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• Shoosmiths to make up to 93 redundancies

  May 04 2012 Shoosmiths has announced that it will make up to 93 redundancies in a restructuring of the firm's consumer legal services arm. Private client practice group chief... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf loses senior London partner to KPMG

  Apr 25 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf has lost one of the firm’s most senior London partners, Fred Gander. Gander, a taxation specialist who has been with Dewey since 1991, will join KPMG... more

• DLA Piper boosts restructuring practice with Goldman Sachs hire

  Apr 12 2012 DLA Piper has boosted its restructuring practice with the hire of Justin Conway, an executive director from Goldman Sachs, as a partner in London. Conway has been... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf shakes up management team in response to stream of departures

  Mar 28 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf is changing its leadership strategy, with a plan to appoint London partner Stephen Horvath to a new role of executive partner. The plan proposes... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf shakes up management team in response to stream of departures

  Mar 28 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf is changing its leadership strategy, with a plan to appoint London partner Stephen Horvath to a new role of executive partner. The plan proposes... more

• DLA Piper to adopt all equity partnership model

  Mar 20 2012 DLA Piper’s international partnership is set to adopt an all-equity partnership model on 1 May 2012, following the lead of its US partnership, which moved to an all... more

• Linklaters takes the axe to partnership

  Feb 20 2012 Linklaters is taking the axe to its partnership, with around 35 partners expected to be pushed out. Insiders report that there is an effort on the part of the firm... more

• Howard Kennedy takes shears to partnership

  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... more

• Fried Frank boosts Hong Kong corporate practice with hire from Herbert Smith

  Jan 28 2012 U.S. firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson has boosted its Hong Kong corporate practice with the hire of partner Carolyn Sng of Herbert Smith. Sng’s practice... more

• Reports indicate more departures from BLP's banking and capital markets group

  Jan 16 2012 Rumour has it that seven associates have resigned from Berwin Leighton Paisner's Banking and Capital Markets group in the last week. According to Roll On Friday a... more

• UK firm Pannone set to make a round of redundancies

  Jan 13 2012 Up to 12 fee earners and support staff from UK firm Pannone will lose their jobs when the firm closes two offices in Hale and Alderley Edge in Cheshire, as the firm... more

• Bracewell & Giuliani and Duane Morris restructure to separate lobbying groups

  Dec 28 2011 The lobbying practice groups of Bracewell & Giuliani and Duane Morris are forming separate business units. The restructuring efforts will assure the groups an... more

• Herbert Smith to de-equitize 15 partners

  Dec 12 2011 Herbert Smith is set to de-equitize around 15 partners – ten per cent of its total equity partnership – in order to reach profits on the same scale as the so-called... more

• Linklaters may shear 35 from equity partnership

  Dec 08 2011 Linklaters is set to take the shears to its partnership for the second time in three years, and has announced a major restructuring to its London partners. Some within... more

• Kodak switches advisors in struggle to avoid bankruptcy

  Dec 06 2011 Photography company Kodak has switched legal advisors in the middle of its struggle to avoid bankruptcy, trading in Jones Day’s restructuring practice in favour... more

• A&O asks 12 partners to leave the firm

  Dec 02 2011 Allen & Overy has once again taken the shears to its partnership ranks, asking around 12 of its partners to leave the firm. And while the move is not on the same scale... more

• SNR Denton to review UK strategy in the face of falling profits

  Apr 25 2011 SNR Denton is conducting a review of its UK business strategy in the face of a huge drop in profits per equity partner. UK partners could see profits drop to as... more

• Linklaters Hires top Dutch restructuring lawyer from De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek

  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... more

• US firm Clark Thomas & Winters to undertake major restructuring

  Feb 28 2011 Texas law firm Clark Thomas & Winters has announced major restructuring to take place in the coming weeks, adding to speculation that the firm’s future hangs in the... more

• CMS Cameron McKenna asks four partners to leave

  Feb 10 2011 Four partners at CMS Cameron McKenna have been asked to leave, and several additional partners have been moved down the firm’s equity ladder as result of a... more

• Winston ends negotiations with Howrey; recruits lawyers on the way out

  Jan 26 2011 Merger negotiations between Chicago-based Winston & Strawn and Washington DC-based Howrey have ended, but Winston’s interest in Howrey is not concluded. According to... more

• Amarchand and Luthra kick-start the new year with accolades

  Jan 25 2011 Amarchand and Luthra have been on an award winning spree, beginning 2011 with Amarchand winning the Indian Business Law Journal’s 2010 Law firm of the year award and... more

• The future of BigLaw

  Dec 24 2010 Law firm managers may be feeling a sense of relief as the legal services market shows signs of recovery. But the changes wrought upon the industry are significant and... more

