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Wragges takes four-strong Paris real estate team from Bird & Bird

Wragge & Co has moved to strengthen its Paris real estate offering with the hire of a four-lawyer team from Bird & Bird led by partner Constance de La Hosseraye. La Hosseraye joins the firm to head up the Paris real estate practice and brings with her associates Fleur Gaffinel, Jeremy Roigt and Katy Bonixe, with the team plugging the gap left following the departure of partner Henry Ranchon to French law firm Franklin at the start of the month. After being called to the bar in 1992, La Hosseraye joined local firm De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in 1993 before joining Bird & Bird's Paris office in 2007 as partner. Her arrival at Wragges brings its Paris partner count to ten.
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Gibson Dunn recruits Hogan Lovells energy partner in first hire since QFLP award

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has hired Hogan Lovells' energy head for South East Asia Brad Roach in its first move to bolster the number of partners in the region since receiving a Qualifying Foreign Law Practice (QFLP) licence in February. The Los Angeles head-quartered firm, which previously said it would look to supplement its existing M&A, energy and infrastructure practices in Singapore, as well as adding arbitration to its offering, now counts four partners in the island city-state in addition to 12 legal staff.
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Linklaters boosts India practice with return of partner from referral firm

Linklaters has boosted its India practice, re-hiring a partner from its Mumbai referral firm Talwar Thakore & Associates (TT&A). Narayan Iyer - who will return to Linklaters in August as a partner - first joined the firm as a trainee in 1996. He helped to set up Linklaters India practice, and was elected a partner in 2007. Iyer left Linklaters to join the TT&A partnership in 2009, where he has been developing the firm's finance practice.
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McDermott turns to Withers for London private client hire

McDermott Will & Emery has hired high-profile Withers partner Ziva Robertson in another boost to the firm's international private client practice. The move follows Mcdermott's hire of Astrid Owen - also a Withers private client partner - who joined the firm in October.
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Baker & McKenzie hires King & Wood Mallesons duo in Australia

Baker & McKenzie has boosted its tax and employment teams in Australia with the appointment of two senior lawyers from King & Wood Mallesons (KWM). The duo Ellen Thomas and Sean Selleck were previously employed as senior associate and of counsel at KWM respectively, but both join Bakers in Australia as partners.
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DLA Piper hires Mayer Brown JSM Asia finance head in Hong Kong

DLA Piper has added to its Hong Kong finance team with the hire of Mayer Brown JSM's former head of structured finance for Asia, Ben Standstad. The UK firm, whose Hong Kong office has traditionally been heavily focused on equity capital markets work, is currently looking to strengthen its projects and finance group in Asia whilst regional IPOs remain thin on the ground.
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Camerons disputes partner duo join Covington's fast-growing City base

Covington & Burling has hired two disputes partners from CMS Cameron McKenna, bringing its London partner headcount to 28. Ben Holland and Jeremy Wilson will both practice in Covington's arbitration and commercial litigation practice, focusing on energy-related disputes.
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Jones Day grows Hong Kong team with hire of Orrick finance partner

Jones Day has grown its Hong Kong office with the appointment of banking and finance partner Michelle Taylor from US rival Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe. Taylor, who was previously the Asia managing partner for Orrick in Hong Kong before IP partner Xiang Wang took over the role in April, joins Jones Day with one associate, and boosts the total number of partners at the firm's Hong Kong office to 18.
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Dentons boost Hong Kong cap markets team with O'Melveny hire

Dentons has boosted its Hong Kong capital markets practice with the hire of corporate partner Gordon Ng from O'Melveny & Myers. Ng, who is best known for his work on Hong Kong IPOs, will join the firm as head of corporate finance and capital markets for Asia, effective July 1.
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Walker Morris turns to Deloitte for first non-exec board member

Walker Morris has appointed former Deloitte managing partner Stuart Counsell as its first non-executive board director. Counsell joins Walker Morris following more than 30 years at Deloitte, during which time he held a variety of senior management positions including UK managing partner. More recently, Counsell headed up the finance and legal division at the accountancy giant where he was responsible for the financial and legal aspects of a £2 billion professional services business. He was also heavily involved in the firm's continuous systems improvement and acquisition programmes.
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