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• McKenna Long & Aldridge merges with Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps

  Mar 28 2012 The merger between Atlanta-based firm McKenna Long & Aldridge and San Diego-based firm Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has concluded, creating a 575-lawyer firm with... more

• Pinsent Masons set to launch European presence

  Dec 12 2011 Pinsent Masons is set to launch offices in France and Germany in the first half of 2012, marking the firm’s first foray into continental Europe. These launches mark... 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

• 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

• NZ employment law firm joins global alliance with L&E Global

  Aug 30 2011 New Zealand employment law firm Swarbrick Beck Mackinnon has joined the international employment law alliance L&E Global, joining seven other firms from Europe and the... 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

• JSA and Neo Juris advise on Rhodia’s PI Industries acquisition

  Apr 15 2011 French chemical company Rhodia Group has acquired by way of slump sale (through its wholly owned subsidiary, Rhodia Polymers & Specialties India Private Limited) the... 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

• 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

• 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

• India: Jethmalani defends Dr. Binayak Sen and CM Yeddyurappa

  Jan 25 2011 Senior Advocate and noted legal luminary Ram Jethmalani is having a field day. Jethmalani is defending Dr. Binayak Sen in the Chattisgarh High Court today, and on the... more

• Gide Loyrette & Nouel closes three offices in the Middle East

  Oct 28 2010 French firm Gide Loyrette & Nouel has announced that it will close its Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Riyadh offices, eliminating its presence in the Middle East region. 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

• Setting standards for legal education around he world

  Oct 21 2010 Legal educators from India, China, Japan and France spoke at Harvard Law School last, discussing the challenges they face in regulating the number of law students and... more

• Anderson & Anderson received the Official French Delegation in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

  Oct 21 2010 On the 13th and 14th October 2010, Anderson & Anderson LLP received the Official French Delegation in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The event, called “Mission Mongolie”,... 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 and Clifford Chance lead huge energy deal

  Aug 13 2010 Linklaters and Clifford Chance have taken leading roles in the deal for the acquisition of a 70 per cent stake in British company International Power PLC by... more

• French court ruling may expose firms to large liability

  Aug 12 2010 A new court ruling may expose law firms with offices in France to millions of dollars in liability. Allen & Overy was ordered to pay redundancy benefits to a former... 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 advises French govt on €4.2bn public-private partnership

  Apr 14 2010 Allen & Overy (A&O) has been tapped to guide the French government agency Voies navigables de France on a €4.2bn deal to design, construct and maintain a 100km canal... more

• France-based Gide Loyrette Nouel on NMDC stake sale, with Crawford Bailey, S&R, Dorsey & Whitney

  Jan 31 2010 The London branch of France-headquartered, Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP is advising the Government of India on the sale of 8.38 percent of its stake in National Mineral... 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

• 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

• Weil Gotshal, Skadden win lead roles on $1.9bn Sanofi buyout

  Dec 29 2009 French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis is purchasing Tennessee-based consumer care products company Chattem Inc. for $1.9-billion in a move to diversify from its... 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

• 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

• Cleary Gottlieb wins mandate for €4.3bn BNP Paribas rights issue

  Oct 01 2009 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has won the role as deal counsel to BNP Paribas on its €4.3bn rights offering launched on 29 September. 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

• French bank Calyon seeks $1.68 bn damages from German IKB AG

  Aug 26 2009 French investment bank Calyon is is seeking more than $1.68 billion in damages from Germany's KB Deutsche Industriebank AG in the High Court of Justice in London, in... 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

• Clifford Chance advises on French-Chinese nuclear energy deal

  Sep 02 2008 Clifford Chance is advising French energy company Electricite de France (EDF) on its joint venture agreement with the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Co (CGNPC) to... 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

• 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

• SocGen turns to Skadden for class action battle

  Mar 27 2008 Societe Generale has called in US giant Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom to battle a class action law suit brought by shareholders following recent heavy losses... 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

• 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

• Jones Day secures Clifford Chance Partner Ted Kamman

  Jan 06 2008 Jones Day has hired corporate and finance partner Ted Kamman from the French practice of Clifford Chance. Kamman's practice focuses on investment banks and issuers in... 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

• French aid workers sentenced to 8 years hard labor in Chad 'Darfur orphans' case

  Dec 29 2007 Six French aid workers were sentenced to eight years of hard labor Wednesday after being convicted in a Chadian court for attempting to kidnap 103 African children.... more

• France right-wing leader goes on trial accused of pro-Nazi remarks

  Dec 15 2007 Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of France's far-right National Front party, went on trial Friday for "complicity in contesting crimes against humanity and complicity in... 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

• LAWYRS.NET on french market ...

  Sep 19 2007 I just post a note on my blog about this new amazing social network ... in french !!! The buzz should be quickly effective in the french lawyer community : around... more