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  • March 1, 2012 |

    With all the buzz around UK tie-ups, will US firms head Down Under anytime soon?

    "Not a week goes by that we are not approached by an international firm" - as Australia shoots up the agenda for UK firms, will US rivals end their resistance to the Oz push?

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  • March 1, 2012 |

    Nomura M&A chief heads back to private practice with Jones Day move

    Jones Day has strengthened its London restructuring team with the hire of Matthew French from Japanese investment bank Nomura. French, who joined the US firm this week, spent nearly three years at the bank, where he was global managing director for M&A and head of restructuring for Europe, the Middle East and Africa...

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  • February 27, 2012 |

    Top US firms line up on $7.2bn Apollo-led energy LBO

    Five top US law firms have won roles as a private equity consortium led by Apollo Global Management has agreed to acquire El Paso Corporation's oil and gas exploration and production units in a $7.15bn (£4.5bn) leveraged buyout, reports The Am Law Daily. El Paso announced last week that it had reached an agreement to sell the businesses to a group composed of Apollo, Access Industries and Riverstone Holdings. The deal reportedly marks the second-largest private equity takeover of an energy producer.

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  • February 27, 2012 |

    Links leads as private equity house nears £200m College of Law buyout

    Linklaters is advising Montagu Private Equity as the buyout house closes in on a £200m deal to acquire the College of Law. Montagu has entered exclusive negotiations with the legal education provider to secure a deal, moving ahead of a raft of other bidders including Financial Times parent company Pearson and other private equity house including Providence Private Equity and Palamon Capital Partners.

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  • February 16, 2012 |

    Change in the air - the lawyers helping poorer countries to plug into the UN

    A band of lawyers are putting their heads together to help the world's least developed countries understand the impact of UN talks. Sofia Lind reports,,,

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  • February 16, 2012 |

    Early results see US firms sustain post-crisis recovery as financials rise

    Mounting turmoil engulfing the eurozone and political wrangling over the US economy hasn't been enough to hold back the world's largest legal market, with early results confirming that America's leading law firms have remained in growth mode for a second year.

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  • February 13, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including CMS, Eversheds and Weil

    CMS Cameron McKenna has recruited former Salans partner Bill McCaffrey to take up a new role as head of consumer finance. The new post will sit within the firm's London financial institutions group and will see McCaffrey become the first CMS partner in the UK with a practice solely dedicated to advising high street retail banks on finance matters.

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  • February 13, 2012 |

    Ropes & Gray secures London funds launch with White & Case partner

    Ropes & Gray has launched a City funds practice with the high-profile hire of White & Case head of investment funds Matthew Judd. The US firm announced the hire of Judd - who previously worked with Ropes' London co-heads Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz at White & Case - today (13 February).

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  • February 10, 2012 |

    Orrick announces 2012 promotions, with two partners made up in the City

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has announced its 2012 partner promotions with two made up in the City. The US firm has promoted 16 lawyers to the partnership effective 1 January 2012, doubling the eight it made up last year.

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  • February 9, 2012 |

    Weil Gotshal secures key client payouts in MF Global case

    Weil Gotshal & Manges and KPMG have reached a groundbreaking agreement in the MF Global administration that will see money returned to clients without the need for a court order. Weil Gotshal is advising administrator KPMG on the high-profile insolvency proceedings, which kicked off late last year and are the first under the UK's new 'special administration' regime set up last year to protect market stability in the wake of Lehman Brothers' 2008 collapse.

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