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  • October 31, 2007 |

    Brother, can you spare a tranche?

    When three private equity groups arranged to buy HD Supply early this summer, the deal looked like simply another in a long chain of blockbusters. Then sub-prime loan defaults shot up, banks tightened their lending policies, and the credit markets ran dry. With the real estate market already in a tumble, the long-term prospects of HD Supply, a division of The Home Depot that caters to building contractors, were uncertain. Like dozens of others signed before the credit market shut down, the deal was stuck in limbo. For lawyers at Debevoise & Plimpton, which represented the consortium of buyers, the work they would have done after the close - and time they would have billed - was suddenly in doubt.

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  • October 24, 2007 |

    Norton Rose leads on trophy Turkish buy-out

    Norton Rose has landed a leading role on one of the largest-ever private equity deals in Turkey, advising on the E910m (£634m) buy-out of private freight company UN Ro-Ro.

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  • October 10, 2007 |

    NY elite lead on $8.5bn Toronto-Dominion deal

    New York leaders Sullivan & Cromwell and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have bagged lead roles on Toronto-Dominion Bank's $8.5bn (£4.2bn) acquisition of New Jersey-based Commerce Bancorp.

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Outsiders turn to out-of-town talent in efforts to crack key Big Apple market

    Out-of-towners bank on sending in appellate big guns as one way of peeling the Big Apple; firms turn backs on flashy lateral hires

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  • September 22, 2007 |

    - The post-Lehman landscape: a Legal Week Wiki special

    The dramatic collapse of investment banking giant Lehman Brothers rocked financial markets around the world, as the credit crunch claimed its most high-profile victim to date. The days that followed saw a flurry of action as the financial world scrambled to make sense of events. Here's how Legal Week reported the post-Lehman fallout.

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  • September 21, 2007 |

    DLA Piper picks up two new partners in Asia

    DLA Piper has boosted its corporate and finance capabilities in Asia with the hire of two new partners from US rivals, it was announced today (21 September). Jones Day Singapore partner Stephen Peepels joins the transatlantic giant to head up its US-law capital markets practice in the region.

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  • September 19, 2007 |

    Shearman's London office loses senior pair

    Shearman & Sterling's London office is losing two senior lawyers with the relocation of capital markets partner David Beveridge to New York and the departure of executive compensation counsel Paula Holland to US rival Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr.

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  • September 19, 2007 |

    Cohen Milstein gets go-ahead for Virgin class action battle

    US litigation specialist Cohen Milstein Hausfeld & Toll has been given the green light to pursue its class action against Virgin.

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  • September 19, 2007 |

    US firms in London: Friends in the City

    Almost half the respondents to this years' US firms in London survey would consider a tie-up with a UK firm. Helen Mooney reports on London's enduring appeal

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  • September 5, 2007 |

    Searching questions

    Launched from a garage by two students, Google has grown to become the internet's biggest success story. Michelle Madsen talks to European general counsel Nigel Jones about the paradox at his company's heart

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