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Full service in London? No, corporate including oil and gas; emerging markets (India and Russia); fund formation Undisclosed Da Vinci CIS Private Sector Growth Fund; VimpelCom/ Acquisition of Global Telecom VimpelCom; LUKOIL & LUKOIL Overseas; Urals Energy Public Company Yes Undisclosed AT&T; IDM Pharma; GSK Aventis Pharma; The Kaempfer Company; GlaxoSmithKline; Armour Group; Philip Morris International Management No, primarily Irish finance and corporate No but under review Undisclosed CRH; Merrill Lynch; Barclays; Siemens; Wyeth No Undisclosed Undisclosed Yes Undisclosed ING; Cargill; Cardinal Health Abbott Laboratories; Ingersoll Rand; Monsanto; Siemens Undisclosed No, global projects; litigation and international arbitration; corporate No, financial restructuring; finance; litigation; corporate; tax and financial regulatory Do you plan to launch new practice area in London in next 12 months? Three recent London client wins Name five of your most active international clients No Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed No Undisclosed Undisclosed No No No Undisclosed Undisclosed No Would you consider a London merger? No, corporate & corporate finance; insolvency & restructuring; international arbitration & litigation Undisclosed Northern Rock; Clydesdale Bank; Environmental Technology Fund; Index Ventures; ACME Group Index Ventures; Mangrove Capital Partners; Amadeus Capital Partners; Clydesdale Bank; Stonefund2; OakInvest No Yes No Undisclosed S Kumars Nationwide; Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation; International Mineral Resources; Emerson Electric; Fugro No Undisclosed CVC Credit Suisse; CVC; Goldman Sachs; Pfizer; Bank of America Undisclosed No Undisclosed Islamic Development Bank; Korean Export Import Bank; National Joint Stock Insurance No, corporate; finance; restructuring & insolvency; tax; antitrust; financial regulation; litigation & arbitration; intellectual property; employment & incentives Yes No Mauritius law from London Mumtalakat; Highstar Capital; Vale; Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Oaktree Capital Management Signet Jewellers; Tosca Investment Managers; Doughty Hanson; Benfield; Central European Media Enterprises BATCO; GLG Partners; Royal Bank of Scotland; AIG Europe; EBRD Goldman Sachs; TPG; ArcelorMittal; GlaxoSmithKline; Dow Chemical Company Man Investments; International Finance Corporation; HSBC; Macquarie Group; Bacardi Yes No British Horseracing Authority; CBS Interactive; Piper Jaffray Harley Davidson; Merck; Microsoft; Novartis; The Pantheon Group Full-service US law Undisclosed RWE; BAT International Finance; Grupo Modelo British American Tobacco; Credit Suisse; Deutsche Bank; Sappi; Vivendi Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed Marriott International; Nortel; Banco de la Republica de Possibly Colombia; Hitachi Data Systems Corporation; Ingersoll Rand; Diebold No, Spanish and Portuguese law No Undisclosed Undisclosed No Yes Yes No No No Undisclosed Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed Citi; Morgan Stanley; JPMorgan; AstraZeneca; Roche Undisclosed No, dispute resolution; M&A; fund formation; insurance; capital markets; finance; restructurings & tax planning Undisclosed Undisclosed Siemens’s audit committee; Pernod Ricard; Clayton Dubilier & Rice; Catlin Group; AXA Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed Yes Undisclosed Lancashire Holdings CNPC Exploration; Scottish Re; Zurich Financial Services Undisclosed No No JPMorgan; Co-operative Group; Jazz FM Investments Consub Delaware; United Healthcare; US Bank; Aker Solutions Yes No Undisclosed Undisclosed Possibly Yes No Soleco UK Pentair, ADC Telecommunications: HB Fuller Company; Flextronics; Target Corporation Yes Yes WHICH?; AIG; Dynacast Augere; Colonial Insurance; City and Guilds; Dynacast No Yes Undisclosed Undisclosed Goldman Sachs; Virgin Media; Rio Tinto; Merck; Proctor & Gamble No, disputes & international arbitration; energy & projects No, only Spanish law; corporate finance; M&A and banking No, banking; structured finance; DCM; derivatives and regulatory Yes Undisclosed GlaxoSmithKline; Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling; Foster Wheeler; ACE European Group; International Finance Corporation No Burdale Financial; TDR Captial; BG Group General Electric; FCC; Telefonica; Bridgepoint; La Caixa No Possibly Fondazione Cariparo; EPPI; ENPACL JPMorgan Securities; Goldman Sachs; Barclays Capital; Credit Suisse International; Citadel Yes No Undisclosed Intel Corporation; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Investcorp Bank; Aetna; Tyco International No, banking & finance; captial markets; tax; international dispute resolution; mining; oil & gas No, M&A; company commercial; banking and finance and real estate; property development and planning Possibly Mediacapital Bank; International Finance Corp BNP Paribas; Credit Agricole; Deutsche Bank; SNCF; Societe Generale No Endesa Distribucion Electrica; Impax Asset Management; Grupo T-solar Global Impax Asset Management; Grupo T-solar Global; Endesa Energia; Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria; Bank of Montreal Yes No Gazprom; Mubadala; Access Industries and Renova Undisclosed Possibly No, antitrust; IP; commercial litigation & arbitration Undisclosed Eli Lilly; Anheuser-Busch Undisclosed No Yes Possibly Undisclosed Undisclosed Possibly No Yes Possibly No No No Undisclosed No No www.legalweek.com Legal Week 9 July 2009 29
