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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 14/11/07

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Ashurst, Wragges and Bakers among the movers and shakers

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  • November 8, 2007 | International Edition

    Tribunal reveals M&S discovered Freshfields conflict in Legal Week

    Marks & Spencer (M&S) only discovered that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer had accepted its ill-fated role to act for Philip Green in 2004 after reading about it in Legal Week, according to official findings from the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) published this week. The report details how M&S was unaware that Freshfields was involved until Legal Week revealed its role for the consortium after the bid was announced in May 2004. M&S subsequently obtained an injunction to prevent Freshfields from acting.

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  • November 8, 2007 |

    Tribunal reveals M&S discovered Freshfields conflict in Legal Week

    Marks & Spencer (M&S) only discovered that Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer had accepted its ill-fated role to act for Philip Green in 2004 after reading about it in Legal Week, according to official findings from the Solicitors' Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) published this week. The report details how M&S was unaware that Freshfields was involved until Legal Week revealed its role for the consortium after the bid was announced in May 2004. M&S subsequently obtained an injunction to prevent Freshfields from acting.

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  • November 7, 2007 | International Edition

    Jones Day builds debt capital markets group

    Jones Day is attempting to break into the London debt capital markets with a hire from Nomura International's in-house legal team. Andrew Chen joined the London office this week (5 November) from the Japanese bank where he was director and head of the debt capital markets legal team.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Jones Day builds debt capital markets group

    Jones Day is attempting to break into the London debt capital markets with a hire from Nomura International's in-house legal team. Andrew Chen joined the London office this week (5 November) from the Japanese bank where he was director and head of the debt capital markets legal team.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    OK confidential

    The House of Lords' decision in the case of Douglas v Hello (OBG and others (appellants) v Allan and others (respondents), Douglas and another (appellants) v Hello and others (respondents), Mainstream Properties (appellant) v Young and others (respondents) [2007] is a significant development in the law of confidentiality and has provoked some heated debate among lawyers. There appears to be a divide between those who view the decision as bringing a welcome extension to the law of confidentiality and those who are concerned it gives rise to confusion in the courts over what exactly constitutes confidential information. From the judgment itself it would seem that Lord Hoffman takes the view that there is neither extension nor confusion. The judgment is simply a restatement of established principles.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Freshfields Italy co-head in Jones Day move

    Bruno Castellini, the joint managing partner of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Italian arm, will be the latest senior departure from the magic circle firm as he gets set to join the local office of US firm Jones Day. Castellini will join the Milan office of Jones Day within the next few weeks, where he will take up a role as local head of M&A.

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  • October 31, 2007 |

    Jones Day hire hands CC Beijing boost

    Clifford Chance (CC) has strengthened its Asian corporate finance practice with the hire of Jones Day partner Bruce Schulberg, it was announced yesterday (30 October). Schulberg, who has more than 15 years' experience of project finance and cross-border investments, joins the magic circle law firm's Beijing office.

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  • October 24, 2007 |

    Lovells drinks to SABMiller's Coors tie-up

    Lovells has reaffirmed its relationship with trophy client SABMiller by advising the brewing giant on a multibillion-pound tie-up with market rival Molson Coors Brewing Company.

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  • October 17, 2007 |

    Hammonds court date set for controversial partnership battle

    Hammonds' high-stakes court battle with a group of ex-partners will kick off next month, Legal Week has learned, as the long-running £3m profits dispute edges closer to its conclusion.

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