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• Jones Day to open new office in Brazil

  Oct 19 2010 Jones Day has announced that it will open its second Latin American office in São Paulo, Brazil. Luis Riesgo, chair of Jones Day’s Latin American practice, is set to... more

• DLA Piper to open new office in Turkey

  Apr 15 2010 DLA Piper is on the move again, and is set to open the doors to a new office in Turkey on 1 May, subject to licence approval expected in the coming weeks. The launch... more

• Allen & Overy to launch in Qatar

  Feb 17 2010 One week after its move into the Australian market , magic circle firm Allen & Overy is set to launch an office in Qatar with the relocation of Robert Porter. The... more

• Allen & Overy to open Australia offices, snags 14 partners from local firm

  Feb 08 2010 Magic Circle firm Allen & Overy has announced it will open offices in Sydney and Perth next month, with 17 new partners who will focus on mining and natural resources... more

• Barnes & Thornburg Is New Home for Group from Dissolving Energy Boutique

  Feb 04 2010 Led by a former name partner, a team of lawyers from the dissolving Marshall & Lueder energy boutique in Atlanta has found a new home at Barnes & Thornburg's growing... more

• Greenberg Traurig enters San Francisco

  Feb 04 2010 Greenberg Traurig has opened a San Francisco office headed by two well-known litigators and expects to have a 12- to 15-attorney group practicing there within a few... more

• Wragge to launch in Paris with 10 partners from Lefevre Pelletier

  Jan 25 2010 Wragge & Co is set to launch in Paris after hiring a 10-partner team from its French referral firm Lefevre Pelletier & Associes (LPA. The new office is expected to... more

• Latham & Watkins moves into Texas with Houston launch

  Jan 12 2010 After massive layoffs in 2009, Latham and Watkins LLP is reportedly expanding its operation with a new office in Houston, Texas. Bloomberg reports that Michael... more

• CMS partner firms join forces for Shanghai launch

  Jan 07 2010 CMS Cameron McKenna and its alliance partners, CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre in France and CMS Hasche Sigle in Germany, will open a merged Shanghai office next month.... more

• Latham & Watkins to launch in Beijing

  Jan 04 2010 Latham & Watkins LLP will open its fifth Asian office in Beijing - its third in China - joining other major law firms like Winston & Strawn LLP and Slaughter and May... more

• Malaysia's Zaid Ibrahim first Asian law firm to open in Australia

  Dec 14 2009 Zaid Ibrahim & Co., Malaysia’s largest law firm, will open offices in Australia. The 130 lawyers-firm has received approval to launch in Sydney and Melbourne. Zaid... more

• Kensington Swan to push ahead with Abu Dhabi office

  Nov 27 2009 The Auckland-based Kensington Swan law firm is about to open a branch in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Kensington Swan has more than five years... more

• New office in Rome, Italy

  Nov 10 2009 Due to an increasing number of Italian clients, Gradeanu & Partners Law Firm has decided to open a reperesentative office in Rome . You can contact our Rome office... more

• Gradeanu & Partners is to open its first UK office

  Nov 10 2009 Gradeanu & Partners, Romanian Law Firm is pleased and excited to announce an important milestone in the development of its network of international offices with the... more

• Shearman set to boost Italy presence with Milan office launch

  Oct 24 2009 Shearman & Sterling is set to open its second office in Italy with the addition of a presence in Milan to its existing Rome base. Shearman is setting up the new... more

• Kirkland & Ellis to launch in Shanghai

  Sep 02 2009 Kirkland & Ellis will open a new office in Shanghai to create its second Asia base. The new office will be headed by corporate partner Xiaoyang Li who will relocate... more

• IP firm boutique Fish & Richardson to close Austin office

  Sep 01 2009 Boston-based intellectual property firm Fish & Richardson will shut its Austin, Texas, office and cut corporate transactional lawyers firmwide. Fish & Richardson... more

• Lovells to launch in Saudi Arabia with Dubai duo

  Aug 12 2009 Lovells is poised to open in Saudi Arabia, with two of the firm’s Dubai-based lawyers, of counsel Imran Mufti and associate Mustafa Kamal, spearheading the launch. more

