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November 16, 2011 | International Edition

Wilmer hires Kingsley Napley heavyweight to launch UK white collar crime practice

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr is set to launch a City investigations and criminal litigation practice with the hire of Kingsley Napley heavyweight Stephen Pollard. Pollard is to join the top 20 US law firm's London arm in the New Year to found and head the practice along with a team of two associates. The move is the latest in a string of similar appointments by corporate law firms moving to build white collar crime practices in Europe.
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October 14, 2011 | International Edition

Serious Fraud Office draws up list of big-name candidates for top role

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is targeting some of the biggest private practice names in white-collar crime to replace director Richard Alderman when he retires in April next year. The body has drawn up a shortlist of potential candidates for the role, including Dechert litigation partner Neil Gerrard - who is currently in dispute with DLA Piper over his exit from his former firm - and ex-Simmons & Simmons partner Louise Delahunty, who is now a counsel in Sullivan & Cromwell's London office.
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October 05, 2011 | International Edition

Eversheds adds partner to City regulatory team with FSA hire

Eversheds has boosted its City contentious regulatory practice with a partner hire from the Financial Service Authority's (FSA) enforcement and financial crime division. Greg Brandman joined the firm's London office on Monday (3 October) in its financial services dispute resolution team.
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August 22, 2011 | International Edition

Legal line-up appointed to tackle reform of civil litigation costs

Berrymans Lace Mawer's head of policy development, Alistair Kinley, has been appointed to chair a working party put together by the Civil Justice Council to look at the implementation of Lord Justice Jackson's reforms of civil litigation. Kinley will chair a line-up of 17 lawyers on the working group, which has been set up to help implement secondary legislation relating to Jackson's impending reform of litigation funding.
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June 15, 2011 |

Going organic: finding the balance between organic growth and lateral hiring in London

Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between 
organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends
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June 15, 2011 | International Edition

Going organic: finding the balance between organic growth and lateral hiring in London

Foreign firms in London still struggle to find that elusive balance between 
organic growth and lateral hiring. Charlotte Edmond charts the latest trends
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June 08, 2011 | International Edition

White-collar crime lawyers on alert as threat of SFO break-up recedes – but is split just delayed?

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) looks to have secured its future, at least for the time being, as expectations mount that the Government is to put controversial plans to break up the organisation on ice. Home secretary Theresa May is expected to confirm that the Government will not press ahead with controversial plans to split the SFO's prosecution division from its investigatory function – proposals that were strongly opposed by both staff within the agency and white-collar crime lawyers.
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May 11, 2011 | International Edition

Robinson's exit drives another nail into SFO's coffin

With its future hanging in the balance, last month's news of the departure of general counsel Vivian Robinson for US firm McGuireWoods is a blow the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) 
could have done without. Hired in 2009 to add some bite to the SFO's bark, Robinson is set to become the latest in a procession of senior officials to leave, with the departure described by one City litigator as another "nail in the coffin" for the SFO. Particularly following the losses of other senior names including fraud chief Robert Amaee and head of policy Charlie Monteith, who left to join the London offices of Covington & Burling and White & Case respectively.
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May 10, 2011 | International Edition

Willkie Farr recruits Herbert Smith partner for UK bribery law push

Willkie Farr & Gallagher has hired the head of Herbert Smith's investigations and corporate crime unit Peter Burrell, to launch a UK anti-bribery practice in the City. Burrell, who specialises in contentious regulatory work including conducting and managing internal investigations, is set to become the second partner in Willkie's London office alongside US corporate and securities partner Jon Lyman.
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May 09, 2011 | International Edition

McGuireWoods follows SFO GC hire with Herbert Smith partner recruit

McGuireWoods has bulked up its City arm with the hire of Herbert Smith litigation partner Hardeep Nahal. Nahal joined the US firm this month after 10 years as a partner in Herbert Smith's London office. He becomes the fourth partner in McGuireWoods' City litigation practice and takes the total number of partners in the office to 22.
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