• Clifford Chance reports 25% increase in PEP after cutting ranks

  Oct 13 2010 Clifford Chance has reported that profit per equity partner shot up to £933,000 last year – an increase of 25 per cent on the previous year, when profit per equity... 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 partner from McDermott Will & Emery

  Apr 06 2010 Reed Smith has moved to boost its London restructuring and insolvency practice with the hire of former McDermott Will & Emery partner Georgia Quenby. Richard... more

• Greenberg Traurig bulks up restructuring and insolvency practice with two hires

  Mar 25 2010 Greenberg Traurig Maher hired two partners from the London office of Kirkland & Ellis. Paul Atherton and Jason Salman make the shift this week, along with associate... more

• Weil Gotshal advises American Capital on restructuring

  Feb 09 2010 Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP is advising American Capital Ltd., an alternative investment firm with $12 billion in assets, as it tries to win support for an out-of-court... more

• Salans hires Ashurst restructuring partner Dietmar Schulz

  Jan 08 2010 Salans LLP has hired Ashurst restructuring and finance partner Dietmar Schulz as a partner in its Frankfurt office. Schulz will add to Salans’ existing corporate... more

• Greenberg hires ex-Kirkland partner for London restructuring launch

  Nov 30 2009 Greenberg Traurig Maher (GTM) is launching a London restructuring practice with the hire of former Kirkland & Ellis partner Lyndon Norley. Norley will join the US... more

• Ashurst restructuring head Nick Angel joins Milbank

  Aug 26 2009 Ashurst's head of restructuring Nick Angel is set to leave the firm to join US player Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy in London, reports legalweek. more

• White & Case loses restructuring partner Dan Hamilton to Ashurst

  Aug 12 2009 UK law firm Ashurst has added restructuring partner Dan Hamilton from White & Case to its London office. Hamilton focuses on corporate and financial restructuring... more

• Horst Piepenburg resigns as Arcandor insolvency administrator

  Jul 17 2009 Horst Piepenburg, member of the insolvency administrator team of Arcandor AG and fully authorized representative of the German-based retail and tourism holding,... more

• Clifford Chance loses restructuring star Kolja von Bismarck to Linklaters

  Jul 17 2009 German corporate restructuring expert Kolja von Bismarck has been appointed as a partner at Linklaters' Berlin office. Von Bismarck was a partner at Clifford Chance... more

• Clifford Chance sets up partner appeals body

  May 26 2009 Clifford Chance has created an independent appeals body for partners who are cut as part of its global restructuring. The ad hoc committee, led by commercial... more

• Skadden loses third partner in a week

  May 20 2009 Skadden restructuring partner Jan Baker has been appointed head of Latham & Watkins’ restructuring group and will be based in the firm’s New York office. It is... more

• 30 Jones Day attorneys advise Chrysler on bankruptcy, restructuring

  May 12 2009 At team of 30 Jones Day attorneys, led by Corinne Ball in Manhattan and David Heiman in Cleveland, will steer Chrysler through a bankruptcy that is considered the... more

• O'Melveny bankruptcy co-chair Sage quits for Dechert

  Jan 13 2009 Michael Sage, the co-head of restructuring at O'Melveny & Myers, has joined Dechert in the latest in a series of high-profile moves in the bankruptcy Bar. Sage has... more

• Skadden restructuring co-head Pohl leaves for Lazard

  Dec 15 2008 Timothy Pohl who co-heads Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's corporate restructuring group, announced last week that he will leave the firm to become a managing... more

• Bingham snares Schulte Roth restructuring partner Jeffrey Sabin

  Sep 11 2008 Schulte Roth & Zabel partner Jeffrey Sabin has joined the New York office of Bingham McCutchen to co-lead the firm’s global restructuring team along with London... more

• Mayer Brown Restructuring Chief Defects for Orrick

  Aug 26 2008 A rough 18 months for Mayer Brown got a little worse on Monday, when San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe announced that Raniero "Ron" D'Aversa, Jr., the... more

• Herbert Smith advises British American Tobacco in £13bn on restructuring

  Aug 14 2008 Herbert Smith has won the lead role on the £13bn restructuring of its long-time client British American Tobacco (BAT). 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

• Kirlkland captures restructuring partner from Weil

  Jul 30 2008 Christopher Marcus, a restructuring partner from Kirkland's US rival Weil, joins the firm as partner in New York. Marcus has advised on a number of high-profile... more

• White & Case Expands in Hong Kong with Lovells Finance Team

  Apr 23 2008 Global law firm White & Case LLP has made a major addition to its Bank Finance and Restructuring Practices in Asia with the arrival of partner John Hartley. Hartley is... more

• Linklaters launches Dutch insolvency team with Simmons

  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... more