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Sidley Austin Archive

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Clifford Chance Takes No Chances on Mallesons as Merger Talks Break Down

9 December 2008

A top-secret merger proposal between Clifford Chance and Mallesons Stephen Jaques, which was unknown to many partners in both firms, has broken down, it has emerged. A new merger proposal, comin...

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ANZ Announces Hundreds of Reudundancies After Several Months of Rumoured Hushed Exits

18 January 2012

The year has opened on a gloomy note indeed for those in Australia's financial sector with news earlier this week that ANZ intends to drastically shave headcount. On Tuesday, the cuts got underway ...

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FS Editorial; Clifford Chance & A&O Entry Set to Change Australian Legal Tradition

6 March 2011

Perth is developing into a hot-bed of corporate work and it is flowing through to increased salaries and a generally heightened demand for talent. In the legal sphere, the increase in corporate wor...

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Manhunt Update: Swindling Ex-Minters CFO Arrested at Sydney Airport

4 October 2011

We just received word from an anonymous tipster that wanted fugitive Craig Raneberg has been arrested at Sydney Airport.  Here's the tip: Craig Raneberg (ex-CFO Minter Ellison Adelaide) was c...

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Going Where The Federal Govt Wont: Mallesonians Pledge Loyalty 1st to China, 2nd to K&W

27 March 2012

... well, not quite. But in an extraordinary 48 hour period, and less than one month after Mallesons formalised its ties with Chinese firm King & Wood, it has emerged: (1) that China has taken ...

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Shame File; PwC Spring Carnival Racing Rumoured Antics Exposed

3 November 2010

By the bus-load, high-ranking corporate-types from across the nation are this week descending on Melbourne's Flemington Race Course to indulge in high-fashion, booze-fuelled parties ... as lowly ju...

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Digging Deeper Reveals Tighter Wad; Freehills’ Executive Counsel

25 May 2009

A spate of rather venomous emails from Freehills lawyers compelled the Firm Spy to do some investigative journalism into the recently announced, yet mysterious, 'executive counsel' role. What is...

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A&O Partner Charged With Child Pornography Offences

18 July 2011

Our friends at Above The Law and RollonFriday reported on Friday that a distinguished partner from A&O was arrested last week and charged with dowloading and distributing child pornography....

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Rumour: Deloitte Staffers Busted “Sniffing Something” @ Melbourne EOFY Party

21 June 2011

It was extremely pleasing (read: we felt high on gossip) to receive the following comments from a person purporting to be a Deloitte insider last night: FirmSpy Last Friday saw Deloitte host an...

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Premature Evacuation; DLA Phillips Fox Decimated By Mass Defections Pre-Merger

11 March 2011

Both the DLA Piper and DLA Phillips Fox partnerships confirmed last week that the vote to merge had been successful and that DLA Piper would officially arrive on 1 May 2011.  This means that 75% o...

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