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Cleary, Magic Circle Firms Advising on Carlos Slim's Bid for Dutch Telecom KPN
Allen & Overy is representing leading Dutch telecommunications group Koninklijke KPN on a $3.4 billion bid by billionaire Carlos Slim Helu's America Movil, Latin America's largest mobile carrier and a client of Clifford Chance and Cleary Gottlieb. America Movil will take a nearly one-third stake in KPN, the latest in a string of potential deals in the global telecom market.Continental Breakfast: Firms Prepare for Olympic Travel Chaos
The Games may be fun for tourists, but they certainly won't make life easy for those who live and work in London.Under Pressure, French Law Firm Embraces U.S. Market
Amid mounting competition, France's largest independent law firm is broaching North America's financial markets. Gide Loyrette Nouel has hired its first two American lawyers to staff its New York office, and hopes to add as many as 15 more in the next year. The expansion may seem conservative compared to that of hulking U.S. firms, whose one-stop-shopping mantra has spawned rapid proliferation in European and Asian markets. But the move indicates globalization may be inevitable for firms to stay viable.Orrick to Snare Rambaud Martel
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is nearing a deal to acquire Paris law firm Rambaud Martel, the latest move in an aggressive overseas expansion this year. San Francisco-based Orrick would pick up about 50 lawyers, including name partner and rainmaker Jean-Pierre Martel, boosting its Paris presence to about 90 attorneys, an informed source said. The deal comes three months after Rambaud Martel lost six partners and about a dozen associates to the Paris office of New York's Proskauer Rose.Susskind: The Future of Law Is Wired
Richard Susskind, LegalTech keynote speaker, is not a geek-come-lately. For years he's been trying to convince Luddite lawyers that IT and the Internet "will fundamentally, irreversibly and comprehensively change legal practice." It's not an easy sell to a profession that's centuries-old and book-bound, but with U.K. firms leapfrogging over U.S. firms in innovative technology, Americans may want to pay attention.Atlanta firms slow flow of M & A deals to New York
By Andy Peters, Staff ReporterAlston Bird partner J. Vaughan Curtis has practiced corporate law in Atlanta for 28 years, but he doesn't have a single local client.Curtis said he's proof that Atlanta firms have made serious inroads into the dominance that New York firms have held in mergers-and-acquisitions law.Asia Deal Digest: August 8, 2013
* Skadden leads Baidu on another billion-dollar bond offering* Wong & Partners on $885 million Islamic bank takeover in Malaysia* King & Wood Mallesons and SJ Berwin tag-team Aussie outbound deal to U.K.Germany's law firms avoid big cuts
At the start of 2009 the German government was trying to rescue the country's banking sector, MA and finance had dried up, and a significant uptick in litigation and restructuring had yet to materialize. Lawyers were wondering just how serious the downturn was going to be. The answer: not quite as bad as people feared.A Buyer's Guide to Law Firm Software
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