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May 16 2012
Singapore law firm Allen & Gledhill was the big winner at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2012, an industry event to recognised excellence in the South East Asia region....
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Apr 30 2012
Herbert Smith has announced plans to lay off 51 people London, and has commenced a 30 day consultation to carry out the cuts. The biggest cuts will take place in the...
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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...
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Apr 19 2012
Fox Mandal has hired former Little & Co. Partner Nahush Shah, boosting the firms capabilities in banking and finance and real estate. Shah will join the firm’s...
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Apr 09 2012
FoxMandal has boosted its Noida office with the hire of Ashish Sarup as a partner and Joseph Koshy as a Consultant.
Ashish, a real estate and M&A specialist,...
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Mar 07 2012
New York firm Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman has reported a decline in both revenue and profits per partner in 2011. The firm’s revenue dropped 2 per cent from...
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Feb 21 2012
Chinese law firm Yingke has launched a new office in İstanbul in cooperation with local law firm Çektir & Başarı. The law firm will be led by managing partner Berk...
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Feb 16 2012
Howard Kennedy has taken the shears to its partnership, removing six partners along with one senior associate from its real estate team. The move reduces the real...
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Dec 05 2011
Southeast Asian firm DFDL Mekong has launched a presence in Indonesia via an alliance with local firm MX Law.
The Indonesian practice will be led by William D....
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Nov 16 2011
LG is set to bolster its London real estate practice with the hire of senior associate Mark Mallon from SJ Berwin. Mallon will join the firm as a partner, and will...
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Sep 12 2011
Macfarlanes bolstered its real estate practice with the hire of Senior Partner Ian Nisse US firm Shearman & Sterling. Nisse leaves his role as co-head of the real...
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Jul 27 2011
Kirkland & Ellis is vigorously expanding its real estate practice – since March the firm has paid a premium to lure 10 top real estate lawyers from other firms. The...
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Jun 24 2011
Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman is set to launch a corporate real estate practice, after the hire two real estate partners from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &...
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Jun 10 2011
Greenberg Traurig has boosted its real estate practice with the hire of Peter Miller, who previously headed the real estate and finance practice group at Akin Gump...
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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...
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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...
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Apr 07 2011
Welcome to Lawyers Property Albania
Real estate remains at the heart of Lawyers Property Albania's practice and strategy. We are a full service real estate practice...
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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...
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Mar 02 2011
Latham & Watkins’s Chicago office has hired three partners from Kirkland & Ellis. Real Estate partners Robert Buday, Nathaniel Marrs and Gary Axelrod made the move...
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Jan 28 2011
Berwin Leighton Paisner has boosted its Middle East real estate practice with the hire of two partners in Abu Dhabi.
David Nunn leaves the partnership at Simmons &...
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Jan 18 2011
Rukshad Davar from Bharucha joins Majmudar & Co. International Lawyers as a partner to handle corporate / M & A, tax and real estate.
Rukshad said, “I have recently...
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Dec 27 2010
The merger of Bangalore based Anup Shah Law Firm and AZB & Partners has only lasted slightly more than a year as both of them have decided to ‘re-align’ their...
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Dec 06 2010
SJ Berwin has made an out of season promotion to the partnership, making up London-based associate Darren Rogers to real estate partner.
The firm was planning on...
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Oct 08 2010
US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has launched an office in Abu Dhabi, making its fourth base in the Middle East alongside offices in Doha, Dubai and Riyadh.
The new branch...
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Oct 01 2010
The head of real estate at SJ Berwin has resigned to join Irwin Mitchell, along with a team of three other partners. John Vivian, Jo Footitt, Lewis Myers and Rob...
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Sep 28 2010
Many corporate, real-estate and other transactional associates have had a slow year, with deals and work-flow stalling in the tough economic climate. Many have shifted...
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Sep 20 2010
Paul Hastings is shifting talent to Asia in anticipation of an increase in large deals coming out of the region in the next six to 12 months.
Real estate partner...
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Sep 10 2010
Fladgate has hired the former head of Halliwells’ London real estate finance practice.
Kim McMurray acts for banks and borrowers, focusing on the hotel, care home,...
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Aug 24 2010
Clifford Chance has elected Spanish practice chief Alfonso Benavides to the position of global real estate head. Benavides will succeed Cliff McAuley, who has led the...
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Aug 13 2010
A team of lawyers from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is set to leave the firm’s Hamburg office to launch an independent firm. The departing team is led by partner...
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May 27 2010
Since today shares in Euro Asia Premier Real Estate Company Limited (“Euro Asia”) are being traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Euro Asia was advised by Salans on...
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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...
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Mar 29 2010
Gary Watson has been recruited as the new head of Olswang’s real estate group. Watson comes to the firm from Mayer Brown, and has nearly 30 years of experience in the...
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Mar 19 2010
Hammonds has anticipated an upturn in the market for real estate services with three senior hires.
Barrister Oliver Goodwin, formerly the head of planning and...
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Jan 29 2010
Four real estate partners are leaving Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker to join the New York office of Haynes and Boone.
The Dallas-based firm confirmed it had...
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Nov 03 2009
Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) is set to launch a City property practice with the hire of a real estate partner from Eversheds.
Tim Webb joined GTM today (2...
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Sep 11 2009
Eversheds has launched its fourth redundancy round, which puts 117 roles under threat, including 22 fee earners in the real estate practice of the top 10 UK law firm....
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May 22 2009
Bircham Dyson Bell has completed a second redundancy consultation, which has seen 15 jobs cut at the top 80 firm.
The review, which was launched in mid-March, led...
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Jan 28 2009
Howard Kennedy has added Mayer Brown partner Michele-Anne Freyne, thus boosting its property litigation team.
Freyne lead the London property litigation group at...
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Dec 22 2008
DLA Piper is to take over Apollo & Associati – one of Milan’s few leading real estate boutiques that was launched less than three years ago – as the international...
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Dec 04 2008
Travers Smith has become the latest firm to make redundancies, shedding four associates across its real estate and corporate groups.
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