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  • October 3, 2013 |

    Moving the goalposts – Legal Week Law Quarterly Peer Review

    From sports disputes to increased regulatory activity, Ben Wheway looks back at the briefings and statistics making headlines in Legal Week Law over the past quarter...

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  • September 25, 2013 |

    Weil and Jones Day lead on $29bn Applied Materials mega-merger

    Weil Gotshal & Manges and Jones Day have landed roles on the $29bn (£18bn) merger of Applied Materials (AMAT) with fellow semiconductor producer Tokyo Electron (TEL). Weil took the lead for AMAT on the all-stock merger, which will create a global powerhouse in semiconductor and display manufacturing technology, with a team spread across Silicon Valley, New York and Washington lead by Silicon Valley M&A partners Keith Flaum and James Griffin.

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  • September 24, 2013 |

    Cleary and Skadden among group of six on take private of Yongye

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have taken lead roles on the $340m take private of Nasdaq-listed Chinese crop and animal nutrients manufacturer, Yongye International. The Beijing-based company said in October last year it had received an offer from a group of buyers, including chairman and CEO Zishen Wu, majority shareholder Full Alliance International, MSPEA Agriculture Holding and Abax Global Capital, for $6.60 per share they didn't already own.

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  • September 12, 2013 |

    Dealmaker: Stephen Lucas

    The Weil Gotshal & Manges banking chief on air acrobatics, 'slipsheeting' and indecisive clients

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  • September 11, 2013 |

    DLA Piper adds two partners to Paris base with Fried Frank hires

    DLA Piper has added two partners to its restructuring practice in Paris with a double hire from US firm Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. David Chijner and Noam Ankri are joining as partners from Fried Frank's Paris office, where Chijner was a partner and Ankri a counsel.

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  • September 10, 2013 |

    Eversheds and Clydes announce retention rates for autumn intakes

    Eversheds and Clyde & Co have become the latest UK top 50 firms to confirm their autumn trainee retention rates for 2013, following a clutch of announcements in recent weeks. Eversheds is keeping on 84% of its newly qualified (NQ) lawyers this autumn after offering 40 of its 45 qualifiers a role at the firm, with 38 accepting. The percentage is flat on last autumn's round, when the firm retained the same proportion of NQs.

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  • September 9, 2013 |

    A&O, CC drink to Suntory's £1.35bn Ribena and Lucozade acquisition

    Allen & Overy (A&O) and Clifford Chance (CC) have scored the leading roles on GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK's) £1.35bn sale of its Ribena and Lucozade brands to Japan's Suntory Beverage & Food. The UK healthcare company has sold off the well-known drink brands after a strategic review which began in February this year. Ribena and Lucozade, which date back to 1927 and 1937 respectively, brought in around £500m for GSK last year in annual sales.

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  • September 5, 2013 |

    AIG to launch Asia-Pacific adviser review as regulatory demands grow

    AIG is set to kick off a review of its external legal advisers across the Asia-Pacific region, as the insurance giant sizes up a potential merger of its corporate and claims panels. The US-based company currently has a corporate panel including five to 10 law firms across several Asian countries, alongside a separate claims panel subdivided by jurisdiction and area of expertise. The corporate panel covers 13 countries where AIG has operations in Asia – Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand. AIG expects to finalise the process before the end of the year.

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  • September 5, 2013 |

    General counsel work/life balance Q&A - Aviva's Monica Risam

    Monica Risam has been general counsel of Aviva Group since July last year, before which she was GC of Aviva Europe. She joined the insurer in 2011 from GE Capital's Working Capital Solutions division, where she managed the global legal and compliance team. She is also a former associate at Weil Gotshal & Manges and Dewey Ballantine.

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  • September 4, 2013 |

    US duo lead on Sinopec's $3.1bn purchase of Apache Egypt stake

    Vinson & Elkins and Weil Gotshal & Manges have advised on Sinopec's purchase of a 33% stake in the Egyptian oil and gas business of American energy corporation Apache, for $3.1bn (£1.99bn). The transaction, which is still subject to approval, saw Sinopec's subsidiary Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corporation (SIPC) acquire the Egyptian assets after entering into a strategic partnership with the Texas-based company to pursue joint, upstream oil and gas projects.

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