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May 09 2012
Leading Dutch law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek is waiting on regulatory approval for the launch of a new office in Singapore, which will be its fifth...
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Aug 30 2011
New Zealand employment law firm Swarbrick Beck Mackinnon has joined the international employment law alliance L&E Global, joining seven other firms from Europe and the...
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Jul 04 2011
Three partners have thrown their hats into the ring as Linklaters prepares to elect a new global head of banking to succeed Robert Elliott when his tenure ends in...
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Mar 09 2011
Linklaters has has bolstered its Amsterdam office with the hire of Jan Willem de Boer, the head of the restructuring practice at Dutch firm De Brauw Blackstone...
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Oct 27 2010
Eight law firms have taken roles advising on a $1.4 billion deal for the acquisition of Dutch insurance company Brit Insurance Holdings by private equity giants...
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Oct 25 2010
Lex Mundi, a global association of independent law firms with 160 member law firms and 21,000 lawyers, has elected a new Chair – Houthoff Buruma partner Michiel...
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Oct 07 2010
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have taken lead roles on a merger between Amsterdam-based VimpelCom with Weather investments....
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Sep 30 2010
Dutch firm Boekel De Neree has opened its first office outside the Netherlands, launching an office in London on 1 September.
The office is headed up by corporate...
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Nov 26 2009
Howrey has hired Intellectual property specialist Joris van Manen, a partner of De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek.
Van Manen who will join Howrey in January 2010 will...
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Sep 28 2009
Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won key roles on Unilever's $1.9 billion offer for Sara Lee's global personal care and European detergent...
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Apr 06 2009
Clifford Chance plans to lay off 10 associates in its Amsterdam office, which has around 160 lawyers in total, including 28 partners.
Allen & Overy also plans to...
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Jan 28 2009
Simmons & Simmons announced that it is to close its Rotterdam office and move all its Dutch activities into a single Amsterdam office from 2010. The Amsterdam office...
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Nov 28 2008
Simmons & Simmons is reviewing the future of its Rotterdam office. The UK firm is currently considering the best option for the 75-fee earner office, which is believed...
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Aug 29 2008
Dutch law firms Loyens & Loeff and Houthoff Buruma are the principal legal advisers on the €8bn merger between local oil companies Frisol and Van der Sluijs.
The...
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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...
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May 14 2008
Britain’s largest law firms are reducing the number of junior lawyers they are hiring amid concerns that debt finance and corporate takeover work both in London and...
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Feb 06 2008
Linklaters has launched a restructuring and insolvency practice in the Netherlands with the hire of a Simmons & Simmons partner. Corporate recovery lawyer Paul Kuipers...
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