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• 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

• 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

• 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

• Ashurst appoints new managing partner

  Mar 22 2012 Ashurst has tapped Paris-based banking partner James Collis to be its new managing partner. Collis takes over from Simon Bromwich, who decided last month to step down... more

• King & Spalding hires two litigation partners from Bird & Bird in London

  Mar 14 2012 King & Spalding has boosted its London disputes practice with the hire of two litigation partners from Bird & Bird. Jane Player leaves a role as the joint head of... more

• US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges promotes 11 to partnership

  Dec 28 2011 US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges has elevated eleven lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round. The promotions take place across the New York,... more

• Herbert Smith boosts Paris infrastructure practice with A&O hire

  Dec 04 2011 Herbert Smith has boosted its energy and infrastructure practice in Paris with the hire of partner Christophe Lefort, who was previously the general counsel at French... 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

• Vogel & Vogel teams up with Truman Hoyle in European-Australian alliance

  Nov 15 2011 Australian law firm Truman Hoyle has announced an alliance with competition law firm Vogel & Vogel, which offices in Paris, Brussels and Frankfurt. The link between... more

• Jones Day boosts Paris M&A practice with Norton Rose hire

  Sep 15 2011 Jones Day has boosted its M&A practice with the hire of partner Hervé Castelnau, the former head of Norton Rose's telecommunications, intellectual property and IT... more

• Salans makes lateral hires in Paris and Frankfurt

  Sep 15 2011 Salans has hired three partners across its France and Germany practices. The firm raided Bird & Bird for talent, scooping up the co-head of the firm’s French IP... more

• Linklaters boosts Paris capital markets team with Gide hires

  Aug 31 2011 Linklaters has boosted its Paris capital markets team with the hire of a partner and three associates from Gide Loyrette Nouel. Patrice Doat was a partner at Gide... more

• UK firm Norton Rose to launch an office in Casablanca

  Jul 29 2011 Norton Rose is the third British firm to announce the launch of a Moroccan office in the past two weeks, following Allen & Overy and Clifford Chance. The Casablanca... 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

• FoxMandal Little merges with boutique firm LexIndia

  May 17 2011 LexIndia, a boutique firm with strong presence in Paris has merged with FoxMandal Little. LexIndia has offices in New Delhi and London. FML Partner, Som Mandal in... more

• Clifford Chance focusses on Asia in 23-strong promotions round

  May 04 2011 Clifford Chance has announced the results of its 2011 partnership promotions round, elevating 23 lawyers to the partnership. The promotions reflect a strategic... more

• Baker & McKenzie ranked largest US firm by headcount

  May 04 2011 Baker & McKenzie has come in as the largest of US law firms by head count, according to the The National Law Journal. This is the third year in a row that Bakers has... more

• US firm McDermott Will & Emery to launch in Paris

  May 02 2011 US firm McDermott Will & Emery is set to launch in Paris after five key hires. Leading the new office is partner Jacques Buhart, who was previously head of Herbert... 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

• Allens promotes 21 to partnership globally

  Apr 04 2011 Allen & Overy has promoted 21 lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round, up from 18 last year. Managing partner Wim Dejonghe said: "Our partner... more

• Six candidates vye for Senior Partner role at Simmons & Simmons

  Apr 04 2011 Six partners have put themselves forward as candidates for the Senior Partner role at Simmons & Simmons. Current Senior Partner David Dickinson leaves the role at the... more

• A&O boosts Paris M&A team with triple hire from Debevoise

  Mar 24 2011 Magic circle firm Allen & Overy has bolstered its Paris M&A practice with the hire of three lawyers from US firm Debevoise & Plimpton. The group, which is led by... more

• K&L Gates Adds Leading Real Estate Lawyer in Paris Office

  Mar 23 2011 Paris - Global law firm K&L Gates LLP welcomes Edouard Vitry as a Paris partner to head their real estate department. Vitry arrives at K&L Gates from Simmons & Simmons... 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

• US firm Paul Hastings hires five partners in Paris

  Feb 22 2011 US firm Paul Hastings has bolstered its Paris office with the hire of five partners from Hogan Lovells and Proskauer Rose. Hogan Lovells’ Paris corporate head... more

