After 10 years heading Simpson Thacher Bartlett’s London office, managing partner Walter Looney prepares to return to the firm’s New York headquarters. The office’s most senior partner under Looney, Greg Conway, will take over in London. London revenue increased by 10 per cent last year, reaching $52 million. The London offices houses around 50 Simpson Thacher attorneys.
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Farrer & Co has added two new senior attorneys to its corporate practice. Simon Graham joins Farrer as a partner from O’Melveny & Myers, where he was an associate. Competition law specialist Christopher Brown also joins the firm as a barrister from the Competition Appeal Tribunal, where he was a judicial assistant.
Source: www.thelawyer.com
Bankruptcy lawyers prepare for an increase in business around the end of the year. Though business bankruptcy filings are down by 45 percent and corporate debt default rates remain near all-time lows, a faith in business cycles has caused predictions of an eventual downturn. In preparation, some large firms are recruiting big-name attorneys from other firms. Winston & Strawn recruited four; Kirkland & Ellis acquired a lawyer from rival Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York; and top NY-firm Paul, Hastings Janofsky & Walker opened its Chicago office with two attorneys from Jones Day.
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Global firm Holland & Knight recently added Richard H. Lawrence III as partner resident in its International and China Practice Groups in its Beijing office. Fluent in Mandarin, Lawrence has extensive experience in China-related matters. He is a member of the Hong Kong Law Society and has advised clients on a variety of banking, coporate, and commercial issues. Among the world’s 15 largest firms, Holland & Knight has over 1,150 attorneys in 17 offices worldwide.
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Four partners from K&L Gates have moved to a different firm. Carl J. Chiappa, John J. Sullivan and Jason P. Isralowitz are joining Hogan & Hartson’s 150-lawyer NY office and specializing in automotive industry law. Colm A. Moran will move to the firm’s office in LA. Hogan & Hartson is based out of Washington, D.C., and has 1,050 attorneys.
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Nixon Peabody announced this week the opening of their new Palo Alto, CA office. Five lawyers from the Silicon Valley Law Group opened the office, and will be later joined by Nixon Peabody attorneys from San Francisco. The Silicon Valley group was led by corporate partner James Chapman, who claims to bring a business worth up to $2 million. Nixon Peabody has 622 lawyers nationwide.
Source: www.law.com
Foley & Lardner LLP announced today the opening of another office in Los Angeles. Adding to the Century City branch, the firm will open an office in downtown LA catering more to its corporate and litigation practices. Jack Lasater, the current managing partner in Century City, will also oversee the new LA office. This office is the firm’s 7th in CA and 20th worldwide.
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King & Spaulding announced that it will be moving its real estate capital markets practice from Atlanta to New York. Starting with the addition of Andrew H. Charles as partner, the firm plans to expand this practice area to as many as 25 attorneys in NY. Six lawyers from Atlanta are also relocating to NY to join the real estate industry team there. King & Spaulding has over 800 lawyers around the world and was ranked one of the top ten firms representing Fortune 250 companies.
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Albany-based firm Hiscock & Barclay has opened an office in the Boston metro area after gaining six patent attorneys and a patent litigator from Marjama & Bilinski. The office will deal primarly with intellectual property and technology law. Also in NY, Sullivan & Worcester has named Karen M. Kozlowski, a real estate attorney, to the partnership.
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Boston-based firm, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, announced plans to open a new office in Madisonn, NJ by March of this year. The new office has 31,491 square feet of space and is located at One Giralda Farms. This will be the firm’s second NJ office, already having a location in Short Hills.
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