“It looks brutal to creditors but this is often the subject of pre-negotiation,” says Alan Mason of the Paris office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer, a corporate-law firm.

“这对债权人似乎很残忍，但通常是预备谈判阶段的主题”，富尔德律师事务所（Freshfields Bruckhaus Derringer，一家公司法律师事务所）巴黎办公室的阿兰•马森（Alan Mason）说。

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Allen &Overy said recently that partners would be allowed to work four-day weeks and take longer holidays, following other leading London law firms such as Freshfields and Linklaters.

安理律师事务所近日表示，将允许合伙人一周工作4天并休更长时间的假。 伦敦一些知名律所均已开始推行此项制度，如富而德律师事务所和年利达律师事务所。

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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer With more than 2,600 lawyers working in 27 offices across 15 countries, we are one of the world's largest law firms.

富而德律师事务所本所是全球最大的律师事务所之一，共有2,600多名律师，分别在15个国家的27家办事处工作。

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"The relationship between the political class and the entrepreneurial class remains uneasy", says Sebastian Lawson, Moscow-based corporate partner of law firm Freshfields.

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"This at least will provide a way forward and these are the rules of the game, like them or loathe them, " Mr Bliss, who works for the Freshfields law firm said.

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