An energy team of five has just jumped ship from Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker to Hunton & Williams. Leading the group are John Hawkins and Jeff Schroeder, Hunton’s new energy project finance co-heads. The remaining three partners are: Ellis Butler, Raj Pande and Laurence Skinner.
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Latham & Watkins and Allen & Overy (A&O) have reportedly made the most hires and firings over the span of the last two years. Since Janary 2008. Latham & Watkins has made 48 lateral hires and A&O made 46. Latham announced last February that the firm was going to make 190 associates redundant. By the end of April 2009, A&O had let 400 staff go.
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Kenneth A. Raskin has joined King & Spalding as a partner and chair of the firm’s employee benefits and executive compensation practice. He will be stationed at the New York office branch. Raskin joins from White & Case.
Source: www.marketwire.com
Tags: King & Spalding LLP | New York
Ilya Rybalkin is the first Hogan Lovells partner in Europe to leave the firm post merger. Rybalkin has announced his plans to join Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in July. He will be stationed at the Moscow office.
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Tags: Hogan Lovells | Moscow
Dechert has just scored Clifford Chance’s head of litigation and arbitration in Moscow. Ivan Marisin, who has spent the last 18 years with Clifford has just joined Dechert. Marisin brings along Vasily Kuznetsov, counsel and Alexander Sidorov, associate.
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Tags: Dechert LLP | Moscow
Alexis Lamb here, writing from Singapore to share with you some insights and opportunities that Hong Kong’s lion-faced neighbors to the south have to offer.
NO LANGUAGE SKILLS NEEDED
One of the major advantages in considering Singapore is that language skills are not necessary to get a job, or even live, in Singapore. English is the language of business in Singapore. Lack of language skills will not be a barrier to entry for the attorney who wants to move to Asia and is willing to consider Singapore.
Language skills are not even necessary to conduct daily activities in Singapore. Taxi drivers and other service employees overwhelmingly speak fluent English in Singapore whereas the language barrier is a larger issue in Hong Kong and, to a much larger degree, in mainland China and Japan.
SUPERSTAR GENERALISTS WANTED
A lack of capital markets or private equity experience might restrict a candidate’s marketability in Hong Kong; however it is a non-issue in Singapore. A common request of hiring partners is “We don’t care what they do. They just have to be good.” In other words, a candidate’s practice group is much less important than his academic and law firm credentials as long as such candidate has general transactional law experience.
Tags: Asia | Hong Kong
WilmerHale has taken on a new partner in New York. Andrew E. Nagel joined the firm and will practice in the Corporate and Transactional Department. Nagel joins from Kirkland & Ellis.
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Loeb & Loeb LLP has hired a Land Use and Regulatory Affairs senior counsel. Nicole Kuklok-Waldman has joined the firm in Los Angeles. Kuklok-Waldman focus her environmental law practice on land use and real estate development.
Source: www.metnews.com
Tags: Loeb & Loeb LLP | Los Angeles
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has made the decision to discontinue reporting its profits per partner. The firm’s motive is to find another way to “evaluate” the firm. In 2009, the firm’s equity partners made an average of $1.36 million.
Source: www.businessweek.com
Tags: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPKen Ziman almost made the switch from Simpson Thacher to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom without anyone noticing. Neither firm released a press release discussing the move. Ziman joined Skadden last week as a restructuring partner.
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Tags: New York