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  • January 9, 2008 |

    Major US law firms bet on Obama to win 2008 presidential election race

    US law firms are throwing their financial muscle behind the Democrats' attempts to reach the White House, with the legal sector providing more funding to the party's leading candidates than any other industry.

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  • January 9, 2008 |

    Russian bear meets bull market

    Russia's oil-driven economic revival is generating a flood of corporate work and surging demand for City partners. Richard Lloyd reports on Moscow's white-hot legal market

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  • December 17, 2007 |

    Simpson, Skadden scoop $10bn Trane sale

    Elite New York firms Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have bagged lead roles on the $10.1bn (£5.2bn) acquisition of air conditioning company Trane by US conglomerate Ingersoll-Rand. Simpson Thacher advised Ingersoll-Rand, a long-term client of the firm, while Skadden advised the target on a deal that was announced earlier today (17 December).

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  • December 12, 2007 |

    Benelux: Prized assets

    The takeover of ABN Amro dominated the headlines and the deal tables this year, raising questions about the future of lead adviser roles for Dutch law firms; while in neighbouring Belgium, firms are grappling with partner weighting structures in a small market. James Illman reports

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  • November 29, 2007 |

    The firm that came in from the cold

    Dimitry Afanasiev would like to get a few things straight. Russian president Vladimir Putin is not a dictator and not everyone with money in Russia is a crook. Fed up with what he sees as the West's - and in particular America's - media bias against Russia, the 38-year-old managing partner of Moscow's fast-rising Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners becomes animated.

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  • November 28, 2007 |

    Sullivan, Skadden top US firms in Europe tables

    Sullivan & Cromwell and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have emerged as the top US law firms in European M&A over the last three years, according to research produced for Legal Week that show the pair have worked on the highest value of deals over the period.

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  • November 22, 2007 |

    US summer's class of 2007 - partner time, Picasso and cash

    Smaller US firms are continuing to outclass Big Law in the ferocious battle to attract summer associates

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    US summer's class of 2007 - partner time, Picasso and cash

    Small is beautiful, at least in the eyes of 2007's summer associates in the US. While respondents to The American Lawyer's Summer Associates Survey liked big firms, they liked life at small to mid-sized firms even better. Students craved juicy assignments, friendly offices and lots of attention; the firms that best satisfied these needs were medium-sized shops with relatively small summer programmes.

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  • November 15, 2007 | International Edition

    Freshfields and A&O latest to enter US bonus war

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy have become the latest firms to announce they will be paying one-off bonuses to their New York associates. Both firms have met market rates, with associates at Freshfields to be given from $10,000 (£4,900) to $50,000 (£24,400) depending on seniority, in addition to the firm's scheduled bonus of between $35,000 (£17,000) and $65,000 (£31,700). The special bonus will be paid at the end of this month, with a year-end bonus being paid on 31 December.

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  • November 15, 2007 |

    Freshfields and A&O latest to enter US bonus war

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy have become the latest firms to announce they will be paying one-off bonuses to their New York associates. Both firms have met market rates, with associates at Freshfields to be given from $10,000 (£4,900) to $50,000 (£24,400) depending on seniority, in addition to the firm's scheduled bonus of between $35,000 (£17,000) and $65,000 (£31,700). The special bonus will be paid at the end of this month, with a year-end bonus being paid on 31 December.

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