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Mayer Brown has posted a 2.4% increase in firmwide revenues for 2011 after two years of falling financials, reports the Am Law Daily.
The firm saw total turnover climb to $1.13bn (£713m), while profits per partner (PEP) rose 10% to $1.18m (£745,000). Revenue per lawyer also grew 10% [...]
Mayer Brown posts 2011 revenue rise after two years of faltering results
Mayer Brown set to see five partner departures from City base
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Mayer Brown is set to see five partner departures from its London office in the coming weeks, with the outgoing partners joining firms including White & Case and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe. Commercial litigators Simon Willis and Matthew Lawson are departing from the US firm to join [...]
Mayer Brown makes up six in the City as Gibson Dunn promotes one in London
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Mayer Brown has promoted six London lawyers to its partnership as part of a 39-strong global promotions round. The London promotions, which take the City office to 100 partners, are on par with last year when the transatlantic firm made up six new partners in the City [...]
Freshfields and Mayer Brown lead ex-BP chief’s $4.2bn Turkey tie-up
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Mayer Brown and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won roles on the planned $4.2bn (£2.7bn) merger of former BP chief executive Tony Hayward’s investment vehicle Vallares with Turkish oil company Genel Energy International.
Mayer Brown’s London office is advising Genel, the largest oil producer in the Kurdistan region of [...]
Mayer Brown adds partner to City corporate insurance team with Debevoise hire
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Mayer Brown has strengthened its London corporate and securities practice with a hire from Debevoise & Plimpton.
Colin Scagell joined the international firm today (5 September) as the newest partner in its London-based insurance industry group. He joins from the City office of Debevoise, where he was an [...]
Linklaters Germany partner opts against move to Mayer Brown
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Linklaters competition partner Carsten Grave has decided to remain with the magic circle law firm nearly two months after it was announced that he would join Mayer Brown’s practice in Cologne.
The news comes after the US law firm last month announced the closure of its Berlin and [...]
Mayer Brown to open in Duesseldorf; Berlin and Cologne to close
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Mayer Brown is set to launch an office in Duesseldorf as the firm moves to close its Berlin and Cologne operations. The new office will open at the start of 2012, at which point Mayer Brown’s existing Cologne and Berlin offices will merge into the Duesseldorf outfit. [...]
Brown Rudnick boosts London with Chadbourne hire
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Brown Rudnick has strengthened its European bankruptcy and restructuring team with a partner hire from the London office of Chadbourne & Parke. Insolvency partner Adrian Harris is set to join Brown Rudnick’s London office in August, having been a partner at Chadbourne since 2006.
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A&O faces Gordon Brown con trick scrutiny as hacking row grows
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Allen & Overy (A&O) has questioned aspects of allegations made by The Guardian that the law firm was ‘conned’ into handing over client files while acting for Gordon Brown, as claims continue to emerge in the phone-hacking scandal.
An article published today (11 July) on the guardian.co.uk website [...]
Mayer Brown signs up former Orrick Europe chief for City banking team
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Mayer Brown has strengthened its City banking practice with the hire of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe’s former European managing partner Stuart McAlpine.
McAlpine, whose practice focuses on cross-border asset and project finance deals, in particular the shipping, offshore and energy industries, will join Mayer Brown’s London banking and [...]