Linklaters has named capital markets lawyer Mark Middleton as its joint graduate recruitment partner. Middleton takes over from projects solicitor Matt Keats, who has been seconded to the magic circle firm’s Moscow office, and will work alongside existing graduate recruitment partner Euan Clarke. Clarke, who has been a graduate recruitment partner with the firm for […]
t’s relocation, relocation, relocation time over at Clifford Chance as a trio of top partners pack their bags for pastures new. London-based finance and capital markets co-head Tim Plews is off to boost Saudi Arabian associate firm Al Jadaan, infrastructure parter Geraint Hughes will make the short hop over from Hong Kong to head the […]
Clifford Chance has moved to strengthen two of its key jurisdictions with the relocation of senior partners to offices in the Middle East and Russia. The move, which will see co-head of the firm’s London finance and capital markets practice Tim Plews team up with Saudi associate firm Al Jadaan & Partners and London litigation […]
Clifford Chance has named Kiev partner Jared Grubb as managing partner of the office. Banking partner Grubb replaces Nick Fletcher, who has led the office since it launched in 2008. Fletcher will return to Warsaw, where he was managing partner prior to relocating to Ukraine. Earlier this year The Lawyer reported that Grubb relocated to […]
Clifford Chance has relocated Moscow-based banking and finance partner Jared Grubb to its Kiev office. Nick Fletcher Grubb joins Kiev office head Nick Fletcher, bringing the total number of partners on the ground to two. Last year The Lawyer reported on the firm opening in Kiev with Warsaw managing partner Fletcher spearheading the launch (7 […]
Two of the five partners who were set to leave Chadbourne & Parke to launch a Moscow office for Dechert have decided to stay with the New York firm, The Lawyer can reveal. Chadbourne’s Moscow senior partner Mikhail Rozenberg and banking and finance specialist Jennifer Handz have decided to remain with the firm. Russia head […]
Dechert and Chadbourne & Parke are currently locked in a battle over the future of a five-partner team in the latter’s Moscow office. Dechert looked set to unveil the hire of the group, which includes Chadbourne’s Russia head Laura Brank, yesterday (7 May). However, a last-ditch attempt to persuade some or all of the group […]
Russian firm Pepeliaev Goltsblat & Partners (PGP) is rebuilding its office following Berwin Leighton Paisner’s (BLP) 70-staff raid on the firm at the beginning of the year. BLP’s action resulted in the firm opening its own office in Moscow. PGP has now vowed to expand its full-service capability, starting with a recruitment spree of eight […]
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) has opened a Moscow office, poaching around 70 lawyers from top Russian firm and Gazprom adviser Pepeliaev, Goltsblat & Partners (PGP). The new office, called Goltsblat BLP, will be run by?former?PGP?joint managing partner Andrey Goltsblat and will add an estimated 10 per cent to BLP’s overall revenue. BLP managing partner Neville […]
Ukrainian law firm Magisters is to launch its first office in Belarus, merging with local law firm BelJurBureau. The deal will take the newly-combined firm past the 130-lawyer mark and is expected to be completed by the end of January 2009. In total, 12 lawyers will join Magisters, led by partners Anna Rusetskaya and Denis […]
CMS Cameron McKenna has signed an agreement with two other members of the CMS alliance to merge their operations in Moscow. The move has been planned for several months but required an official partner vote from CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre and CMS Hasche Sigle. The merger will create one of the largest international law firms […]
A report has found that the Russian court system has made great strides to entice oligarchs and businesses back to the country, months after it came under fire for lacking independence. Global firms with Russian offices – including Baker & McKenzie, Chadbourne & Parke, CMS Cameron McKenna, DLA Piper and Herbert Smith – have said […]