• Former SJ Berwin Senior Partner David Harrel to be the Chairman of CPA Global

  Feb 10 2011 Legal Processing Outsourcing Company CPA Global has appointed David Harrel as Chairman of its Board of Directors. Harrel, former Senior Partner at SJ Berwin, succeeds... more

• Orrick promotes eight to partnership

  Feb 06 2011 Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has announced the promotion of eight lawyers to the partnership. Ralph Baxter, the firm’s Chairman and CEO, said: "The new partners... more

• Holman Fenwick & Willan hires partners in Paris, Brussels and London

  Jan 19 2011 Holman Fenwick & Willan hired three new partners, boosting corporate and regulatory practices in Paris, Brussels and London. Robert Follie of Hogan Lovells has... more

• SJ Berwin elects new Managing partner in a close race

  Nov 02 2010 SJ Berwin has elected a new managing partner in a closely fought contest. Rob Day won the vote by just a handful of votes, and commentators are saying that the... more

• Bird & Bird loses 5-lawyer Paris IT team to DLA Piper

  Oct 27 2010 DLA Piper has boosted its Paris IT practice with the hire of a five-strong team of lawyers Bird & Bird. The team is led by Bird & Bird's international IT co-head... more

• Four partners set to leave the Paris office of Norton Rose

  Oct 15 2010 A team of four partners is set to leave the Paris office of Norton Rose after disagreements about the management of the office. Corporate partners Jean-Francois... more

• Howrey loses 12 IP partners in Europe

  Oct 11 2010 Howrey's head of intellectual property in Europe and at least 11 other partners and 14 associates are jumping ship to set up a new IP firm. The splinter group cited... more

• Akin Gump and Cleary Gottlieb lead $21.5 billion telecom merger

  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.... more

• Debevoise & Plimpton moves partner to boost Hong Kong practice

  Oct 04 2010 Debevoise & Plimpton has relocated partner Drew Dutton from Paris to Hong Kong in bid to bolster its Hong Kong financial services and transactional private equity... more

• Linklaters appoints new Managing Partner in Paris

  Jun 01 2010 Linklaters has appointed a new head of the firm’s Paris office after litigator Arnaud de La Cotardiere stepped down from the role. Paul Lignieres began his four... more

• Lawyers from Gide and Viguie Schmidt set up new Paris practice

  May 25 2010 A new boutique finance practice - Duhamel Blimbaum - has been launched in Paris after Jeremie Duhamel of Gide Loyrette Nouel and Jeremy Blimbaum of Viguie Schmidt... more

• Taylor Wessing promotes 12 to partnership

  May 18 2010 Taylor Wessing has promoted 12 lawyers to the partnership in its annual round of promotions, with the firm’s German offices receiving the majority of the new... more

• Norton Rose promotes 23 to counsel

  May 17 2010 Norton Rose has promoted 23 lawyers to counsel in the firm’s first round of counsel promotions since the merger with Australia's Deacons. Of the 23, five lawyers have... more

• Baker & McKenzie hires Paris team from Courtois Lebel

  May 14 2010 Baker & McKenzie has announced the hire of partner Eric Borysewicz to the firm’s Paris-based Litigation and Arbitration group. Borysewicz has worked in litigation and... more

• A&O promotes 25 associates to counsel

  Apr 28 2010 Allen & Overy has announced the promotion of 25 lawyers to counsel positions in their annual promotions round. This is a significant increase on last year’s numbers,... more

• Ashurst promotes 11 lawyers to partnership

  Apr 27 2010 Ashurst has announced the promotion of 11 lawyers to the partnership – one more than in last year’s round. Six partners were made up in London, two in Paris and one... more

• Herbert Smith promotes 18 lawyers to partnership

  Apr 23 2010 Herbert Smith has promoted 18 lawyers to the partnership, bringing their worldwide partner numbers to 272. Senior partner David Gold said: “I congratulate our new... more

