 2010 Corporate partner Ilya Rybalkin has decided to leave the Moscow office of Hogan Lovells to join up with US firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Rybalkin is due to... more

• Clifford Chance promotes 22 lawyers to partnership

  May 04 2010 Clifford Chance has announced this year’s promotions, making up 22 new partners across the London, New York, Dubai, Moscow, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Duesseldorf,... more

• Camerons promotes four to equity partnership

  Apr 30 2010 CMS Cameron McKenna has promoted four lawyers to equity partnership. The four new equity partners are all drawn from the ‘gateway’ partner rank – an intermediate rank... more

• Allen & Overy make up 18 new partners in the 2010 round

  Mar 31 2010 Allen & Overy has made up 18 lawyers to its partnership across 13 countries, with the majority joining non-UK offices. The number is two less than that of 2009. The... more

• Freshfields adds 18 to the partnership

  Mar 30 2010 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced the results of this year’s promotions round, making up 18 new partners. The round saw four more promotions than last... more

• K&L Gates continues expansion with Tokyo, Moscow launches

  Jan 20 2010 K&L Gates has opened offices in Tokyo and Moscow one week after the firm’s chairman vowed to continue with its strategic growth. The US firm has hired a trio of... more

• $500m malpractice claim against Chadbourne & Parke dismissed

  Jan 09 2010 A New York state judge dismissed a $500 million lawsuit by Austrian bank Creditanstalt Investment Bank AG against law firm Chadbourne & Parke. The bank had based... more

• Medvedev sacks 20 prison officials after death of Russian lawyer

  Dec 15 2009 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sacked 20 prison officials today in response to an investigation into the death of an imprisoned Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky.... more

• CMS cuts 30 more jobs in Moscow

  Dec 07 2009 CMS Russia has laid off 30 more employees, including 10 fee earners, in a redundancy round which closed in November. The firm has slashed 61 jobs, including 29... more

• Simmons blames global crisis as firm pulls plug on Moscow arm

  Oct 29 2009 Simmons & Simmons is to pull out of Russia little more than two years after launching its Moscow office. The top 15 City firm will start shutting down the base with... more

• Freshfields makes up six to counsel rank in latest promotions round

  Oct 24 2009 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has promoted six lawyers to counsel in the firm's latest round of appointments. The magic circle firm, which has two rounds of... more

• Freshfields, Cleary, Salans head up $1.6bn Gazprom deal

  Oct 01 2009 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and Salans have won roles on a $1.6bn Russian energy deal, which saw the Russian energy giant buy a... more

• Clifford Chance appoints Jan ter Haar as new Moscow head

  Sep 17 2009 Clifford Chance has appointed Amsterdam head Jan ter Haar as its new Moscow managing partner, after Michael Cuthbert announced his plans to retire from the firm at the... more

• Chadbourne partner rejoins firm after four months

  Sep 17 2009 Former Chadbourne & Parke corporate partner Konstantin Konstantinov who joined Dechert earlier this year as part of the firm's Moscow launch, has rejoined his former... more

• Russian authorities raid Moscow offices of DLA Piper, White & Case

  Jun 18 2009 Russian authorities conducting a criminal investigation have raided the Moscow offices of DLA Piper and White & Case. Both firms said they were not directly suspected... more

• Chadbourne & Parke appoints three partners in Russia

  Jun 12 2009 Chadbourne & Parke LLP announced that Dmitry Gubarev, Olga Koniuhova and Julia Romanova have been named international partners in connection with the firm’s practice... 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

• Two partners stay with Chadbourne's Mosow office after Dechert raid

  May 15 2009 Chadbourne’s Moscow senior partner Mikhail Rozenberg and banking and finance specialist Jennifer Handz have decided to remain with the New York firm. Dechert... more

• Baker & McKenzie cuts jobs in Kiev and Moscow

  Feb 26 2009 Baker & McKenzie has laid off eight staff members in its Kiev office, including three associates. Three associates were also made redundant in Baker's Moscow office.... more

• Sacked 'sexpat' associate to sue Allen & Overy

  Feb 04 2009 Allen & Overy Moscow senior associate Deidre Dare, who was sacked without prior notice last week after publishing an erotic novel online, plans to appeal the sacking.... more

• Allen & Overy fires erotic-fiction writing associate

  Feb 02 2009 Allen & Overy has fired Deidre Dare, a Moscow senior associate who published an erotic novel on-line. Some weeks after the firm stopped Deidre Dare from publishing... more

• Clifford Chance to trim Moscow workforce by 20 percent

  Jan 30 2009 Clifford Chance plans to reduce the head count in its Moscow office by 20 percent. The firm has already layed off six lawyers and plans to further reduce the number of... more

• Berwin Leighton Paisner to launch in Russia

  Dec 19 2008 Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) is in advanced discussions with Moscow's Andrey Goltsblat to take a number of partners from the Russian firm as part of the new launch,... more

• Ex-Yukos lawyer gives birth in state custody

  Nov 30 2008 Svetlana Bakhminam, a lawyer convicted of embezzlement as part of a government investigation of her employer, the Yukos oil company, and its then-top executive,... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf inks €5bn Russian investment for Fortum

  Nov 07 2008 Finnish electricity business Fortum Oyj has finalised a landmark €5bn Russian investment, with Dewey & LeBoeuf’s London and Moscow offices acting as lead legal counsel. 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

• Moscow law firms feel the credit crunch

  Sep 25 2008 The impact of the credit crunch finally hit Russian law firms. Capital markets practices are taking the biggest hit after the Russian Government was last week forced... more

• Hermitage and HSBC's law firms raided in Moscow

  Aug 25 2008 Leading law firms representing HSBC and Hermitage Capital Management have been raided by Russian Interior Ministry officials in an attempt to link senior lawyers with... more

• CMS to integrate Moscow offices

  Jun 23 2008 CMS Cameron McKenna and its European network have begun integrating operations in Russia and are on track to operate as a fully merged firm in Moscow by the end of the... more

• Freshfields to place City staff in Dubai, Moscow and China

  Jan 22 2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's corporate practice is upping its focus on mobility as the internationalisation of the legal profession continues. Fresh from the... 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... more