• Orrick signs deal for new London headquarters

  Aug 07 2009 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe's London office has signed a lease to move its City headquarters to 107 Cheapside from Tower 42, Old Broad Street. more

• White & Case to open third Middle East office in Qatar

  Jul 28 2009 White & Case will launch a new office in Doha, Qatar, which will be headed by London-based corporate partner Andrew Macklin. The new office will be White & Case's... more

• Diaz Reus & Targ opens full-service office in Shanghai

  Jul 07 2009 Miami law firm Diaz Reus & Targ LLP, an international litigation and transaction law firm, has opened a full-service office in Shanghai, China. The firm had announced... more

• Weil Gotshal to close Austin office

  Jul 03 2009 Weil Gotshal law firm will be closing its Austin office on December 1, 2009. Weil will continue to serve its clients in Central Texas through its remaining Texas... more

• China's largest law firm Dacheng breaks into the US market

  Jun 22 2009 China's largest law firm, Dacheng Law Offices, has opened an office in Los Angeles and entered into a strategic alliance with Matthews Wilson and Hunter, a boutique... more

• Gibson Dunn to open office in Brazil

  Jun 17 2009 Gibson Dunn & Crutcher will launch an office in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Lisa Alfaro, co-chair of Gibson Dunn's Latin America practice group, will relocate to Sao Paulo... more

• Greenberg Traurig hires Paul Maher for London launch

  Jun 17 2009 Denver-based international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP announced that it is opening an office in London. The new office will be headed by Paul Maher, former... more

• Michigan law firm Miller Canfield moves into Toronto

  Jun 17 2009 Miller Canfield -- a Michigan-based 370-lawyer firm with offices in China, Poland and the United States -- has moved into Toronto by merging with 10-lawyer firm... more

• Davis Polk to close Frankfurt office

  Jun 11 2009 Davis Polk & Wardwell will close its German office in Frankfurt as partner Patrick Kenadjian retires at the end of August. According to managing partner John... more

• Eversheds expands to Mauritius and Albania

  Jun 04 2009 Eversheds has added two new offices in Mauritius and Albania to its Eversheds International network. 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

• Herbert Smith enters Spain with Linklaters raid

  May 05 2009 Herbert Smith is opening an office in Madrid with three Spanish Linklaters partners who will be joined by London-based Herbert Smith finance partner David Wyles. more

• Sonnenschein to close Charlotte office

  Mar 03 2009 Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal is closing its Charlotte office next month, the latest law firm the recession has squeezed out of the largest city in North Carolina.... more

• Chinese law firm Guantao opens in Hong Kong

  Feb 10 2009 Beijing-headquartered law firm Guantao has opened an new office in Hong Kong, its first international branch. The Hong Kong branch, which is the firm's eighth... more

• Simmons closes Rotterdam and moves all Dutch lawyers to Amsterdam office

  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... more

• Eversheds launches in Singapore with DLA Piper hire

  Jan 26 2009 Eversheds is opening a new office in Singapore and also preparing for a launch in Hong Kong. The Singapore office will be headed by DLA Piper’s former Singapore... more

• Barlow Lyde & Gilbert to launch in Brazil

  Jan 06 2009 UK-based international law firm Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP has announced plans to open an office in São Paulo this year. The office will open once regulatory... more

• Wragge & Co prepares Middle East opening in 2009

  Jan 06 2009 Wragge & Co has put together a team that is preparing the launch of an office in the Middle East by the end of 2009, either in Abu Dhabi, Doha or Dubai. According... more

• Skadden loses only partner in Brazil

  Dec 11 2008 Just Skadden six months after Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom launched in Brazil in July this year, the firm has lost its only Sao Paulo partner Jonathan Bisgaier.... more

• Arendt & Medernach opens representative office in Dubai

  Nov 29 2008 Arendt & Medernach, one of the largest law firms in Luxembourg has opened a new office in Dubai within the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). more

• Simmons & Simmons' Rotterdam office under review

  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... more

• White & Case axes Bangkok office

  Nov 13 2008 White & Case will close its third office in less than a month. White & Case is pulling out of Thailand following departures from Italy and the German city of Dresden.. more

