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French firm SBKG has strengthened its tax department with the recruitment of Caroline Couzineau, who joins from Pierre & Vacances where she was tax director. | 14yrs

Magic circle firm Linklaters has announced the appointment of senior competition lawyer Fay Zhou as a counsel, and Nancy Chang as an associate, in its competition practice in Beijing. | 14yrs

New York-headquartered global law firm Proskauer Rose has continued to build its global capital markets capabilities with the addition of three partners and a senior counsel to the firm's London office. | 14yrs

London-based commercial law firm Berwin Leighton Paisner has boosted the ranks of its funds team with the poaching of Justin Cornelius from fellow English firm Nabarro. | 14yrs

Dutch law firm AKD advised on the spin-off of Cergentis - a Utrecht-based genetic analysis technology developer. | 14yrs

K&L Gates has secured a $840.5 million payment for its Netherlands-based client Astra Oil Trading following four years of litigation against the North American arm of Brazil's national oil company, Petrobras Brasiliero. | 14yrs

A trio of international law firm teams from the Middle East and London advised on the $1.2 billion expansion of Saudi Arabia's Madinah Airport, the first full public-private partnership project in the country. | 14yrs

New York-headquartered law firm Skadden is representing leading French botanical beauty care brand Yves Rocher Group. | 14yrs

Benelux law firm NautaDutilh has assisted California-based microchip producer Intel Corporation in its research and development commitment and equity investment in Dutch photolithography systems supplier ASML Holding, which is valued at €3.3 billion. | 14yrs

Paris-based law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel advised leading French wine producer Castel Frères on the purchase of six companies from the Patriarche group, which are active in the production of still and sparkling wines. | 14yrs

International law firm Norton Rose advised Queensland-based gold producer Allied Gold Mining on its merger with domestic rival St Barbara. | 14yrs

London-based magic circle firm Linklaters has advised China's Ministry of Finance of on its RMB 23 billion ($3.65bn) sovereign bond offering in Hong Kong. The offering is by far the largest-ever offshore RMB bond transaction. | 14yrs

Lawyers in the US state of Minnesota are drawing battle lines over a controversial proposal that would legally define marriage as being between heterosexual couples. | 14yrs

Jamaica's Norman Manley Law School is set to more than double its intake of students while a new law school in India faces further delays and legal obstructions. | 14yrs

A complex jurisdictional arrangement may soon see cases sent from Honduras to a court of appeal in Mauritius, and then on to the Privy Council in London. | 14yrs

The California Latino Legislative Caucus is pressing the state's Supreme Court to allow illegal immigrant and law school graduate Sergio Garcia admission to the state bar. | 14yrs

Three former leaders of bankrupt law firm Dewey & LeBouef who are being sued by an ex-partner for allegedly lying about the firm's finances have applied for the case to be moved from California state court to federal bankruptcy court. | 14yrs

Law firm starting salaries in the US have nosedived recently -- tumbling by a staggering 35 per cent compared with three years ago. | 14yrs

Experts - and even senior judges - are telling lawyers to overcome concerns about advanced e-disclosure techniques. But, asks Greg Wildisen, will they listen? | 14yrs