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May 04, 2011 | International Edition

Mayer Brown adds partner to City regulatory team with BP hire

Mayer Brown has strengthened its London financial services regulation & enforcement (FSRE) group with the hire of a senior regulatory lawyer from BP's in-house legal team. Mark Compton, who is joining the firm as a partner, has a particular focus on advising on market abuse, anti-money laundering, economic sanctions and bribery, as well as compliance with the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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April 27, 2011 | International Edition

US firm seals hire of Serious Fraud Office GC for London office

McGuireWoods has boosted its white collar crime practice in London with the hire of Serious Fraud Office (SFO) general counsel Vivian Robinson QC. Robinson will join the US firm's London office later this summer as a partner in the government, regulatory and criminal investigations practice, after serving a three-month notice period at the SFO.
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August 25, 2010 | International Edition

Family ties help US law firm's London office land Tiger Woods divorce role

US firm McGuireWoods has advised Tiger Woods' ex-wife Elin Nordegren on her high-profile divorce from the golfing superstar, reports The Am Law Daily. McGuireWoods, which entered the UK market in May last year through a merger with City corporate boutique Grundberg Mocatta Rakison, employs Nordegren's twin sister Josefin Lonnborg as a corporate associate in its London base.
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May 11, 2010 | International Edition

City insurance partner quits Dewey to join US firm's London arm

US law firm Steptoe & Johnson has bulked up its London insurance practice with the hire of a partner from Dewey & LeBoeuf. Damian Cleary, the co-chair of Dewey's insurance and dispute resolution practice, joined Steptoe on 12 April. At his new firm, he will work alongside a team of 25 insurance and reinsurance partners.
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May 11, 2010 | International Edition

Former Squire Sanders City chief joins McGuireWoods in double partner hire

McGuireWoods has boosted its City presence with a double partner hire from Squire Sanders including former London managing partner Andrew Visintin. Restructuring partner Visintin and corporate partner Philip Newhouse both joined the US firm this week.
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January 19, 2010 | International Edition

Testing the waters

Two years into the financial crisis, Am Law 200 firms continue to grapple with their response to the new reality: that's the main theme from The American Lawyer's annual Law Firm Leaders survey, which shows an increased willingness among firms to implement a smorgasbord of short-term cost-cutting measures while pondering more fundamental changes.
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July 08, 2009 | International Edition

McGuireWoods boosts fledgling City arm with Steptoe litigation team hire

McGuireWoods has secured its first significant hires since it entered the London market, picking up a litigation team from a rival US firm. The firm launched in London on 1 May through a merger with Grundberg Mocatta Rakison, and has brought in a four-lawyer team from Steptoe & Johnson.
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May 14, 2009 | International Edition

Speechly in merger talks with Campbell Hooper

Speechly Bircham is in merger discussions with 23-partner London firm Campbell Hooper. The 200-lawyer firm is believed to be close to agreeing a deal with the Westminster-based firm, with further details likely to emerge later this week.Campbell Hooper's lawyers cover practice areas including construction and real estate, corporate and commercial, employment and litigation, with its client base including the likes of Barnardo's, Berkeley Homes, Yo Sushi! and Crest.
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March 24, 2009 | International Edition

City corporate boutique seals merger with US firm

US outfit McGuireWoods has sealed an entry into the UK market with a transatlantic merger with London boutique Grundberg Mocatta Rakison.The firms expect to finalise the tie-up on 1 May after 12 months of talks. The combined firm will operate under the McGuireWoods name. The merger will mark McGuire's first foray into the London market. The 900-lawyer firm has existing international offices in Kazakhstan and Brussels.Grundberg Mocatta senior partner Anders Grundberg will become office managing partner, while McGuireWoods will broaden its board of partners to include corporate partner Robert Rakison.
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February 04, 2009 | International Edition

Back in the game

On 23 July the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation's general counsel, Robert Bostrom, rang Randall Guynn, head of the financial institutions group at Davis Polk & Wardwell. Davis Polk was not one of Freddie Mac's outside law firms - Covington & Burling did its regulatory and disclosure work, and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft did its routine corporate work. But Bostrom needed an equity products specialist. Regulators, concerned about the lender's massive exposure to the US mortgage market, had demanded that it shore up its core capital. But with Freddie Mac shares trading at gutter levels, issuing billions of dollars in new equity could backfire.
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