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  • May 28, 2012 |

    CC, Weil and Bakers field London teams on $1.3bn private equity deal

    Clifford Chance (CC), Weil Gotshal & Manges and Baker & McKenzie have advised on a $1.3bn (£829m) private equity deal which has seen buyout house Silver Lake and investment management firm Partners Group agree to purchase Swiss duty free shopping company Global Blue, reports The Am Law Daily. Silver Lake and Partners Group will buy Global Blue from investment firm Equistone Partners Europe, which acquired the Nyon, Switzerland–based company from Apax Partners in 2007 for about $450m (£287m).

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  • May 28, 2012 |

    Change: the writing's on the wall

    Nick West, LexisNexis' director of legal markets, discusses what change in the US market can tell us about the future of legal business in the UK.

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  • May 24, 2012 |

    Mind the gap - the pay gap between US star partners and the rest continues to widen

    "It's no secret that the spread in partner compensation across large US law firms has grown over the years, but more recently that gap has turned into a chasm at some firms..."

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  • May 24, 2012 |

    The long run - a 25-year view of the Am Law 100

    "The profit increases by non-New York firms are just enormous. They are encroaching on the New York firms' historic position alone at the top..." - 25 years since the first Am Law 100 table, some fundamental patterns in the world's largest legal market can be seen...

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  • May 24, 2012 |

    Weil London team leads on major Israel investment for US industrial company

    Weil Gotshal & Manges is among a trio of law firms advising on Access Industries' purchase of a controlling stake in Israel's Clal Industries and Investments (CII), in a deal which values the Tel Aviv-listed holding company at $665m (£423m). The deal has seen Israeli business group IDB Development sell 49.9% of its 60.5% stake in CII to Access, receiving 16.19 Israeli shekel (£2.70) per share.

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  • May 17, 2012 |

    Hard to handle - the challenges presented by Russia's bustling legal market

    Buoyed by high energy prices but hamstrung by corruption fears, Russia remains a key market – and challenge – for law firms. Rose Orlik reports

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  • May 13, 2012 | International Edition

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including SJB, Wragges and Ashurst

    SJ Berwin has appointed Simon Holmes as the new head of the firm's EU, competition and regulatory practice group. He is replacing Stephen Kon, who stepped up to become senior partner of the firm at the start of this month. Holmes, who joined SJ Berwin in 1994, has led the London EU, competition and regulatory group since 2008. The City partner will now head up both the international practice group and its London arm.

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  • May 13, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including SJB, Wragges and Ashurst

    SJ Berwin has appointed Simon Holmes as the new head of the firm's EU, competition and regulatory practice group. He is replacing Stephen Kon, who stepped up to become senior partner of the firm at the start of this month. Holmes, who joined SJ Berwin in 1994, has led the London EU, competition and regulatory group since 2008. The City partner will now head up both the international practice group and its London arm.

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  • May 10, 2012 |

    Herbert Smith & Freehills near June vote as Weil rethinks referral links

    Partners at Herbert Smith and Australia's Freehills are set to vote on the firms' potential tie-up next month, with the pair planning for a 1 October integration date. The firms are expected to vote simultaneously on the deal in the second half of June, with the union set to go live four months later.

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  • May 10, 2012 |

    Orrick takes corporate finance team from Dewey in London and Moscow

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has hired a group of London and Moscow-based corporate finance lawyers from embattled US firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, including Moscow partner duo Leo Batalov and Dmitry Gubarev. Batalov and Gubarev are joining Orrick's Moscow office alongside a team of associates. The group focuses on corporate finance transactions, M&A, securities law and general corporate work.

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