Publication: Legal Week

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Mofo launches FCPA practice in Singapore, eyes growth

Morrison & Foerster (Mofo) has launched an anticorruption practice in Singapore with the relocation of Daniel Levison from its Tokyo office.The US firm, which reopened in the Asian citystate in January after closing in 2009, now has three full time partners ... [Published Legal Week - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Singapore, Tokyo, Litigation, Ropes & Gray, LLP, Hong Kong

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Bevan Brittan becomes latest firm to make layoffs as spending cuts bite

Bevan Brittan has placed three feeearners and six support staff at risk of redundancy as law firms across the UK continue to streamline their businesses amid tough market conditions.The trio of associates are all based in Bevan Brittan's commercial and ... [Published Legal Week - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Layoffs, Trowers & Hamlins, Infrastructure, United Kingdom

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 1 reports

Linklaters LLP

Linklaters City finance partner quits for Sullivan's London base

Linklaters finance partner Chris Howard is set to leave the magic circle firm to join the London arm of Sullivan & Cromwell. The move, confirmed by the Wall Street firm today (22 May), comes little more than two years after Howard joined Linklaters from ... [Published Legal Week - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Linklaters LLP, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, London

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Trowers makes seven job cuts as redundancies at top 50 firms continue

Trowers & Hamlins has become the latest law firm to announce job cuts, with seven employees made redundant between March and this week.In total, three secretarial staff and four fee earners have been laid off, with the firm attributing the move to "continuing ... [Published Legal Week - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Layoffs, Farrer & Co, Trowers & Hamlins

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Skadden and White & Case among elite line-up on Russia vodka giant restructuring

A host of firms including Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and White & Case have taken roles on the approval of a bankruptcy plan for Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC), one of the world's largest vodka producers.The plan, which was approved ... [Published Legal Week - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, White & Case, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Russia

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Hengeler Mueller

Bonelli names new joint managing partners in top-level overhaul

Slaughter and May ally Bonelli Erede Pappalardo has appointed a new management team as part of a wider governance overhaul which has seen the top Italian law firm split its managing partner role into two.Head of international tax Stefano Simontacchi (pictured) ... [Published Legal Week - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Hengeler Mueller, Slaughter and May, Prat, Channeling

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Show me the money - lawyers and financial awareness

An amateur astronomer with a decent telescope can, on a moonless night, gaze towards the heavens and just make out the faint green glow of the mysterious world where our archenemies, the accountants, are born (or perhaps grown in pods) and trained Planet ... [Published Legal Week - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Tom Kilroy, Operating Margin, Planet Earth, Cash Position, Operating Profit

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Trio of US firms land lead roles on Pactera take-private

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Ropes & Gray and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have lined up to advise on the management buyout of China's largest technology outsourcing company, Pactera Technology International. The $680.3m (448m) deal is the latest ... [Published Legal Week - May 22 2013]

Entities: Consortium, David Chen, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Browne Jacobson grows revenues 9% to new high as firm targets £50m mark

National firm Browne Jacobson has posted a record high turnover for 201213, with revenues rising to 45m, up 9% on last year's total of 41.3m. The firm, which opened two new bases in 2012 in Manchester and Exeter, now has five offices and saw total headcount ... [Published Legal Week - May 21 2013]

Entities: Browne Jacobson LLP, Turnover, University of Nottingham

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

CC, Latham & Watkins advise on Singapore's second biggest IPO this year

Clifford Chance (CC) and Latham & Watkins have acted alongside Allen Gledhill (A&G) and Wong Partnership on the Singapore listing of Asian Pay Television Trust (APTT), the Asian citystate's second biggest IPO this year.The investment vehicle, which will ... [Published Legal Week - May 21 2013]

Entities: Latham & Watkins, LLP, IPOs, Singapore

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

What they don't teach you at law school

Technical legal knowledge is the bedrock on which your career as a lawyer is built. Without technical knowledge, you are unlikely to achieve anything sustainable in the law. Indeed, without technical knowledge, you lose your raison d'etre, the foundations ... [Published Legal Week - May 21 2013]

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Silicon Valley firm opposite Simpson Thacher on $1.1bn Yahoo! Tumblr buyout

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian have taken lead roles on the $1.1bn (723m) acquisition of blogging website Tumblr by Yahoo!.Yahoo! confirmed the deal in a statement today (20 May), including a promise ... [Published Legal Week - May 20 2013]

Entities: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Tumblr Inc, Yahoo! Inc

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"We don't have a hard target [on the number of lawyers] but I'd like to think, looking at our competitor firms and the trends in this region, that we'll get to about 1520 lawyers. We want this to be an office of substance."

Mofo launches FCPA practice in Singapore, eyes growth [Published Legal Week - 1 hour ago]

"At the same time we have also reviewed the support functions of the firm. The combination of a reduced workforce including outsourcing agreements, changes in client processes and improved technology has resulted in a lower demand for HR and finance support."

Bevan Brittan becomes latest firm to make layoffs as spending cuts bite [Published Legal Week - 13 hours ago]

Richard Morrissey, managing partner of Sullivan's London office said, "The addition of Chris will enhance our ability to handle panEuropean restructuring as well as support our expanding finance practice."

Linklaters City finance partner quits for Sullivan's London base [Published Legal Week - 13 hours ago]

"We will continue to review the business to ensure it is robust for the future. We are actively recruiting into growth areas for the firm, and will be announcing further hires in due course."

Trowers makes seven job cuts as redundancies at top 50 firms continue [Published Legal Week - 18 hours ago]

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