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Lars Gunnar Aas • Rose Abad • Kathryn Abate • Ruth Abban • Kym Abbott • Pierre Abinakle • Anastasia Aboeva • Gill Abrahams • Natalie Abrahams • Iwona Abramowicz (Falkiewicz) • Ekaterina Abrossimova • Tulapawn Achananuparp • Bianca Achilles • Tobias Ackert • Helen Adair • Laurie Adams • Lisa Adams • Mark Adams • Trevor Adams • David Adamson • Kathryn Adamson • Linda Adelson • Abisade Adenubi • Justin Adie • Mehrnaz Afshar • Katharina Agena • Vincent Agneessens • Emanuela Agni • Taris Ahmad • Hina Ahmed • Nayna Ahmed • Ishaan Ahuja • Warwick Ainger • Lucia Ainsworth • Alexander Aitken • Michal Ajm • Alexia Akester • Arzu Aksac • Nilon Akther • Salim Al Yazidy • Arwa Al-Alim/Ruttink • Nora Albertini • Maria Alberto • Jan Alborough (Bradley) • Wendy Aldridge • Karen Alexander • Niki Alexandrou • Anatoly Alexandrov • Xander Alferink • Azad Ali • Shaukat Ali • Claudia Allatta • Lara Allaway • Andre Allee • Chris Allen • Denis Allen • Karl Allen • Kate Allen • Ian Allman • Nazim Alom • Julio Alonso • Noemí Alonso Calvo • Owen Alterman • Shanika Amarasekara • Susan Amiss • Stephanie Amoah (Odonkor) • Rebecca Andrew • Carol Andrews • Christopher Andrews • Helen Andrews • Miriam Andrews (Morrison) • Cora Ang • Yeung Angela • Vitalia Aniskova • Varroquier Anne-Louise • Hélène Anselme • Lara Anthony • Rosella Antonucci • Katrien Apers • Afua Apraku (Prah) • Raj Apte • Emily Archer • Stefanie Armbrecht • Ignacio Armida Beguerisse • Andrew Armitage • Anthony Armitage • Lillian Armitage (Danilo) • Marianne Armitage • Jennifer Armson • Celyn Armstrong • Peter Armstrong • Chris Arnold • Lucile Arnoux • Eesha Arora • Rosa Arras • Laila Arstall • Christian Artmann • Angela Asbury • Lauren Ash • Dominique Ashby • Justine Ashby • Elizabeth Asher • Sally Ashford • Kate Ashley (Friend) • Azra Aslam • Helen Aspinall • Nigel Astbury • Marina Aston • Kwanchai Aswawongsonti • Duncan Athol • Katherine Atkinson • Richard Atkinson • Amy Au • Shirley Au Yeung • Terese Au Yeung • Rebecca Ausenda • Suzanne Austin • Vasily Averin • Gergana Avramova • Dennis Avrouschenko • Sue-Ling Aw • Ashley Aylmer • John Aynsley • Hannah Ayodele • Dilip Ayyar • Ariana Azad • Claudia Azula • Dieter Baas • Raphaëlle Bachelier (de la Croix-Vaubois) • Monique Bachner (Bout) • Julien Bacus • Babajide Bada • Christine Bader • Stefanie Baeten • Francesca Bagaglia • Andrew Baggio • Simon Bagnall • Raj Bahia • Jitin Bahl • Muna Baig • Cecile Baijot • Karen Bail • Julie Bailey (Turner) • Ruth Bailey • Ana Baillie • Nadia Baillie • Karen Bainbridge (Fisher) • Jeffrey Baines • Joy Baines • Daphne Bajkowski • Ian Baker • Louise Baker • Suzan Baker • Theodoor Bakker • Pietro Balbiano di Colcavagno • John Baldry • John Baldry • Alice Ball • Janine Ball • Andrew Bamber • Janine Bamber • Krisztina Bana • Nyasha Banda • Sabira Bandali • Simon Bane • Lowri Banfi eld • Michelle Banfi eld • Ursula Baniak • Casper Banz • Myriam Barahona • Veronica Barcia • Ana Barfi eld • Miriam Barhoush • Leontine Bark • Leontine Bark • Michael Barker • Rodney Barker • Di Barnard • Julie Barnard • Brandon Barnes • Sociana Barnes • Emma Barnett • Ferdinand baron van der Feltz • Louise Barr • Helen Barraclough • Ian Barrett • Jak Barrett • Nadine Barron • Alex Barros-Curtis • Stephen Bartels • Emanuelle Bartoli • Francesco Bassini • Ronell Basson • Ine Bastiaens • Ranajoy Basu • Michelle Bate • Natasha Bates • Zolfa Batou • Sarah Battey • Joana Baublyte • Menno Bax • Tine Bax • Davida Baxter • Kim Baxter • Tracy Bazeley • Anthony Beach • Troy Beadle • Catherine Beahan • Alison Beardsley • Jesse Beardsworth • Eva Beattie • Graham Beauchamp • Adrian Bechtold • Kristine Becker • Theresa Becker • Louise Bedford • Paul Bedford • Julie Beeton • Keily Beirne • Evelien Bekaert • Evgenia Bektasheva • Adnane Belahcen • Sarah Belgacem • Joseph Belichick • Christopher Bell • Jenny Bell • Kimberley Bell • Michael Bell • Nicole Bell • Sarah Bell • Gustavo Benchimol • Simon Bender • Daniel Bendor • Jesca Beneder • Dahan Benjamin • Pornrapee Benjarungroj • Edward Bennett • Robert Bennett-Lovsey • Matthew Bennetts • Fiona Bentley • Kamila Berentowicz • Lisa Berg • Ray Berg • Guy Beringer • Patrick Beringer • Marta Berkasiuk • Christopher Bernard • Richard Bernau • Juriste Bernaud • Amanda Berry (Dennis) • John Berry • Jolyon Berry • Lorenzo Bertola • Sarah Berwick • Andrew Bessemer Clark • Belinda Besson • Nicola Best • Clare Betteridge • Joanne Bews • Reinier Beyen • Phaedra Beyers • Serdar Bezen • Salimabbas Bharwani • Nicolas Bichot • Carolyn Bickerton • Ludomir Biedecki • Hendrik-Jan Biemond • Alexandra Bijleveld • Myrthe Bijleveld (de Kooning) • Claire Billault (Bijon) • Mark Binger • Lindsay Birch • Gemma Birt • Chris Bishop • David Bishop • Julia Bishop (Langford) • Rebecca Bishop • Tim Bishop • Damian Bisseker • Vanessa Blackmore • Yoness Blackmore • Chris Blaffart • Adam Blake • Marsha Blake • Andrew Blankfi eld • Belinda Blaswick • Joris Blaton • Tina Blazquez-Lopez • Jeroen Bleeker • Markus Blenntoft • Sue Bligh • Marco Paul Bloemsma • Sarah Blomfi eld (Hartley) • Eric Blomme • Maarten Blomme • Barend Blondé • Anne Blondel • Barry Bloom • Stephanie Blum • Fritzi Blumberg • Mark Blyth • Michelle Blythe • Mary Boakye • Ksenia Bobkova • Julien Bocobza • Anne Bodley • Annemiek Bodt-Hondius • Mayke Boetes • Jasmijn Bogaert • Nadine Bogedain • William Boggs • Andrea Boghi • Colin Bole • David Boles • Bibianne Bon • Jon Bond • Jonathan Bond • Errol Bong • Sophia Bonne • Henri Bonte • Jessica Booker • Alistair Bool • Thammarak Boonmuang • Gary Booth • Gabor Borbely • Lubomira Borbelyova • Caroline Bordas • Ludmila Borlokova • Ian Borman • Vitali Borovski • Roberta Borroni • Peter Borrowdale • Jaroslaw Borucki • Corine Bosch • Partha Bose • Aggy Boshoff (Kooper) • Claudia Boßmanns • Lauren Bothma • Nic Bottomley • Robert Bottse • Jean-François Bouchoms • Aernoud Bourdrez • Eveline Bouwens • Stephanie Bowden • Peter Bowring • Tracy Box • Sean Boyd • Harry Boyd-Carpenter • Barbara 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• Roger Davies • Scott Davies • Arlene Davis • Jennifer Dawes • Janet Day • Stephen Day • Susie Daykin • Dirk De Backer • Isabel De Backer • Caroline de Basto • Richard de Basto • Pieter De Bock • Tania De Bock • Yves De Bruyne • Vanessa de Chazal • Bruno de Duve • Bruno de Duve • Géraud de Franclieu • Jasper de Gier • Marius de Groot • Erik de Gunst • Pascale De Jonckheere • Bas de Jong • An De Keyzer • Michelle de Kluyver • Francois De La Rhonde • Miguel de la Serna • Franck de Lange • Stijn De Meulenaer • Jenny De Meûter • Tessa de Mönnink • Alexander de Neree tot Babberich • Nele De Peuter • Nicolas De Quinnemar • Hendrik J. de Ru • Kees de Ru • Paul De Schrijver • Ana de Sousa • Andrea de Tomas • Ugo de Vivo • Roland De Vlam • Werenfried De Vliegher • Hilde De Volder • Joan De Vries-Mulder (Mulder) • Isabelle De Waele • Lievin De Wulf • Rebecca Deacon • Sue Deacon • Rhian Deakin • Lyn Dean (Baker) • Sue Dear • Matthew Dearden • Pieter Debaene • Stijn Debaene • Olivier Debray • Serge Debrye • Dean DeCesare • Sandra Dechant • Mathilde Defarges • Alexander Deierling • Justine Deighan • Caroline Deiteren • Piet Dejonghe • Vanessa Del Rosario • Miguel Delacroix • Joris Delfgaauw • Anna Delgado • Bruno Delhaye • Patrick della Faille • Britta Delmas • Jeff Delmon • Aujorie Delpratt • Stijn Demeestere • Luc Demeyere • Sasha Dennig • Isabelle Denys • Daisy Deraymaeker • Mark Derbyshire • Mirne Derks • Khaleel Desai • Els Desair • Jane Desnoyers • Jane Desnoyers • David Dessers • Rachel Devine • Neeta Devnani (Dadlani) • Rebecca Devon • Peter Devonshire • Imran Dewji • Chloe Dexter • Davinder Dhadday • Hardip Dhanjal • Rahim Dhanji • Sukhraj Dhillon • Thierry D’hoore • Michael Dibdin • Francis Dickinson • Inewari Diete-Spiff • Steffen Dietz • Helma Diffey • Charlotte Digby • Eelco Dijk • Nicola Dines • Vincent Ding • Ian Dinwiddie • Thomas Dirksmeier • Christine Ditscher • Anjali Dixon (Barai) • Basil Dixon • David Doble • Karen Dobrin • Matthew Dobson • Tim Dobson • Doran Doeh • Alexander Dolgov • Sarah d’Oliveyra • Christian Donagh • Roeland Donker • Graham Donnell • Mandeep Doogal • Lara Dorigo • Ekaterina Dorokhina • Areane Dorsman • Euriza dos Santos Rubio • Suggen Dosanjh • Coumba Doucoure • Tory Douglass • David Dove • Emma Dowding • Jennifer Dowler • Emily Downes • Sam Downey • Benjamin Downie • David Downward • Richard Doyle • Tanja Drayton • Stefanie Dreikluft • Hans Drijer • Peter Drijkoningen • Gill Driscoll • Stefanie Driskell • Johannes Droste • Lillian Lihua Duan • Pilar Duarte • Jane Duckworth • Sonja Duennwald • Erin Duffy • Hannah Dumper • Angus Duncan • Nienke Duncker • Debbie Dunkley • Ryan Dunmire • Melissa Dunn • George Dunnett • Melissa Dunnett (Barltrop) • Rob Dunselman • Mark Dunshee • John Dunstan • Alexandre Durand • Gilles Durdu • Suzie Durham • Dawn Durrant (Edwards) • Sashil Durve • Florence Dwonga • Elizabeth Dyce • Bart Dzikowski • Adrian Eakin • Richard Eaton • Tina Eberling • Sarah Ebrahim (Gann) • Manuel Echave • Marc Ecker • Justine Edelman (Ashby) • Richard Edlmann • Catherine Edmonds (O’Luanaigh) • Clare Edmondson • Alice Edwards (Fitzsimmons) • Marketa Edwards • Rupert Edwards • Shelley Edwardson • Dimitrios Efstathiou • Arda Eghiayan • Andrejs Eglitis • Henning Ehlers • Marion Eichert • Tarek El-Assra • Ian Elder • Kseniya Elfi mova • Joanne Elliot (Ramplin) • Andrew Elliott • Phil Elliott • Vanessa Elliott • Alexandra Ellis • Samantha Ellison • Andreas Elofs • Zoe Elvin • Philip Ember • Adam Emilianou • Laurie Emmer • Christoph Enderstein • Geraldine Ennis • Volker Enseleit • Isabelle Epp • Evan Epstein • Daniel Erb • Holger Erwin • Julien Espeillac • Paolo Esposito • Alexandra Esser • Nahum Eustaquio • Ann-Marie Evans • David Evans • Helen Evans • A&O ALUMNI 2011• John Evans • Jonathan Evans • Rita Evans • Simone Evans • Vasili Evdokimov • Sue Eve • Marleen Everaerts • Richard Everett • Rob Everett • Sébastien Evrard • Chris Ewan • Francine Ewers • Ruari Ewing • Diederik Ex • Ariel M. 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Gries • Christopher Griffi n • Charles Grime • Joanne Grist • Wilfred Groen • Machteld Groeneveld • Irene Groenland • Jennifer Grogan • Lynn Grogan • Tijs Groot • Rainer Großmann • Kelda Groves • Susan Groves • Jan Grozdanovic • Dubravka Grujic • Catherine Grum • Jana Grunschloss • Jennifer Grunwald • Louise Grzasko (Ratcliffe) • Jing Gu • Ariane Guimbeau • Werner Gumpp • Hiran Gunasekera • Michael Gunn • Avisha Gupta • Merve Gursoy • Nicole Guski • Claudia Guthoerl • Yvette Gyles (James) • Laura Gyte • Diederik Haase • Assia Haddeje • Imogen Haddon • Emmanuel Hadjidakis • Marco Haeusermann • Esther Hagège • Alexander Hagen • Fieke Hagen • Oliver Klaus Hahnelt • Emma Haight • Suzanne Hainaut • Suzy Hainaut • Jonathan Haines • Sasha Haines • Ana-Katarina Hajduka • Ana-Katarina Hajduka Shields • Grace Hakim • Mahesh Halai • Tatiana Halasova • Mark Hale • Amelia Hall • Joanne Hall (Smith) • Karin Hall • Marise Hall (Corbett) • Philip Hall • Shirley Hall • Oliver Hallam • Angela Halstead • Andrew Hamad • Amy Hambleton (Neo) • Tariq Hameed • Barbara Hamilton • Charlie Hamilton • Louise Hamilton • Martin Hamilton • Amanda Hamilton-Stanley • Juliane Hamm • Greg Hammond • Zoe Hammond • Stuart Hanbury • Shelley Hancock • Mimi Handaja • Nancy Handley • Graham Hann • Indira Hann • Sara Hanna • Sarah Hannan • Stephanie Hannis • David Hanns • Emma Hanson • Mark Hanson • Jess Hanspal • Layla Hanwell (Dowle) • Yui Hanza • Yingli Hao • Hakim Haouideg • Hakim Haouideg • Kate Harbottle • Brian Hardiman • Mia Harding • Deepun Haria • Nicola Harney • Michael Harper • Stuart Harray • Bridget Harris • Catherine Harris • Claire Harris • Debbie Harris • Julian Harris • Lucy Harris • Natasha Harris • Rachel Harris (Druce) • Blair Harrison • Brian Harrison • Clive Harrison • George Harrison • Joanna Harrison • Katrina Harrison • Pauline Harrison • Helen Harrison-Hall • David Hart • Helen Hart (Bretherton) • Mirella Hart (Gadd) • Roosje Hart • Sally Hartle • Deborah Hartnett • Robert Hartog • Suzanne Harvey • Elizabeth Harwick • Yasmine Hashim • Christian Haslach • Rob Haslam • Lucy Haslewood • Tim Haster • Karl Haycock • Daniel Hayden • Peter Hayden • Jonathan Haydn-Williams • Toby Hayes • Trevor Hayles • Tamsin Hayward (Ringrose) • Susannah Hayworth • Wim Hazeleger • Matthew Heaton • Rutger-Jan Hebben • Erika Hebenton • Ewan Hedge • Terry Hedley • Dennis Heeger • Michael Heene • Kai-Alexander Heeren • Aart Heering • Kirsty Hegan (Allan) • Alison Hellewell • Lynne Helman • Marion Hemphill • Willem Henckens • Alison Henders • Tanja Hendriks • Karen Hendy • Onno Hennis • Mark Herber • Anthony Herbert • Francis Herbert • James Herbert • Tom Herbert • Emma Herde • Tom Heremans • Martin Hermanns-Couturier • Marisa Hernandez • Jo Heron • Michael Heron • Damian Herrington • Edwin Herskovic • Nick Hessels • Katharina Hessling • Angus Hewat • Wendy Hewer • Gail Hewett • Stephen Hewett • Maureen Hewins • Elizabeth Heyes • Abi Haidar Hiba • Jonathan Hibberts • Annette Hider • Alex Hiendl • Marcus Hierl • Andrea Hietzschold • Kate Higginson (Green) • Philip Higgs • Tom Highnam • Ben Higson • Lucy Hiley (Partington) • Thorsten Hilger • Alistair Hill • Amanda Hill • Audrey Hill • Mark Hill • Pamela Hill (Elmes) • Rebecca Hill • Marie-Alice Himbert • Catherine Hinchliffe (Fox) • Nischal Hindia • James Hine • Kris Hinterseer • Visalaya Hirunpidok • Christiana HJI Panayi • Christopher Hoar • Caroline Hobson • Peter Hockless • Andrew Hockley • Alison Hodge • Louise Hodges • Erik Hofma • Olivia Holborn (Wormald) • Emily Holden • Kate Holden • Daniel Holder • Marilyn Holder • Rachel Holdstock • Jasmin Holl • Corinne Hollamby • Nancy Holland • Peter Holland • Jakob Hölldobler • Gideon Hollis • Julia Hollis (Newlove) • Charles Holloway • Ulrike Hollstein • David Holmes • Murray Holmes • Ron Holmes • Matthias Homberg • Victoria Honey • Dieter Honoré • Jeff Hood • Alex Hooker (Brennan) • Michiel Hoozemans • Stephen Hopkins • Rupert Hopley • Carol Hopper (Walker) • Robert Hopper • Joan Horgnies (Sethupathy) • Carsten Horn • Laura Horovitz • Jonathan Horsfall Turner • Pim Horsten • Jeremy Horwood • Allison Hosking • Sarah Hoskins • Pearl Hou • Ouhmida-Damon Houda • Belinda Houghton-Jones • Louise Hourigan • Sharon How • Andrew Howard • Peter Howard • Alex Howarth • Charlie Howarth • Louise Howarth • Deborah Howson • Gillian Hoxley • Lisette Hoytema van Konijnenburg • Zora Hruba • Stephen Hsu • continued on page 79

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Contents

06 A conversation with David Morley New offi ces, new markets,

new initiatives: senior partner

David Morley explains strategy

in diffi cult times.

12 We’re listening What’s on the horizon for A&O

alumni in the reinvigorated

global Alumni Programme.

14 Happiest when busy More ups than downs: former

senior partner Bill Tudor John

refl ects on a long and successful

legal career.

18 Social mobility: restarting engines The widening gap between

society’s haves and have-nots

threatens to damage young

lives permanently. A&O is

among companies trying to

make a difference.

22 Take four millennium grads The early years of the new

millennium were an interesting

time to be graduating and

starting work. Four past and

present A&O staff from our

classes of 2000-2004 share

their experiences of starting

out in such roller-coaster times.

30 A&O’s international bar associations Where do hard-working A&Oers

go in their downtime? Where can

a visitor catch up with friends and

former colleagues?

38 The other side of the bench Mimmie Chan refl ects on her

years as a litigation partner in the

Hong Kong offi ce, her move into

the judiciary, and what the future

holds for Hong Kong.

42 Measuring legal risks How do you work out how to

measure legal infrastructure risks

in world’s jurisdictions? It’s one of

the most intriguing challenges

facing the fi rm’s Global Law

Intelligence Unit.

46 Singapore: home and away Two people, two views, one

very popular city. Two A&O

staff members, one a native

Singaporean and the other a

secondee, refl ect on life in one

of Southeast Asia and the

world’s most exciting cities.

52 New York anniversary From small beginnings 25 years

ago, the New York offi ce has

grown to become one of the

lynchpins of the A&O international

network. Through many changes,

it has managed to retain some of

its original ethos...

56 A prescription for change Thomas Werlen was stepping

largely into the unknown when he

joined Novartis as general counsel,

but six years later, his legacy is a

transformed legal function.

58 Brave new world of broadband Global economic instability makes

gaining a competitive edge more

important than ever. In Australia,

the government is looking to drive

productivity across the economy

with its controversial National

Broadband Network.