Analysis International firms in London Firm by firm Firm London head Total partners UK-qualified partners London partners ‘09 (‘08) Total no. of other London lawyers ‘09 (‘08) London associates promoted ‘09 (‘08) London lateral partner hires ‘09 (‘08) Planned headcount growth in London in next 18 months (%) In what practice area? Do you take on London trainees? Jones Day Russell Carmedy 783 44 46 139 4 (4) 4 Undisclosed Undisclosed Yes, 15-20 for last 15 years K&L Gates Tony Griffiths 779 59 59 (57) 97 (67) 1 (3) 8 (6) 0%-10% No Yes, up to 10 a year King & Spalding n/a 291 7 7 (7) 20 (20) 2 (1) 2 (1) Undisclosed Undisclosed No Kirkland & Ellis n/a 618 40 33 (24) 61 (55) n/a (6) 4 (0) 0%-10% No 6 trainees a year, this is the first year Latham & Watkins Andrew Moyle 582 28 42 (41) 147 (127) 6 (3) 2 (2) Undisclosed Undisclosed Yes, since 2006, approx 15 a year Loyens & Loeff Frank Leijdesdorff 121 0 2 7 0 (0) 0 0%-10% Luxembourg tax No Magisters Andrew Mac 12 0 1 0 0 (0) 0 0%-10% N/A n/a Mayer Brown Sean Connolly 639 Undisclosed 109 (119) 282 (187) 2 (13) 10 (15) Possibly Undisclosed Yes, 30 to 35 per year McCann Fitzgerald Hugh Beattie 66 0 1 4 0 (0) 0 No N/A Yes, 6 trainees a year for 15 years McDermott Will & Emery Doron Ezickson 617 31 33 (36) 51 (39) 0 (4) 8 (8) Yes Energy; corporate; tax; others Yes, 7 in 2008. Have been doing for 9 years McGuire Woods Anders Grundberg 453 12 13 32 0 (0) 1 0%-10% Undisclosed Yes, 1-2 since 2005 Millbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy Phillip Fletcher 148 12 13 (13) 32 (48) 0 (0) 1 (0) Undisclosed Undisclosed No Morrison & Foerster Trevor James 376 23 19 (19) 39 (33) 1 (0) 3 (6) 0%-10% Restructuring Yes, for 4 years, 3 in 2009 Mourant Gareth Rigby 30 4 3 7 0 (0) 1 0%-10% Cayman Islands lawyer – investment funds NautaDutilh Gaike Daalenoord 88 0 2 8 0 (0) 0 No N/A No Nixon Peabody Stavros Adamidis 384 3 4 (4) 2 (3) 0 (0) 0 (0) Yes No No O’Melveny & Myers John Daghlian 244 7 8 37 1 (1) 0 10%-20% Undisclosed Yes, 4 annually for 4 years Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison Martin Bartlam 333 22 24 (20) 53 (37) 0 (0) 7 (3) Undisclosed Litigation; IP Yes, 10 a year for 4 years Mark Eagan 264 11 14 (14) 30 (18) 1 (0) 6 (4) No N/A 5-6 a year since 2006 Mark Bergman 647 1 2 (2) 16 (14) 0 (0) 0 (0) 10%-20% M&A; securities No Pillsbury Winthrop Tim Wright 334 6 8 (5) 18 (8) 0 (0) 3 (2) 10%-20% Energy; finance sourcing; IT Yes, 1-2 trainees a year for the last 5 years Proskauer Rose Matthew Hudson 190 5 4 5 0 (0) 2 Undisclosed Undisclosed No Reed Smith Roger Parker 709 109 101 (103) 207 (238) 4 (3) 8 (10) 10%-20% Undisclosed Yes, 30 trainees a year No Salans Howard Cohen 181 35 34 62 n/a (3) 4 0%-10% Dispute resolution; restructuring; insolvency Yes, 4 a year since 1992 Shearman & Sterling Anthony Ward 200 28 24 (26) 85 (102) 2 (2) 0 (1) Undisclosed Undisclosed Yes, since 1999; 13 in 2008 Shook Hardy & Bacon Simon Castley 191 3 3 5 0 (0) 0 0%-10% Undisclosed No Sidley Austin Drew Scott 672 33 41 (41) 119 (99) n/a (1) 2 (3) Undisclosed Litigation; regulatory; insolvency; insurance; others Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom Gregory Conway 175 6 10 (11) 37 (37) 1 (1) 1 (0) 0%-10% Corporate No Yes, since 1994; currently around 8 Bruce Buck 462 17 27 (27) 125 (95) 1 (3) 1 (1) Possibly Possibly Around 4 a year Stikeman Elliott Derek Linfield 227 4 6 12 0 (1) 1 No N/A No, but do have one in 2009 Sullivan & Cromwell Uria Menendez Vanessa Blackmore and Robert Schlein Juan Carlos Manchuca 170 7 21 59 0 (1) 1 Undisclosed Undisclosed No 103 0 1 6 0 (0) 0 0%-10% General corporate Yes, 2 or 3 since 1992 Walkers Antonia Hardy 48 0 6 10 *(1) 1 (9) 0%-10% Undisclosed No Weil Gotshal & Manges Mike Francies 312 20 23 (23) 105 (95) 1 (2) 3 (2) No N/A Yes, since 1998 – 14 in 2009 White & Case Oliver Brettle 405 76 73 (74) 354 (288) 2 (10) 1 (4) 0%-10% Financial restructuring; insolvency; dispute resolution Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr Joe Pillman 326 7 12 (12) 66 (36) 0 (1) 2 (1) 10%-20% International arbitration No Yes, approx 35 a year since 1996 Winston & Strawn Thomas Benz 437 5 5 (5) 8 (7) n/a (0) 0 (0) Undisclosed Undisclosed Undisclosed *Not yet announced 30 Legal Week 9 July 2009 www.legalweek.com
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