• Greenberg Traurig strengthens Tokyo presence with Bingham hire

  Nov 11 2008 Greenberg Traurig has secured its Tokyo presence by restructuring its office as a registered foreign law firm and has boosted its numbers with the hire of Bingham... more

• Kilpatrick Stockton Expands to Middle East

  Nov 07 2008 Kilpatrick Stockton has opened a two-lawyer Dubai office to expand its construction practice into the Middle East. The office is starting with several U.S. clients... more

• White & Case closes Dresden office

  Oct 28 2008 After 18 years, White & Case is closing its office in Dresden, Germany. Seven lawyers are affected. Three partners and two associates will set up a new office in... more

• Dewey will open two new offices in the Middle East

  Oct 22 2008 Within a day of announcing the closure of North Carolina office, Dewey & LeBoeuf is set to boost its Middle East presence with the launch of two new offices in Abu... more

• Thompson & Knight expands São Paulo office

  Oct 22 2008 The global law firm of Thompson & Knight LLP, through its affiliated office Tauil & Chequer Advogados, announced the expansion of its São Paulo office with the... 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

• Beijing-based law firm MMLC Group opens Australian office

  Oct 08 2008 PRC law firm MMLC Group has opened its first Australian office in Brisbane, to meet the growing demand for cross-border work between China and Australia. Firm founder... more

• Cooley Godward opens Seattle office with former Heller lawyers

  Oct 06 2008 The Palo Alto firm Cooley Godward Kronish has announced that it is hiring 15 partners from Heller Ehrman’s Venture Law Group practice, including four partners in... more

• Allen & Overy opens in Brazil with Sao Paulo launch

  Oct 01 2008 Allen & Overy has opened its first office in Brazil with the formal launch of its Sao Paulo base on 30 September... more

• Eversheds set for Hong Kong office launch

  Sep 26 2008 Eversheds will be launching an office in Hong Kong after hiring Heller Ehrman head of Asia Nick Seddon. more

• Holland & Knight opens office in Abu Dhabi

  Sep 26 2008 Holland & Knight LLP has opened a law office in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Holland & Knight, which has represented clients in the region on a wide variety of... more

• Central-American law firm Morgan & Morgan enters Asia with new Singapore office

  Sep 10 2008 Panama-based firm Morgan & Morgan has announced that it has opened an office Singapore in a move designed to kick-off its Asia presence. The firm will relocate several... more

• Allen Overy taps Cadwalader for China office hire

  Aug 26 2008 Allen & Overy has bolstered its China offering with the hire of the former managing partner of Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft’s Beijing office, Mark Roppel, who will... 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... more

• Winston & Strawn adds two Mayer Brown litigators to Chicago office

  Aug 08 2008 Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that Robin R. Lunn and Doressia L. Hutton have joined the firm's Chicago office as partner and of counsel, respectively, in the... more

• NYC's Curtis plans Dubai launch in September

  Aug 07 2008 New York firm Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle has revamped its management team ahead of its expansion into the Middle East. Curtis, which has been in the Middle... more

• O'Melveny opens up in Singapore with another White & Case hire

  Aug 05 2008 O’Melveny & Myers has launched an office in Singapore with the hire of White & Case’s Asia head of banking, finance and restructuring Bertie Mehigan as its managing... more

• Ashurst will send Geoffrey Green to Hong Kong to launch new office

  Aug 05 2008 Ashurst is to launch its first-ever office in China and has picked current senior partner Geoffrey Green to spearhead the initiative. The silver circle firm is... more

• O'Melveny signs up White & Case partner Fairbairn for Hong Kong office

  Aug 04 2008 O’Melveny & Myers has bolstered its restructuring and insolvency capabilities with the hire of White & Case partner Mark Fairbairn for the firm’s Hong Kong office,... more

• Reed Smith to open in Silicon Valley with Morrison & Foerster hire

  Aug 04 2008 Reed Smith is to launch an office in Silicon Valley after hiring Morrison & Foerster Palo Alto partner Rich Scudellari, who has joined the firm’s corporate and... more

• Greenberg Traurig Announces Opening of Third Texas Office in Austin

  Aug 04 2008 The international law firm Greenberg Traurig has announced the opening of a new office in Austin, Texas, its 27th in the United States. With the launch of the... more