66 Making the deal work Tony Humphrey refl ects on

some of the challenges and

opportunities he’s seen at close

quarters in nearly 40 years with

the fi rm.

70 In Memoriam Remembering Nicola Burdett,

John Robinson and Philip Owen.

72 The life and times of A&O’s rugby team Alumnus John Fisher, founder and

fi rst captain of the A&O rugby

team, recalls a few of its triumphs

from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s

and some of the players who

made those sides special.

76 Where in the world A&O’s offi ces and HR contacts

around the world.

78 Index

The alumni team would like to thank all of those, both within the fi rm and outside, who contributed to the production of this year’s Alumni Yearbook, our sixth edition.

You will notice a few changes in this edition. The Alumni Yearbook has undergone a ‘refresh’. Our objective was to introduce a modern look and feel in line with A&O’s new corporate brand identity, while retaining the high standards of writing, photography and design that have become the yearbook’s hallmarks.

I am most grateful to the new managing editor, our alumni manager, Peta Smith, for steering us through these changes with the enthusiastic support of our alumni executives, Jenny Enever, Shana Ray and Stella Ekkeshis.

We hope you enjoy the result and look forward to your comments.

Alex PeaseChairman, Alumni Programme

Keep in touch with fellow alumni www.allenovery.com/alumni

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Last year, you opened in Australia, Indonesia, and Qatar. Now this year Allen & Overy has opened new offi ces in Belfast, Washington and Morocco. What is the thinking behind the strategy, especially given the challenging environment?

David Morley: There is a signifi cance attached to each offi ce we open. Collectively, we have the largest network of any top tier fi rm. We have 39 offi ces in 27 countries. However, it is not just about the number of offi ces we have. There are 195 countries in the world, and it is not our plan to have an offi ce in every country. That is why we have a very distinctive strategy revolving around how we manage our relationships with law fi rms in those jurisdictions where we don’t have an offi ce.

At the core of our strategy is what I like to call the power of relationships. The root of everything we’re trying to do is relationships – relationships with our clients, relationships with each other, relationships with the fi rms that we’re working with around the world.

We don’t need to be, and probably can’t be, in every country in the world. But we do business in more than 100 countries in the world on a regular basis, so we’ve got to have good relationships with a few key fi rms that we can trust to refer our clients to in those countries.

The combination of our international coverage and the relationships that we are building with other fi rms where we don’t have offi ces is increasingly a differentiating advantage.

A conversation with David Morley New offi ces, new markets, new initiatives: Senior partner David Morley explains strategy in diffi cult times.

Interview by Humphrey Keenlyside

Read A&O’s annual review, The Shape of Change, at www.allenovery.com/annualreview

David Morley: the power

of relationships.



Do other fi rms not do the same sort of thing?

Not in the way that we’re doing it. At the Global Markets Conference in September, which is a gathering of all our relationship fi rms, we launched a dedicated website specifi cally for this group. We have also created the A&O Global Academy, which involves our people training lawyers from our relationship law fi rms in three-day programmes. We will teach key transactional project management, legal expertise, and a variety of other skills that we hope our relationship law fi rms’ lawyers will fi nd very useful. That is all part of our commitment to the relationships we have to those fi rms. Again, no one else is doing anything like this.

That sounds like it’s internally driven. How does that benefi t clients?

It’s of huge benefi t to clients. I will give you some fi gures. The portion of our work which involves two or more offi ces, three or more offi ces, or fi ve or more offi ces has been steadily increasing over the last ten years. About three-quarters of our work, roughly, involves two or more offi ces. Something like a third of our work involves fi ve or more offi ces. Our least profi table work on average is the work that is done from just one jurisdiction, and the most profi table work involves fi ve or more jurisdictions.

Why is that necessarily more profi table?

It’s a combination of things. Firstly, there’s less competition at that level. Few, if any, fi rms can deliver what we deliver across that many borders. Secondly, work involving that many jurisdictions by its nature tends to be higher profi le, more complex and therefore really premium work.

Tell me about the rationale, specifi cally, about opening in Washington?

The US is still the world’s most important legal market. It makes up almost half of the world’s total legal spend. It is less important than it was because of the transfer of economic power from West to East. However, it is still likely to be the biggest economy for at least the next ten years. Despite the crisis, the Americans will fi nd a way out of that – that is the American way.

The legal market is hugely important. US laws are still critically important in the global economy. The infl uence of

“ Our approach is to hire the best local people and then fi t them on to our global platform.”

A letter to members“I simply like to feel part of the A&O family.” That statement sums up a common sentiment among many thousands of you who very kindly took part in a survey of alumni we carried out this year.

The purpose of the survey was to gauge how our alumni felt not just about the alumni programme, and areas where you felt we needed to change or improve, but also about the fi rm itself. I wanted to take this opportunity to address the feedback you have given about your attitude to the fi rm.

The fi rst thing to note is the overwhelmingly positive attitude that our alumni maintain towards the fi rm. The vast majority of you feel a great sense of attachment, connection and pride to and for A&O.

As senior partner, and as someone who has spent his entire career with the fi rm, I cannot emphasise enough how gratifying this conclusion is. Allen & Overy has risen to become one of the world’s leading fi rms because we work at the top end of the market, advising the world’s leading corporations, fi nancial institutions, governments and others on their most critical deals and cases.

But we have also become the fi rm we are, because of who we are. I have always believed there is such a thing as an Allen & Overy person, by which I mean someone who is open, warm, engaging, and respectful of others, as well as being hard-working, conscientious and keen to do the best by our clients. That leaves an enduring impression on everyone who has worked for A&O. Those who move on carry that goodwill with them.

However, that has always been my gut instinct, rather than something that is scientifi cally proven. Having the survey confi rm my instinct is all the more satisfying. We have also had approval from other sources. We were delighted to be included as one of the top two fi rms that UK lawyers most like to work with, based on research carried out by LegalWeek.

It is not just that it is nice to know that we are liked; there are tangible benefi ts to this goodwill. The two most important of these are, fi rstly, that you are happy to recommend A&O as a good place to work and, secondly, that you would recommend A&O to potential clients as a good fi rm to work with. Both of these, of course, are to our considerable advantage. It was also very heartening to see that one in three of you could see yourselves returning to work for us again one day.

You were asked in the survey what your most memorable moment with us was. Not surprisingly, many people referred to a particular deal or case on which you worked. But top of the list for the most memorable moment was joining the fi rm. Knowing that you had been accepted by Allen & Overy, that feeling of having made it to the best of the best – a key moment in all of our lives! The moment which enhances your CV forever, however long you stayed with us.

Conscious of this, we are working on ways to help our alumni throughout their careers. We want your experience at A&O to be the key which unlocks other exciting career opportunities, however long ago you left us and whoever you have worked with since then.

Our alumni programme continues to go from strength to strength. Your feedback and suggestions will help us to refi ne and adapt the programme to make it better still.

Thank you again for your participation.

David

American business practice around the world and American companies around the world remains paramount. Not to mention the access to capital: if you are raising capital, an element of it is more than likely to be raised in the US. So, on any analysis, America is still going to be an important place.

As regards opening in Washington, the other trend has been something of a shift from Wall Street to Washington, because of the growing importance of regulation. Three years ago, we recognised that we would need to be closer to that centre of gravity, and we needed a regulatory capability that we could offer all our clients, not just American clients but our international clients who have a presence in the States. Remember, about half our work comes from fi nancial institutions which have been particularly affected.

For us, having a Washington offi ce was not a matter of if, it was a matter of when. But that was not the end of it. We don’t just open an offi ce and send someone there. Our approach is to hire the best local people and then fi t them on to our global platform. In Washington we kissed a lot of frogs and eventually we found our prince[s] and princess [laughs]. We started with two partners, soon added a third and are looking to expand the offi ce quickly. To be credible, probably over the next two or three years we’ll get to about 30, 35 lawyers. However, we will wait until we fi nd the right people.

You are no longer the new kids on the block, in the US. Did that make it easier to attract people?

Yes it did. But it still took time to fi nd the right people, those who relished the opportunity to open a new offi ce. pioneers, if you like. It takes a certain energy and a certain sort of frame of mind and attitude and hunger and so on. We are sending out Boyan Wells for six months, to help with the process of integration.

Tell me about North Africa, then.

That came about differently. This was a case of a proposition being brought to us by very energetic younger partners from the Paris offi ce and from the Abu Dhabi offi ce: Tim Scales from Paris and Francois Duquette from Abu Dhabi. Both of them had separately been doing quite a lot of business over the last ten years in Morocco. They knew the market very well. Very importantly, they knew and had worked with lawyers who were the



best in the market. To cut a long story short, it became apparent that these lawyers were looking to break away from their current fi rm, and were attracted by our international model.

Tim and Francois came to us with a proposition. After thinking about and discussing it, we came to the conclusion that it was a really good fi t. You might ask, how do you make money in Morocco? But there is a lot going on there – infrastructure investment, cross-border work, investment by French, Spanish and Middle Eastern companies, energy work – that is right up our street. Arguably, there is considerable future potential. Casablanca is becoming a sort of hub for Northern Africa. It was, in short, a compelling proposition that the partnership accepted. We are the fi rst Magic Circle fi rm to open in Africa. Morocco also fi ts into our strategy of generating an increasing proportion of our revenues from what we call the high-growth countries, what others call emerging countries, where we see potential for cross-border legal services.

Again, I will give you stats. Three years ago, we generated about 14 per cent of our revenues from that group of countries – in Asia-Pacifi c, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa – and last year just ended we were at 18 per cent. That is a clear refl ection of the way the global economy is growing. You don’t need to be Einstein to realise that a lot of the economic growth is coming from the East and also from Latin America.

In challenging economic times, does the greater emphasis on emerging economies give you a hedge?

We’re hedged in at least three different ways. We’re diversifi ed by geography, because we’re not dependent on any one economy, or even regional economy. We’re diversifi ed by client. We don’t have any client that makes up more than four per cent of the revenues of the fi rm. And we are diversifi ed by practice area. We are not over-dependent on any one practice area. That is very deliberate, so that we can withstand the slings and arrows of economic vicissitudes.

It is working. Your results were very good this year, weren’t they?

Thanks for that, but I wouldn’t suggest for a moment we’re immune from the economic downturn. None of us

predicted the crisis in 2008-9. We survived that, but that doesn’t mean we should be complacent.

To come back to your original question, there is a lot of doom and gloom out there, particularly if you’re sitting in London or Europe or New York. The legal market is fl at. You can have one of two responses. You can either say, woe is me, let’s all get down in the bunker, put our tin helmets on and wait till it all blows over. Or you can say, actually, these conditions create huge opportunities that just didn’t exist before. They create chances that, if you’re willing to grasp them, can see you very well for the future.

And, let’s face it, actually it is much more interesting, more exciting to go into new markets.

We have nothing to be afraid of. Look at what we’ve achieved over the last three years: 11 new offi ces in the teeth of an economic crisis. We have no reason at all not to be confi dent. One recent Lex column in the FT about us fi nished with the words: ‘As a defensive business model it’s very hard to beat an international law fi rm.’

How are clients reacting?

They approve of what we are doing. The more sophisticated clients have all gone global themselves. I was talking to a general counsel of a major investment bank a few months ago and he told me that every single issue on his desk had a cross-border relevance. He said that is why he needs lawyers who think like that, who are joined up, who understand the issues. ‘You won’t necessarily know the laws in every country, but you’ve dealt with these issues and you know how to knit them together,’ was the thrust of his thinking.

Where do you see A&O in fi ve or ten years’ time? Would you like to be not just a member of the elite group of global law fi rms but actually out on your own?

We do see A&O as beginning to develop our own kind of distinctive position in the market. I would like to think that in fi ve or seven years, maybe sooner, we will occupy a unique position that is recognisable by and valued by clients, where we can offer something that is quite different from what our competitors are doing and that is notoriously hard to achieve in professional services.

“ We have nothing to be afraid of. Look at what we’ve achieved over the last three years: 11 new offi ces in the teeth of an economic crisis.”

“ If we get it right, our alumni should be among our most powerful advocates. We should really cherish those relationships.”

It is about us having the confi dence and the energy and the resources to get there fi rst, if the opportunity is right.

If you are fl exible about opening offi ces, then do you not have to be fl exible about closing them if they don’t work?

That is not a reputation we want. Once you have made the decision to open, then it should be on the basis of a long-term commitment. It is not, however, a question of keeping offi ces open at all costs. The secret is to adapt to changing conditions.

Like in Bangkok, for example?

Bangkok is a very good example. If you look objectively at Bangkok, you would say, how can you do business there? Political turmoil, strikes, people on the streets. Yet, we have people there who really know the place. In the overall scheme of things, you ride out the diffi culties. You recognise, also, that these things come and go.

How important are the alumni to the fi rm?

I spoke at the beginning about the power of relationships. We recognised some time ago the power of the relationships that we have with our alumni. If we get it right, our alumni should be among our most powerful advocates. We should really cherish those relationships. Hopefully, we can offer our alumni mutual benefi t. They can benefi t from their association with the fi rm, their contacts and knowledge of the fi rm, and we benefi t from the goodwill that hopefully they have with the fi rm either as clients or as people. ■



What was your most memorable moment working at A&O? Was it when you received that acceptance letter in the mail? Or when you won a landmark case? Perhaps it was making lifelong friends after working on a major project.

These were common themes in the answers to questions in the fi rm’s fi rst global survey of its alumni.

The central team

A&O is committed to keeping in touch with our alumni and to continuing to develop the Alumni Programme. To enable us to do this we have a small central alumni team working part-time who continually develop new ways for you to reconnect with former colleagues locally and globally.

This year we hired a new recruit to the team, Peta Smith, who is the fi rm’s fi rst dedicated full-time global alumni manager.

“I don’t know if I should say this too loudly,” says Peta, “but the alumni team have some of the best jobs at A&O. We get to meet some of the most interesting and inspiring people through our global Alumni Programme.

“We have more than 4,500 members spread across 70 countries worldwide. Our alums have moved on to work in all types of roles and various industries

We’re listening

The benefi ts of A&O alumni membershipwww.allenovery.com/alumni

A third of our alumni members participated in this year’s online questionnaire. Thank you for taking the time to let us know how we can improve the service and benefi ts of our Alumni Programme.

Over the past six months the alumni team has made the fi rst steps toward reinvigorating our global Alumni Programme with a new look and feel, an upgraded website linking directly to LinkedIn, monthly e-mail updates and e-newsletters, and an online history portal which will bring the fi rm’s past to life through videos, photos and anecdotes.

In 2012, we’ll be looking at how we can develop our careers centre to connect you with more career opportunities inside and outside of A&O. We’ll also be spending time developing our local alumni events and benefi ts offering to reach more alumni across our global network.

Our survey revealed that more than a third of you found the ‘joy of joining’ A&O to be one of the major high points of working at the fi rm. Being chosen by A&O – as being the best of an exceptional group of candidates – was a career highlight for the majority of our alumni members.

Another recurring theme was the sense of pride in the work that alumni delivered while at A&O.

Winning awards, setting up a new A&O offi ce and even launching A&O’s fi rst community art project were some of the other highlights that people remember fondly.

Former senior partner Bill Tudor John was particularly proud of his involvement with helping the US government organise the release of 50 hostages held in Iran, work that led to his meeting then US President Jimmy Carter.

Our 2011AdvisoryBoard

Alex Pease Chairman of the Alumni Programme

Richard Batson A&O

Mimmie Chan Alumni

Mieke de Vos A&O

Stephen Denyer A&O

Matthew Hartley A&O

Susan Hazeldine A&O

Catherine Husted A&O

Jeffrey Golden Alumni

Don McGown A&O

David Murray A&O

Vince Neicho A&O

Alison Pullen A&O

Sue Tipping Alumni

Mark Welling Alumni

Did you know that we have a global Alumni Advisory Board made up of current and former partners and staff? In 2011 we had 15 representatives who contributed ideas and feedback, and were actively involved in many of our global and local alumni activities.

– from a diving instructor in Egypt to general counsel at some of the world’s biggest corporates. It never ceases to amaze me how diverse our global network is.”

As for the programme itself, Peta says the real reward comes from participation. “It’s your personal network so I encourage you to reconnect with your former colleagues.”

Working alongside Peta are Jenny Enever and Stella Ekkeshis, the alumni team’s two alumni executives. Shana Ray has joined the team while Stella is on maternity leave.

If you would like to suggest an idea to be discussed at our next Alumni Advisory Board meeting, please contact us at [email protected]. If you would like to get more involved with the Alumni Programme in the country where you live, just let us know and we’ll put you in touch with your local alumni coordinator. ■

Our fi rst global survey is helping guide the reinvigoration of the Alumni Programme.

Alex Pease: Thank you

for your feedback.

Our central team: Jenny (left),

Peta and Shana.



The call came at two in the morning on Monday, 15 September 2008. As a director of Lehman Brothers International (Europe), Bill Tudor John was woken at that unearthly hour to take part in a decision of supreme signifi cance, the ramifi cations of which continue to this day.

Shaking himself awake, he was patched into a conference call with the other directors to convene a board meeting. The board decided to put LBIE into insolvency and appoint administrators, an action that had to be taken before the markets opened later that morning. Small wonder that, after that, he could not go back to sleep.

Two days later, Bill found himself clearing out his offi ce in Canary Wharf, piling 20 boxes into the back of his Range Rover. “I had papers related to other directorships I held and didn’t want those to be seized by the administrators.”

“I wasn’t worried about my future,” he recalls, “but I felt very much for the Lehmans’ employees, many of whom had lost their savings invested in Lehmans’ shares, their pensions and their jobs.”

As it happened, Bill returned to the same offi ce from which he had removed his papers after Nomura acquired the European, Asian and Middle East operations of Lehmans a week or so after the LBIE collapse. Since then, Nomura has moved offi ces to Lower Thames Street.

By the time of the LBIE debacle, Bill had been in law for more than 40 years. He joined A&O as a trainee (or ‘articled clerk’ as trainees were then known) in March 1967, on a salary of £500 per year. He stood out from the start: he was one of the few married articled clerks.

On qualifi cation, Bill started in the Commercial department doing corporate work, but in 1970 was presented with an

Happiest when busyMore ups than downs: former senior partner Bill Tudor John refl ects on a long and successful legal career.

By Humphrey Keenlyside

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keeps the brain cells ticking.

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the people at Nomura: they are young, bright, hard-working and have agile minds. Working with them keeps my brain cells ticking.”

Outside of work, he enjoys his role of grandfather to seven grandchildren. On land he acquired in Hertfordshire many years ago, he has converted two barns into houses. One of them is now occupied by his youngest daughter, Beth (who, incidentally, is married to Nick Atkinson, the lead singer in a band called Rooster).

And how could an article about Bill Tudor John fi nish without reference to his passion? Just don’t mention the Rugby World Cup.

Bill’s favourite A&O moment: Meeting US President Jimmy Carter, following the Iranian hostage crisis and bank litigation in 1979, after the Iranian revolution. ■

View from the board“ As a result of that

story, I received 27 phone calls from different companies and fi rms inviting me to join them.”

Lawyers do not generally make for good non-executive directors. They have too little to offer by way of general commercial experience, because their practices are (mostly) specialised. Neither do they gain board experience while still practising, because of the potential for confl icts of interest.

Such is the verdict of Bill Tudor John on why there are so few lawyers on company boards.

“In the UK, companies don’t think of lawyers as broad-thinking businessmen,” he says.

The exceptions are those who have been involved in management and therefore have managerial experience to offer. “But, even then, managing law fi rms is not comparable to managing other businesses, as I found from my time on banks and building society boards.”

It was not always that way. When Bill started his career as a lawyer, the senior partners of the fi rm, including Jim Thomson and Stuart Menzies, served on a number of boards. The reason was that they had gained general commercial experience with a broad client base. “They were what you might call hommes d’affaires,” Bill says.

Bill himself made the transition by becoming chairman of a Swedish company called Suttons Seeds in the 1970s.

That said, there are still lawyers who have made the transition successfully to corporate management. Bill cites Geoffrey Howe, formerly managing partner of Clifford Turner who became chairman of Nationwide, and Sir Adrian Montague, formerly of Linklaters and chairman of Friends Provident, British Energy and the 3i Group (at different times).

Closer to home, Carl Sheldon, a former A&O partner,is now general manager of Taqa, having been general counsel.

So what path should lawyers take if they aspire to becoming non-executive directors? Bill’s advice is to retire early and branch out into a different business, from which you can make the jump into corporate governance.

opportunity to work for a new consortium bank, Orion. Secondments were then unheard of, so Bill left A&O to join the bank but with the understanding that he could come back.

Two years later he did just that, as a partner, and was able to put his newly acquired banking expertise to work helping develop the fi rm’s Finance capability with others including Philip Wood. His timing was good: the fi rm’s Finance practice came on in leaps and bounds, particularly as the Eurodollar market and syndicated loans activity took off during the decade.

Bill was also one of a group that pushed for a fairer system of profi ts distribution within the partnership, which led to the establishment of the lockstep system. At the same time, he lobbied for a more effi cient management system, under which a smaller group of partners would be responsible for the fi rm’s management.

