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...Clifford Chance also introduced a special bonus system for its UK private equity team....
...Days later, Linklaters announced changes to its lockstep, following Clifford Chance, Freshfields and Allen & Overy....
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...He joins from Kirkland & Ellis. Clifford Chance has hired William Sturman and Kelly Labritz as partners in its funds and investment management practice, based in New York....
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...It was started by New York-based firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore and continued by the likes of Kirkland & Ellis amid the buyout boom. Junior lawyers in London are the beneficiaries....
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