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ANALYSIS: Making the move
By Renu Prasad
| Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Cooper Grace Ward has recently moved to a new office in Brisbane while Allens Arthur Robinson, Clayton Utz, and Freehills all have plans to move in the near future. ALB looks at the savings currently available to firms who make the move.
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ANALYSIS: 2010: Perfect storm for PE practices
By Luke Cornish
| Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Law firms with private equity clients can expect to be burdened with a heavy workload in the next 12 months, but determining exactly what practice groups will shoulder that workload requires partners to look at their clients’ situations
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Analysis: Alternative billing movement gathers momentum
By Luke Cornish
| Wednesday, 27 January 2010
The Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) is in negotiations with its legal panel over a possible alternative billing arrangement in a sign that the desire for fixed-fee and other non-hourly billing methods has spread from private-sector clients to public-sector clients
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Analysis: Blake Dawson breaking new ground in Japan
By Luke Cornish
| Wednesday, 9 December 2009
A strategic review of Blake Dawson’s operations looking to find ways to take the firm to the next level ended in a decision to become the first Australian law firm to open an office in Japan. The move has not been all plain sailing as the firm and Japanese regulators are both breaking new ground but Blake Dawson’s north Asia head, Ian Williams, hopes that it will be a case of the early bird catching the worm
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ANALYSIS: Exit strategy
By Luke Cornish
| Thursday, 19 November 2009
Private equity firms that have been forced to hold onto assets during the GFC are now asking lawyers to examine strategies to offload those assets. ALB looks at whether there will suddenly be a rush for the exit
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Analysis: To list or not to list?
By Luke Cornish
| Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Slater & Gordon and Integrated Legal Holdings are currently the only two listed law firms in Australia, but their success could encourage others to follow suit. ALB takes a look at the differing fortunes of these two companies and what the future has in store for each
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Joining the partnership
By Renu Prasad
| Wednesday, 30 September 2009
The mechanisms through which lawyers become partners in a firm are many and varied. ALB explores some of the more common - and controversial - methods at play
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Fast Boat from China
By Renu Prasad
| Monday, 21 September 2009
Diversification, IPOs, cornerstones – just some of the facets of inbound Chinese investment in 2009
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Real estate practices to reap foreign windfall
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By Luke Cornish
| Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Like a wake of vultures circling over a wounded wildebeest, foreign investors have spent the past year acquainting themselves with the Australian regulatory regime, and waiting for the right time to make a move in the property sector
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No employment market recovery for lawyers until 2010
By Luke Cornish
| Monday, 7 September 2009
The 6-12 month lag between any upswing in the economy and the flow on to jobs for lawyers means Australian law firms are unlikely to be resuming normal hiring practices until 2010 – at the earliest
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Analysis: Firms expect wave of IPOs
By Luke Cornish
| Monday, 31 August 2009
The A$248m Carsales.com float ended a long drought in Australian initial public offerings and it is expected that the success of that placement will prompt other private companies to go public
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