He became managing partner in 1992, and then took over as senior partner in 1994. Some have said that the fi rm’s modern history was shaped to a considerable extent by Bill.

Through the 1990s, A&O grew signifi cantly in size and reach as Bill, his successor as managing partner, John Rink, and the management team pursued a strategy of international expansion as the fi rm matched its clients’ own globalisation strategies. Revenues and profi ts grew.

The decade did not end happily for Bill. It came as a shock – perhaps even a betrayal – that he was ousted in 1999 in the fi rm’s fi rst election of senior partner under the new constitution for the fi rm which he was instrumental in introducing. More upsetting for him, he was frozen out of the running of the fi rm between the date of the election and his formal departure the following April.

But the very fact of the election, and the surprise of the result, ironically turned out to his advantage. “The FT ran a story on the election, I think on a Saturday,” he remembers. “As a result of that story, I received 27 phone calls from different companies and fi rms inviting me to join them. Among them was an offer to join ABN Amro as general counsel. I took my time before deciding that the position I was offered at Lehmans was the one I wanted.”

Why Lehmans? “Lehmans had a great debt franchise, but was not a top investment bank. They wanted to build their capability, particularly in corporate fi nance and equities, and they wanted me to help them do it. I liked the fact that the bank had great ambitions, and was strongly aspirational.”

He was asked to chair the bank’s commitment committee in Europe, whose job it was to analyse risks when approving transactions. Although familiar with banking law and practice, and someone patently with the skills and practice, he still had to familiarise himself with the different types of credit and market risk. He was also made a member of the equivalent committee in the United States.

In the light of subsequent events, that begs the question of whether the committee was doing its job. The answer is simple, Bill replies: the European operation certainly did carry out its risk assessments properly; it was the American operation that didn’t. He also believes that decisions of the US commitment committee were overridden by others.

At Nomura, Bill is managing director and chief risk offi cer where his job is to oversee, from a risk perspective, the investment banking division.

He might have retired but personal tragedy when his wife, Jane, died of cancer caused a rethink. “Jane and I might have spent more time together in retirement but with her gone, there is less reason to give up working. Added to which I like working with

Outside interestsAfter leaving A&O, Bill was invited onto the boards of the Woolwich and the Portman Building Society. In 2006, he became chairman of the Portman, and then later deputy chairman of the Nationwide after Nationwide and Portman merged. He also joined the board of the listed property company, Grainger.

In all of these roles, he brought with him the particular insights not just of the world of banking but also management of a growing business.

He also continued to sit on the Financial Law Panel, which later became the Financial Markets Law Committee, a body set up by the Bank of England to bring together legal experts in the fi eld to advise on the legal framework governing fi nancial services.

He is a trustee of the National Film and Television School and associate fellow of his old college, Downing College.

Closer to his home, he is trustee of St. Alban’s Abbey and was for a year the High Sheriff of Hertfordshire. He is also a deputy lieutenant of the county.

“ In the UK, companies don’t think of lawyers as broad-thinking businessmen.”



The widening gap between society’s haves and have-nots threatens to damage young lives permanently. A&O is among companies trying to make a difference.

Climbing up the social ladder in the UK or the USA appears to be a distant dream for much of today’s youth. Some observers might go so far as to say that the ladder has been kicked away entirely.

This is borne out by research at the London School of Economics, which found there had been an overall decline in social mobility in the UK between 1958 and 1970. Since the 1970s, however, social mobility seems to have stalled completely.

In international comparisons of eight European and North American countries, the LSE study found the UK and the USA lags behind countries like Germany, Sweden, and Finland when it comes to social mobility. Both countries were at the bottom of the rankings when it comes to measuring social mobility by how well children do from one generationto the next.

Glass ceiling

As the Sutton Trust reports, the cycle of disadvantage starts before children are born and continues through to the workplace. Giving children the opportunity to achieve in their early years can positively affect social mobility.

Two years ago, a UK study by former cabinet minister Alan Milburn identifi ed that a glass ceiling still affected entry and advancement in the most sought-after professions such as medicine and law. He warned that these professions were increasingly dominated by young people from affl uent families.

James Turner, director at the Sutton Trust, comments that the glass ceiling is not necessarily the main problem. “The key issue is around access to entry points into these professions,” he says.

“Internships are a gateway to many professions,” James explains. “It’s hard to set foot on the fi rst rung of the career ladder without an internship or work experience.”

Recent UK research from the Sutton Trust supports this assessment. It has identifi ed that there is a disproportional representation of the privately educated among the top of the country’s professions. With 55 per cent of partners from the Magic Circle law fi rms – and 68 per cent of barristers – educated at independent schools, it is easy to see that there are still obstacles to achieving fairness of opportunity when it comes to accessing the legal profession.

Addressing inequality“Promoting social mobility through education is a complex issue,” says James Turner. “The seed is sown early on in a child’s life with many children from an underprivileged background lagging behind from the very fi rst day at school. This gap widens throughout their school years.”

The Sutton Trust is working with leading law fi rms, including Allen & Overy, to roll out a series of programmes and projects aimed at widening the opportunities for students from disadvantaged backgrounds to access education and work experience.

The trust’s fl agship project in this area is the Pathways to Law programme. The Pathways programme comprises a sustained series of interventions over two years. This includes university-based sessions, careers and university advice, e-mentoring by current law students, a guaranteed work placement with a top law fi rm and other positive initiatives.

Allen & Overy has been a big supporter of this programme since its foundation, continuing to contribute to its development and providing work placements for Pathways students.

In 2010, the Trust also helped launch accessprofessions.com, a web portal to match young people with aspiration-raising opportunities in higher education and the professions, focused particularly on students from under-represented backgrounds.

“We know that these students are less likely to know about and apply for access programmes,” says James. “They tend to be more cautious and hold preconceptions about pathways and choices which are ‘not for the likes of them’. “By providing a single point of contact, accessprofessions.com, which is free, overcomes many of these barriers.”

The business case “Having diversity in your talent pool is both socially and morally a good thing but there’s a business case to support it as well,” says James.

With fi rms expanding internationally and with a multicultural client base, it’s benefi cial for organisations to look at trainees or graduates from a range of backgrounds.

Since the majority of lawyers received their education at an independent school, this means that organisations are tapping only seven per cent of schools in the UK. “Accessing the best talent in the other 93 per cent of schools will mean that you are accessing the best and brightest in the country, not just the best and brightest from a privileged background.” ■

Social mobility: restarting engines

By Peta Smith

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About the Sutton TrustThe Sutton Trust was founded in 1997 by Sir Peter Lampl with the aim of promoting social mobility through education. It has funded a wide range of access projects in early years, school and university settings, with a focus on research, policy and innovative practical projects with a system-wide relevance.

The main objective of the Sutton Trust is to improve educational opportunities for young people from non-privileged backgrounds and increase social mobility. Since 1998, the Trust and its partners have committed £30 million to educational access projects and research.

A&O’s response

At A&O, we are aware of the role business has to play in raising the educational achievements and aspirations of young people, and supporting people from disadvantaged communities or backgrounds into the world of work. Around the world we put this into practice by running a wide variety of programmes.

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PRIMESenior partner David Morley comments: “It’s harder now than it was 30 years ago to get into the legal profession if you’re from an average or below-average income family. As a profession, we must change that.”

A&O is one of the founding law fi rms behind a new UK initiative to give fair access to quality work experience for young people from less privileged backgrounds.

PRIME, which was launched in September, aims to involve as many law fi rms across the country as possible. It is a commitment by member fi rms to provide work experience which gives an insight into the range of careers available in the legal profession, and the routes into those careers.

“For some time law fi rms have been providing their own work experience opportunities for less privileged young people,” says David, who is also Chair of PRIME. “By collaborating across the profession, PRIME will create a step change in the legal sector’s commitment to fairer access, giving more students their fi rst insight into the wide variety of career opportunities available in the legal sector.”

Smart StartIn June 2009, A&O launched the fi rst Smart Start Experience. Thought to be the largest programme of its kind undertaken by a law fi rm, the scheme gives disadvantaged young people from across London an opportunity to gain a valuable insight into how the world of business works.

More than 100 students aged 16-17 take part in this annual week-long programme which is designed to help them develop key skills and discover the wealth of opportunities available to them in a global business like ours. We offer the students mentoring support to help them translate the confi dence they gain from Smart Start into achieving their aspirations.

To reach out to more young people and give them the opportunity of experiencing life in a global business, we are seeking to partner with

our clients to help them develop their own structured work experience programmes based on the Smart Start Experience.

Scholarships in ChinaIn 2008, Allen & Overy China launched a new scholarship programme for students at six top Chinese law schools. Designed to encourage and cultivate students’ awareness of public interest work, our scholarship has been widely regarded as an innovative and welcome initiative among law students and faculty members. Students granted the scholarships are tasked to develop projects using their legal skills for the enrichment of Chinese society.

Partnering with local schoolsMany of our offi ces have developed partnerships with local schools; bringing people from the business world into schools can have a positive infl uence on young people and helps break down barriers.

Our Frankfurt offi ce has been working with two local schools for several years, supporting students who aren’t planning to go to university. Volunteers train the students in how to complete job applications and pass on their tips for successful interviews.

In Thailand, our Bangkok offi ce supports schools in rural areas by donating sports equipment, computers and money. Volunteers also helped plant rubber trees in one village, which when harvested will provide an income for the village school. Our support is essential; it helps the schools provide education and welfare services for children in these underprivileged communities.

In London, we have forged a strong partnership with a local secondary school, Bethnal Green Technology College (BGTC). The relationship began in 1999 with a mentoring scheme for 14 to 15 year olds, but in 2005, we became a key partner to the school as it entered a period of signifi cant change. We have provided nearly 3,000 opportunities for BGTC pupils to gain an insight into the world of business and to benefi t from the guidance and support of our volunteers. ■

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“ It’s hard to set foot on the fi rst rung of the career ladder without an internship or work experience.”


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The early years of the new millennium were an interesting time to be graduating and starting work: years characterised by seemingly constant and unstoppable technological advance, surging material well-being tempered with the chilling new threat of global terrorism.

How have those starting their careers in such roller-coaster times fared? We caught up with four past and present A&O staff from our classes of 2000-2004 to fi nd out.

Take four millennium grads

By Melissa Dunnett

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the case in favour of a client, seen one of our expert witnesses demolish the other side’s barrister on cross-examination in a hearing, obtained an anti-suit injunction for a client over a weekend, worked on very high profi le matters such as the SFO’s long-running investigation of BAE Systems… it’s hard to pick just a few highlights!

Outside of work, last summer I made use of A&O’s sabbatical policy and spent several months working on an archaeological dig in Athens, while side-stepping demonstrations and strikes. Sadly I did not fi nd anything of particular importance, but it was great to immerse myself in the classical world again.

Has the recent turbulence in the global economy affected you? Litigation as a practice area is of course counter-cyclical to some extent, so economic turbulence is more likely to mean an increase in work. This has been particularly true in relation to regulatory work as a result of the fi nancial crisis, as regulators seek to crack down on individuals and institutions in an effort to rectify the perceived failings of the past.

In terms of litigation generally, claims are also being brought to try to recover losses when investments have gone sour in the fi nancial crisis. For example, I have recently been defending a banking client against a claim for over US$150 million that might not have been brought but for the fall in the equity markets.

The Litigator, LondonDavina Given

I graduated in 2000 with a degree in Classics. I started my training contract at A&O in 2002 and qualifi ed into the litigation department in 2004. I now do a mixture of regulatory work and general litigation for both corporates and banks.

On the regulatory side, bribery has been a hot topic for the last few years, with the passing of the Bribery Act 2010 and regulators taking action more frequently. Together with increasingly heavy penalties, this has focused our clients’ attention on the issue, leading to an increase in defence and advisory work.

What has changed in nine years since you’ve been at the fi rm? There’s been a physical change in that we have moved offi ces in London. The fi rm has grown, including new offi ces in Australia and Washington, and technology has an ever greater role. When I was a trainee we didn’t have Omnia or Blackberries and working from home was a rarity – now you can work almost anywhere.

What are the highlights of your career so far? As a trainee, my fi nal seat was in Bratislava. At the time it was a very small offi ce of around 24 people and work-wise you had to take on a lot of responsibility, which was at times as exciting as it was scary. It was an interesting time to be in Slovakia due to their EU accession, which was shortly after I arrived. On the night of accession though, the Slovaks were far more excited about their victory over Russia in an ice hockey match than they were about celebrating their new status in Europe! I loved living there and it was a real contrast to life in London.

Since qualifying, I have stayed in the London offi ce, but it has been just as busy. I have been up to the House of Lords in one case, identifi ed the ‘smoking gun’ document that effectively swung

I graduated with a degree in Modern History in 2001 and trained at A&O from March 2004-2006. Shortly after qualifi cation I left to work for the Government Legal Service to pursue my interest in public and international law. It was a diffi cult decision as I was leaving behind an excellent law fi rm, the many benefi ts that go with it and some very good friends.

My fi rst GLS role was doing public law litigation at the Treasury Solicitor’s Department, specialising in human rights challenges. It was a steep learning curve and the key difference to A&O was being responsible for my own practice from day one. I ran a large number of cases, including test cases and appeals in the House of Lords (as it then was) – a challenging leap!

In 2009 I moved to the Ministry of Defence Operational and International Humanitarian

Law Team. We are a small team that advises the Secretary of State for Defence on international law, specifi cally legal issues arising out of the UK’s military operations overseas. The role is mainly advisory, although I’ve also been heavily involved in litigation arising out of the Iraq war and concerning the extent to which the European Convention on Human Rights applies extra-territorially.

My City background has been very helpful. My time at A&O taught me to deal with pressure, to take initiative and to work as part of a large team. My work often had a multi-jurisdictional

dimension and required me to assimilate large amounts

of information, fi ltering it down into a

concise course of action.

How did you make the transition from commercial law? After law school I did an internship at the UN Association in New York. The work I did was focused on the establishment of the International Criminal Court, and specifi cally the relationship between the USA and the Court. A&O’s support of this internship enabled me to pursue my growing interest in international law and human rights law.

During my training contract, I did a secondment to Liberty, which gave me great exposure to public law and human rights issues. I worked on judicial reviews involving the Government, including a challenge to the use of stop and search powers under the Terrorism Act and to the Government’s immigration policy at the time.

I had a lot of responsibility at Liberty and it would have been diffi cult to move to the GLS without that experience. I feel very fortunate that A&O was creative enough to offer such a valuable secondment opportunity to trainees.

What are the highlights of your career so far? At A&O a highlight was working on an international arbitration through to its fi nal hearing and being involved in the Hackney schools mentoring scheme. In the GLS I fi nd it really rewarding working at the intersection of law and policy, working closely with the country’s decision makers and dealing with topical political and military issues such as the recent operations in Libya.

Has the recent turbulence in the global economy affected you? We are in the midst of large cuts in the public sector which have had an impact on my clients within Government, both civilian and military. As in private practice, fears about job security and the impact of cuts on promotion opportunities can affect morale, but the pace of the work doesn’t give you much time to dwell on it!

The UK GovernmentlawyerAnna McLeod



I graduated in 2001 with a degree in Law & French but was keen to pursue a more business-focused career route. I joined the graduate programme at Fidelity Investments, which exposed me to different aspects of the business, including marketing, which appealed because it demands creativity and a commercial mindset.

12 months later I investigated a range of marketing roles which, ironically, led me back into the legal sector. I accepted a Business Development Assistant position at A&O supporting the then Leveraged Finance practice because it combined my background in law with a career in marketing but also because the fi rm portrayed a friendly and collaborative culture in addition to its strong reputation in the market.

The role encompassed a broad range of activities, including drafting pitches to win new deals and implementing numerous marketing initiatives. It required interaction with both lawyers and support departments across the fi rm, which helped me build a greater understanding of the business. After two years I was promoted to BD Executive.

In 2006 I was keen to work abroad and joined an Australian law fi rm in Sydney, supporting their M&A and Private Equity team. From a career development perspective, I knew I would learn a lot as Australian law fi rms have had professional services marketing for longer than their UK counterparts. Much of my role involved obtaining feedback from clients directly and this ended up forming the bedrock of what I currently do.

After a year I was approached to rejoin A&O in Hong Kong as BD Manager for Banking and ICM. It was a great opportunity and an exciting time to move to Asia, so I was happy to accept.

My stint in Hong Kong was extremely rewarding, partly because it provided huge scope to initiate fresh ideas which had a tangible impact on the business.

I worked with a number of partners to manage several of our clients from an Asia Pacifi c perspective which, in time, saw me move into a pure client relationship management role.

After four years abroad I was keen to move back to London and fortuitously a Global CRM role came up. I now work with the Relationship Partners to identify how we can maintain and broaden the existing relationships with three banks. The role requires an understanding of the client’s business and strategic direction as well as the issues they face, to see how best A&O can support them. I fi nd the work interesting and challenging.

What are the highlights of your career so far? The opportunity to work abroad was fantastic. It not only helped in terms of developing my own career but I have also come away with a better understanding of the Asia Pacifi c region from both a business and cultural perspective.

Has the recent turbulence in the global economy affected you? Working in Asia during the fi nancial crisis was intense but fascinating. The impact of the collapse of Lehman Brothers hit quickly and the phones were ringing off the hook with clients needing advice.

As a result of mass redundancies at some client institutions and signifi cant drop-offs in certain types of work, the Business Development function was heavily relied upon to help position A&O as the fi rm best placed to help navigate our clients through particularly complex circumstances. The pressure was on but it gave the global BD team the chance to prove more than ever before that we are fundamental to the fi rm’s business.

The Global Client Relationship ManagerKatharine Taylor

I grew up in Hong Kong and studied Law and Commerce in Sydney. As a student I worked part-time for a banking partner at an Australian law fi rm and knew then already that I would like to specialise in fi nancial markets. A&O is obviously a market leader in that area and after graduating in 2002 I was happy to accept a training contract with the Hong Kong offi ce, which started in 2003.

I qualifi ed into the ICM team, where I became a senior associate. I started off with general capital markets work before specialising in derivatives and structured fi nance. After seven years with the fi rm, I decided to take a step closer to the fi nance industry and earlier this year

I moved in-house to Morgan Stanley.

My role is in the legal department, with a focus on equity derivatives and related regulatory work. I am also involved in assisting bankers on risk analysis. The switch has given me the opportunity for a greater understanding of how fi nancial institutions operate and make decisions.

One of the main differences of working in-house is that I get to see the big picture of a wider range of transactions rather than doing individual pieces of work that are outsourced to law fi rms. I am also more involved in commercial decisions and therefore have a greater appreciation of the rationale behind

trades and how risks are addressed. I enjoy the chance to use my commerce background as well as my legal one.

What are the highlights of your career so far? I received very good technical training at A&O and was also fortunate to have several secondment opportunities to the London offi ce (both as a trainee and as a qualifi ed lawyer) and a client secondment to Citigroup, which gave me exposure to high profi le and challenging work. I worked closely with different offi ces on cross-border trades and found that this was a great way to make new contacts and friends.

London has a very different market and it was exciting to be involved in more complex and challenging work there in 2009. It was also a period when regulators were active in regulatory reforms after the global fi nancial crisis. I am glad that I gained some fi rst-hand experience of that type of work before seeing similar changes and the ensuing impact on the Asian markets after I returned to Hong Kong.

I was also involved as a pro bono committee member of the fi rm and we were very active both in giving free legal advice and organising community work. I worked closely with different types of charities and one of my pro bono clients was an institution that offers currency hedging solutions and training for microfi nance organisations.

Has the recent turbulence in the global economy affected you? We were extremely busy during the fi nancial crisis after the collapse of Lehman Brothers as many clients were busy restructuring or closing out their transactions. As lawyers it was a time when our legal drafting was put to the test and yet it was a great opportunity to further develop our technical skills, so I learnt a lot from the situation.

The In-House Finance Lawyer, Hong KongEric Tse



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Six years after the launch of the Alumni Programme, we have more than

4,500 registered members located in 70 countries (at last count).

We like to think of our Alumni Programme as the gateway to a global

network of professionals in virtually every business sector.

Take a look at our alumni directory at www.allenovery.com/alumni and connect with other alumni in your country.

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Where do hard-working A&Oers go in their down time to catch up with friends and colleagues? We asked every offi ce in the A&O network for a list of their favourite haunts; places where our alumni can go to see a familiar A&O face, grab a bite to eat, have a drink, catch up with old friends or meet potential clients. What we received was a true international selection from 18 A&O offi ces around the world, each offering something unique. All things considered, there was only one label for this list: welcome to our international bar association.


