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By By Anna Zhang | June 1, 2017
Squire Patton Boggs, Norton Rose Fulbright and Osborne Clark have all been targets of China's trademark squatters—entities that register the marks of known brands in the hopes of profiting off the name or extracting money from the brand owner.
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By Anna Zhang | June 1, 2017
The combined firm has 29 partners, but includes only two from the legacy U.K. firm's Singapore office.
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By James Booth | June 1, 2017
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and British firm Bond Dickinson will join forces without combining their finances, adopting a model similar to what Eversheds and Sutherland Asbill & Brennan just formalized.
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By Meghan Tribe | May 31, 2017
Kirkland & Ellis has brought back former senior litigation partner Stephen Patton as of counsel in Chicago, where since 2011 he has served in the $174,000-per-year role of corporation counsel for the Windy City.
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By Meghan Tribe | May 29, 2017
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Kirkland & Ellis and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison grabbed key roles on the $14 billion merger between chemical giants Huntsman Corp. and Clariant AG, as well as another $2.36 billion deal that will create the nation's sixth-largest Internet and cable operator.
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By Anna Zhang | May 24, 2017
Winston & Strawn has become the latest U.S. firm to reassess its role in Asia, as it has seen several attorneys in Hong Kong and Shanghai leave and has shuttered its offices in Beijing and Taipei.
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By Chris Johnson | May 23, 2017
A senior Latham & Watkins lawyer is running for Parliament as a member of a controversial right-wing political party in the U.K.'s upcoming general election on June 8.
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By Roy Strom | May 23, 2017
Legal consultancy Altman Weil Inc.'s ninth annual Law Firms in Transition Survey shows that managing partners are increasingly frustrated from facing off against internal resistance to change.
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By Meghan Tribe | May 22, 2017
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired David Blass, a former associate general counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission who spent nearly the past three years as general counsel for the Investment Company Institute, as an investment funds partner in Washington, D.C.
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By Brian Baxter | May 21, 2017
The global legal giant is advising St. Louis-based manufacturer Katy Industries Inc. on its Chapter 11 filing this week, as well as the California-based subsidiary of a German search optimization company in its bankruptcy case, one that has DLA Piper owed more than $1 million in fees.
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