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Byline: Natasha Bernal Best friends Bonelli Erede Pappalardo and Slaughter and May have advised on opposite sides of Dufry's e1/41.3bn (Au950m) acquisition of shares in rival World Duty Free from [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal RBas in-house team no longer have to spend valuable time on commoditised legal work thanks to Bill Mordanas in-house compliance platform i-Legal While other in-house legal teams [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Insurance company ACE group has appointed Susan McDonald to the role of regional general counsel for Eurasia and Africa as it continues to build up its management [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal RB (formerly Reckitt Benckiser) is set to roll out its in-house compliance platform across the company in a bid to cut the time the in-house team spends [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Ecotricity has turned to Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co for its Au68mstrategic financing deal with Aviva. This is the first time that Ecotricity has worked with Wragges. [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Ashurst and Slaughter and May have advised on the $30bn (Au20.8bn) sale of RBS' private banking and wealth management business Coutts International to Union Bancaire PrivE'e. Ashurst [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Cuatrecasas GonEoalves Pereira has appointed litigation and arbitration head Jorge BadE!a as its new managing partner, the firm announced today. BadE!a joined the firm in 1987, was [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Covington & Burling has hired Bird & Bird partner Grace Chen to join its international employment practice based in Beijing. Chenas exit to Covington follows a six-lawyer [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Berwin Leighton Paisner managing partner Neville Eisenberg has been appointed in an uncontested election to a four-year term as the firmas senior partner, effective from 1 May. [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Taylor Wessing has opted for an all-equity partnership in the UK following a review of its merit-based equity structure, while maintaining a two-tier system outside of the [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has regained top spot in worldwide deal rankings, advising on the greatest volume and value of M&A transactions for the first [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Slaughter and May has promoted four lawyers to its partnership in London, boosting its overall female partnership to 22 per cent. This number is lower than the [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Slater & Gordon's Paul Daniels has described the month following the 'fracas' between Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon and presenter Jeremy Clarkson as a 'nightmare' for Tymon. [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal BBC Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has instructed Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan to represent him in any potential commercial dispute against the BBC for breach of [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Stephenson Harwood partner Suzanne Tarplee has been seconded to High Speed Two (HS2) to act as interim general counsel and company as general counsel Betty Morgan has [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Cravath Swaine & Moore, Kirkland & Ellis and Sullivan & Cromwell have won the lead roles on the multi-billion dollar merger of food giants Kraft and Heinz. [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy have advised on Asia's largest bond offering so far this year, the $5bn (Au3.3bn) bond offering [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has relocated Asia energy head David Clinch to Singapore as energy partner Richard Nelson departs for US firm King & Spalding. HSF's Clinch [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Addleshaw Goddard has promoted 18 lawyers to partner in its annual firm-wide promotions round, the largest for some years. This year, the firm has promoted 18 to [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Olswang has widened its search for a permanent CEO to include non-lawyers, with the firm engaging a consultancy to look at candidates from the business world. Last [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Morrison & Foerster has posted a 22 per cent fall in London revenue in 2014, dropping from $33.4m to $26m (APS17.6m) in 2014. The drop in revenue [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and Slaughter and May have both expanded and re-launched their flexible working schemes targeting fee-earners in their London offices. HSF has had a [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges has hired Latham & Watkins private equity partner Tim Gardner to join its Hong Kong practice as a partner. Gardner has [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Allen & Overy (A&O), Linklaters and Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) were drafted in to advise on the Au1.7bn sale of TSB, Britain's seventh-biggest bank, to Spanish bank [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Last week, US firm Paul Hastings snatched up Allen & Overy's (A&O) top Latin America partners to open an office in SEuo Paulo, its first on the [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal The Bank of England (BoE) has hired Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) director of enforcement Sonya Branch to replace Graham Nicholson, who will retire at the end [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Allen & Overy's (A&O) US corporate finance head Jim Wickenden has quit the firm, to be replaced by London-based partner Kevin Muzilla. Wickenden left A&O a few [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) and Pinsent Masons have been appointed to UK Payments Administration's first formal panel. The two firms have been appointed this week for [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Mayer Brown has hired US National Security Agency (NSA) general counsel Rajesh De to lead its privacy and security practice from Washington DC. De is set to [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Linklaters and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy have advised on the bumper e1/46.6bn (Au4.8bn) sale of Swedish electricity company Fortum Distribution to a consortium of investors. Linklatersinfrastructure [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Latham & Watkins is set to close its Doha office and consolidate its Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices seven years after launching in the region. The firm [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Jones Day plans to go where no international firm has gone before: Americaas Motor City, Detroit. Hereas why. Jones Day knows Detroit. Not many international firms can [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal The Co-operative Bank has hired Nationwide Building Society deputy GC Claire Morris as its new head of legal, replacing James Southworth who has returned to Eversheds. Southworth [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal DLA Piperas Singapore head of restructuring Troy Doyle is the latest lawyer to depart the firmas depleted Asia office, leaving to join Reed Smith as a partner. [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Cooley has hired Reed Smith life sciences partners John Wilkinson and Nicola Maguire to join its London office as partners. Wilkinson has been a partner at Reed [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Morgan Lewis & Bockius is set to merge with Singapore firm Stamford Law Corporation, expanding its Asian operations from Beijing and Tokyo in a bid to create [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Pinsent Masons has promoted 29 lawyers to partner as part of a firm-wide promotions round, 24 of which are UK-based. In the UK, the firm has distributed [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal BBC Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has hired Olswang ahead of his BBC disciplinary hearing, while producer Oisin Tymon is being represented by Slater & Gordon. Olswang [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Slaughter and May and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have advised GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) on the sale of a Au574m stake in South African drug manufacturer Aspen. Slaughters [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Baker Botts energy partner Mark Rowley is set to replace Steve Wardlaw at the helm of the firm's London office less than three years after he took [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Squire Patton Boggs has promoted 40 lawyers to partner across the firm with a quarter made up in the UK. Squire Patton Boggs matched the number promoted [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Insurance company NFU Mutual has appointed seven firms including DAC Beachcroft, Kennedys and Clyde & Co to its revised England and Wales legal panel. The panel also [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Jones Day has announced plans to open its seventeenth US office, in Detroit, led by Chicago-based M&A partner Timothy Melton, who is taking on the role of [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Covington & Burling has hired King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) litigation head Alex Leitch to boost its European capabilities. Leitch, who has worked for King & Wood [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Greenberg Traurig Maher is set to expand its London space by almost 50 per cent in a bid to work more efficiently, after hiring consultants to seek [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Dentons has appointed London corporate partner Jeremy Cohen as the firmas UKMEA CEO, succeeding Matthew Jones after the end of his fixed four-year term. In his new [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal US firm Paul Hastings is set to open its first Latin American office in SEoo Paulo, Brazil, after the hire of three Allen & Overy (A&O) finance [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Mayer Brown is set to open a representative office in Mexico City following the hire of ExxonMobil energy lawyer Francisco Mendez. If approved by the Mexican authorities, [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Latham & Watkins has named finance partner Jay Sadanandan as its first female London managing partner following the decision of previous incumbent Nick Cline to step down. [...]

Byline: Natasha Bernal Cooley has advised UK shale gas business IGas Energy (IGas) on a Au168m farm-out deal with Swiss company Ineos in its first high-profle closing since launching in [...]