• Alston & Bird to Open in Silicon Valley With Akin Group

  Jul 29 2008 Just six months after King & Spalding launched in the Silicon Valley, another Atlanta-based firm, Alston & Bird, is set to open its doors in the Bay Area. A group of... more

• Covington launches first Asia office in Beijing

  Jul 24 2008 US law firm Covington & Burling has launched its first office in Asia, with its former management chair Stuart Stock heading the team in Beijing. The news comes... more

• Salans law firm opens Beijing office

  Jul 11 2008 Salans, an international law firm with offices in 19 cities worldwide, has opened a second office in China, this time in Beijing. It already has an office in Shanghai.... more

• Hogan & Hartson launches in Abu Dhabi

  Jul 03 2008 Hogan & Hartson is to launch in Abu Dhabi next month - the firm’s first-ever office in the Middle East. The Washington DC-headquartered firm will be sending Ray Batla,... more

• Three lawyers elevated to partnership in Sidley’s Hong Kong and PRC offices

  Jun 29 2008 Sidley Austin has announced a bumper crop of 34 new partners, three of these - Jason Tzu-cheng Kuo, Scott Dennis Peterman, and Chen Yang - are Asia based. The bulk of... more

• Orrick to enter German market

  Jun 26 2008 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe looks set to enter the German market with the firm just weeks away from sealing a merger with Duesseldorf independent Hoelters & Elsing. more

• Herbert Smith names Austin Sweeney as new Singapore chief

  Jun 24 2008 Herbert Smith has appointed Austin Sweeney as the new head of its Singapore office, with the corporate partner relocating from the firm’s City base to take up the... 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

• Ohio Law Firm Buckingham Sees Mass Exodus to Rival Firm Dinsmore

  Jun 18 2008 Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs will close its Columbus, Ohio, office for the time being following the defection of nearly all its attorneys in that locale to a... more

• Salans hires partner duo for Frankfurt launch

  Jun 17 2008 Salans will launch an office in Frankfurt next month (1 July) after announcing the hire of two partners from local independent Aderhold Gassner. Litigation partner... more

• Akin Gump Taiwan office to close, Silicon Valley office in doubt

  Jun 16 2008 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has closed its Taiwan office and is re-evaluating its Silicon Valley office after the loss of rainmaker Yitai Hu. Hu had split his time... more

• Canadian Firm Gowling Launches in London

  Jun 15 2008 Gowlings has announced the opening of a new office in London, U.K. Gowlings (U.K.) LLP has been established to serve the Firm's existing energy, resource and... more

• Bond Pearce shuts Exteter office

  Jun 15 2008 A leading law firm is closing its Exeter office and hoping to moving all of its city staff to Plymouth. Bond Pearce says it is in talks with its 65 Exeter employees... more

• Salans announces strategic expansion in China

  Jun 10 2008 Salans has announced a wide ranging development of its Asian strategy. Building on the firm's emerging markets practices and its presence in Shanghai, Salans is now... more

• Simmons' Tokyo office plundered by Lovells

  Jun 10 2008 Lovells has inherited Simmons & Simmons' Tokyo office as Simmons scales back its international ambitions. Simmons had been reviewing its Japanese operation for six... more

• Simpson Thacher joins the rush from New York to Brazil

  Jun 10 2008 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is set to become the latest major US law firm to enter the Brazilian legal market when it opens an office in Sao Paulo later this year, the... more

• Weil Gotshal to open in Beijing

  Jun 09 2008 Weil Gotshal & Manges has continued its emerging markets push after confirming that it has received a license to practise in Beijing. Steve Xiang – who heads up the... more

• Baker Botts opens Palo Alto office

  Jun 09 2008 Seeking to boost its intellectual property practice, Houston law firm Baker Botts LLP has opened a new office in Silicon Valley. Baker Botts has 800 lawyers in 12... more

• Chadbourne & Parke launches in Brazil

  Jun 06 2008 Chadbourne & Parke has confirmed that it is to follow its recent opening in Mexico with an office launch in Brazil. As According to The Lawyer, the firm has confirmed... more

