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December 03, 2008 | International Edition

Cadwalader partner quits for Greenberg in New York

US firm Greenberg Traurig has boosted its healthcare practice with the hire of a Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft partner - the fourth to leave the firm since the summer. Healthcare lawyer Francis Serbaroli joins the New York office of Greenberg - which has a UK alliance with Olswang - as a partner in the health and Food and Drug Administration business practice group.Harold Iselin, head of the firm's New York State healthcare practice commented: "His arrival marks the expansion of our New York State healthcare practice and makes us one of a few firms with lawyers specialising in this area in both Albany and New York City."
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October 15, 2008 | International Edition

Cadwalader loses London partner to Latham

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft is set to lose a restructuring partner in London, the third lateral departure since the firm laid off 96 lawyers in July. Jackson Taylor, who made partner a month before the layoffs, is leaving for Latham & Watkins' London arm, a source familiar with the situation says. Taylor has already resigned from the partnership, though has not yet started at Latham. A spokeswoman for Cadwalader confirmed Taylor's resignation on Monday (13 October). "The firm wishes him well," she says.Taylor, 36, made partner in June, and the firm touted him and promotee Karl Clowry in a press release as "key players in cross-border work, particularly at a time when there is increased distressed debt and workout activity around the world."
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September 03, 2008 | International Edition

Cadwalader loses US environmental duo

US law firm Steptoe & Johnson has recruited two environmental lawyers, including the practice chair, from Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, reports The New York Law Journal.Andrew Perel, the chair of Cadwalader's environmental litigation practice, and Daniel Lavoie, a senior lawyer in the group, are both joining Washington DC-based Steptoe's New York office as partners.
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July 30, 2008 | International Edition

Germany: Internal affairs

On 15 November, 2006, more than 200 policemen descended on the Munich headquarters of German technology giant Siemens and the homes and offices of 30 Siemens executives around Germany to comb the premises for incriminating documents. It was one of Europe's dreaded 'dawn raids', a term that bears little relation to the time of day but usually denotes the start of a tiresome ballet between the government and a company suspected of wrongdoing. In the traditional European model of prosecution, corporations stonewall and fight to the bitter end.
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June 25, 2008 | International Edition

Making history with Obama

The day after the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, Eric Holder Jr is working from Covington & Burling's elegant new Manhattan offices inside the year-old New York Times Building. He is there to prep Fernando Aguirre, the chief executive of Chiquita Brands International, for an interview with US news show 60 Minutes, which will be broadcasting a segment on the company's past involvement with Colombian right-wing paramilitary forces. Last March, Holder helped Chiquita secure a slap-on-the-wrist plea deal to charges that it had paid off the terrorists.But before the Aguirre meeting, Holder has to place a call to Warren Ballentine, a nationally-syndicated African-American radio talkshow host, who wants to discuss last night's primary results.
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September 18, 2007 | International Edition

Steptoe steps in for Africa Legal founder

Former CDC Group general counsel Joe Whitfield has joined Steptoe & Johnson as a partner in the firm's emerging markets funds practice. He joins the US law firm from Africa Legal - a division of South African firm Deneys Reitz and one of the first pan-African legal networks, which Whitfield co-founded with former Clifford Chance international projects lawyer Julian Jackson.
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February 07, 2007 | International Edition

Steptoe adds to tax practice with DLA hire

Washington DC firm Steptoe & Johnson has hired tax associate Kassim Meghjee. Meghjee, who will work closely with the firm's property and corporate departments, joins as a partner from DLA Piper. Steptoe's tax practice now has more than 35 lawyers worldwide. Steptoe's tax head, Mark Silverman, said: "Steptoe is focused on expanding its worldwide tax practice, and increasing its tax capabilities in Europe is essential to that growth."
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January 10, 2007 | International Edition

Steptoe & Johnson launches Chicago office

Washington DC firm Steptoe & Johnson has launched a Chicago office with the hire of a nine-partner team from local player Gardner Carton & Douglas.…
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December 07, 2005 | International Edition

Herbies' Fleck joins top US lawyers list

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October 19, 2005 | International Edition

Bristol-Myers Appoints New General Counsel

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