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BratislavaOur most popular venue is Prazdroj, because so many A&O parties take place here. It is situated right next to our old premises, in the heart of the old town. It’s a huge, lively, relaxing place. Large portions of delicious food are served, as well as real beer. It is the fi rst restaurant outside the Czech Republic with original cask beer Pilsner Urquell. Staff in traditional costumes add atmosphere and act as a reminder of the historical background of Czech beer culture. Our second most popular venue is Primi. It has two fl oors and the largest terrace in the centre of town, right under historic St Michael’s Gate. It offers stylish seats and sofas, a sheltered winter garden, and an outdoor cocktail beach bar. The Italian Kitchen is also a very popular hostelry with A&O employees. There is a DJ every Friday and Saturday, making it the place to be. Monika Nagyova

AmsterdamAmsterdam offers loads of fun places to explore which you will fi nd in any travel guide, but for some reason lawyers working in Allen & Overy’s Amsterdam offi ce tend to frequent a bar called Bubbles, located near Leidseplein in the city centre. Bubbles is not a high-quality bar in terms of service, drinks or music. In fact, it is widely regarded to be a low-range bar and a last resort if all the more sophisticated bars have closed their doors. Nevertheless, we have had some great nights at Bubbles. Don’t forget to order champagne if you should decide to go there, as drinking ‘bubbles’ in Bubbles is a once-in-a-lifetime experience!Vera Moll

AntwerpAntwerp is easygoing, stylish and fi lled with the monuments of a wealthy medieval and Renaissance period. In the words of Lonely Planet: “Antwerp is Europe’s place to be. Appreciated by mode moguls, club queens, art lovers and diamond dealers, Belgium’s capital of cool and the country’s second-biggest city once again revels in fame and fortune.”

Every year, the Antwerp offi ce organises a special event for the A&O Belgium summer trainees. This year, the event took place at Nero, a brasserie known for its excellent food and beverages, but also for its location just in front of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. From the terrace of Nero, you can enjoy the museum’s façade view of six Corinthian columns, as well as its imposing stairs leading up to the entrance, all the while sipping a scrumptious cocktail. Didier Pacquee and Willem Van de Wiele

FrankfurtIn Frankfurt, there are plenty of good bars and restaurants to frequent, to meet people from A&O. At the moment, however, staff and clients mostly tend to meet mainly at our new Frankfurt offi ce, Haus am OpernTurm. The new offi ce is close to the Frankfurt Opera and is one of the most sought-after locations in Frankfurt. Our new conference area has a balcony more than 100 metres long, with a spectacular view of the Frankfurt Opera, especially during the evening. The building also has a unique private roof-top terrace, which we can use for client events, as well as two restaurants where people can meet. Silke Stall

Hong KongThe one-year-old Liberty Exchange Kitchen & Bar in Exchange Square Central has quickly become the unoffi cial third home for some Hong Kong A&Oers. It is one of many swanky places to be found in Central where polished-looking bankers, lawyers and fi nancial dealers grab drinks, a bite to eat and trade gossip in a casual and relaxed environment. Liberty Exchange boasts a large open-air space offering views of countless skyscrapers, with high bistro tables and fi nger food for the happy hour crowds. Many tend to extend their evening into the air-conditioned zone to enjoy the fi ne dining menu. The private dining room has also been a popular spot for smaller, more intimate A&O client dinners. If you are planning a trip to Hong Kong, stop by and grab a drink. We recommend it. Kim Sellar

LondonAt the London offi ce, we are fortunate to have our very own after-work bar on site, Lavanda. During the day, Lavanda is an Italian coffee shop serving home-cooked Italian food and freshly ground coffee. Come 5pm however, Lavanda turns into a bar. It’s an ideal meeting point for staff before they move on elsewhere, but it’s equally popular for staying until late. It has a great terrace that looks over the city – perfect for enjoying a chilled glass of wine in the summer months. A popular alternative to Lavanda is The Luxe, a short walk from the offi ce at Spitalfi elds Market. It’s owned by MasterChef judge John Torode. Open from breakfast until late, it’s a great urban hangout for a casual dinner.Zoe Russ

“ Polished-looking bankers, lawyers and fi nancial dealers grab drinks, a bite to eat and trade gossip in a casual and relaxed environment.”

“ A huge, lively, relaxing place. Large portions of delicious food... as well as real beer.”



PerthTravellers to Perth will not be disappointed with what is on offer in terms of restaurants and bars. Some of our most popular venues are the Sentinel Bar and Grill; with its chic, New York style fi t-out, it’s an all-round popular venue for lunch, coffee and dinner/drinks. The bar packs a big crowd from Wednesday onwards. Bar One is a funky bar famous for its great food and impressive wine list. It is the perfect place for all-day dining or a casual drink after work. With climate change big on the agenda, Greenhouse is defi nitely leading the way. Its concept is all things sustainable; it is built from recycled materials. With a menu that will blow you away, it is popular for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The XO Lounge, meanwhile, is ideally located, and convenient for coffee and dining. It draws a big crowd towards the end of the week. Donna Karafi l

PragueTry to visualise the many small, narrow, historic streets in the Old Town packed with bars, pubs and restaurants. The array of choices means that we actually do not have a favourite place.

As our offi ce is also based in the Old Town, for lunch, people usually choose Kolkovna which serves typical Czech cuisine. It’s located in our building, so that’s an easy way to fi nd the offi ce. Hybernia is another popular place that serves Czech cuisine, or there’s La Gare which offers French cuisine. They all have outdoor seating for hot days, and all could be classifi ed as our canteen.

One of the benefi ts of a smaller offi ce is that people know each other better than is often the case in larger offi ces, and often go out together, be it to celebrate or just to relax. The offi ce also organises drinks evenings two or three times a year to welcome new joiners and to say goodbye to those who are leaving.

To have drinks with friends and colleagues, always in different places, is one of the many advantages of living in beautiful, historical Prague.Katerina Herberkova

LuxembourgLuxembourg is a small country but with many places to meet and have a great time.

A&O people like to meet up in different places. For lunch, the area around the offi ce caters for every taste: The Last Supper is famous for its burgers, the Sens Pur for its dish of the day, while the Brasserie du Kirchberg has traditional Luxemburgish cuisine. After work, people meet at Gloss Bar in Kirchberg or in small pubs in the old city centre such as Urban, Go Ten or Le Palais. On Wednesdays, the Modern Art Museum (MUDAM) organises free concerts where you can discover new bands while having fun.

For clubbing, Magnum in the Glacis area is popular, as are Apoteca and Bypass, or there’s White, which is the place to go to meet celebrities.Claire Danda

MadridLess than 10 minutes’ walk from the Madrid offi ce, the Orá bar is a great place to go for a drink after a hard day’s work, especially on Thursdays. This venue is a favourite among the younger people in the offi ce and has been chosen as the place to give new joiners a warm welcome and to say goodbye to those who are leaving. In the Orá bar, you can enjoy a cold beer or a nice wine, and if you are hungry, we highly recommend their tasty tostas – toast with different toppings such as salmon with cheese, ham, mushrooms, sirloin, gulas (young eels), prawns, etc.Pilar Sanchez, Alvaro Franco, Luiz Maiz and Mayte Dura

MoscowThe Moscow A&O offi ce is located in the heart of the city. There are many cafes and restaurants, as well as tourist and cultural attractions, nearby, and an out-of-town colleague or alumnus can visit these at his own leisure (the Kremlin, the Bolshoi Theatre and others).

Mr Lee is an upscale restaurant specialising in oriental cuisine with a twist, popular for both business lunches and client entertainment. Do-Do is a laid-back destination with a summer terrace. It’s popular for leaving drinks as well as lunches or friends’ get togethers at the weekend. If you are seeking something more authentic, you should try Glamour, a cafe serving traditional hand-made khinkali (a type of big Georgian dumpling), shashlik (coal barbecued meat) as well as other traditional Georgian dishes. It is open 24 hours a day so it is popular with A&O staff. You should also check out the two pedestrian streets around the corner from the offi ce – Kamergersky pereulok and Stoleshnikov pereulok – for people-watching, chic shopping outlets and outdoor cafes.Andrey Pozhitkov

New YorkDuring the working week, New York attorneys and staff alike can be found just across the street from the offi ce at Financier Patisseri, located at 1211 Sixth Avenue (at 48th Street).

Nestled within a breezeway, this quaint café offers “wonderful coffee selections and pastries that are out of this world,” according to Paralegal Manager Jodi Pittell. Financier Patisseri is great for both breakfast and lunch, and its three-season outdoor covered seating area is an ideal location for Midtown people-watching. Michael Pezley

“ Wonderful coffee selections and pastries that are out of this world.”

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Variety fl avours Gulf favouritesOur Middle Eastern offi ces have established their fi rm favourites in a sea of choices. Here are the top suggestions from two of them.

SingaporeIn need of a friendly face, a cold Tiger beer or a refreshing mojito? Look no further than after-work drinks with the A&O Singapore folk. Just a stone’s throw away from the offi ce and the sparkling waters of Marina Bay lies Nueva Cuba, a lively Latin bar serving cold beer, fi ery chicken wings and king sized mojitos – in jam-jars. If cocktails and champagne are more your scene, skip next door to the Fullerton Bay Hotel’s rooftop pool-side bar, Lantern Bar. And when the humidity becomes unbearable, or a tropical storm sets in, fear not, you will fi nd the A&O crew at The Public House, a gem of a pub tucked away off the main strip of bars in Boat Quay. In a country where eating is considered a national sport, no visit to the Lion City would be complete without sampling the myriad dishes on offer at the historic, bustling hawker centre, Lau Pa Sat – steamed dumplings, sizzling satay and chilli crab – just remember not to wear your favourite white shirt! Shari Hawke

SydneyNumber One Wine Bar occupies a cosy nook beneath a fl ight of stairs leading to A&O’s current Sydney premises in Circular Quay. An odd location for an upmarket restaurant and wine bar, perhaps, but no one seems to mind. The atmosphere is relaxed, the wine list sensational, and the food by all accounts fantastic. Of course, no one truly knows what the food is like. After all, it’s not eating but drinking which draws the A&O crowd. Swing by after 6pm on a Friday and you’ll be sure to fi nd a strong crew of associates throwing back designer beers and relishing the Pebble Bay pinot noir. More funk than fake, Number One Wine Bar gets four and half stars. Jamie Palmer

TokyoSince moving into the ultramodern Roppongi Hills complex in 2008, members of the Tokyo offi ce – Japanese and foreign alike – have become regular frequenters of Rigoletto Bar and Grill on the fi fth fl oor of the main Mori Tower. This is somewhat unexpected, given that Tokyo is renowned for the quantity and variety of its bars and restaurants, but we fi nd ourselves returning time and again for Friday night (and occasionally Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night) drinks, farewell parties and the like, because of the convenient location. Hunting around for a watering hole at midnight when you’ve just left the offi ce is a chore, and Rigoletto is open until 5am every day (forget what they tell you about New York; Tokyo is the real city that never sleeps). The lively, cosmopolitan crowd and reasonably priced drinks are also major drawing points. If you ever happen to visit the Tokyo offi ce on business, you’re likely to fi nd yourself at Rigoletto on at least one evening, sinking a few beverages with members of the Tokyo offi ce after a hard day’s work. Hans Menski

WarsawWarsaw fee earners and staff can generally be found gathering at lunchtime at two restaurants in particular. The fi rst is RoRo Lounge Café, which is located within the A&O building. It is acclaimed for its international cuisine. The second eatery is Restro Restaurant & Café, which also serves international cuisine.

Occasionally, the Warsaw offi ce holds departmental drinks; however, the locations may vary depending on the department.

The annual integration is held offsite, in a different location each year, in the summer time. This year it was held at Kanu Club Hotel, situated in the Mazurian Lakes district in the middle of the picturesque lake Zyzdroj Wielki. This is the most eagerly anticipated event in the offi ce each year. Piotr Grabarek

Abu Dhabi A favourite social spot for A&O’s Abu Dhabi staff is Jones the Grocer, a gourmet food store and café located on the ground fl oor of our offi ce building. During the week you can often fi nd A&O staff enjoying the contemporary design and casual atmosphere for breakfast, lunch or dinner (or a combination thereof, depending on workload!) The menu offers quite a selection, ranging from Middle Eastern lamb kebabs, to fi sh and chips for homesick English expats. There is even an entire walk-in room dedicated to cheese, which has intrigued many patrons to date. Our staff are in good company, as recent Jones visitors included Hillary Clinton.Elise Wouterloot, Jordana Jeffrey and Ashique Cheriyandi

DohaPartners and fee earners in Doha can be found after hours at a few places that offer happy hour. The W Hotel is always a favourite because of its Turkish and Lebanese décor and funky atmosphere. The Aroma in the Kempinski Hotel is another popular hostelry. The Pearl Qatar offers a nice selection of western foods with an Arabic twist. Italian cuisine may be found at either The Bice or Carluccio’s. The Mango Tree offers Thai cuisine, while Tse Yang’s is renowned for its Chinese fi ne dining. French and English menus are offered at Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant, The Maze. Partners also like to entertain clients at Pompanos, which is celebrated for its seafood. If you’re looking to try some hookah or shisha with a Mediterranean meal, then you may want to go to Sukar Pasha in Cultural Village.Virginia Cruz

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The other side of the benchMimmie Chan refl ects on her years as a litigation partner in the Hong Kong offi ce, her move into the judiciary, and what the future holds for Hong Kong.

I grew up in Hong Kong – I’m a local girl – and studied law at the University of Hong Kong. I had toyed with the idea of a degree in English Literature but felt that law was a more practical choice that would lead straight to a professional job and a career.

I trained at a medium-sized local fi rm rather than somewhere larger as I did not want to be lost doing anonymous work within a huge organisation. The cosy working atmosphere was enjoyable and I had a very good mix of corporate, commercial, IP and litigation work.

On qualifi cation I chose litigation as I found it more challenging and interesting than the other fi elds that I had tried. Each piece of work has its own facts, players and story and therefore each matter seemed fresh and new.

After 10 years at the same fi rm, I moved to Allen & Overy in 1995. It was a drastic change to go from a small family-style fi rm to a large international organisation and taking the plunge was a tough decision. However in those days the A&O litigation department in Hong Kong was small, housed in an annex of the main offi ce, and it transpired that its working environment was similar to what I was accustomed to.

I had some very interesting work at Allen & Overy, including some high profi le cases. The most memorable of these was the 1996 inquiry into the Garley Building fi re in Kowloon, in which 41 people died and many more were injured.

We were instructed at very short notice by the contractor responsible for supplying lifts to the building during its renovation. It was alleged that sparks from welding work carried out by our client’s sub-contractors Mimmie Chan: non-stop, hard work from the moment you arrive.

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Hong Kong’s legal system When power was handed back to China in 1997, there was a commitment not to change the legal system in Hong Kong for 50 years.

We value and maintain our common law system and our independent judiciary; they make Hong Kong different to other parts of China. We have courts and a legal system that people trust and we offer a high level of confi dence to investors and those who work and live in Hong Kong.

What happens after 50 years is unknown, but at the moment I believe that everyone will strive to safeguard Hong Kong’s legal system and the independence of its judiciary, as our success and best interests rest on these important foundations.

“ It might sound like a judicial appointment could be a more comfortable life... but it’s not.”

“ Something I miss is the support of my former colleagues. Working on my own, I can’t sidestep an area on the basis that it is not my specialty.”

Hong Kong was an exciting place for me to build my legal career. However the market is now much more diffi cult and challenging. There are large numbers of law graduates, with women outnumbering men, and competition is fi erce. There is very little work for junior barristers and it is diffi cult for many graduates to get training contracts. You would have to be top of your class to get into a fi rm like A&O and the majority of students are lucky if they get any offer at all.

For the large local fi rms and the historically London-based international fi rms, there is now more and more competition for work from US fi rms. Everyone is fi ghting for the same instructions, even the smaller local fi rms, which were previously happy to handle areas such as conveyancing that are no longer lucrative.

Further competition is coming from law fi rms in mainland China, which are getting more experienced and are now able to compete with Hong Kong fi rms for advisory work in China. To that extent I do not envy my former partners as business is becoming more diffi cult.

International fi rms still enjoy an edge in relation to the sort of work that they are very good at, for example dealing with global clients that require support on a global basis. However many local Hong Kong fi rms have been linking up with other fi rms around the world in order to sell an international network to clients. To stay competitive, a fi rm in Hong Kong needs to have an international focus as well as having local lawyers and a local client base.

had started the fi re, which shot up through the lift shafts of the building as a result of alterations made to the building and store rooms adjacent to the lift shafts.

The evidence from the factual witnesses called at the inquiry was in Chinese and, as the only Chinese litigation partner at the time, I led the team and had to prepare for the inquiry and review the many volumes of paperwork and statements within a tight two-week timescale.

Although the result of the inquiry, which lasted more than two months, was not favourable to our client, our management of the dispute and the publicity, our planning and organisation of the team and our expertise during the inquiry were all appreciated by the client. We went on to deal with the civil proceedings that followed, as well as the settlement of the claims and the fi nal restructuring of the corporate structures involved in the compromise.

What makes the case particularly memorable for me is not only the nature of the evidence involved and the forensic investigations which ensued, but also the level of appreciation and support that we received from the client throughout.

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After 12 years at Allen & Overy, I left the fi rm to take up a role within the Hong Kong judiciary. This career move originated after I deputised, on a temporary basis and with the support and encouragement of the fi rm, fi rst as a master at the High Court, and then as a judge of the District Court.

The opportunity then arose to become a district judge permanently. I left the fi rm with the satisfaction of having worked with a very good group of people. A&O has excellent lawyers and support staff and it is the culture of the fi rm and the people that I treasure most.

My move to the judiciary was good because it involved doing familiar work from the other side of the table but without too drastic a change. I really enjoy the work. Writing judgments can be tedious, but gone are the days of worrying about marketing, budgets and entertaining clients and I appreciate being able to really focus on the law.

Something I miss is the support of my former colleagues. Working on my own, I can’t sidestep an area on the basis that it is not my specialty; I have to deal with whatever comes my way.

One of the challenges that I face is dealing with litigants in person. This inevitably means that there will be copious amounts of paperwork fi led and long-winded submissions which have to be read thoroughly in the search for material points. It is hard work when a case has not been fi ne-tuned by lawyers and I invariably end up thinking about the unrepresented party’s issues as an advocate.

It might sound like a judicial appointment could be a more comfortable life, after the long hours and hectic schedule of working in private practice, but it is not. I fi nd that I have much more work to do as a judge than I did as a partner! The hours are not as long but it is non-stop, hard work from the moment you arrive at work, and you have to do everything yourself.

Having said that, the hours I work now are more within my control than they used to be as I do not have to work in accordance with other people’s schedules.

At time of writing, I am about to start deputising full-time for the High Court for nine months. I am looking forward to what I expect will be a challenging role. Maybe I will come across some former A&O colleagues in the cases that I hear… ■



Banks and other corporations with international operations are interested in understanding and coping with legal risks in the world’s jurisdictions. They are interested in managing their legal risks.

The reasons are that legal risks give rise to costs, sometimes huge costs. For banks, legal risk attracts capital and so they seek to reduce the capital charge. For all businesses, legal risk can give rise to severe reputational damage. Senior management may be exposed to criminal penalties for unexpected violations. Legal risk impacts on business plans, investments, contracts and property.

Legal risk around the world has intensifi ed. The reasons include:

– The number of jurisdictions is high (about 320) and business is now global. Very few countries are now not part of the world economy – fewer than fi ve. Globalisation has accelerated.

– The law is volatile and changes rapidly.– The law relevant to banks and other

businesses is increasingly complex and intricate.

– The intensifi cation of regulation means that the law is semi-criminalised, which increases the risk.

– The increases in GDP means that there is more money sloshing around in banks and capital markets and therefore more risk.

In measuring legal risk, one has to measure different things. The fi rst is the black-letter law – what the law actually says on the books. The second is how the law is actually applied, e.g. do the courts habitually decide against big business and banks? What is the general quality of the legal infrastructure? Is there a rule of law? Some of these matters are obvious, others are impenetrable.

The work we have done examines 21 indexes on legal matters which have been prepared by various organisations, including the World Bank, the Heritage Foundation and the World Economic Forum, to ascertain the degree to which they assist in the task of measurement of overall legal risk.

These indexes cover a wide range of measures, such as how long it takes to form a company and how much it costs, enforcing contracts, closing a business, the rule of law, economic freedom and competitiveness.

The methodology we use is to take an index such as the rule of law, and then to colour countries according to their rank in the league table given by the compilers of the index. Blue countries are at the top and red at the bottom, with green and yellow in between. This simplifi cation and colouring dramatically brings out the results which can instantly be perceived.

We have two tables of these colour-coded indexes. The fi rst lists the countries alphabetically. In the second we list the countries according to their GDP per capita. Rich countries are in the blue set at the top and poor countries in the red set at the bottom. Again, middle countries are in the green and yellow sets in between. The object is to see whether there is a relationship between wealth and legal infrastructure.

In addition, we take each of the indexes and display the results in a colour-coded map. This again shows the outcome in a striking way.

Interesting conclusionsIt has been possible to draw some very interesting conclusions about these indexes.

The work carried out by organisations whose indexes are recorded has made a major contribution to advancing knowledge in this area and is of great value. These organisations have poured huge resources and expertise into their projects – a major and convincing international effort on a grand scale.

“ The methodology we use is to take an index such as the rule of law, and then to colour countries according to their rank in the league table given by the compilers of the index.”

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One of the most intriguing tasks being carried out by the fi rm’s Global Law Intelligence Unit is a project to work out how to measure legal infrastructure risks in the world’s jurisdictions.

