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  • August 9, 2007 |

    Simmons and LeBoeuf cook up $700m oil deal

    Simmons & Simmons and LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae have taken the lead advisory roles on Shell's sale of an oil refinery in the south of France for $700m (£345m). Simmons took the lead for Shell under corporate partner Paul Exley as the fuels giant moves to sell its Berre l'Etang refinery to petrochemical group Basell. LeBoeuf advised Basell, led by Paris corporate partner Stephen Walters alongside London competition partner Peter Crowther and environmental partners Paul Watchman and Nicholas Rock.

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  • August 9, 2007 |

    DLA boosts finance with Dentons partner hire

    DLA Piper has recruited Denton Wilde Sapte asset finance partner Stephen Marais for its London finance and projects group.

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  • August 3, 2007 |

    Lovells builds Dubai with three finance mandates

    Lovells' fledgling Dubai office has established itself with three sizeable Islamic finance deals in three weeks. The office, which was set up in May this…

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  • August 1, 2007 |

    Dentons partner in Paris move to develop Africa links

    One of Denton Wilde Sapte's senior project finance partners, Howard Barrie, is relocating to Paris from the UK, giving the firm its first English law capability in the French capital.

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  • August 1, 2007 |

    Lovells scores top mandate on Dentons and Deloitte Milton Keynes office build

    Lovells has scored a headline role advising on the construction of a new office development in Milton Keynes, in which fellow City rival Denton Wilde Sapte will have a major presence.

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  • July 26, 2007 |

    Herbert Smith locked in 'bitter' wrangle over star's BLP switch

    Herbert Smith is threatening to bar star real estate partner Chris de Pury from joining a rival firm for up to two years, it has emerged, in what would be the toughest exit terms yet publicly imposed on a City lawyer.

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  • July 25, 2007 |

    Dentons sets autumn leadership election as firm prepares for second term under Morris

    Denton Wilde Sapte will kick off its chief executive elections this autumn with early indications that incumbent Howard Morris will be re-elected for a second three-year term.

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  • July 25, 2007 |

    Dentons appoints financial institutions chief

    Denton Wilde Sapte has appointed banking litigation partner Richard Caird as head of its financial institutions department.

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  • July 25, 2007 |

    Zambia: The good fight

    It is not often that the governments of six European countries and the US hail a decision of the Chancery Division as "historic". But such was the reaction to the judgment that Mr Justice Peter Smith handed down this May in Attorney General of Zambia v Meer Care & Desai.

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  • July 25, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 25/7/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Allen & Overy, Dentons and Gibson Dunn among the deal-doers.

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