The European arm of Dentons has made a capital call to raise an additional €6m to €7m in a move European chief executive Tomasz Dabrowski calls ‘good financial prudence’.
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UK and US firms have been busy investing in Europe this week, with Baker & McKenzie, Mayer Brown and Bird & Bird all adding to offices in Berlin, Frankfurt and Brussels.
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is appointing a new Western European panel with the bank intending to pick a small number of firms to do the bulk of the work in the region.
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Allen & Overy (A&O)’s growing private equity (PE) team has had a strong year, topping Dealogic’s European PE table after advising on 31 deals across the 2015 calendar year for clients including Apollo Global Management, The Blackstone Group and Carlyle Investment Management.
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Just two months after announcing it will open an office in Miami, Clyde & Co has revealed it will open another international office in Düsseldorf.
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‘The idea that regulation is all from Brussels and the UK is deregulatory is a fantasy. That is just rubbish.’
James Palmer, Herbert Smith Freehills
In the wake of the shock 23 June referendum result on EU membership of the UK, we asked leading lawyers for their thoughts
Relationship counselling
‘The important thing we need to remember is that this vote doesn’t only change the UK’s relationship with the EU, it changes its relationship with the rest of the world as a lot of our trade deals are through the EU.
On a human level, we have a number of lawyers and business services people in the UK who will want to know what their position will be. I said: “You’re an important part of Linklaters, so don’t worry about it.”‘
Gideon Moore, managing partner, Linklaters
Allen & Overy (A&O)’s growing private equity (PE) team has had a strong year, topping Dealogic’s European PE table after advising on 31 deals across the 2015 calendar year for clients including Apollo Global Management, The Blackstone Group and Carlyle Investment Management. The firm advised on deals equal to 21% of the European buyout market last year, acting on $23.95bn worth of deals.
The A&O team, led by co-heads Stephen Lloyd (pictured), Karine Kodde and Robin Harvey, edged out Magic Circle counterparts as well as US firms in the City.
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Law firms have attempted to blow away the Brexit blues with new partner hires. Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Hogan Lovells have added to their London offices, while in the Magic Circle Allen & Overy has expanded in Germany and Clifford Chance has boosted its Washington DC practice.
Ahead of the 2015 general election, Legal Business assessed the policy pledges of the main parties, including the prospects for an EU referendum.
UK law firm Fieldfisher has entered Italy through a merger with 21 partner firm Studio Associato Servizi Professionali Integrati (SASPI), which has offices in Milan, Rome, Venice and Turin.
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