• Eversheds taps 19 lawyers for partnership

  Apr 20 2010 Eversheds has promoted 19 lawyers to the partnership in its annual promotions round – a marked drop from last year’s round, when 32 lawyers were made up. The firm's... more

• Mayer Brown launches Paris competition and distribution practice

  Apr 19 2010 Mayer Brown has hired Nathalie Jalabert-Doury – formerly a partner at from Carreras Barsikian Robertson & Associés – to head a new competition and distribution... 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

• Reed Smith hires seven lawyers to expand Paris employment practice

  Apr 14 2010 Reed Smith has drastically expanded its Paris employment practice with the addition of seven attorneys from French firm Courtois Lebel. The group is led by partners... 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

• 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

• Salans promotes nine to partnership, three in Warsaw

  Jan 19 2010 Anglo-French law firm Salans LLP has made up nine lawyers to the partnership in the firm's annual global promotions round. The Warsaw office received a total of... more

• Lovells hires Dewey banking partner Michel Quere for Paris office

  Jan 15 2010 Lovells has hired high-profile banking partner Michel Quere from Dewey & LeBoeuf, reports legalweek. Quere was charged with co-managing Dewey & LeBoeuf's Paris... more

• Allen & Overy poaches Clifford Chance M&A team in Paris

  Jan 08 2010 Allen & Overy has boosted its Paris M&A practice with the hire of an M&A team from Clifford Chance, inlcuding partner Marcus Billam, senior consultant Catherine... more

• Mayer Brown merges with Paris boutique Ayela Semerdjian

  Nov 25 2009 US firm Mayer Brown has successfully completed a tie-up with litigation boutique Ayela Semerdjian & Associes. Ayela Semerdjian is headed by partners Christophe... more

• DLA Piper recruits Proskauer projects partner for Paris base

  Nov 17 2009 DLA Piper has strengthened its Paris projects team with the hire of a former Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner from Proskauer Rose. Jean L'Homme, who joined... more

• Partners from Proskauer and Salans form Paris litigation independent

  Nov 14 2009 A group of partners from Proskauer Rose and Salans have combined to create a 31-lawyer independent law firm in France. Proskauer’s Paris litigation head Christophe... more

• Lanier Law Firm expands to Europe

  Oct 13 2009 The Lanier Law Firm has created an international practice and will open an office in London in the first quarter of 2010 to expand the new practice. The firm already... more

• Slaughter and May to close Paris office

  Oct 02 2009 Slaughter and May is preparing to close its Paris office in April next year. Andrew McClean, the only partner remaining in Paris after Slaughter and May's joined... more

• Norton Rose recruits Salans competition team in Paris

  Sep 24 2009 Norton Rose is bolstering its Paris competition practice with the hire of a team led by Mélanie Thill-Tayara from Salans. Thill-Tayara will fill the gap left by the... more

• Fasken launches in Paris with local merger and Dewey hires

  Sep 23 2009 Fasken Martineau has opened an new office in Paris through a merger with seven-lawyer Paris firm Gravel Leclerc & Partners and the addition of a four-lawyer team from... more

• Lovells enters alliance with French insolvency boutique Kuntz

  Sep 10 2009 Lovells has reached a tie-up agreement with Paris-based insolvency boutique Kuntz & Associés, which will see the firms form a closer bond without entering into a... more

• K&L Gates launches Singapore arbitration practice

  Aug 18 2009 K&L Gates has appointed Raja Bose to head its international arbitration practice in Asia. Bose joins from Watson Farley & Williams’ Singapore office where he spent a... more

• White & Case Paris duo forms antitrust boutique

  Jan 19 2009 Two White & Case lawyers, Sylvain Justier and Vincent Jaunet, have left the firm’s Paris office to establish their own boutique. The new boutique called Magenta... more

• Salans finance partner Frederic Gros exits for Jones Day

  Oct 11 2008 Frederic Gros, a banking and finance partner in Salans’ Paris hub, has left to join US giant Jones Day. Gros becomes the 19th partner in Jones Day’s French practice... more