Measuring legal risks



since the society can afford a better legal infrastructure. For example, is it possible to do business reasonably profi tably in a jurisdiction which, though not necessarily at the bottom of the pile, is very bureaucratic and ineffi cient?

There is also the question as to whether the content of the black-letter rules is really important or whether the most important question is whether they are predictable so that the markets can price the risk. For example, is it better for development to have strong and comprehensive security interests which are effective on insolvency without interference in order to encourage medium-term bank credit? Is it best to have set-off and netting on insolvency so as to mitigate the risk of markets? The world is extremely divided on questions like these.

One is left with the big question as to how much the content of the law matters and how much its application matters. Opinion is divided. What do you think? You can join the discussion online by going to www.allenover.com/alumni and following the links. ■

“ If one measures too many things at once, one might end up with simply an anonymous noise without sharp tunes. One can also end up with generic conclusions which might hide real risks.”

the shoulder to completely closing down the business: this too is part of legal risk which should be measured.

We therefore think that despite the great value of the existing indexes, the measurement of legal risk also needs much more sophisticated indexes. Unfortunately these sophisticated measurements are extremely diffi cult to make on an objective quantitative basis and would involve a very large international collaboration.

We mentioned that black-letter law in the fi eld of private law, such as contract, property, companies, bankruptcy and probably litigation, largely follows the families of law. This is not true of economics or regulatory law, e.g. anti-trust or competition law, environmental law or fi nancial regulatory law. The patterns here are completely different.

An important question is whether a sound legal infrastructure in terms of effi ciency is crucial to development or whether it simply follows development

“ Sophisticated measurements are extremely diffi cult to make on an objective quantitative basis and would involve a very large international collaboration.”

An important issue, though, is that it is useful to distinguish between the black-letter law (what the law actually says) as opposed to how it is applied, even though there is co-mingling between these concepts. If one measures too many things at once, one might end up with simply an anonymous noise without sharp tunes. One can also end up with generic conclusions which might hide real risks.

The method of simplifi ed colour-coding produces some dramatic results which might not be obvious from text or statistics.

When we track the indexes against GDP per capita, i.e. the indexes of wealthy countries as against the index of poor countries, we fi nd that on the whole countries which have a high GDP per capita tend to have a good legal infrastructure (so that a blue GDP per capita produces mainly blues in the indexes) while very poor countries have a weak legal infrastructure, i.e. red GDP per capita countries have a red legal infrastructure. The other ranks in the middle, green and yellow, tend to follow the same pattern.

Accordingly, GDP per capita is a powerful indicator of legal infrastructure. The effect is that the main point often proved by the compilers of the indexes is that poor countries have poor legal infrastructure and rich countries have a good legal infrastructure. If this was all the indexes were measuring, then all we would need to know is GDP per capita.

Exceptions to the wealth ruleHowever, there are some important exceptions to this proposition. If therefore a blue GDP high income country has red in their indexes, there needs to be an explanation. On the other hand, if a red poor GDP country has many blues in its indexes, then this also merits investigation as to what they are doing right and why.

Our research elsewhere shows that when we measure black-letter law on various topics, most jurisdictions tend to belong to one or other of the great families of law, e.g. English common law, Napoleonic or Roman-Germanic, when we deal with private law issues, such as company law, bankruptcy law and property law. The results are completely different from GDP per capita groups. The reason is that the three great black-letter groups each include rich and poor countries. For example, the English common law group includes England as well as Sierra Leone and Malawi.

The Roman-Germanic group includes both the Netherlands and Indonesia.The Napoleonic group includes both France and Congo Kinshasa. Therefore the measurement of black-letter law is totally different from the measurement of legal infrastructure.

It is for this reason that legal risk management must take account of both these factors. It also shows why it is desirable to measure these factors separately.

Another reason that a direct correlation between GDP per capita and legal infrastructure does not always hold good is that the indexes we have studied at many points include black-letter measurements in their results. Sometimes the measurement is mainly black-letter which explains some of the deviations from GDP, while more often the black-letter rules are swamped by GDP rules so the black-letter measurement is lost.

Need for sophisticationSome, but not all, of the indexes measure variables which are quite basic, e.g. the rule of law. These are fundamental but they are the easiest to measure and are quite well known in any event. There is a need to measure factors which are much more nuanced. For example, litigation in the US involves very high risks and costs for banks, but this is not shown in the indexes we have surveyed, although it is an important feature of doing business in the US.

Likewise, while regulatory rules may often be similar in content, the penalties imposed for the same violation can vary enormously from a light tap on

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The fourth seat secondment is one of the great privileges of training with big international fi rms such as A&O. I had always known I wanted to do a fourth seat secondment, and I was gunning for Asia. Why? I’d never been there and, work considerations aside, I’d heard it was fun in a carefree expat way. And that’s exactly what I discovered in Singapore.

Stepping off the plane at Changi airport – thankfully air-conditioned – what struck me was not the airport’s order and cleanliness, nor the distinct lack of waiting associated with baggage reclaim. These I expected. But where were the police, the sniffer dogs and the cameras watching your every move for accidental rule-breaking or chewing of gum?

I quickly came to realise, in the weeks that followed, that Singapore is a country of little crime, but the over-egged reputation for stringent rules and regulations somewhat overshadows its other, more interesting, features.

The fi rst thing I and my fellow A&O trainees did was head for the restaurants and bars of Club Street. Having had no sleep on the 13-hour overnight fl ight from London, we must have been running on pure adrenalin. I imagine we looked wonderful that fi rst evening.

Unlike London, Singapore does not get cold at night. The air hangs thick and humid. That makes rooftop bars very popular, and understandably so: hot country, little space; rooftops are not wasted plus they catch any breeze.

Amid the sweating and the partying with new friends, it hit me – there was a complete lack of culture shock. It was like

Missing the relaxed Asian vibeKatie Coltart, now qualifi ed, fondly recalls her six months in the Singapore offi ce, her last seat as a trainee.

Two people, two views, one very popular city. As our contributors demonstrate, Singapore seldom disappoints those who have the time and interest to fi nd out what lies beneath its skin.

We asked two A&O staff members, one a native Singaporean and the other a secondee, for their thoughts on life in one of Southeast Asia and the world’s most exciting cities. Their observations may be informed by very different points of view, but their conclusions are remarkably similar.

Home and away

Katie Coltart: it isn’t all tall buildings.

we had slipped into Singapore life without anyone noticing. Someone once affectionately described Singapore to me as ‘Asia light’. And I think this is what they were saying – you get Asia minus the hassle: everything works; things run on time; taxi drivers are civil and you don’t feel you have to be constantly on guard against being ripped off. I suppose when you are in a new place, this is all you really need to feel reassured.

We hadn’t been in Singapore long when the Grand Prix carnival arrived. The hype surrounding the event was everywhere. One of our new friends managed to guest-pass us into the VIP lounge overlooking the fi nish line – amazing.

After the Grand Prix, life returned to relative normality. But Singapore’s normal is different to London’s normal. The work ethic is, if anything, crazier than London’s; expectations from a work perspective are very high. On the other hand, Singaporeans in general are chilled out; I noticed people don’t walk at ‘commuter pace’.

We were supposed to be coming into rainy season. I was beginning to wonder what all the fuss was about when it happened. It’s not like when it rains in London – you can’t make a dash.

That would be akin to standing under a power shower. When it rains, you wait or fi nd an alternative route, underground, through the networks of shopping mall after shopping mall.

Taking a stroll down Orchard Road, you come to realise that shopping quite literally forms the foundations of the city. Many of Singapore’s larger buildings are either shopping malls or contain a mall within their lower fl oors. The links between them form a covered walkway that stretches miles.

But Singapore isn’t all tall buildings. The government has kept the city very green – it is known as the Garden City. All the shrubbery in the middle of the city is a reminder that actually it was once all tropical jungle.

Food is a big part of life, as is eating out. There were two key Singaporean food cultures. At one end of the scale is the ‘all-you-can-eat’ Sunday brunch, available in all good hotels across the city. At the other end are the hawker centres which are found, well, all over the city.

The Sunday brunch is something to be marvelled at, but its enjoyment is also a fi ne art. As naïve fi rst-timers, we fi lled

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up on heavy foods which left precious little room for the lobster and truffl es. It is indulgent but fun, good for a birthday or, as we experienced, Christmas.

As for hawker centres, they’re Singaporean’s way of controlling street vendors and keeping the streets clean. It’s a civilised approach to street-eating. The food is delicious and, by bringing vendors together in designated places, you can sample everyone’s wares.

Before I left the UK, one comment I had heard often was that Singapore is a great platform for travel. It’s true. There’s a nonchalant attitude to travel; the budget Asian airlines allow for spontaneity and we certainly made the most of opportunities with jaunts to Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Hong Kong…

It’s great to be back in London, but there is so much to miss about Singapore. Aside from the friends I left behind, I miss the Singapore vibe; that indefi nable relaxed attitude typifi ed by never having to worry about taking a cardy in case it’s cold. Although I miss it, I’m grateful to have had the experience of living and working in such a fantastic city. ■



Although I’ve spent most of my 27 yearsin Singapore, it’s surprisingly diffi cult for me to describe my home. The hard data is, of course, easy to recite. Singapore is a small, sunny island in the South China Sea which, because it sits just north of the equator, experiences summer all year round.

Most visitors won’t see much beyond central Singapore where land reclamation and developments like the OUE Bayfront building in Collyer Quay, where A&O has its offi ces, have shaped a modern city around the harbour and Singapore River basin. That’s a pity, because there’s so much more to Singapore.

Singapore is a garden city with grass, shrubs, trees and tropical colour everywhere. Twice a year – roughly corresponding to winter and summer – our island is washed by monsoons, when the daily downpour takes the edge off the temperature and humidity and leaves delightfully pleasant evenings. That’s the best time to venture out to sample Singapore’s delicious local food, which is plentiful and affordable, especially if you know where to fi nd it.

Away from the high-rise commercial and tourist areas, small traditional restaurants continue to serve the dishes for which Singapore is famous. We tend to identify many of these restaurants by their location. For the best fi sh-head curry, for example, you want (ironically) the chicken rice restaurant at the junction of Upper Serangoon Road and Braddell Road, just before Potong Pasir. That’s all you’d have to tell a taxi driver who will probably know the place you’re after.

For chilli crab, Jumbo Seafood on East Coast Parkway is one of the best. Another of my favourites is Master Crab next to the Ghim Moh market, deep in residential Singapore. I love the pepper crab there, washed down with Tiger beer.

The Geylang district has lots of good food too – just follow your nose. That’s also how to fi nd (or avoid) the ‘king of fruit’, the durian. Most visitors say that when it comes to durian, you either love it or hate it. We love it. Well, most of us at least.

Housing has always been a challenge in Singapore. There’s only so much land so we build up. Some 84 per cent of Singaporeans live in apartments subsidised by the government and administered by the Housing and Development Board (HDB).

Despite our local authorities’ best efforts, HDB fl ats (whether bought directly from the government or from existing homeowners) are expensive. Most young Singaporeans will spend the bulk of their adult lives servicing mortgages for their cosy, if relatively small apartments. My fi ancée and I have just bought a fl at. It’s probably cheaper than it would be in Hong Kong, but that doesn’t make it any easier.

At the moment, I live with my parents in a colourful HDB fl at in the Bukit Batok estate which, in the context of our dense city state, would probably be best described as a suburb – or what we call ‘heartlands’. As heartlands go, Bukit Batok is typical. It has its own MRT (which is what we call our subway) station, bus terminal, schools and eating establishments. It does however, have distinct features, including several parks and its own nature reserve.

It’s also next to the hilly Bukit Timah nature reserve, where I often go for a spot of trail running. Next to the nature reserve are several 24-hour eating establishments, the best-known being Al-Azhar. I am absolutely certain that the best Singaporean sliced fi sh noodle soup is sold just fi ve minutes from my apartment, though I’m equally sure there are those who will disagree. Where food is involved, we’re passionate about our favourites.

As is increasingly common in the heartlands today, there is a shopping mall, imaginatively called West Mall, just down the road from my fl at. We have a lot of malls and as most visitors quickly discover, they’re a lot more than just places to shop. A good Singaporean shopping mall is really a family entertainment centre with cinemas, bowling alleys, pool halls, a food court and possibly even a family-friendly K-Box (karaoke) set-up. They’re scattered all over our island; several large listed entities on the Singapore stock exchange are almost solely devoted to Singaporean malls.

But after you’ve taken in the tourist sights and consumed copious amounts of Singapore sling and chilli crab, what then?

I believe the best way to see the real Singapore is by taking a bus or train in any one direction for 45 minutes, and getting off to walk. What better way is there to inspect the island than from one of the many HDB fl ats (none of which are in fenced communities and some of which are more than 40 storeys high), to try the local cuisine (just look out for the queues), or to check out one of the Singapore malls with their families, students and movie-goers? None, I assure you: none.

Singapore is very special to me. I recognise that in today’s globalised world, it’s benefi cial career-wise to spend several years working in a global hub such as New York, London or Hong Kong. Many of my friends have looked abroad to build their careers, and are doing very well.

For others like me, it’s not so much about trying to make a name for myself elsewhere as wanting to have my roots fi rmly planted here. Whatever we say about Singapore – and complaining sometimes seems like a national pastime – this is, and will always be, home. ■

Jonathan Lau: trail running in Bukit Timah nature reserve.

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A lot can happen in 81 years. From 1930 to today, A&O has been no stranger

to big deals and business moves. But what makes the fi rm’s history come to

life is our people and their experiences.

Our new online A&O history portal has been designed to capture the main events

in the history of the fi rm as well as some of our most memorable moments. From

amusing anecdotes to photos from across the decades, you can fi nd plenty to enjoy

at www.allenovery.com/alumni*

But our story doesn’t stop there. If you have your own story to tell – or photo to

share – please contact us at [email protected]

* launching in February 2012

The A&O Story


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New York celebrates From small beginnings 25 years ago, the New York offi ce has grown to become one of the lynchpins of the A&O international network. Through many changes, it has managed to retain some of its original ethos.

When A&O opens a new offi ce these days, whether in Sydney, Casablanca or Washington, setting up the technology systems takes months of preparation, planning and implementation by the IT experts. How much simpler things were in the case of New York, which became the third A&O offi ce outside London when it was opened in 1985. It was Don McGown, then an associate, who installed the offi ce IT systems, such as they were: a complicated telex-cross-phone contraption.

That was then; this is now. An IT and telecommunications revolution has changed the offi ce landscape in the intervening period. Nevertheless, this story does say something about the adaptability of the three lawyers who went to New York to set up the offi ce.

David Reid, who headed the offi ce, recalls it was all hands to the pump: “We all played our part, helping each other. I was a partner, and Don an associate, but if he had a crunch on and needed photocopying, I would do it.”

Jonathan Brayne, the second partner, agrees: “We defi nitely felt like pioneers. I had nothing but a bed in my apartment, and I think Don only had a mattress, and we lived like that for months.”

With the recruitment of Emma McPherson as offi ce manager, the offi ce comprised four people. In the great scheme of things, this might seem modest, again by comparison with today’s new openings, but that was enough to gain a foothold in an important market.

In the fi rst ten years or so of its existence, the New York offi ce practised exclusively English law. Partner Andrew Ballheimer recalls that much of the work came from US law fi rms requiring English law advice. Andrew spent two stints in the New York offi ce, fi rst as an associate in the late 1980s and then as a partner from 1996 to 2003.

It was certainly busy right from the off. As David Reid remembers: “Winning business was a mixture of strategy and serendipity. We found we did not always get work from clients we expected to give us work; equally, work came from unexpected clients or recommendations led us to new clients.

“Being in the New York stream of international fi nance and transactions was the critical factor.”


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In 1994, A&O started a US law practice in London, with the hiring of Jeff Golden. That paved the way for the recruitment of US law-qualifi ed lawyers in New York: David Slade, to do projects work, and Cathleen McLaughlin, to take on capital markets deals. Both were strong internationalists. David had been in Russia, and Cathleen would go on to start and build the Latin America practice.

But the offi ce remained small. In 1997, there were still only 12 lawyers. Come the turn of the century, it was decided there needed to be a signifi cant upping in capability. Accordingly, a premier corporate team, headed by Dan Cunningham, was laterally recruited. (Guy Beringer, senior partner at the time, reportedly told Dan: “You’re leaving a Rolls-Royce and jumping onto a penny farthing!”)

Two years later, a top team of litigators, headed by Michael Feldberg, was brought on board. No law fi rm aspiring to play in the top league could afford to be without a litigation capability (“a national sport”, as Michael Feldberg notes). To these were added real estate, IP and anti-trust

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“ We are able to offer a distinctive legal service that means we can match, and exceed, the service provided by the long-established fi rms in New York.”

Since 2000/2001, we have built our strengths in key practice areas, to give us critical mass and a wider capability in strategic areas. We have seen a maturing and evolution of our practice. But we still regard ourselves as new kids on the block.

Where we offer real competitive advantage is in our global, cross-border platform. That resonates with the trend of globalisation that, of course, has been developing for many years. This feature is likely to lead to consolidation of the market. I think that in the next three to fi ve years we may well acquire a large chunk of another fi rm in the US, or even merge.

What we are seeing is that some fi rms are just now realising that globalisation is here to stay and that they are behind in that game, calculating that it will take them

too long, and cost too much, to build an international network. They look at us, and they can see that we already have built a high-quality international network, and that offers scope for a good fi t.

In some ways, law fi rms are following in the wake of the accounting fi rms, who have also adjusted to the twin forces of globalisation and consolidation. Hence, the four big accounting fi rms. It is not directly analogous, but I can envisage there being 20 top law fi rms globally in years to come.

Add to that the growing complexity of doing business, particularly in areas such as anti-trust, regulatory and intellectual property law, and we are able to offer a distinctive legal service that means we can match, and exceed, the service provided by the long-established fi rms in New York in highly complex, often cross-border matters.

Prying clients away from their preferred fi rms is always a challenge, but we are making inroads. Our Washington, DC, offi ce complements our New York offi ce by providing added regulatory capability in key areas such as broker-dealer and SEC compliance. The Washington, DC, offi ce is also a good example of our strategy of identifying practice areas that we wish to develop and then fi nding the right people in the market, rather than waiting for people to approach us.

As for the troubled US economy and the impact on the legal market, you have to remember that the US economy is still an amazingly powerful engine, and the US legal market still comprises anywhere between 40 and 50 per cent of total global legal spend. The world is not becoming less complicated or complex, even if there is a downturn, and so there will still be a demand by clients for law fi rms that offer high-end advice of the most complex sort on which their businesses depend. That is the space in which A&O operates.

Managing partner Kevin O’Shea looks ahead to the New York offi ce’s next quarter century.

Still the new kids

capabilities, as well as the recruitment of Bob Kartheiser in 2004 to bolster the Latin America practice.

Despite the increase in size, the New York offi ce retained the initial camaraderie generated by the offi ce founders. Never more was that spirit required when New York suffered both from the 9/11 attacks and then a major power cut two years later. People stood together and, in the case of the power cut, spent the night in the offi ce.

Impact of the crisisAnother crisis, of a different kind, also tested the resilience of the offi ce. The banking crisis of late 2008, which then in turn triggered an economic downturn, caused both a retrenchment and a rethink. In particular, the introduction of a tougher regulatory environment both internationally and nationally put a premium on regulatory advice.

The result, after nearly three years of deliberation and a search for the right lawyers, was the opening of a new offi ce in Washington, DC, in 2011. It became the 26th in the A&O network. David Lucking, who became a partner this year, says that

the possibility of an offi ce in the US capital had been considered for many years. As he jokes: “On my fi rst day as a trainee, in 2002, I remember Carl Sheldon, who was then the managing partner in New York, saying that we would have an offi ce in Washington, DC, before the year’s end!”

Late or not, the new offi ce serves as a signifi cant addition to the US law practice. As does the São Paulo offi ce, opened in 2008, which “changes the way the rest of the fi rm thinks of the Latin America practice,” notes Cathleen McLaughlin. “It also sits perfectly with our strategy of winning more business in emerging markets.”

Added to that, there is within the offi ce a German desk, which works with the fi ve offi ces in Germany, and a China practice.

Today, a quarter of a century later, the New York offi ce is nearly 300-strong, comprising 37 partners with four partners in Washington, DC. The New York and the Washington, DC, offi ces, which are the principal hub of the fi rm’s global US practice, have more than 170 lawyers between them. Those initial pioneers would be proud. ■

When David Slade was hired as the fi rst US law-qualifi ed partner in 1996 into the New York offi ce, he brought with him a team, including his PA, Lisa Rodriguez.

Lisa admits that when she started, she did not realise what she had let herself in for. “It was so small, a diffi cult environment, and we had to do everything. That compared with our previous fi rm, where the support functions were long established.”

She was also mystifi ed by the differences between English English and American English, not least when an English lawyer came into her offi ce on her fi rst day and asked her for a “rubber”.

But, she goes on, “these were typical growing pains. Everyone was very patient and very friendly, and we all pitched in. Today, we are bigger but retain that friendliness.”

