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Byline: Kate Beioley Bird & Bird is facing a Au2m negligence claim from British Virgin Islands (BVI) company Orientfield Holdings in relation to Orientfield's aborted purchase of a Au25m property [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The Ministry of Defence (MoD) panel review is expected to conclude within the next two weeks in time for a January 2015 unveiling, with firms vying for [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has named Foot Anstey and Mills & Reeve as its inaugural panel firms, beating shortlisted Freeths and Wright Hassall to the roster. [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Baker & McKenzie's relationship with China's state-owned oil and gas group China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has been put under the microscope after the group sanctioned [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Baker & McKenzie, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher are among firms gearing up for Hewlett-Packard's (HP) global panel review which began last month. The [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Baker & McKenzie, CMS Cameron McKenna and Taylor Wessing have all advised on the Au700m sale of the landmark Gherkin building to the Safra Group controlled by [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Clifford Chance's private equity co-heads are determined that their sector remains the 'crown jewels' of the corporate team despite high-profile partner exits. But a new succession plan [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley National Grid UK general counsel and company secretaryKaren Clayton has left the network in the midst of a full-scale panel review due to be finalised in April [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley EDF Energy has launched its latest panel review and will keep its new roster for three years, replacing its current two-year panel system. Current UK panel firms [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Last week Ropes & Gray chief Mike Goetz said UK firms needed to be worried about their private equity finance 'vulnerability'. Now the magic circle is hitting [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Clyde & Co partner Julian Connerty is advising a group of shareholders planning to sue the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for allegedly forcing small companies out [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Freshfields has continued its dramatic US hiring spree, adding Shearman & Sterling M&A lawyer Peter Lyons as co-head of its public M&A group. It follows the firm's [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Save the Children International (SCI) general counsel Elizabeth Stephen has left the charity on sabbatical, prompting a hunt for her replacement. The former Hot 100 lawyer joined [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley White & Case has added Allen & Overy (A&O) capital markets partner Gernot Wagner to its Frankfurt office in a continued push to bulk up its European [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley CVC Capital Partners has been ordered to pay a!129m (APS103m) to Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB In Bev) in a court battle over a 2009 deal, after [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Clifford Chance is understood to be losing four private equity associates to join partners at firms including Latham & Watkins and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, underlining the [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and litigation boutique Leon Kayehave formally joined the Au4bn shareholder battle brought against the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) over its 2008 [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Barclays has turned to Sullivan & Cromwell to defend it against fraud allegations in the US, as analysts predict the bank could face a Au1.2bn bill for [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley A group of six firms including Eversheds, Harper Macleod and Norton Rose Fulbright have lost their places on the combined Clydesdale Bank and Yorkshire Bank national panel. [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Baker & McKenzie is advising on the sale of the Cityas landmark Gherkin building months after handling its collapse into receivership earlier in the year. Baker & [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley What do Slater & Gordon and Tom Cruise have in common? Both make people think of Long Island Ice Teas, according to brand consultancy Intangible Business. CyI'll [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has switched lead counsel in one of its biggest ever cases, instructing Blackstone Chambers' Pushpinder Saini QC in place of Serle Court's [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Shearman & Sterling has lost one of the biggest litigation mandates of the year after business tycoon Robert Tchenguiz swapped the US firm for Stephenson Harwood in [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley British Telecommuncations' (BT) in-house team has triumphed against King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin (KWMSJB) and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) in a Supreme Court battle over BT's [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Is Linklaters on the hunt for an alliance in China? Sources suggest the magic circle firm has been touting the market for a deal, but it's by [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Bird & Bird has lost an appeal for airline Jet2.com against a delayed passenger in a ruling which could pave the way for millions of airline compensation [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Baker Botts has returned to advise Russian state-owned energy giant Rosneft after adding former a former Linklaters lawyer and Rosneft contact to its team. Slaughter and May [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley BBCas head of litigation Nadia Banno is leaving to join Baker & McKenzie just two years after taking up the head role at the BBC. The lawyer [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is the most popular legal brand in London and the UK among general counsels, research by Acritas claims. The research, based on responses of [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Sainsburyas has added TLT and King & Wood Mallesons SJ Berwin to its revamped roster in its third panel review. The tender, run by in-house counsel Clare [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Ex-Freshfields star Jan Paulsson is the latest arbitrator to set up a boutique practice. Theyare small and perfectly formed a but are these firms the future? Arbitrators [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has handed roles to six firms including Norton Rose Fulbright, Osborne Clarke and DWF in the last of a series of panel [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Withers is set to launch an appeal after being ordered to pay Au1.6m in damages by the High Court. Mr Justice Nugee upheld one of four professional [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Clifford Chance has toppled six spaces in this yearas global project finance rankings as Allen & Overy (A&O) rises to pole position with $94.9bn worth of deals. [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley The flood of arbitration exits from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has continued with the exit of three German arbitrators to launch a boutique, with conflicts of interest cited [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has appointed projects and infrastructure head Adam Dann as finance head following the surprise resignation of partner Matthew Kellett last October. The announcement [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Three partners from Covington & Burling, Jones Day and Shearman & Sterling are to join Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringeras London arbitration chief Constantine Partasides QC and ex-partner Jan [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Bird & Bird dispute resolution head Steven Baker has come under fire from the High Court after he made a APS760m 'mistake' in calculating the claim value [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Magic circle firm's private equity crown slips as Latham Cytargets' superclient Carlyle Clifford Chance's private equity (PE) team is looking somewhat depleted following a series of exits. [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Clifford Chanceas private equity practice has taken a blow with the departure of star Carlyle partner Kem Ihenacho to Latham & Watkins. He is the third partner [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Freshfields, Norton Rose make it onto Stonewall gay-friendly employers listing It's not often law firms can claim to be ahead of the curve, but this year's Stonewall [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Gowlings former head of energy and infrastructure David Shasha has joined Watson, Farley & Williams as a senior consultant to its London office. The former Simmons & [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Lewis Hamiltonas father, Andrew, is in court today for the fourth day of his wrongful dismissal case against Scottish race driver Paul di Resta. Fox Williams partner [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Dentons has added two new partners to its Paris energy team to focus the firm on growing its Francophone Africa energy strategy. The firm has appointed Ramin [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Over 16 law firms are advising on the new Nine Elms regeneration area on the South Bank marking one of the biggest redevelopment projects to hit London [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Dentons has boosted its Middle East practice with the hire of two lawyers from DLA Piper and Norton Rose Fulbright to its Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices. [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Norton Rose Fulbright has replaced Allen & Overy (A&O)A on a criminal corruption trial after partners from the magic circle firm allegedly intefered with a witness. At [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Reed Smith has defeated Allen & Overy (A&O) and Stephensen Harwood in two separate arbitrations totaling $3bn (APS1.9bn) against the Republic of Kazakhstan (RoK). Reed Smith partner [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley It is no secret that sports deals pay handsomely. Gareth Baleas record-busting transfer, clocking in at APS85.3m, proved that this summer and handed an appetising mandate to [...]

Byline: Kate Beioley Allen & Overy, Linklaters andA Olswang are among the firms to have missed out on Legal & General (L&G) panel places after the insurer cut its advisor [...]