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• Litigation funding firm BlackRobe hires Simpson Thacher lawyer as MD

  Apr 18 2012 New York-based private investment firm BlackRobe Capital Partners has hired former Simpson Thacher & Bartlett lawyer Michael Chepiga to become its managing director.... more

• Chapman and Cutler to launch in Washington DC

  Feb 22 2012 Chapman and Cutler is set to launch in Washington DC after hiring a six-partner finance team from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Chief executive partner Tim Mohan... more

• Ashurst loses London-based US securities team

  Apr 01 2011 All three of Ashurst's London-based US Securities partners are leaving the firm. Daniel Bushner, Eric Stuart and Marie Elena Angulo are departinging Ashurst and are... more

• Hogan Lovells appoints Stephen Kay as LA managing partner

  Jan 28 2011 Hogan Lovells has announced the appointment of corporate partner Stephen Kay as the managing partner of its Los Angeles office. Kay takes over the role from litigation... more

• Barclays poaches top talent Erica Handling from Ashurst

  Sep 24 2010 Barclays Capital has hired Ashurst head of securities and structured finance Erica Handling, appointing her to the role general counsel. Ashurst senior partner... more

• Bingham McCutchen hires top securities lawyer

  Apr 12 2010 Bingham McCutchen has attracted top talent Susan Merrill to the partnership. Merrill has spent a total of six years as head of enforcement for the New York Stock... more

• Dechert strengthens UK corporate and securities practice with hire of former Ashurst partner

  Mar 30 2010 US firm Dechert has announced the appointment of former Ashurst partner Jonathan Angell to its corporate and securities practice in London. This hire takes the... more

• Bingham hires former SEC chairman Christopher Cox

  Jul 21 2009 Bingham McCutchen LLP has hired Christopher Cox, former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) under President George W. Bush, to continue the... more

• Greenberg Traurig adds former SEC Counsel Michael Piazza

  Jul 21 2009 Michael Piazza, a former Regional Trial Counsel for the Los Angeles office of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has joined the Orange County office of... more

• UBS wins dismissal of action over auction-rate securities

  Mar 31 2009 Swiss lender UBS has won a motion to dismiss an action against it in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. This is the first such... more

• US Court rules that Mayer Brown cannot be sued for Refco

  Mar 19 2009 The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York recently held that Mayer Brown is not subject to suit for its representation of Refco in an... more

• Law firms still hire attorneys in some practice areas

  Feb 13 2009 Law firms are still looking for attorneys in certain specialist areas, such as bankruptcy and foreclosures, litigation, corporate securities and patent prosecution. more

• NYC law firm founder Dreier accused of hedge fund fraud

  Dec 09 2008 Marc Dreier, a prominent New York lawyer and founder of the 250-attorney law firm Dreier LLP, is charged with perpetrating a $100 million real-estate investment fraud... more

• Ex-Heller Ehrman chairman McLaughlin joins Bingham in New York

  Dec 04 2008 Bingham McCutchen LLP has added Joseph T. McLaughlin as a New York-based of counsel in the Securities Area, the latest addition this year to the practice in New York,... more

• Heller managing partner Robert Hubbell joins Gibson Dunn's Los Angeles office

  Oct 22 2008 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced that Robert Hubbell will join the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner. He has over 20 years of experience in the areas of... more

• Former SEC Commissioner Annette Nazareth joins Davis Polk

  Sep 22 2008 Former Securities and Exchange Commissioner Annette Nazareth will be joining Davis Polk & Wardwell as a partner, as the firm tries to bolster its financial regulation... more

• Gibson Dunn adds securities litigation partner in San Francisco

  Sep 03 2008 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced that Charles R. Jaeger has joined the firm’s San Francisco office as a partner. Jaeger, formerly with Heller Ehrman, will... more

• US firms Thelen Reid and Wilson Sonsini hire securities lawyers in Shanghai

  Aug 12 2008 Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner has announced the appointment of senior securities lawyer Woon-Wah Siu, formerly with Chicago’s Bell Boyd & Lloyd. Former... more

• Debevoise & Plimpton on $19.4 Billion UBS Auction-Rate Securities Settlement

  Aug 11 2008 Swiss bank UBS AG announced Friday that it will buy back $19.4 billion in failed auction-rate securities and pay a fine of $150 million to Massachusetts and New York.... more

• Bingham McCutchen raids Heller Ehrman for DC regulatory push

  Aug 06 2008 Bingham McCutchen has hired four lawyers for its international securities practice, including the managing partner of Heller Ehrman's DC office, Geoff Aronow. more

• Law Firm Wachtell Urges SEC To Be More Aggressive In Attacking Rumors

  Jul 21 2008 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz has urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to conduct a 45-day study of the extent to which "abusive and manipulative... more

• Two U.S. law firms take EADS to court on insider-trading claims

  Jun 17 2008 The European aerospace group EADS on Monday defended its record for transparency after two U.S. law firms fired opening salvos in a possible class-action lawsuit... more

• Toga Joins Bingham’s Tokyo Office as Securities Partner

  Apr 25 2008 Takayasu Koga has joined Bingham’s Tokyo office as a securities partner. Koga was previously the assistant director in charge of inspections at Japan’s Securities... more

• Clifford Chance targets India-related work with Singapore securities team

  Apr 18 2008 Clifford Chance is set to form a capital markets group in its Singapore office, which will focus solely on Indian clients, later this year. Capital markets partner... more

• Freshfields bolsters Hong Kong with Sullivan hire

  Apr 17 2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Hong Kong outpost has hired US securities and M&A special counsel Calvin Lai from Sullivan & Cromwell's local office. He will join... more

• Bucking Trend, Law Firms Build Structured Finance Groups

  Apr 07 2008 Structured finance, which includes work related to the full spectrum of mortgage-backed securities, is the acknowledged ground zero of the current credit crisis, and... more

• Fearing Recession, Law Firms Tighten Belts

  Jan 23 2008 Over the past several years, with the economy booming and business brisk, New York City's best law firms scrambled to hire as many lawyers as they could out of school,... more