David, who in 2011 took over as managing partner of the Washington offi ce, is also astonished at the way the New York offi ce has expanded. “When I joined A&O, I never thought that the New York offi ce would be the size, and look the way that it does now, or that the US market would have embraced us as they have.

“The reason we have succeeded is that we played to our competitive advantage, which is the breadth of our international practice. We played that well, assisting US companies and banks with their international business and Asia, European and Middle Eastern companies investing, or otherwise doing business, in the United States. That trend can only intensify.”

The partner and PA team

David Lucking: Washington was

on the cards for many years.

Kevin O’Shea: competitive advantage

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A prescription for change Thomas Werlen was stepping largely into the unknown when he joined Novartis as general counsel, but six years later, his legacy is a transformed legal function.

When Thomas Werlen joined the Swiss pharmaceuticals group Novartis on the fi rst day of 2006 as general counsel, it is fair to say he was a little apprehensive. Not only was he moving from private practice in-house for the fi rst time, he was taking over a legal function of 170 lawyers – never previously having been responsible for so many under his leadership – and was moving into an industry of which he had only cursory knowledge.

On top of that, he was being brought in to reform a legal department that was in need of a shake-up. Talk about being put on the spot.

“I was nervous about interfering but, at the same time, I was brought in to make some fundamental changes, and to make sure the legal function was done right,” Thomas says now. “Also, I wanted to put my stamp on it, because I was responsible.”

How Thomas masterminded the transformation of the Novartis legal function is noteworthy, not just because of the story of how he rose to the challenge, but also instructive, since it provides a template that might be replicated in other multinational companies (see box).

His overriding vision was to create a function operating as one group, rather than having several different legal departments; to improve the work that the individual lawyers did; and get the right people by offering a better career path. With this model, and this structure, he wanted the function to be scaleable in either direction. In practice, the direction has only been upward in size. The legal function is now 750-strong.

At its root, Thomas was looking to transform the approach of his in-house team, to inculcate the values that he himself learned both at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Allen & Overy, which he joined in 2001. As he describes it: “The objective was for lawyers to transform from being legal advisers to become guardians of the law and business partners. Our people needed to change from being reactive to proactive, from thinking short-term to acting long-term, and from thinking purely tactically to acting strategically.

“If I can put it this way, I wanted them to see themselves as the fence at the top of the mountain, rather than the ambulance at the bottom.”

Neither did he want the lawyers simply to be sources of referrals to outside counsel, where the only thing they had to learn was the telephone numbers of several law fi rms. They would take ownership of the ‘matters’, to use terminology familiar to law fi rms, and work in collaboration with outside counsel.

The benefi ts of this approach, he believed, would be two-fold: reduction (ideally elimination) of regulatory fi nes and costs associated with litigation; and preservation (ideally enhancement) of the company’s reputation.

It took fi ve years to complete the transformation of the legal function, but Thomas is very pleased with the results (see box). The ultimate test of the effectiveness of the department was the successful execution of the $50 billion acquisition by Novartis of Alcon, the largest acquisition in Swiss corporate history.

In early 2012, Thomas joins Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, the world’s largest business litigation fi rm, as a partner. ■

by Humphrey Keenlyside

Thomas’sfi ve-year plan Phase 1: create a unifi ed groupEach lawyer was assigned to operate in three ‘dimensions’ – company division, practice group, and country level. Key to the operation of this three-dimensional matrix was improved coordination, communication and collaboration.

Phase 2: raise standardsA set of fi ve standards of legal excellence was agreed and established - accountability, business acumen, solution orientation, ownership and rigour.

Phase 3: recruit top peopleRecruit the best people, attracted by fascinating work with excellent career prospects in a diversifi ed legal function, and ensure that individuals’ talents were matched with the right job.

Measuring the impactIt was also very important to assess the impact of the changes to the legal function structure and, more importantly, the service delivered by the lawyers themselves.

Feedback was obtained from the group businesses, measured against the fi ve standards of legal excellence. The approval rating was 80 per cent. Staff surveys also revealed greater levels of satisfaction.

Performance was also measured by what the legal function did do (i.e. the number of deals) and by what they did not do (i.e. the absence or avoidance of complications in the deals that were executed). Again, the results were very encouraging, Thomas notes.

“All in all, the reorganisation of the legal function delivered exactly what I had anticipated when I embarked on that journey. I trust I have left the department in very good shape for my successor.”

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Brave new world of broadband

In a time of global economic instability, gaining a competitive edge is more important than ever before. In Australia, the government is looking to drive productivity across the economy with its controversial National Broadband Network.

By Connell O’Neill




The world is in the midst of a wave of investment in the development of next generation networks (NGNs) with a sharp focus on stimulating long-term economic growth and service-based economies. Governments are underwriting fi bre network builds to drive broad productivity gains across the economy at a time when incumbent operators’ balance sheets are not able to absorb the risks associated with such signifi cant investments without guarantees of acceptable returns.

Nowhere is the policy focus and value of investment more pronounced than in Australia, where the Labour government is implementing a controversial A$43 billion (£27 billion) National Broadband Network (NBN) project to connect 93 per cent of residential premises to a fi bre to the home (FTTH) network and to connect the remaining seven per cent of residential premises to high speed wireless and satellite networks.

Predictably, given the sheer scale of investment, this project is the subject of sustained and heated political debate. It has been marked by a number of implementation failures and has experienced diffi culties in striking a deal with Telstra, the incumbent owner of Australia’s major provider of local access networks.

A series of agreements with Telstra, announced in 2011, would see it switch off and ultimately decommission its

existing copper network and migrate all of its retail customers onto NBN infrastructure. At time of writing, the deal was waiting for shareholder approval.

The transaction involves complex arrangements which would provide an A$11 billion package to Telstra shareholders in exchange for Telstra’s structural separation and the implementation of measures which would result in the National Broadband Network Corporation (NBN Co) being largely uncontested at the wholesale layer – a key element of NBN Co’s business case.

The structural separation piece has been hampered by intervention from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), which rejected Telstra’s migration plan (required under the implementing legislation and a key plank of structural separation).

The current NBN legislation and business plan would see NBN Co operating a structurally separate, ‘wholesale only’ fi bre network providing broadband services to retail service providers at Layer 2 (or the ‘bitstream’ layer). Any move by NBN Co to enter the market as a retail service provider is subject to NBN Co’s passing a complex set of hurdles under the enabling legislation.

This structural change will put an end to vertical integration in the Australian telecommunications market and the value chain is likely to dramatically change as revenues are apportioned between retailers, wholesalers and network companies.

Trends intechnology– By 2013, predicts networking giant

Cisco Systems, global internet traffi c will increase to 667 exabytes, or two-thirds of a zettabyte, which is 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.

– A TNS research paper notes that 20.4 per cent of people regularly banked via their mobile in 2011, up from 9.7 per cent in 2010, again demonstrating the rapidly growing adoption of mobile technology.

– Global Forecast (2010 -2015) predicts that the global cloud computing market will more than triple from $37.8 billion in 2010 to $121.1 billion in 2015.

“ Businesses and consumers can expect to see the pace of technology convergence quickening, with hardware and software technologies moving to open standards and interoperability models.”

“ Australian businesses and consumers are poised to reap the benefi ts of a move towards a ubiquitous fast network.”

Benefi ts at a costAustralian businesses and consumers are poised to reap the benefi ts of a move towards a ubiquitous fast network. Excitement is growing over the potential future benefi ts of this technology. Whether businesses and consumerswill also experience price benefi ts remains to be seen, but many see any price increases as a necessary consequence of ushering in benefi cial functional changes.

The NBN is clearly the hub issue in the Telecommunications, Media and Technology sector in Australia, as it will address, create, accelerate and infl uence every other value-shifting issue in those markets over the next 10 years, during which the NBN will be deployed. However, infl uence over the wider business and consumer sector in Australia is likely to be great.

The NBN will remove the bandwidth bottlenecks currently experienced which have to date slowed the uptake of a range of revolutionary technologies by Australian businesses. Businesses will benefi t from a range of emerging ‘bandwidth hungry’ technologies, which are likely to include:– unifi ed services – streaming content delivery – cloud computing* – thin clients – high defi nition tele-presence solutions – big data.

Unifi ed servicesBecause of its capacity to carry all current fi xed communications services and therefore to better integrate them, the NBN has the ability, over the long term, to absorb many of the services that are carried over current fi xed line telecommunications access networks.

This includes all wireless and wireline broadcast networks (including free-to-air television, satellite television and HFC pay television), providing businesses and consumers with a more effi cient and accessible interface to key services. Service integration will be brought about through equipment convergence. Businesses and consumers can expect to see the pace of technology convergence quickening, with hardware and software technologies moving to open standards and interoperability models.

This unifi cation of services and end-user equipment also presents an opportunity for businesses and consumers to rationalise existing hardware and services and will enable the decommissioning of disparate technologies and legacy services.

Streaming content deliveryBusinesses which deal in, aggregate or consume content will benefi t from a marked increase in available bandwidth and the fi bre service will be capable of carrying high quality video streams ‘over the top’ of other services. This will enable greater fl exibility in content distribution, a benefi t to consumers of content.

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Cloud computing:why the hype?Cloud computing has been around for many years, but has re-emerged in the last few years as a hot topic, generating an increasing amount of media coverage. The hype has primarily to do with cloud’s prevalence in all aspects of consumer and business life and how this reliance on third party resources shapes our consumer and business interactions.

On a consumer level, the majority of people have used some form of cloud offering for years, perhaps without even realising it. Publically available e-mail accounts, consumer sites such as eBay and Amazon, search engines and content sites such as Google and YouTube and social networking sites are all good examples of applications available via the cloud.

Apple’s launch of the iCloud in October 2011 has revealed the media frenzy that can follow new products in this space, even though at the time it was unlikely to be available outside of the US for some time.

At a business and enterprise level, companies have increasingly benefi ted from fl exible-use IT infrastructure (servers, storage and bandwidth) or internet-based, software-enabled solutions, offering advantages in cost, effi ciency and accessibility of data. A key reason for the more recent prominence of cloud services is that they offer companies the next generation of enterprise-wide computing solutions at prices not otherwise achievable. This is particularly attractive at a time of greater focus on costs.

In turn, models for monetising investments will move away from a broadcast model to subscription or ‘all-you-can-eat’ models, which are less susceptible to customer churn. Subscription-based content delivery models benefi t the content provider, aggregator and consumer as providers, and aggregators will have more certainty over recurring revenue and consumers will have ubiquitous access to premium content.

Australia is likely to see more mainstream entry of streaming media companies (such as Pandora Radio, Netfl iks and Hulu), which will cause a major shift in the way in which Australians consume media. A move to widespread use of content streaming through the NBN will be a signifi cant development in the Australian entertainment and media sectors.

Cloud computingAn increase in network bandwidth will remove the ‘bandwidth bottleneck’, one of the major hurdles to the widespread adoption of cloud computing solutions (see box). A major bandwidth increase would enable the direct integration of cloud solutions with existing technology platforms, providing Australian businesses with on-demand access to cheap computing resources on a ‘utility’ pricing model.

The ability to scale services up and down as needed will provide businesses with greater fl exibility and reduce capital expenditure. There are also environmental benefi ts due to reduced wastage in computing resources caused by services being left idle to allow for spikes in demand.

Thin clientsWith the move toward streaming services and cloud resources being spurred on by bandwidth and the push back towards server-side processing of information, end-user software will increasingly move toward a ‘thin client’ model. This model enables users to log on to services from devices ranging from desktop and laptop PCs to smartphones and tablets and ultimately other devices.

This move to the thin client model provides greater fl exibility of access and enables services to be accessed on a range of devices.

High defi nition tele-presencesolutionsThese solutions, including HD video conferencing, will enable distributed businesses to integrate more seamlessly across geographically dispersed areas, providing greater fl exibility in working arrangements for employees.

Big dataAs businesses become more data driven, the NBN will enable solutions to the ‘big data’ problem, providing for the fast transfer of data and enabling data storage in distributed data pools (or data clouds). That will give businesses access to signifi cant scale, which ultimately drives down unit prices for data storage.

Australian businesses will see a direct bottom-line impact from these solutions. Large data processing systems will enable data mining and data analytics to be conducted effi ciently and will reduce the current data burden on IT data infrastructure within businesses.

New technology landscapeDespite the uncertainty as to whether the NBN will be a successful initiative, the effect of the NBN on the technology landscape in Australia is certain. The NBN will change the way Australians do business and the way consumers interact with the domestic and global economy.We’ll also see a range of new services and technologies will drive economic growth, particularly in the online and media sectors. And lastly, the NBN will connect all Australians, whether in metropolitan areas or in the Outback, and break down some of the distance barriers which hamper participation in the digital economy. ■

Connell O’Neill is a senior lawyer in Allen & Overy’s Sydney offi ce.

“ The NBN will change the way Australians do business and the way consumers interact with the domestic andglobal economy.”

Cloud computing can facilitate multiple users

across various communication platforms.




But for a Damascene moment when he was at Durham University, Tony Humphrey might have become an accountant. Happily for him, and luckily for Allen & Overy, he realised in the nick of time that actually he wanted to be a lawyer.

Joining A&O in 1973, Tony qualifi ed into what was then the Company/Commercial department, which incorporated banking, corporate and capital markets work. Even after these individual practice areas became separate departments as the fi rm grew, Tony continued to practise in all three areas.

Among many thousands of deals over this career, he advised on an astonishing range of transactions, from IPOs, including listing Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group, to restructuring Martin Sorrell’s WPP Group and the bookmaker, William Hill; from satellite launch contracts to fi lm

fi nancings (including an appearance at the Cannes Film Festival); and from diamond mining joint ventures in Angola to sewage farms in Zagreb.

Getting on for 40 years later, Tony can refl ect on an amazing career with A&O. “I was fortunate to have joined at the time I did,” he says. “I worked with some great people, saw the fi rm grow globally and was in at the outset of groundbreaking fi nancial structures that, in some cases, changed the market. I would not have changed a thing.”

So what was it he most enjoyed about being a lawyer? He fi nds it diffi cult to identify one particular aspect. It was all immensely satisfying, he suggests, from managing client relations (he was global client relationship partner for both Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan) to the intellectual stimulation that came

Making the deal workTony Humphrey refl ects on some of the challenges and opportunities he’s seen at close quarters in nearly 40 years with the fi rm.


Tony Humphrey most enjoyed “getting it right”.

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was invaluable, Tony believes. When apportioning work, he would try to make sure his team members also developed expertise in both dimensions. “It was an intensely exciting period, that was good for the fi rm and good for the team members who gained from having a breadth of expertise.”

If the 1980s meant for Tony the growth and the development of new fi nancial products, the recession of the early 1990s caused a change of direction. He switched his practice to workouts and restructurings, including advising the WPP Group on a massive and highly complex debt-to-equity restructuring.

For Tony, the downturn also pointed up the need for the fi rm to pay much more attention to how it promoted itself. Effective marketing required more than taking clients to the races; it should embrace wholesale analysis of clients’ individual requirements and promoting the fi rm’s capability and ability to meet those requirements. He became a strong advocate of this type of marketing within the partnership and of proper client relationship management, initially encountering strong scepticism and resistance, but eventually carrying the day. Marketing experts were hired, including James Broomfi eld, the fi rst marketing director, and a support function properly established.

The professionalisation of marketing, now deeply entrenched within the fi rm’s ethos, is a development of which Tony can feel justifi ably proud. He himself was a tireless marketer, speaking at events and networking extensively. In his time in Moscow, he built up a contact list of more than a thousand people.

Back, then, to what he most enjoyed about being a lawyer with A&O. In the end, the most satisfying aspect is actually the simplest to describe. “Ultimately, what I enjoyed most was ‘getting it right’ – taking on challenges, understanding complexities, and then fi nding ways to make the deal work.

“My experience is that clients want their lawyers to act as partners. In many cases, they do not really want to receive legal advice; they want to be helped to make a business decision. Hopefully, over my career I have helped in the taking of many, many good business decisions.” ■

1972 Graduated with joint honours degree in Economics and Law, Durham University

1973 Completed qualifying exams with distinctions, College of Law, Guildford

1973 Joins Allen & Overy as a trainee (articled clerk)

1975 Qualifi es as a solicitor, into Company/ Commercial department

1978-80 Seconded to Chase Manhattan Bank, to set up in-house legal department

1981 Made partner

2007 Managing partner, Moscow offi ce

2011 Retires from Allen & Overy

Tony Humphrey: Career at a glance

from developing and/or inventing new products. He drafted the fi rm’s fi rst project fi nance credit agreement and pioneered the use of synthetic equity derivatives in the context of UK takeovers – which, as he says with some satisfaction, “resulted in both the law and the Takeover Code having to be amended.” He talks about the particular satisfaction he derived from the psychology of negotiating and the pleasure of drafting and structuring deals.

From London to MoscowAt the time Tony joined A&O, there was one offi ce and one offi ce only. His work often took him abroad, but never other than on particular deals. When he suggested early in his career that he would be interested in being based abroad – more specifi cally, in the United States – it was regarded by Stuart Menzies, the partner for whom he was working, not just as unthinkable but quite unacceptable. If he wanted to stay with the fi rm, he should put all such heretic thoughts fi rmly to one side.

When the fi rm fi nally embraced the idea of internationalism, and had opened offi ces outside London, Tony was offered the chance to move to Asia. He had to turn that one down, for personal reasons.

It was only towards the end of his career that he was fi nally offered the opportunity to move abroad at a time that suited him. This was in 2007, when Chris Rushton, head of Global Banking, put it to Tony that he move to Moscow to head up the offi ce there.

Russia held particular appeal for Tony: he was fascinated by Russia’s history, he was keen to work in at least one different offi ce and it was a logical move for someone who had worked in several areas of law and who had been involved in aspects of the fi rm’s management (he sat at different times on the fi nance, recruitment and charities committees).

He weighed up the offer as he drove home to Cambridgeshire on a summer’s evening. By the time he arrived, he’d decided he would agree. There was one other deciding factor. “To be frank, I also liked the idea of running my own ship,” he says.

It was certainly a challenge, and would become more so. The offi ce, which had 40 lawyers at the time, was successful but was, he felt, somewhat detached from the rest of the A&O network. He set out and led implementation of a strategy for the

offi ce to integrate into the A&O network so that it would refl ect and reinforce the fi rm’s global brand.

Russia was hit hard in September 2008 by the global fi nancial crisis. Tony admits it “was a pretty scary time.” Fortunately the Russian economy has great fundamental strengths; prospects for growth in Russia are much higher than in Western Europe or the USA. As a result, by late 2010 and early 2011, the Moscow offi ce was growing and strengthening again.

When he retired from the fi rm in April 2011, at the same time as leaving the Moscow offi ce, there were nearly twice as many lawyers there as when he arrived, the fi rm’s reputation had been enhanced and market share had increased.

In at the start Tony can also look back with satisfaction on his involvement in helping to turn the fi rm into the market leader in two new areas of work in the 1980s: project fi nance and management buyouts. As the history of the fi rm often reveals in other areas of practice (notably, with the launch of the Eurobond market), both came about by a combination of happenstance and initiative.

The happenstance was that a leading US bank, a longstanding client of the fi rm, turned to A&O to draft the documents as the lender on an oil project in the North Sea. The initiative, on Tony’s part, was that even though the fi rm had never before drafted such documents, he knew that one way or the other they would be able to do it.

As Tony relates it, there was a certain chutzpah involved. “When I got involved, the draft was already two weeks overdue so there was a lot of pressure. The documents I had seen in the market were extremely complex and technical. They clearly thought that we were used to producing them when the reality was that we had never done so! It was a massive, nerve-wracking job but I survived and the client was happy.”

That set the ball rolling. More deals followed. Tony enlisted the support of other lawyers, including Graham Vinter, Anne Baldock and Chris Roberts, and a new practice area was created.

It was much the same story for the management buyout work: an instruction out of the blue, a willingness to take on the challenge, and the ability to make the structures work. Having a knowledge both of the corporate and fi nance elements

On the farm, at the races Since retirement in April, Tony has been concentrating his attention on assisting his wife, Sarah, a successful racehorse trainer, in a business that needs full-time management.

At their farm and stables in south Cambridgeshire, Sarah trains 24 racehorses. In the fi rst half of the 2011-12 season, Sarah had 12 winners from around three dozen runners and her horses had been in the winners’ enclosure 25 times. She is in the top 30 of several hundred trainers in the country.

Tony – a former winning amateur jockey himself – assists with the business side of the training, which includes employing staff and jockeys. He still rides out and sometimes even mucks out the stables. All of which is a far cry from negotiating and drafting project fi nance deals but, surveying the farm, he could not be happier.

“My experience is that clients want

their lawyers to act as partners.”


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Philip OwenPhilip Owen joined A&O in March 1973 as an articled clerk. He was made a partner in 1982 and worked in the Corporate department until he retired in May 1998 after a quarter of a century at the fi rm.

After a long and courageous battle with cancer, Phil passed away on 23 December 2010. He was 66.

Tributes to PhilLoyalty is a word not often used these days but to me it characterises Phil: loyalty to his wife Debbie and their two children, Julia and Simon, and loyalty to A&O.