• Ward Hadaway opens in Leeds with raids on rivals

  Jun 04 2008 Newcastle-based Ward Hadaway is to open in Leeds after poaching five partners and two associates. The eight lawyer Leeds office, Ward Hadaway’s first base outside its... more

• Freshfields to Open in Abu Dhabi

  Jun 04 2008 U.K. law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer will open in Abu Dhabi now that its application has been fast-tracked. The law firm already has offices in Dubai and Bahrain. more

• UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) raids law firm bankers

  Jun 04 2008 The Office of Fair Trading conducted a series of dawn raids at offices of Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as part of an investigation into price-fixing on... more

• Dentons adds in Gulf with Kuwait capture

  Jun 03 2008 Denton Wilde Sapte has added to its network of offices in the Middle East after taking on the Kuwait office of US law firm Bryan Cave. The new office, which will... more

• King & Spalding Opens Office in Abu Dhabi

  Jun 03 2008 King & Spalding, a leading international law firm, announced today the establishment of an office in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. With a total... more

• Indiana Law Firm Baker and Daniels LLP To Open in Chicago

  Jun 03 2008 Baker & Daniels LLP today announced plans to establish a significant presence in Chicago. Veteran Chicago lawyers Richard E. Michaels and David M. Allen will lead the... more

• WongPartnership steps up Middle East activity

  Jun 02 2008 Singapore firm WongPartnership has announced that it has secured a licence to open a new office in Abu Dhabi. It is intended that the new office will become the centre... more

• Gibson Dunn raids Jones Day to establish Singapore office

  Jun 02 2008 Los Angeles-based firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has announced its intention to open a Singapore office. And helping to set up the new venture will be three partners... more

• Allen & Overy launches presence in Romania

  May 30 2008 Allen & Overy has launched a Romanian Alliance, signing an exclusive association with local firm Radu Taracila Padurari Retevoescu SCA (RTPR). The news comes after... more

• Salans granted licence to open new Beijing office

  May 24 2008 Salans, the international law firm with offices across 19 cities worldwide, has announced that it has obtained the licence from the PRC Ministry of Justice to open a... more

• Gibson Dunn Opens Singapore Office With 10 Lawyers

  May 21 2008 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is further expanding its international platform with a new office in Singapore. The new Singapore office, which will have U.S., English and... more

• Dorsey & Whitney set for Australian launch

  May 17 2008 Minneapolis-based US firm Dorsey & Whitney is planning to launch an office in Sydney as its base for the Asian market, TheLawyer.com reports. According to the... more

• Linklaters rumoured to close office in Romania; White & Case planning to expand

  May 14 2008 Linklaters is rumoured to be shutting down its Romanian operations. The lawyers at Linklaters Romania who could lose their jobs will not have to remain unemployed for... more

• Salans snares Silecky for Kiev push

  May 12 2008 Salans has taken on the bulk of Ukrainian practice The Silecky Firm, until last month the ally of Squire Sanders & Dempsey, in a major boost to its Kiev practice.... more

• K&L Gates Adds Two Intellectual Property Lawyers in New York Office

  May 12 2008 The New York office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP (K&L Gates) welcomes Gary A. Walpert and Andrew L. Reibman as partners in the firm’s intellectual... more

• McGuireWoods Appoints New Managing Partner of New York Office

  May 09 2008 McGuireWoods LLP announced it has appointed Philip Goldstein to be the managing partner of the firm’s New York City office. Goldstein’s practice focuses on mass tort,... more

• Morrison & Foerster Closes Orange County Office

  Apr 29 2008 Morrison & Foerster has closed down its beleaguered Orange County office after being dealt a final blow: the departure of its office leader and another partner to... more

• Shearman Germany decimated in Mannheim walk-out

  Apr 23 2008 US firm Shearman & Sterling has lost an entire German office, with its 30-lawyer Mannheim team splitting off to form an independent firm. Nine partners from... more

• K&L Gates opens in Shanghai

  Apr 21 2008 Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis (K&L Gates) has launched an office in Shanghai – its fourth base in Asia – as the US firm continues to build up its... more

• Freshfields strengthens corporate team in China

  Apr 20 2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has announced the appointment of Calvin Lai and Antony Dapiran as partners in the firm’s corporate practice group. They will be based in... more