• Dozen 'Stolen' Taylor Wessing Partners Headed to Nixon Peabody

  Aug 20 2008 The feud between Taylor Wessing's French office and Nixon Peabody is getting nastier. Taylor Wessing's 55-lawyer Paris outpost has sued Nixon, claiming the U.S.-based... more

• Taylor Wessing sues US firm Nixon Peabody for 'poaching' partners

  Aug 07 2008 Taylor Wessing, the City law firm, has sued an American rival for $5 million (£2.6 million) for allegedly illegally poaching several partners from its Paris office.... 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... more

• Bakers elects new Paris chief Fabre

  Jun 11 2008 Baker & McKenzie has elected a new managing partner for its Paris office, with Regis Fabre stepping into the role from 1 July for a two-year term. The competition... more

• Jobs for junior lawyers dry up as boom ends

  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... 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... more

• Morgan Lewis picks up Paris funds partner from Debevoise

  Apr 06 2008 Morgan Lewis & Bockius has strengthened its Paris arm with the hire of Debevoise & Plimpton local private equity and fund formation head Ann Baker. Baker, who was... more

• For Willkie Farr the gateway to Europe is Paris, not London

  Mar 29 2008 If Daniel Hurstel's schedule on Thursday, March 27, was anything to go by, the Paris legal market is in decent health. The head of Willkie Farr & Gallagher's office... more

• Taylor Wessing Bags China IPO First

  Mar 28 2008 Taylor Wessing’s Paris office has picked up the main role on China Corn Oil’s listing on the NYSE Euronext’s Alternext market; the first Chinese company to ever float... more

• White & Case loses Paris corporate partner

  Mar 16 2008 White & Case has suffered it third partner loss in a week, with Paris-based corporate partner Bernard Teze having joined local firm DS Avocats. Teze, a former counsel... more

• Paul Hastings raids Ashurst for Paris projects team

  Mar 09 2008 US firm Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker has boosted its Paris projects team with a four-lawyer raid on Ashurst. Paul Hastings has made Ashurst senior lawyers Pascal... more

• Mayer Brown scoops French Shearman partner Dugué

  Feb 09 2008 Mayer Brown has boosted its international arbitration practice with the hire of a Shearman & Sterling partner in Paris. Christophe Dugué, who joined Shearman in 1990... more

• Denton Wilde Sapte looses two Paris partners to DLA Piper

  Jan 27 2008 Denton Wilde Sapte has lost two of its Paris partners after corporate duo François Serres and Lionel Koehler-Magne moved to DLA Piper; the latest in a string of... 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

• Sarrau snaps up DLA Piper Paris Partner Frédéric Bucher

  Jan 20 2008 French private equity specialist Sarrau Thomas Couderc has hired DLA Piper partner Frédéric Bucher, who has left the international giant after just 18 months. Bucher’s... more

• Mayer Brown and Clifford Chance bag top EC lawyers

  Jan 16 2008 Mayer Brown has bagged a senior official from the European Commission's competition arm, the second firm to tap the Commission in the space of a week. Andres Font... more

• DLA Piper raids fledgling Proskauer Paris office

  Jan 13 2008 DLA Piper has boosted its Paris arm with the hire of a three-partner team from Proskauer Rose, taking seven lawyers in total. The departures from Proskauaer come just... more

• K&L Gates assaults French market with Paris launch

  Jan 10 2008 K&L Gates has continued its current expansionist momentum into the New Year with the launch of a new office in Paris today. The French outpost has been launched with... more

• Lovells Hires Derains & Associés' Arbitration Partner Jean-Georges Betto

  Jan 04 2008 Lovells has hired arbitration partner Jean-Georges Betto as a partner in its French practice. Betto moves to the UK firm from Paris arbitration boutique Derains &... more

• Latest Lovells hire adds to Paris arbitration

  Jan 03 2008 Lovells has boosted its Paris office after completing the hire of partner Jean-Georges Betto from local boutique Derains & Associes. Betto, who started at the City... more

• Yale Teaches University of Paris Lesson in Law as France Demurs

  Dec 14 2007 It isn't easy for corporate law firms to find qualified law-school graduates in the land of Montesquieu, one of the founders of modern Western legal theory. ``Because... more