After Phil left Cambridge in the early 1970s, he moved back to Goole in Yorkshire, but never settled in local practice. After a few months he joined A&O, working under Geoffrey Sammons (‘GTS’) and, from a professional point of view, was totally fulfi lled.

The quality of Phil’s work as a corporate lawyer was of the highest standard and he was utterly devoted to A&O. On one occasion, GTS insisted that Phil took a six-week holiday, sailing in an Atlantic race to the Caribbean, in view of the long hours he had put in.

Having retired from A&O in 1998, Phil went on to have a very successful career as a corporate partner at the London offi ce of Maclay Murray and Spens.

As a person, Phil was simply a character. In my article on the life and times of the A&O rugby team, I have referred to the team’s ‘never say die’ attitude which so typifi es Phil. Nobody could say that Phil lacked enthusiasm when he put on his boots. He loved English sport. On reading a Times report on a rugby match by Frank Johnson, he would wax lyrical about England’s (or Yorkshire’s) “lean locks”.

If Phil had a good story, he fi rmly believed that it improved on the re-telling. On our annual trip to the Varsity match, he must have told me a dozen times how, the fi rst time he got into a boat, Tony Rodgers (the Cambridge coach for the last 28 years) put his foot through it when they were at college together.

Above all when one thinks of Phil, one remembers his turn of phrase. I was introduced to one of his sisters. “Meet Penny Pickles, she’s a quiet soul.” Once I lent him my copy of Gone With The Wind. One Friday night at about nine o’clock, he rang me up and, quoting from the book,

In Memoriam

John RobinsonJohn Robinson joined A&O as a maintenance assistant in 1987 and changed roles in 2003 to become a porter. He retired from the fi rm in July 2006, after nearly 20 years of service. He died on 26 April 2011 at the age of 66.

A&O alumnus Ron Holmes recalls: “I worked with John for 18 years and if I were asked to describe him, I would say that he was a very private man and a true gentleman. John never swore or argued and never indulged in gossip; he was from the old school. He was a hard-working, intelligent man and someone you could rely on if you needed any advice regarding work. I remember how John loved his Friday lunchtime tipple – half a lager shandy. He will be sadly missed.”

Nicola BurdettNicola Burdett – ‘Nicky’ to her colleagues – joined the A&O London offi ce in 1974 as a receptionist. She retired in 1985 after 11 years of service. She died on 7 July 2011, aged 86.

Senior partner David Morley recalls: “I remember Nicky welcoming me to A&O on my fi rst day at the fi rm 31 years ago. As a young trainee, I even did her conveyancing and recall going to meet her with the keys only to get on the wrong train! She commanded reception with authority and warmth. She knew everything happening in the fi rm – certainly more than the partners! She was a lovely lady who loved her job. She was always held in great affection by those who knew her well.”

said: “The Tarleton twins danced all night and never missed a square!” Who would phone you up just to tell you this?

No one could rival him in his use of words. I remember one time at A&O when Phil started calling everybody ‘chief’. Soon all of us were calling each other ‘chief’ instead of by our fi rst names, which produced hilarious consequences as nobody knew who was talking to or about whom.

The loss to us all of Phil is immense but life must go on and Phil would not wish it any other way.– John Fisher, former litigation assistant solicitor

Phil was the ultimate team man. He was 100 per cent loyal and always gave 110 per cent of what he had to give. However stressful the situation, he maintained his sense of optimism and his sense of humour. Truly, a great man to have as a friend and someone who made maximum use of the talents he had been given. – John Rink, former managing partner

When I was sitting with Phil as an articled clerk, I remember how friendly, helpful and supportive he was in teaching me how to practise law. He displayed the highest professional standards and work ethic but reminded us all there was a time to play hard too. On the rugby pitch he morphed from player to team coach over a few seasons and always seemed to know how to get new jerseys and a beer kitty, which surely marked him out as a future partner! His enthusiasm for life was infectious and he made everyone around him feel valued and special. He loved the fi rm and was one of its best ambassadors. I have great memories of a great man.– Laurie Adams, former banking associate

I fi rst came across Phil on my fi rst day at A&O in 1975 as a very young associate joining from another law fi rm. Having initially received a fairly frosty reception in the days when the fi rm’s proudest boast was that all the partners were home grown and ‘outsiders’ were treated with suspicion, this larger-than-life fi gure bounded into my room and gave me what I later found out was his typical Yorkshire warm and noisy greeting. I felt instantly that this was someone who was on my wavelength. Over the next 35 years, I spent time with Phil on the squash court, sailing, eating at his favourite Indian restaurant, the late Standard, watching sport or just listening to his stories. He was the most amazing company, with a fund of genuinely funny anecdotes and vivid expressions – I often catch myself using some of these even today, so infectious was his vocabulary. I miss him greatly as one of life’s real characters and an ever-cheerful, loyal and totally trustworthy friend and colleague.– Paul Monk, former ICM partner

Phil was a regular member of the fi rm’s rugby team and he played the game in much the same way as he lived his life – with immense enthusiasm but also with a running commentary on what was going on around him. He was the old-fashioned type of lock forward who could jump in the lineout without allowing his feet to leave the ground. His scrummaging was a little distracting because he kept up his running commentary even when bound into the scrum, the effect of which was as if Bill McLaren was positioned somewhere in our second row. The result is memorable even now.– Guy Beringer, former senior partner

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The A&O rugby team came into existence in 1975 at the same time as the Law Society’s annual rugby 7s tournament. The two events are linked. Having played for the Law Society rugby team while at law college in 1973-74, I was keen to enter an A&O team into the competition. However, I was only an articled clerk and did not know how the ‘Gods’ – because this is what the partners seemed to me then – would view such a suggestion. It was the late Phil Owen, in the Commercial department, and keen rugby supporters such as Bill Tudor John, who gave me the confi dence to approach the fi rm.

Finding seven sportsmen in the fi rm who had actually played rugby proved a challenge. John Rink and I were discussing the problem and he mentioned fellow litigation partner Graeme Hall, who was an elite rower. “Graham can’t play rugby but he’ll run all day,” said John, an assessment that turned out to be spot-on.

It wasn’t until we trotted onto the pitch for our fi rst game that John, spotting my rugby socks, realised we had both gone to Sedbergh.

Things did not get off to a good start for the club. No one could ever accuse Phil Owen of lacking enthusiasm and this was demonstrated in our fi rst practice session when Phil fairly tackled an opponent at Sacker & Partners and broke his shoulder. Even ten years later, in Hong Kong, a former Sacker & Partners’ solicitor spoke disapprovingly of this tackle!

With this practice session behind us, we progressed to the semi-fi nals of the Law Society 7s, where we went one score down after a few minutes. As a dejected Phil, John and Gideon Hudson were trudging back to the half-way line, on the basis that ‘needs must’, I took all my articled clerk’s courage into my hands and yelled out: “Get your chins off your chest,

we can beat this team!” Phil dined out on this for years; but more important, for the fi rst time in my life, this exhortation worked: heads went up and we won.

It was a fi ne example of the tremendous esprit de corps and pride in the fi rm which A&O generates that we see today in the alumni association. The A&O rugby team was going to need all this ‘never say die’ attitude in the years to come as even in this 7s team we only mustered six rugby players.

In that fi rst 7s fi nal, we were against Clifford Turner (as they were then known) with the Scottish International, Mike Biggar, at outside half. John scored the fi rst try but, alas, Mike Biggar was too good for us and we lost.

The A&O rugby club was now off the ground and to bolster its numbers, Bill Tudor John managed to persuade the powers that be in HR to recruit some good rugby players. Guy Beringer would have been recruited by A&O based on merit alone, but it certainly did not harm his chances that he was a Cambridge Blue and played for Ulster.

We started to hit a purple patch, particularly against our great rivals and friends, Slaughter & May. In the following year’s Law Society 7s, we met them in the semi-fi nals. The pitch had a tremendous slope on it. My articled clerk, Laurie Adams, and I were of one mind when he said: “If you win the toss, John, play downhill because if this goes to extra time and sudden death, we will need the slope.” Sure enough, the game went to extra time and we had the slope. The fi rst time Laurie got the ball at outside half in our own 22-metres, he hoofed it downhill, followed it up with a chase and scored.

In the fi nal, we played against Freshfi elds. Boyan Wells took them apart with some great tries and we won the cup.


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The life and times of

A&O’srugby team

Alumnus John Fisher captained the A&O rugby team after helping found the club in 1975. Here he recalls some of his favourite memories of the late Phil Owen (see obituary, page 71 and their triumphs on the rugby fi eld during the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s.

“ It was a fi ne example of the tremendous esprit de corps and pride in the fi rm which A&O generates that we see today.”



Your words and photos, our storyMany of us joined A&O in the fi rst fl ush of our youth and left years later with a whole lifetime of experiences behind us; for some of us A&O was a staging post in a career which spanned many different organisations; for others A&O still remains a very important part of our lives.

However long or short the time you have spent at A&O it is inevitable that you have witnessed and contributed to the story of the fi rm.

We want to hear about those larger than life personalities, the humour, the bizarre incidents, the ground breaking deals and cases, the nightmare closings, the clients won, the frontier experiences in far fl ung offi ces, the amazing social and sporting events. These all make up the rich tapestry of experiences which have made the fi rm the organisation that it is today.

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That year’s 15-a-side game against Slaughter & May was played in absolutely appalling conditions. So bad were the conditions that of the 30 players on the fi eld, only Guy Beringer had suffi ciently good eye-to-hand coordination to actually hold onto the ball after catching it and he scored the winning try. After the match, Philip Wood invited the whole team back to his house in Kew and ordered in curries. He had a drum kit and my vivid recollection of the evening was a virtuoso performance by Tony Grant.

The following day, half the team reported into the offi ce sick. This was not because we had heavy heads; in fact our heads were about the only parts of our bodies which were okay because the heavy rain had washed the fertiliser off the soil and it had infected our cuts.

A myth has grown up in some quarters that our rugby games against Slaughter & May were some form of grudge matches. Nothing could be further from the truth. These were hard fought but clean games between two fi rms which had a deep respect for each other. After the game, we were all great friends. In fact, we were even greater friends, which is what rugby is all about.

The A&O juggernaut moved on. We beat Lovells easily. I remember seeing John Trembath jumping up and down on the touchline in excitement as we scored some great tries playing 15-man rugby with forwards and backs combining.

However, our biggest test was against Jesus College, Oxford – Laurie Adams’ alma mater. Jesus had had an old boys’ dinner the night before and so their undergraduates were strengthened by some good graduate players. I was apprehensive when I saw that one of them was Ed Cuss, an Oxford Blue who the day before had been in the same side as me at Rosslyn Park. What made matters worse was that he was prop on the same side of the scrum where I was packing down.

A&O had some great backs, but only four of the eight forwards seemed to have had any rugby coaching at all. In contrast, Jesus had a strong scrum but weak backs – so if we could get the ball to our backs, we would win. However, we simply could not get the ball to our backs!

The pressure coming through in the scrum had to be felt to be believed. I have never experienced anything like it in 25 years of rugby. However, yet again, A&O rose magnifi cently to the occasion. Never was the phrase “backs to the wall” more

late tackle was due to his poor eyesight. True or not, 30 seconds later, I tackled Jordan on the same ankle, only a little late. Jordan scored another try right in front of our posts but, by this stage, he was hobbling so much that he sliced the ball with his kick, not only missing the posts but almost hitting the corner fl ag.

As the game went on, we started to creep back, with Mick Parr, our Cambridge Blue at outside half, scoring seven tries that afternoon in the whole competition. By this stage, the estate agents were complaining loudly about how awful the referee was. With only seconds to go, Mike Duncan, who had wheels, picked the ball up from the half-way line and, as Phil would say, “was off like a fi ddler’s elbow”. We had won the competition, the fi rst fi rm of solicitors to do so.

The best player we ever had was Mick Parr. He could have pushed for international honours if he had tried. We had many talented players: Guy Beringer, Laurie Adams, Tony Welford, Boyan Wells and Mike Duncan principal among them. Guy ran Mick very close as the best ever. Like all good players, he had superb hands.

The City 7s was the last game I played for A&O as I then went to Hong Kong and while there, represented the colony in the Asian Rugby Tournament in Fukuoka, Japan in 1984. I watched with admiration, from the other side of the fence, as David Sutton did a superb job in founding A&O’s Hong Kong offi ce in 1988 – but that’s another story.

appropriate. I remember Tony Grant – and all who know Tony would confi rm he is not the biggest rugby player – single-handedly holding off three or four Jesus players.

We got the ball back to our backs only twice – although, when I saw Mike Duncan at Phil Owen’s funeral in January 2011, he said he got the ball once; so, if Mike got it out to our backs that would be three times in the whole match – but we scored two tries!

In the last minute, Tony Welford, at outside centre, executed a scissors move with Peter Donald at fullback. Peter hit the line at pace and scored between the posts. When the fi nal whistle blew, it was hard to tell who was most shell-shocked – the Jesus forwards, who could not believe that they had lost, or the A&O scrum, who could not believe that they had actually survived the onslaught.

The next test was the City 7s in 1981. Charles Morgan quite rightly said it was a step up from the standard we had encountered so far. In the fi nal, we played an estate agents’ team which had Tony Jordan, an England International, at outside-half.

Things started badly and Jordan scored between the posts, but lady luck was smiling on us that day. Alistair Asher made a tackle on Jordan that was so late it was into next week. Jordan went down, clutching his right (kicking) ankle. We were lucky not to have at least a penalty awarded against us, if not worse. Mike Duncan later told me that Alistair’s

London City 7s winning team, 1981: (from left) Laurie Adams, Mike Duncan, Boyan Wells,

Tony Welford, John Fisher, Alistair Asher and Mike Parr.

A&O’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations XV team, 1980: (front row from left) AS Fitchie, MG Duncan, BS Wells, ARH Welford, GG Beringer, MF Parr;

(second row, from left) AH Asher, CP Morgan, PA Owen, JA Fisher (captain), DK Stone, ND Cuthbert, JF Wotton, LP Adams and SBP Chapman.

“ After the game, we were all great friends. In fact, we were even greater friends, which is what rugby is all about.”



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Michele Marrafi no • Julia Marriott • Sarah Marsden • Tess Marshall • Ben Marson • Mario Marti • Barbara Anna Martin (Mitchell) • Beatrice Martin • Eduardo Martin • Laura Martin • Mark Martin • Samantha Martin • Sarah Martin • Simon Martin • Julio Martinez • Ricardo Martinez • Davide Marzano • Gabriele Masalovic • Carol Mash • Louise Mason • Nicola Mason • Paul Massey • Barbara Massiou • Piers Master • Rachel Masters (Kull) • Luca Mastrodonato • Neetu Masute • Ian Mathers • Andrew Matheson • Tak Matsuda • Alexei Matsuev • Andrew Matthews • Kellie Matthews • Kerry Matthews • Michal Matulnik • Kathleen Maurand • Ann Maurau • Christoph Maurer • Clare Maurice • Frederic Maury • Isabella May • Philip May • James Maycock • Karen Mayes (Wood) • Steve Mayes • Charles Mayo • Sophie Mazzier • Janet Mbu (Tewungwa) • Will McAdam • Richard McBride • Hamish McCartan • Eithne McCarthy • Luke McCarthy • John McCay • Michael McClean • Robert McClean • Oliver McClintock • Michelle McColloch • Paul McConnell • Moni McCoy • Catriona McDevitt • Laura McDonald • Michael McDonald • Lesley McDougall • Caitriona McGonagle • Ciarán McGonagle • Anita McGowan • Christopher McGowan • Mark McGowan • Michael McGowan • Clare McGrath • Dominic McGreal • Catriona McGregor • Anne McGuckin • Stephanie McGuiness • Keith McGuire • Robert McGuire • Euan McIntosh • Marianne McIntosh • Sarah-Jane McIntosh • Charles McKenna • Clare McKenna • Anthony McKenzie • Jenny McKeown • Flora McLean • Harville Mcleary • Anna McLeod • Nick McLoughlin • Caroline McMahon • Phillip McMahon • Aoife McMenamin (Cassidy) • Simon McMenemy • Carys McMillan • Nicola McNamara • Nicola McNeill • James McNeillie • James McRobbie • David McShane • Amanda McSweeney • Carloandrea Meacci • Rod Meade • Claire Meeghan • Eliza Meehan • Gavin Meek • Moshmi Mehan (Patel) • Amar Meher • Sanjay Mehta • Stefanie Meier • Alex Meijer • Callista Meijer • Gerard Meijer • André Melchert • Giorgio Melega • Karin Melling • Sunil Memhi • Nicolas Menard-Durand • Louisa Mendes Da Costa • Marisa Méndez • Barbara Menhart • Lindsay Mercer • Puzant Merdinian • Fernando Merino • Catherine Merity (Mallick) • John Merity • Sam Merullo • Katrin Meschede • Alistair Metcalfe • Jeremy Metson • Jasper Meyers • Kleist Michael • Tory Michaels • Magdalena Michalska • Jacek Michalski • Johannes Michels • Simon Middleton • Jennifer Miedema • Tomoka Miho • Giles Mildred • Jenny Miles-Prouten • Kristina Milicevic (Vucic) • Zorka Milin • Izabella Millen • Matt Millen • J. Randolph Miller • John Miller • Kate Miller • Carole Mills • Caroline Mills • Edward Mills (Suckling) • Julie Mills • Lawrence Milner • Duncan Milwain • Susan Min • Katja Mingau • Rebecca Minihane (Parkhouse) • Dorothy Mioduszewska • Frédéric Mion • Elizabeth Mircica • Maria Vittoria Mirone • Hemanth Mirpuri • Rohan Mishra • Nika Missaghi • Ginette Mitchell • Nicholas Mitchell • Nick Mitchell • Chasham Mitra • Mark Mladek

