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  • July 16, 2009 |

    Dentons partner quits to set up new firm with barrister

    Former Denton Wilde Sapte corporate partner Richard Hierons has left the firm's partnership to launch a boutique. Hierons left the City firm's partnership last month to set up the boutique along with barrister Richard Southall, who joins from an in-house position.

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  • July 3, 2009 |

    Charles Russell sees PEP fall by 30% with revenue down 3%

    Charles Russell has joined the ranks of firms reporting a drop in profits per equity partner (PEP) of more than 30%. The UK top 50 firm has reported a plunge of 36%, with PEP falling to £235,000 in 2008-09, down from £368,000 the previous year. The firm initially reported a PEP figure of £419,000 for 2007-08; however, this figure reduced as a result of accounting adjustments. The fall in PEP came against a slight dip in turnover to £69.5m, down 3.2% from the £71.8m figure the firm billed in 2007-08.

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  • July 2, 2009 |

    Addleshaws wins Barclays role as bank confirms new panel line-up

    Barclays has completed its panel review, with Addleshaw Goddard winning a coveted spot on the bank's main panel. The national firm joins Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance , DLA Piper, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Lovells and Simmons & Simmons on the bank's general advisory roster, with Barclays also appointing a string of firms to 10 specialist panels.

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  • June 26, 2009 |

    Dentons and Taylor Wessing slash trainee retention

    Denton Wilde Sapte and Taylor Wessing are both set to retain only half of their trainees due to qualify in September.

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  • June 25, 2009 |

    Partners predict market consolidation as downturn drives merger interest

    Two out of three partners believe the recession will present attractive opportunities to secure opportunistic mergers, suggesting that the UK market could be set for a run of consolidation. The latest Big Question survey found that 68% of partners believe the downturn will present attractive opportunities to secure domestic mergers. A further 28% thought there may be such deals, leaving only 4% claiming such unions were unlikely.

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  • June 24, 2009 | International Edition

    Dentons scores Deloitte role on Setanta collapse

    Denton Wilde Sapte has been appointed to advise administrator Deloitte on the collapse of sports broadcaster Setanta. The City firm is fielding a team led by head of restructuring and insolvency Mark Andrews and fellow partner Nigel Barnett, working alongside corporate partner Jeremy Cohen and a team of associates.

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  • June 24, 2009 |

    Dentons scores Deloitte role on Setanta collapse

    Denton Wilde Sapte has been appointed to advise administrator Deloitte on the collapse of sports broadcaster Setanta. The City firm is fielding a team led by head of restructuring and insolvency Mark Andrews and fellow partner Nigel Barnett, working alongside corporate partner Jeremy Cohen and a team of associates.

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  • June 18, 2009 |

    Dentons, Fulbright and Ashurst dig deep into E647m oil and gas buyout

    Denton Wilde Sapte, Fulbright & Jaworski and Ashurst have played key roles in the E647m (£556m) consortium acquisition of the oil and gas division of Oranje-Nassau Groep.

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  • June 17, 2009 |

    Wembley legal chief blows final whistle on tenure

    Wembley Stadium's head of legal and corporate affairs Darren Berman is stepping down from his role at the company. The move comes as the Football Association (FA) integrates with subsidiary companies including Wembley National Stadium Limited (WNSL). Alistair Maclean, previously the FA's head of legal services, has been appointed as the group legal director and company secretary for the newly-restructured FA Group.

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  • June 11, 2009 |

    Calling all aspiring lawyer-journos

    As regular readers of legalweek.com will have noticed, we've been gradually building up a group of regular lawyer contributors. For the past few months prospective barrister Ekaterina Zelenova has been writing for us about the travails of finding a pupillage - and provoking plenty of comments from readers in the process - while more recently Kate Karakuli, a senior associate at a City firm, has been providing insider instalments on the quest for partnership.

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