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  • September 4, 2007 |

    Links leads way as GdF-Suez saga nears end

    Linklaters has joined French firms Bredin Prat and Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier among the beneficiaries of the protracted €70bn (£47bn) merger saga involving Gas de France (GdF) and Suez, which was finally approved yesterday (3 September). Bredin Prat, the French ally of Slaughter and May, advised Suez alongside City giant Linklaters, while Darrois Villey acted for GdF on a deal that was originally announced in February 2006.

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  • August 29, 2007 |

    UK firms bypassed as US associates rank Wachtell top of prestige tables

    US associate survey rates elite New York firms as most prestigious places to work; no UK firms make top 20

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  • August 29, 2007 |

    Asia: Three's the charm

    With bulging workloads and a dearth of suitable lawyers, why are law firms stretching themselves to have a presence in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong? Dominic Carman speaks to China's top lawyers about the three-office debate

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  • August 9, 2007 |

    Record Spanish IPO gifts Freshfields and Linklaters roles on E4bn bank flotation

    Magic circle duo Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have scooped lead roles on the biggest-ever initial public offering in Spain, the A4bn (£2.7bn) float of Catalan savings bank La Caixa.

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  • August 6, 2007 |

    Alibaba steals Freshfields' Steinert for GC role

    Chinese online shopping giant Alibaba Group has named Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner Timothy Steinert as its new general counsel. Steinert, who specialises in overseas stock offerings of Chinese companies and cross-border M&A, is set to leave Freshfields at the end of the month. In his new role he will report to Alibaba chief executive Jack Ma.

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  • August 1, 2007 |

    Long to replace Jones as one of Freshfields' M&A sector heads

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is reshuffling its much-vaunted corporate division, with Julian Long set to replace Tim Jones as the head of its leisure, technology, media and telecommunications and healthcare sub-group.

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  • August 1, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 1/8/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with DLA Piper, Macfarlanes and Herbert Smith among the deal-doers.

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  • July 23, 2007 |

    Lovells, Norton Rose lead on Barclays' £2bn Asian sale

    Norton Rose and Lovells have become the latest firms to benefit from the £45bn merger bid between Barclays and ABN Amro, with the City firms each advising major Asian clients on more than £2bn worth of investment in the UK financial services giant. Norton Rose is acting for the China Development Bank and Lovells is representing Temasek, the investment arm of the Singapore Government, which have acquired stakes worth a combined £2.4bn in Barclays ahead of its planned takeover of ABN.

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  • June 21, 2007 |

    DLA Piper makes China corporate capture

    DLA Piper has strengthened its Beijing corporate team with the hire of Heller Ehrman partner Steven Liu, the transatlantic firm announced today (21 June). Liu - who spent the best part of a decade with tech leader Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati prior to joining Heller - focuses on venture capital and technology work.

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  • May 30, 2007 |

    Bank of Beijing IPO generates trophy mandates but lawyers wary of Hong Kong listing threat

    A raft of firms including DLA Piper and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are in line to bag roles on the Bank of Beijing's initial public offering (IPO) - the latest of the Chinese state-owned banks to go public.

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