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Ben joined Legal Week from the Press Association in 2005 and has since held a number of roles including news editor, online managing editor, production editor and bassist in Legal Week's in-house covers band The Scoops.
May 29, 2012 |
Dewey & LeBoeuf has filed for bankruptcy, with the firm's UK operations simultaneously placed into administration, confirming the world's largest ever legal failure, reports The Am Law Daily. The firm's demise was confirmed last night via a Chapter 11 filing submitted in federal bankruptcy court in Manhattan. The move ends weeks of speculation as to when and how Dewey - buried beneath hundreds of millions of dollars of debt and with virtually all of its partners scattered to other firms since the start of the year - would enter its final phase.
By Ben Wheway
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May 25, 2012 |
Alex G Smith, LexisNexis Senior Product Development Lead, discusses why eBooks don't seem so new after all…
By Ben Wheway
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May 25, 2012 |
Three of the major lenders to Dewey & LeBoeuf have sold their debt ahead the ailing US giant's expected bankruptcy. A source familiar with the matter told the Am Law Daily that three of the four banks that extended Dewey a $100m (£63.7m) line of credit - Citi Private Bank, Bank of America and HSBC - have sold their portions of the debt.
By Ben Wheway
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May 24, 2012 |
"Three things in particular tend to surprise new visitors to the three-year-old Supreme Court. The first is that there are no secret tunnels to Parliament, which comes as a great disappointment to many school groups. The second is that the Justices sit on the same level as the rest of the court, rather than on a raised platform. And the third is that the best rooms in the house are reserved for the lawyers' meeting spaces..."
By Ben Wheway
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May 23, 2012 |
A trio of top Irish law firms have taken roles on an $11.8bn (£7.5bn) deal which has seen US power management company Eaton move its headquarters to Ireland, saving the the US business millions of dollars in taxes a year. The multibillion-dollar acquisition of Irish electrical equipment supplier Cooper Industries will create a global electricity company incorporated in the Emerald Isle, with the combined business called Eaton Global.
By Ben Wheway
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May 23, 2012 |
"Really, the Beecroft report is simply a list of all the employment laws that Adrian Beecroft and the people he talked to don't like. Nothing more. It's classic Politics of I Met A Man; long on opinion and anecdote, short on data and analysis..."
By Ben Wheway
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May 16, 2012 |
Lawyers on Facebook's looming float are set to share a $2.6m (£1.6m) fee from advising on the hotly anticipated public offering, writes the Am Law Daily. The social media giant specified the $2.6m in legal fees and expenses related to its initial public offering (IPO), according to a regulatory filing on Tuesday (15 May). The fees are a rough estimation and not a precise gauge of invoices related to the myriad legal costs in bringing a company public.
By Ben Wheway
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May 14, 2012 |
Duane Morris is a launching a dedicated London private equity practice with the hire of Kirkland & Ellis partner Pierfrancesco Carbone, reports The Am Law Daily. Carbone is set to join Duane Morris on Monday (14 May), and has been tasked with developing its funds offering throughout Europe. He will become the tenth partner in the Philadelphia-based law firm's London office, which opened in 2000.
By Ben Wheway
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May 14, 2012 |
The dramatic end of US giant Dewey & LeBoeuf was nearly in sight on Friday (11 May) as most support staff saw their last day in its New York headquarters and a six-partner bankruptcy team led by Martin Bienenstock announced their departure. Bienenstock was one of the last two members of Dewey's office of the chairman, and with his departure, Washington DC partner Charles Landgraf is now the sole remaining member of the US law firm's governing body, reports The Am Law Daily.
By Ben Wheway
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May 13, 2012 |
SJ Berwin has appointed Simon Holmes as the new head of the firm's EU, competition and regulatory practice group. He is replacing Stephen Kon, who stepped up to become senior partner of the firm at the start of this month. Holmes, who joined SJ Berwin in 1994, has led the London EU, competition and regulatory group since 2008. The City partner will now head up both the international practice group and its London arm.
By Ben Wheway
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