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  • February 4, 2008 |

    US trio lead on Microsoft's $44.6bn Yahoo bid

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom is leading a heavyweight line up of advisers on Microsoft's $44.6bn (£22.6bn) approach for web rival Yahoo. The New York firm is advising Yahoo on the deal, while Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett and Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft are understood to be acting for Microsoft.

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  • January 16, 2008 |

    London lawyers fare well in US firms' latest partnership promotions round

    London lawyers have made up around 10% of US firms' overall partnership additions in the latest promotions round. The latest firms to announce their promotions are Dechert, Jones Day and McDermott Will & Emery, which between them have named 98 lawyers as partners worldwide, although only nine of those are London based.

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  • January 10, 2008 |

    Cravath peers out a little further beyond Manhattan

    New York’s Cravath Swaine & Moore has never been known for aggressive overseas expansion. Among its closest New York rivals, only Wachtell Lipton…

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  • January 9, 2008 |

    CC boosts KKR links via role on £593m IT buy-out

    Clifford Chance (CC) has strengthened its relationship with US buy-out giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) after advising on the client's £593m acquisition of IT group Northgate Information Solutions.

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  • December 18, 2007 |

    Dow Jones nabs new GC from Harper Collins

    Dow Jones has swiped Harper Collins associate general counsel Mark Jackson to head up its legal team. Jackson is to take over from current Dow Jones general counsel Joseph Stern, who joined the financial newswire in 2004 as general counsel and company secretary from the New York office of Dow Jones' main corporate adviser, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobsen.

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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 14, 2007 |

    Latham ramps up parental benefits for associates

    Latham & Watkins has announced a new parental leave policy for associates this week that significantly ups the amount of leave biological and adoptive parents can take while receiving their full base salary, writes The Recorder. Some observers say that, much like associate salaries, Latham's move - and some by other firms - could have ripple effects.

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  • December 12, 2007 |

    Deals 2007: UK lawyers look back on a year of two halves

    For once the cheesy sporting metaphor is apt - almost every City partner agrees 2007 has been a year of two halves. While the first six months saw firms busier than ever, working on deals including the first-ever take-private of a FTSE 100 company and the E70bn (£50bn) bidding war for ABN Amro, the summer's credit crunch means firms are seeing out the year in very different style.

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  • December 12, 2007 | International Edition

    Herbert Smith boosts Paris with senior hire

    Herbert Smith has bolstered its Paris office with the hire of an arbitration partner. Jennifer Kirby is set to join the firm in the New Year from the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration (ICC) where she is currently deputy secretary general.

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  • December 12, 2007 |

    Herbert Smith boosts Paris with senior hire

    Herbert Smith has bolstered its Paris office with the hire of an arbitration partner. Jennifer Kirby is set to join the firm in the New Year from the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration (ICC) where she is currently deputy secretary general.

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