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  • December 18, 2009 |

    Shearman makes up City litigation associate in promotions round

    Shearman & Sterling has made up seven new partners in this year's promotions round, with the US firm's City office receiving one new partner. Litigation associate Richard Kelly joins the partnership in London, becoming the second partner in the firm's City litigation practice.

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  • December 8, 2009 |

    Managing/senior partner of the year

    In its entry for this category, Weil Gotshal & Manges states confidently that the "Mike Francies Show label has now finally disappeared". As one of the City's best known M&A lawyers, Francies was for some years dogged with accusations that colleagues at the US firm's London office struggled to emerge from his shadow.

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  • November 17, 2009 |

    Trio of firms gear up with roles on takeover of Brawn F1 team

    Shearman & Sterling, Lovells and Taylor Wessing have advised on Mercedes-Benz's takeover of the Brawn GP Formula One team. The three firms took roles on the deal that will see the team rebranded as Mercedes Grand Prix from next season, with founder Ross Brawn remaining as team principal.

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  • November 4, 2009 |

    Lovells and Shearman advise on landmark Syrian project finance deal

    Lovells and Shearman & Sterling have taken the lead on a $682m (£415m) projects deal in Syria, believed to be the first project financing to close in the country. Construction company Lafarge, which is one of the world's largest cement suppliers, is to build a cement plant in northern Syria using project finance loans totalling $341m (£208m).

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  • October 23, 2009 |

    Shearman set to boost Italy presence with Milan office launch

    Shearman & Sterling is set to open its second office in Italy with the addition of a presence in Milan to its existing Rome base. Shearman is setting up the new office, due to open in January 2010, with the relocation of two Rome-based partners - corporate partners Tobia Croff and Fabio Fauceglia. The US firm will also transfer a number of associates who currently work in the Rome office.

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  • October 20, 2009 |

    CC, Freshfields and Latham lead on billion-pound Barclays stake sale

    Clifford Chance (CC), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Latham & Watkins have taken key roles on Qatar Holdings' sell-off of part of its stake in Barclays Bank. The sale - which amounts to around 50% of the warrants the Middle East investment company acquired last October - could raise in the region of £1.4bn, £750m of which will be paid to Barclays.

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  • October 20, 2009 |

    Law firm management: Learning to lead

    Harvard started a revolution in leadership training for law firms in the 1990s. Alex Aldridge and Alex Novarese tell the story and assess what management training can offer

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  • October 14, 2009 |

    US trio win lead roles on £678m Eastern European telecoms deals

    A trio of US firms have taken lead roles on a series of deals in Central and Eastern Europe which will give buyout house Mid Europa Partners a controlling stake in Hungarian telecoms company Invitel. Shearman & Sterling, White & Case and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett were instructed on the deals, which involved both debt and equity acquisitions and have been valued by Mergermarket at a total of £678m.

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  • October 8, 2009 |

    Hogan/Lovells – the view stateside

    If Hogan & Hartson, the Washington giant, and Lovells, one of the most global of the leading UK firms, consummate their merger talks, the new entity has the potential for a name out of Harry Potter - Hogells - and a chance to remake a corner of the Big Law marketplace. It would be the first major transatlantic merger of globally-oriented equals. It would be the first transatlantic deal that would be built, in significant part, on the strength of its combined litigation practices. It would be the first deal of its sort that didn't pretend to offer entree into the New York capital markets. And it would be a sign that while the magic circle and most financially elite New York firms continue to insist on their independent futures, firms just one step behind can see a future where a combination is greater than the sum of its parts.

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  • October 6, 2009 |

    Network Rail announces new legal panel with Eversheds appointment

    Network Rail has completed a review of its UK legal panel, awarding Eversheds a first-time appointment. The top 10 UK firm joins a host of firms on the rail operator's roster of external legal advisers for a three-year term. Other firms to win spots on the 12-firm panel include Clifford Chance (CC), Addleshaw Goddard, Simmons & Simmons, Berrymans Lace Mawer, Kennedys, Maclay Murray & Spens and Bond Pearce.

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