• July 9, 2009 |

    GE appoints CC and Ashurst to Europe adviser roster

    General Electric (GE) has finalised its European non-M&A legal panel, with a clutch of UK firms winning roles including Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy (A&O), Ashurst and Norton Rose.

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  • July 8, 2009 |

    Deals hit a low but M&A lawyers wary of predicting turning point

    Freshfields and Links top UK and Euro tables, but overall figures fell

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  • July 7, 2009 |

    Weil Gotshal cuts starting salaries in City arm

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has dropped the starting salary of newly-qualified lawyers in its London arm by 5.5% to £85,000. The move sees the firm become the latest practice to halt associate lockstep in response to the current recession, with incoming City lawyers this year earning £85,0000, against a previous rate of £90,000.

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  • July 2, 2009 |

    GE appoints CC and Ashurst to Europe adviser roster

    General Electric (GE) has finalised its European non-M&A legal panel, with a clutch of UK firms winning roles, including Clifford Chance and Ashurst. DLA Piper, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Baker & McKenzie are also among the firms appointed to GE's 80-firm roster.

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  • July 2, 2009 |

    Addleshaws wins Barclays role as bank confirms new panel line-up

    Barclays has completed its panel review, with Addleshaw Goddard winning a coveted spot on the bank's main panel. The national firm joins Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance , DLA Piper, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Lovells and Simmons & Simmons on the bank's general advisory roster, with Barclays also appointing a string of firms to 10 specialist panels.

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  • June 25, 2009 |

    White & Case set to hold on to 13 qualifying trainees

    White & Case is to keep on 13 of the 15 trainees due to qualify in London in September, representing a retention rate of 87%. The figure is marginally up on the equivalent intake last year when White & Case kept on 86% of its trainees. The firm kept on 12 of its 13 March qualifiers earlier this year.

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  • June 24, 2009 | International Edition

    Dentons scores Deloitte role on Setanta collapse

    Denton Wilde Sapte has been appointed to advise administrator Deloitte on the collapse of sports broadcaster Setanta. The City firm is fielding a team led by head of restructuring and insolvency Mark Andrews and fellow partner Nigel Barnett, working alongside corporate partner Jeremy Cohen and a team of associates.

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  • June 24, 2009 |

    Dentons scores Deloitte role on Setanta collapse

    Denton Wilde Sapte has been appointed to advise administrator Deloitte on the collapse of sports broadcaster Setanta. The City firm is fielding a team led by head of restructuring and insolvency Mark Andrews and fellow partner Nigel Barnett, working alongside corporate partner Jeremy Cohen and a team of associates.

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  • June 18, 2009 |

    Herbert Smith set to retain 74% of September trainee intake

    Herbert Smith has retained 48 of its 65 trainees set to qualify this September, equating to 74% of its intake. The retention rate represents a significant drop on last year's figure, when the firm kept on 45 out of 49 (92%) trainees. The firm's March intake earlier this year saw 26 out of 31 (84%) taken on.

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  • June 18, 2009 |

    CC's Kirsch departure heads up month of heavy partner losses in firm's NY arm

    Magic circle firm suffers raft of walkouts as Kirsch heads to Gibson Dunn and doubts linger over litigation future CC's Kirsch departure heads up month of heavy partner losses in firm's NY arm News that Clifford Chance's (CC's) former global litigation chief Mark Kirsch is to join the New York office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher alongside fellow securities litigation partner Joel Cohen and counsel Christopher Joralemon capped a month of heavy partner losses from the magic circle law firm's New York office.

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