http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp en-us 05/16/2012 Copyright 2008 incisivemedia. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/service/terms_conditions.shtml http://www.law.com/img/law/international/international_rss.gif http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/index.jsp Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has been charged alongside five others with perverting the course of justice when she allegedly conspired with her husband to destroy evidence relating to phone-hacking. She is being advised by Kingsley Napley criminal litigation head Stephen Parkinson. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202553720171 2012-05-16 00:00:00 Duane Morris is launching a dedicated London private equity practice with the hire of Kirkland & Ellis partner Pierfrancesco Carbone, who has been tasked with developing Duane Morris' funds offering throughout Europe. The firm's global corporate chair says that additional private equity partners will be recruited "in short order." http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202553541259 2012-05-15 00:00:00 Slaughter and May is gearing up to select a new executive partner with Graham White set to retire from the firm at the end of next April, when senior partner Chris Saul and practice partner Paul Olney will take up their second terms in office. A successor to White is expected to be announced early next year. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202553344120 2012-05-14 00:00:00 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired corporate finance lawyers based in London and Moscow from embattled firm Dewey & LeBoeuf. Moscow partner duo Leo Batalov and Dmitry Gubarev join Orrick's Moscow office alongside a team of associates. A number of London corporate finance associates are moving to Orrick's City base. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202553164959 2012-05-11 00:00:00 Partners at Herbert Smith and Australia's Freehills are set to vote on their proposed tie-up next month, with integration planned for Oct. 1. Initially the firms will be financially independent, although the intention is to merge eventually. The proposed deal has prompted Weil Gotshal to reconsider its referral relationship with Freehills. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202553149649 2012-05-11 00:00:00 Quinn Emanuel is set to hire Stephen Jagusch and Anthony Sinclair from Allen & Overy to be the firm's first dedicated arbitration partners in London. The hires come on the heels of Quinn's launch of a Hamburg office with a team from Allen & Overy. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202553006713 2012-05-10 00:00:00 Freshfields has confirmed associate salaries under its new merit-based pay scheme, which came into effect May 1, with newly qualified lawyers set to make at least £65,000 -- £3,500 more than those at rival London firms. The firm said its existing associate bonus scheme will continue to apply. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202552863292 2012-05-09 00:00:00 DLA Piper has added to its Italy office a five-partner, 15-person team from Studio Legale Grimaldi e Associati. The team, which focuses on the energy, infrastructure and project finance sectors, includes Grimaldi senior partner Francesco Novelli, named senior partner of DLA Piper's Italian practice and head of its national energy practice. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202552717751 2012-05-08 00:00:00 Herbert Smith corporate insurance partners Adam Levitt and Hammad Akhtar have joined London rival Ashurst, in a rare example of transactional partners moving between major City firms. The moves leave Herbert Smith with just one remaining corporate insurance partner in London. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202552069049 2012-05-07 00:00:00 Allen & Overy has hired the head of Linklaters' German intellectual property practice as a partner for its Duesseldorf office, restocking its ranks in the wake of the departure of a team of IP lawyers to Quinn Emanuel. Jens Matthes said he will expand the practice at the associate level as well as looking for a partner who specializes in patents work. http://www.law.com/jsp/law/international/LawArticleIntl.jsp?id=1202551464345 2012-05-04 00:00:00