Adams, Laurie.........................................71, 73-75

Asher, Alistair..................................................74, 75

Astier, Camille ...............................................42, 44

Ballheimer, Andrew..............................................53

Batson, Richard.....................................................13

Beringer, Guy....................................53, 71, 73-75

Brayne, Jonathan.................................................53

Burdett, Nicola.......................................................70

Chan, Mimmie.........................................13, 38-41

Chapman, SBP.......................................................74

Coltart, Katie....................................................46-47

Cruz, Virginia.........................................................37

Cunningham, Dan..............................................53

Cuthbert, ND..........................................................74

Danda, Claire.........................................................34

De Vos, Mieke..........................................................13

Denyer, Stephen.....................................................13

Donald, Peter..........................................................74

Duncan, Melissa....................................................23

Duncan, Mike.................................................74, 75

Duquette, Francois...........................................9-10

Dura, Mayte..........................................................34

Feldberg, Michael..................................................53

Fisher, John................................................71, 72-75

Fitchie, AS................................................................74

Franco, Alvaro........................................................34

Given, Davina........................................................25

Golden, Jeffrey................................................13, 53

Grabarek, Piotr......................................................36

Grant, Tony......................................................73, 74

Hall, Graeme..........................................................73

Hartley, Matthew...................................................13

Hawke, Shari..........................................................36

Hazeldine, Susan..................................................13

Herberkova, Katerina.........................................35

Holmes, Ron...........................................................70

Hudson, Gideon....................................................73

Humphrey, Tony..............................................66-69

Husted, Catherine.................................................13

Kartheiser, Bob......................................................53

Katafi l, Donna.......................................................35

Lau, Jonathan..................................................48-49

Lucking, David......................................................53

Lynton-Grotz, Mirea...............................................2

MacLeod, Anna.....................................................24

Maiz, Luiz...............................................................34

McGown, Don................................................13, 53

McLaughlin, Cathleen.................................53, 55

McPherson, Emma..............................................53

Menski, Hans.........................................................36

Menzies, Stuart..............................................17, 68

Moll, Vera.................................................................32

Monk, Paul.............................................................71

Morgan, CP..............................................................74

Morley, David......................................6-11, 21, 70

Murray, David.......................................................13

Nagyova, Monika.................................................32

Neicho, Vince...........................................................13

O’Neill, Connell..............................................59, 63

O’Shea, Kevin........................................................55

Owen, Philip.............................................71, 72-74

Pacquee, Didier.....................................................32

Palmer, Jamie.........................................................36

Parr, Mick.........................................................74, 75

Pezley, Michael.......................................................35

Pozhitkov, Andrey.................................................34

Pullen, Alison.........................................................13

Reid, David.............................................................53

Rink, John........................................................71, 73

Robinson, John......................................................70

Rodriguez, Lisa.....................................................54

Rushton, Chris.......................................................68

Russ, Zoe.................................................................33

Sanchez, Pilar.........................................................34

Scales, Tim...........................................................9-10

Sellar, Kim...............................................................33

Sheldon, Carl..................................................17, 55

Slade, David....................................................53, 54

Stall, Silke.................................................................33

Stone, DK.................................................................74

Sutton, David.........................................................75

Taylor, Katharine..................................................27

Thomson, Jim........................................................17

Tipping, Sue............................................................13

Trembath, John.....................................................74

Tse, Eric....................................................................26

Tudor John, Bill................................12, 14-17, 73

Turner, James.........................................................18

Turner, Lucy............................................................37

Van de Wiele, Willem............................................32

Welford, Tony...................................................74, 75

Welling, Mark.........................................................13

Wells, Boylan...............................................9, 73-75

Werlen, Thomas...............................................56-57

Wood, Philip............................................42, 43, 73

Wotton, JF................................................................74

Index


• Jiri Slovacek • Judith Smaling • Aiden Small • Helen Smallcombe • Matilda Smart (Walker) • Mardin Smayel • Dominik Smeets • Wim Smeets • Edo Smid • Dirk-Jan Smit • Gerben Smit • Aingel Smith • Catriona Smith • Claire Smith • David Smith • Elizabeth Smith • Holly Smith • James Smith • Jenny Smith • Louise Smith • Martin Smith • Rachel Smith • Rachel Smith • Rebecca Smith • Robert Smith • Sharon E. Smith • Susan Smith • Tania Smith • Shamina Sneed • Suzanne Snook • Gwen Snorteland • Angus So • Annette So • Oliver Socher • Jennifer Soda • Makoto Soga • Cindy Soh • Monica Soldini • Aili Song • Shaibya Sood • I-Ping Soong • Grégory Sorreaux • Sylwia Sosnowska • Grace Southergill (Pau) • Charles Southey • Hannah Southon • Tamsin Sparrow • Laura Spearing • Sebastian Speight • Patrick Speller • Neil Spellings • Julie Spencer Brownson • Rose Spencer-Longhurst • Aureila Spivey • Kerry Spooner • Dominique Sprainger • Antoinette Sprenger • Shannon Spriggs • Harald Spruit • Maryn Spruyt • Wanpen Sriniratsai • Denise St Cyr • Adrian St John • Patrick St John • Sophie St John • Axel Staffl age • Dennis Stanek • Michael Stansby • Dawn Stanyer • Victoria Staples • Corinne Staves • Chantelle Staynings • Andrej Stec • Alwin Stege • Christian Steinbach • Ann-Charlott Steinbrück • Sebastian Steinfeld • Nicola Stenhouse (Gordon-Finlayson) • Kirsten Stephenson • Lee Stephentica • Andrew Sterneberg • Annette Stevens • Debbie Stevenson • Adrian Stewart • Alan Stewart • Denis Stewart • Joanna Stewart (Marshall) • Melissa Stewart • Peter Stewart • Tim Stewart • Erin Stieber • Tim Stoberock • Denise Stock • Marc Stock • Antony Stokes • Simon Stokes • Zaneta Stoklasova • Diederik Stols • Meryem Stoltenberg • Joanne Stone • Paul Stone • Michael Stoneham • Alexa Stopka • Andrzej Stosio • Andrew Stoten • Scott Strachan • Oliver Stratton • Luke Streatfeild • Robert Strivens • Arnout Stroeve • Per Stromblad • Richard Stroud • Kornelia Strukowicz • Joris Struycken • Nicolas Strypstein • Rob Stuart • Filip Stuer • Claire Sturm • Dolph Stuyling de Lange • Joe Su • Vivienne Su • Mei Ying Suen • Kinga Sugar • Wanthana Sukkerd • Marvelle Sullivan • Dr Cornelia Summ • Charlie Summers • Linda Summers • Tony Summers • Igor Sundic • Rafi el Sunmonu • Ágoston Suppan • Barbora Surinova • Prateep Suriyaruangvet • Bernd Süß • Sarinya Suthaporn • David Sutton • Igor Svaby • Carol Swaffer • Jonathan Swain • William Swan • Bridget Swarbreck • Aditya Swarup • Kim Swatridge • Laura Swindells (Samuels) • Serena Swint • Cara Sykes (Hunt) • Richard Sykes • Paul Symes-Thompson • Charlotte Syms • Pawel Szaja • Christopher Szostak • Joanna Sztulman • Ramin Tabatabai • Anthony Tabor • Kenji Tagaya • Frederick Tai • Jori Taipale • Alison Tait • Gavin Tait • Kiyoko Takagi • Akito Takahashi • Dai Takekawa • Diliara Taktashova • Janice Talbot • Joanna Tallantire • Lamya Talpur • Amy Tam • Andrew Tam • Eva Tam • Tiffany Tam • Andreas Tamasauskas • Zubair Tamuri • Benjamin Tan • Choo Lye Tan • Cindy Tan • Karen Tan • Lai Huat Tan • Mei-Shan Tan • Persephone Tan • Seow Ling Tan • Shirleen Tan • Sara Tancredi • Alexander Tang • Man Ti Tang • Terris Tang • Tian Tang • Sadi Tanmanatragul • Julia Tanner • Sonia Tanner • Aekarat Tantisattamo • Christie Tao • Andrea Taormina • Peter Tarn • Sarah Tashjian • Kirsten Tavernier • Nualwan Taweesuksatian • Ben Taylor • Joanna Taylor • Moira Taylor • Simon Taylor • 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• Urszula Modzelewska • Eric Moffat • Simon Moffat • Claire Moffoot • Hanif Mohamed • Robert Moir • Andrzej Molenda • Nicholas Moller • Ralf Möller • Marcello Mollo • Victoria Molony (Partridge) • Kristel Momdjian • Heiner Mommsen • Petr Monik • Paul Monk • Jacqueline Monteith • Judith Montijn-Swinkels • Wasana Montraprasit • Jane Moon • Rachael Mooney • Elizabeth Moore • Gary Moore • George Moore • Katrina Moore • Lawrence Moore • Mia Moore • Michael Moore • Simon Moore • Jon Moorhouse • Athena Moratis • Charles Morgan • Emma Morgan • Haydn Morgan • Neil Morgan • Nicholas Morgan • Nicky Morgan • Owain Morgan • Alex Morley • Bryan Morley • Lesley Morley (Clark) • Pamela Morley • Anne Morocutti • Bryant Morris • Jeannette Morris • Stuart Morrison • Andrew Mortimer • Andrew Morton • Emma Moscrop (Blackburn) • Rebecca Moss • Sarah Moss • Noel Motha • Mitra Motlagh • Kyra Motley • Claire Mousley • Hans Mouthaan • Marleen Mouton • Sarah Moynihan • Adam Mozel • Johannes Mueller • Sabine Anja Mühle • Rik Muilwijk • Lorna Muir • Udayan Mukherjee • Rory Mullarkey • Guido Müller • Lisa Mulley • Adrian Mulryan • Douglas Murning • Amy Murphy (Buchanan) • Sean Murphy • Vanessa Murray • Alexandra Murrell (Hearn) • Marie Musgrove • Toon Musschoot • Claudio Christian Müssig • Angela Mutum • Sidney Myers • Tom Mylott • Caroline Mylward • Simone Nagel • Teruma Naito • Chalinee Narkveg • Rebecca Nash (Ross) • Mohamed Nasser • Ramez Nasser • Thitiporn Navidad • Jane Anne Negi (Thomas) • Carla Elena Negri • Hans-Thomas Nehlep • Gavin Neilan • Laura Neill • Hayley Neilson • Charlotte Nelson • Ryan Nelson • Sheree Nerden • Mark New • Heidi Newbigging • Vivien Newcombe • Warwick Newell • Pat Newman • Patricia Newman (Smith) • Rebecca Newson • Cathryn Newsway • Derek Ng • Elaine Ng • Grace Ng • Paul Ng • Stephanie Ng • Vincent Ng • Grainne NI Dhubhghaill • Johnny Nichols • Rachel Nicholson • Sarah Nickle • Adam Nicoll • John Nicolson • Claus Aagaard Nielsen • Dieter Nieuwdorp • Marco Nieuwe Weme • Wilbert Nieuwenhuizen • Lynda Nightingale (Trayte) • Barbara Nijhuis • Sarah Nimmo (Lambie) • Sulait Nkusi • Donna Noble • Julia Noble • Tanja Noe • Michelle Nolder • Joanna Norland • Rebecca Normand-Hochman • Richard Norridge • William Norris • James North • Noeleen North • Nicola Northway • Anna Norton • Ajal Notowicz • Rachel Nottingham • Suzanne Nsaba • Sandra Nsia-Boachie • Eugenie Nunes • Damien Nussbaum • Israel Nyman • Harold Nyssens • Alpa Oakley-White (Vekaria) • Nina Oberlaender • Astrid O’Brien • Dominic O’Brien • Ben O’Bryan • Tom O’Connor • Mathieu Odet • Richard Odogwu • Nick O’Donnell • Annette O’Donoghue • Gillian O’Donoghue • Claire Offord (Rowles) • Suzie Ogilvie • Elizabeth Ogunde • Daniel Oh • Matthew O’Halloran • Sarah O’Hora • Robert O’Keeffe • Onno Okkinga • Kenneth Okumura • Grégory Olczak-Godefert • Helen Oldfi eld • Sarahjane O’Leary • Susanna O’Leary (Rawson) • Charles Olney • Phoebe Olsen • Annelise O’Neill • Karen Ongena • Surapon Onoora • Uzo Onwere • Tamara Oppenheimer • Miklos Orban • Catharine Organ • Jocelyn Ormond • Noah Ornstein • Nicholas O’Rorke • Mark Orth • Milton John Osborn • Susie Oscroft • Carlien O’Shaughnessy • Joris Oster • Mathilde Ostertag • Napapaorn O-suwankul • Ladislav Osvald • Dominik Oswald • Juan Otero • Henk Otten • Joel Outlaw • Guus Overgoor • Arndt Overlack • Polly Owen • Virginia Owen • B. Shea Owens • Shea Owens • Cathy Oxby (Dore) • Olufemi Oye • Reg Ozcan • Katri Paas • Juliette Packham • Leon Paczynski • Gabrielle Page (Fry) • Liz Page • Stephanie Pagni • Judith Pain • Quentin Pak • Nitin Palekar • Caron Palmer • Desiree Palmer • Martin Palmer • Vicki Palmer • Angelo Alessandro Palmeri • Bartlomiej Palusiak • Liudmila Panasiuk • Chintan Panchal • Malgorzata Paradowska • Sumati Parikh • Sung Uk Park • Desiree Parker • Eileen Parker • Fabienne Parker • Louise Parker • Adam Parkin • Anne-Marie Parkin • Steven Parkinson • Richard Parmar • Giuseppe Parotti • Mervyn Parry • Viktoria Parry • Hemmo Parson • Harriet Parsons (Shankland) • Lucy Partington • Sara Partington • Graham Partridge • Richard Pascoe • Hetal Patel • Niharika Patel • Nilesh Patel • Nirali Patel • Prity Patel • Reshma Patel • Samir Patel • Chelsey Patmore • Miriam Patterson • Tom Pauk • Laura Paul • Nikolaus Paul • Vanessa Paul (Martin) • Carlo Pavesio • Catherine Pavey • Kate Paysen • Anna Payton • Priscilla Pe • Kathleen Peacock • Tracey Peacock • Gordon Pearce • Michael Pearce • Georgina Pearman (Hawkins) • Colin Pearson • Michael Pearson • Suzanne Pearson • Alexander Pease • Liesbet Peeters • Aneta Pelegry • Emil Pellicer • Alexia Pellous • Robert Penfold • Liping Peng • Pei Peng • Stephen Peppiatt • Toby Peregrine-Jones • Emma Pereira (Talty) • Erle Pereira • Gwenael Perhirin • Cécile Périer • Florence Perlberger • Shatyn Permalloo • Isabelle Perret-Noto • Tatiana Perrier (Schweimler) • Neil Perrin • Andrew Perry • Duncan Perry • Natalie Perryman • Ulrike Peter • David Peters • Erin Peters • Luc Peters • Nataly Petersen • Jeffrey Peterson • Kellie Petherick • Lauree Petherick • Alexandra Peto • Sarah Petrie • Heiko Petzold • Celeste Peverett • Martin Pexton • Carlo Peyron • Lucinda Pfaff • Julia Pfeil • Lisbet Phang • Gemma Pharaoh (Handley) • Simon Phillips • Susan Phillips • James Philpott • Charlotte Phipps • Carlo Pianese • Robert Picken • Robert Pickering • Aaron Pickett 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Prior • Kai Heinrich Prokopf • Amanda Prosser • Simon Pryce • Tamsin Pryce-Jones (May) • Ben Pugh • Loretta Pugh • Catherine Pugsley (Thomas) • Hugh Pugsley • Rafael Puiggros • Stephania Pullin • Amelia Pumphrey • Sharon Pun • Sarah Purbrick • Sarah Purcell • Benjamin Pynt • Hongxu Qin • Marie-Lise Quaradeghini • Ann Quatacker • Massimiliiano Quatraro • Gordon Quilty • Ingrid Quinet • Michelle Quinn • Florian Quintard • Paula Quinton-Jones • Amar Qureshi • Amar Qureshi • Geraldine Rabe • Rachelle Radcliffe • Sarah Radema • Tom Radford • Wolfram Radke • Andrew Radley • Alan Rae Smith • Ulrike Rählert • Anish Raja • Clive Rakestrow • Krishna Raman • Jennifer Ramos (Manning) • Dinuka Ranasinghe • Neil Randell • Riikka Rannikko (Leinonen) • Akshata Rao • Jack Rao • Melanie Raphael • Karin Rasschaert • Blake Ratcliff • James Ratcliffe • Tobias Rath • Maria Ratner • Panuwat Rattanawechasit • Lisa Rava • Gary Rawlings • Peter Rawlings • Kaushik Ray • Dale Rayner • Shireen Raza • Jenny Reavley (Cripps) • Louisa Reay • Ursula Rech • Katherine Reece • Valerie Rees • Janine Reesby • Andrea Reeves • Paul Reeves • Tim Regis • Monica Regli (Infante) • Fabio Alberto Regoli • Hannah Reichardt • Billy Reid • David Reid • John Reid • Suzanne Reid • Pedro Reis • Carolyn Relihan • James Rember • Ted Remillard • Helen Ren • Francois Renard • Edwin Renes • Luc Rentmeesters • Karina Reuder • Andrea Reuth • James Revell • Helena Reynolds • Lisa Reynolds • Piers Reynolds • Mary Rice (Duggan) • Andrew Rich • Cheryl Richard (Sturdy) • Jim Richards • Jon Richards • Ann Richardson • Graham Richmond • Leah Richmond (Davey) • Walker Richmond • Barbara Richter (Sichler) • Jan Ricken • Anthony Rickey • Philip Ridgway • Louise Ridgwick (Griffi n) • Bernhard Rieder • Ingrid Riedlmayer • Julie Rieger • Helen Rigley • Olivier Rijckaert • Jonathan Riley • John Rink • Rebecca Rinn • April Rinne • David B Rippon • Helen Risso-Gill • Sabine Rive • Tara Rivers • Emily Roach • Sasha Birgit Robenek • Chris Roberts • Hazel Roberts • Helen Roberts • Lorraine Roberts • Mark Roberts • Mark Robilotti • Jeremy Robinson • Joanne Robinson • Kathryn Robinson • Liz Robinson • Jaime Robledo • Cristina Rocha • Iain Rodger • Manuela Rodriguez • Mimi Rodriguez • John Rogers • Richard Rogerson • Gabriele Röhl • Adriana Rojas • Ingrid Rolfsen (Curran) • Tamsin Rolls • Sophie Romaniello • Peter Romanis • Maxim Romanov • Julie Romer • Joost Rompen • Ester Rood • Vivien Roome • Chris Rooney • Richard Roothman • Lisa Roper • Monica Rosado • Alison Rose • Andrew Rose • Andrew Rose • Edward Rose • Ian Rose • Michael Rosenberg • Julian Roskill • Martine Rosman-Passier • Joanne Ross • Samantha Ross • benjamin rossan • Maxine Rossbotham • Sarah Ross-Smith • Guido Roth • Marine Roussannes • Jade Rowarth • Giles Rowbotham • Amy Rowe • Richard Rowland • Jacqueline Rowlands (Watson) • Pat Rowley • Daniel Rubin • Sebastian Rudkin • Jan Rudolph • Omar Ruffi n • Oliver Ruhl • Marianne Ruizeveld • Ben Rumble • Chan Rupert • Philipp Rüppell • Natalie Russell • Susie Rutherford • Alison Ryan • Kevin Ryan • Rebecca Ryan • Robert Ryan • Sean Ryan • Susan Ryan • Michaela Rybakova • Tomas Rychly • Lucy Ryland (Bayley) • Nawal Sabsibo • Timothy Sackar • Shehzaad Sacranie • Mario Saez • Will Sage • Rajinder Sahota • Tim Sai Louie • Arabella Saker • Luc Sales • Carsten Salger • Alysha Salinger • Riccardo Sallustio • Rozanna Salmo (Head-Rapson) • Heather Salmon • Yvonne Salmon • Claire Salmons • Mariella Salomons • Julia Salt • Faraaz Samadi • Katie Samadi (Spooner) • Katy Sambrook • Natalie Sampieri • John Samuel • Scott Samuel • Helena Sanders • Pieter Sanders • César Sanz • Simona Sapienza • Andrey Sapozhnikov • Selena Sarac • Chloe Sargent • Hayk Sarkissian • Richard Satchwell • Kaoru Sato • Anne-Sophie Saulnier • Géraldine Sauvage • Olivia Savage (Bradley) • Richard Savage • Claire Savill • Laura Savill • Kate Saville • Erika Savlowitz (Hebenton) • James Savory • Theo Savvides • Julie Saward • Aimee Sawyer • Tracey Sawyer • Mark Sayson • Fabrizio Scaparro • Michael Scargill • Dagmar Schadbach (Köchling) • Ossip Schade • Arnout Schennink • Martin Schepers • Dr. Beatrix Scherenberg (Besche) • Ilena Scheuermann • Henri Scheyvaerts • Peter Schieser • Axel Schilder • Zoe Schiller • Thierry Schiltz • Hendrik Jan Schimmel • Laura Schirmer • Marc-Oliver Schlichtmann • Michael Schlitt • Alexander Schlosser • Jennifer Schlosser • Fabiola Schmidt • Christine Schmidt-Haslach • Nicole Schmitz • Olav Schmutzer • Elika Schneider • Judith Schnieders • Candice Schoemans • Silke Schoepper • Alexander Schofi eld • Auko Scholten • Maarten Scholten • Marijke Scholten • Jesper Schonbeck • Caroll Schoonejans • Hilary Schrader • Manfred Schraepler • Michael Schramm • Hans Schreuder • Rita Schroeven • Steven Schuit • Judith Schulp • Jennifer Schulte • Pieter Schut • Melanie Schweiger • Michael Schweppe • Iain Scoon • Cameron Scott • Duncan Scott • Emily Scott (Lawrence) • Lauren Scott (Buckingham) • Louise Scott • Camilla Scrase • John Scriven • Margaret Scullin • Naomi Scullin • Weeliem Seah • Wei Cong Seah • James Sealey • Emma Seaton • Eduardo Sebastián de Erice • Aleksandra Sedova • Merijn Seelt • Anita Sekhri (Jaggi) • Christopher Selkirk • Dominic Selwood • Saul Sender • Pamela Sen-Gupta • Timothy Senior • Sanjay Sethi • Nina Settels • Rebecca Settle • Alexander Severance • Rebecca Sewell • Meral Seyfried • Josh Sgro • Julie Shacklady • Bina Shah • Veenay Shah • Kathryn Shakespeare • Ashley Shameli • Rita Shankardass • Kirstine Shanks • Elaine Sharkie • Amit Sharma • Brinda Sharma • Emma Sharman (Keen) • Jeremy Sharman • Gavin Sharpe • Victoria Sharpe • Alasdair Shaw • Erin Shaw • Ian Shaw • Ian Shaw • Lynn Shaw • Matthew Shaw • Sonya Shearer (Rofani) • David Shearing • Laura Shearing • Anne Sheffi eld • Holly Sheffi eld • Carl Sheldon • Sarah Shellaby • Jo Shepherd • Kim Shepley • Adam Sher • Harry Sherman • Christopher Shield • Eugenia Shlimovich • Katie Shmuel • Manmeet Shourie • Kamen Shoylev • Ian Shrank • Shanda Sibley • Andrzej Siemiatkowski • Anne Siew • Andre Sigelmann • Toni Siimes • Henk Arnold Sijnja • Victoria Silberbauer • Abigail Silver • Daniel Silver • Diane Silverman • Diane Silverman • Paul Simcock • Charlotte Simm (Robson) • Penelope Simmers • Emma Simmonds (Knight) • Jody Simmonds • Deborah Simmons • Mary Simons • Christine Simpson • Jonathan Simpson • Caitlin Sims • Douglass Sims • Jonathan Sims • Richard Sims • Amber Sinclair • James Sinclair • Liz Sinclair • Christopher Sing • Adam Singer • Priyanka Singh • Ramit Singh • Simon Sinha • Gaiatri Sinnathamby • Isla Sint-Bouwman • Florian Sippel • Daniella Siretz • Amornchai Sirithaporn • Jana Siskova • Ivana Sixtová (Petirová) • Hana Skalická • Jane Skerritt • Averil Skinner • Peter Skinner • Eleni Skordaki • Jacqui Skovron • John Skuter • Jan Maarten Slagter • Mark Slater • Kelly Slatter • Jeremy Sleap • Susan Slinn

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