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  • January 18, 2012 |

    Linklaters and Nabarro selected to advise on £5bn Euro power project

    Linklaters and Nabarro have been appointed to advise on one of Europe's biggest carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects - expected to attract investment of just under £5bn. The pair are advising 2Co Energy on the planned Don Valley Power Project in Derbyshire, where 2Co plans to build a coal gasification plant that will generate 650 megawatts of power and capture 90% of its entire CO2 output. Planning permission for the power plant has already been granted, with construction expected to start in 2013.

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  • January 12, 2012 |

    At last Davis Polk hits the City, but is the Wall St leader ready to go on offensive?

    Suzanna Ring sizes up Davis Polk & Wardwell's prospects as the US leader makes its English law debut in the City...

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  • January 11, 2012 |

    White & Case and Linklaters head up Indonesia Govt's $1.75bn sovereign debt issue

    White & Case and Linklaters are among a number of firms to have won roles on the Indonesian Government's $1.75bn (£1.1bn) sovereign debt issue on the Singapore Exchange, reports The Asian Lawyer. White & Case is advising on US law aspects of the issue. Jakarta-based Thamrin & Rachman Law Firm is providing Indonesian counsel to the issuer, with Allen & Gledhill - which is currently in talks over a tie-up with Allen & Overy - providing Singapore counsel.

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  • January 10, 2012 |

    Morgan Stanley and News Corp confirm new top in-house lawyers

    Morgan Stanley and News Corporation have both confirmed the appointment of new top in-house lawyers. At Morgan Stanley, Eric Grossman is being promoted to succeed Francis Barron as the company's next chief legal officer. Barron, whose retirement was announced earlier this week, joined the financial services giant in July 2010 after 32 years at Cravath Swaine & Moore...

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  • January 10, 2012 |

    MoFo wraps up Hong Kong capital markets deal hat-trick

    Morrison & Foerster (MoFo) has completed three multimillion-dollar listings on the Hong Kong stock exchange in recent weeks, as Asian capital markets continues to grow in importance for international law firms. The US firm advised the underwriters - China International Capital Corporation, UBS and RBS - on the $300m (£194m) initial public offering (IPO) of Chinese power company Guodian Technology and Environment Group, which listed on 30 December.

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  • January 6, 2012 |

    Herbert Smith and Dutton advise as watchdog hands PwC record fine

    Herbert Smith, Fountain Court and Five Paper Buildings have taken roles on a high-profile action against PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) that has seen the accounting giant fined £1.4m. The proceedings were launched by the Accountancy & Actuarial Discipline Board (AADB) into the role of PwC's UK arm in not uncovering a failure by audit client JP Morgan to ringfence client money.

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  • January 3, 2012 |

    SRA unveils ABS application process as around 15 put in for first licences

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has released new information on the application process to become an Alternative Business Structure (ABS) as the regulator began accepting licence applications today (3 January). The Co-operative and Irwin Mitchell have confirmed that they are among the first applicants, while the SRA has said that it is in serious talks with a total of around 15 interested parties, with more than ten first-stage applications made via the website so far today.

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  • January 3, 2012 |

    Taylor Wessing adds partner to data protection team with Speechly hire

    Taylor Wessing has expanded its data protection team with the hire of Speechly Bircham partner Vinod Bange. Bange, who specialises in data protection and privacy laws, information security legal risk, corporate compliance and technology law, has been a partner at Speechly since 2009 when he joined from Eversheds, where he was a senior associate.

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  • December 19, 2011 |

    Herbert Smith & A&O score roles on multi-billion dollar Rosneft financing

    Herbert Smith and Allen & Overy (A&O) have both advised on a multi-billion dollar financing facility for Russian oil giant Rosneft. A Herbert Smith team led by Moscow finance partner Edward Baring has advised Barclays Bank as agent with 12 other leading banks including Bank of America, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse.

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  • December 13, 2011 |

    Herbert Smith and Freshfields lead on Pearson's FTSE sale

    Herbert Smith and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have lined up to advise on the £450m sale of Financial Times publisher Pearson's 50% stake in FTSE International to the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Herbert Smith is advising longstanding client Pearson on the sale, which gives the LSE full ownership of the FTSE indices.

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