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  • January 31, 2013 |

    Burges Salmon, FFW and magic circle trio named on 48-strong Govt panel

    Allen & Overy, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May are among a raft of firms to have secured roles on the finalised 48-firm Government Procurement Service panel. The magic circle firms have all been named on the long-awaited roster after firms received final confirmation of their appointments following a ten-day stand still period.

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  • January 27, 2013 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including Addleshaws, Links and DLA

    Addleshaw Goddard has turned to Linklaters for the hire of a new private equity partner in London. The firm is taking on Ben Rodham, who is a managing associate at the magic circle firm, where he has worked with clients including Bridgepoint, Carlyle, Hg Capital, Montagu and Terra Firma. He has also spent time Linklaters' Dubai and Hong Kong offices.

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  • January 23, 2013 |

    Kirkland adds M&A partner in Hong Kong with Paul Weiss hire

    Kirkland & Ellis has added a partner to its Hong Kong corporate practice with the hire of M&A specialist Frank Sun from US rival Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison. Sun, who worked as an associate at Kirkland's New York office between 2007 and 2008, has rejoined the Chicago headquartered firm, bringing the total number of Hong Kong M&A partners to 13.

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  • January 18, 2013 |

    Mayer Brown boosts City arm with high profile White & Case litigator

    Mayer Brown is to hire high profile White & Case litigation partner Alistair Graham for its London office. Graham, who focuses on financial services disputes and is rated in band two for corporate crime & investigations by Chambers and Partners, has particular experience in regulatory and fraud investigations and asset tracing. In addition to financial services work his client base includes companies in the TMT and oil and gas sectors.

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  • January 18, 2013 |

    Documents, documents, documents

    Julian Morgan, head of automation services at LexisNexis, makes the case for document automation.

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  • January 17, 2013 |

    Dealmaker: Clive Barnard

    The Herbert Smith Freehills finance partner on his 30th anniversary at the firm and his love of rugby – and Lycra

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  • January 8, 2013 |

    Dechert, Wachtell take key roles on BoA's $11.6bn toxic loan settlement

    Dechert and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have taken advisory roles on Bank of America's (BoA) $11.6bn (£7.2bn) settlement with US Government mortgage agency Fannie Mae to resolve mortgage purchase claims related to residential home loans. The settlement, which comes after the Manhattan US Attorney sued BoA last October for selling toxic loans, will see BoA make payments of $3.6bn (£2.2bn) and repurchase 30,000 loans for $6.75bn (£4.2bn), as well as paying $1.3bn (£808m) to Fannie Mae to resolve loan servicing fee obligations.

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  • January 8, 2013 |

    SRA appoints seven to slimmed-down disciplinary panel

    Bevan Brittan and Capsticks are among a group of seven firms to have been appointed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to its slimmed-down disciplinary proceedings panel. The other five firms rounding out the panel are Pennington Solicitors, Jonathan Goodwin Solicitor Advocate, David Barton Solicitor Advocate, Morgan Cole and Devonshire Solicitors.

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  • January 3, 2013 |

    Kirkland, Latham lead on $500m Avis purchase of car-sharing firm Zipcar

    Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins have taken lead roles on vehicle rental chain Avis Budget Group's $500m (£307m) acquisition of Zipcar, the world's biggest car-sharing firm. The deal will see Avis acquire Zipcar for $12.25 (£7.50) per share in cash. the company, which listed on NASDAQ in April 2011, acquired UK rival Streetcar for $50m (£32m) in 2010.

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  • December 19, 2012 |

    Gibson Dunn advises as UBS reaches £945m Libor settlement

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has advised UBS on its (£945m) settlement with US and UK authorities over allegations that the Swiss bank tried to manipulate Libor interest rates. UBS announced today (19 December) that it was settling with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the UK, and the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), over the regulators' investigations into manipulation of the Libor interbank lending rates.

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