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  • April 11, 2012 |

    Pinsents and Bird & Bird advise on Chinese consumer brand AIM listing first

    Pinsent Masons, Bird & Bird and Ogier have landed roles on the AIM listing of China sportswear group Naibu, in the first flotation of a Chinese consumer brand on the junior London market. Corporate finance partner Sean Page led the Pinsents team on the £68m listing, which raised £6m in new money for Naibu's expansion plans.

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  • April 5, 2012 |

    Appeal court finds dishonest solicitor should have been struck off

    The Court of Appeal has ruled that a legal disciplinary body should have struck off a solicitor that had been found to have acted dishonestly. The closely watched judgment from Lord Justices Moore-Bick, Maurice Kay and Hooper handed down this week (3 April) found the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) should have struck off solicitor Anthony Dennison.

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  • April 4, 2012 |

    Pinsents and Gateley among ten-firm line-up on new sports panel

    Pinsent Masons, Gateley and Bates Wells & Braithwaite are among a host of firms appointed to a new panel designed to offer sports and recreation organisations easier access to legal services. The Legal Panel Framework comprises ten firms which will offer services across 19 areas of law, including advice on athlete selection, EU sports policy and child protection.

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  • March 22, 2012 |

    DAC Beachcroft adds new Scotland presence with joint venture deal

    DAC Beachcroft and Andersons Solicitors have sealed a joint venture that will see the Scots firm rebrand as DAC Beachcroft Scotland. The 11-partner boutique, which specialises in insurance litigation and dispute resolution work, has offices in Glasgow and Edinburgh and around 40 fee earners spread between the two cities.

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  • March 21, 2012 |

    Budget ushers in key changes for private client and property lawyers

    Private client lawyers are set to see a significant increase in work over the coming months as measures affecting high net worth individuals take centre stage in this year's Budget, which was unveiled today (21 March). Chancellor George Osborne has put measures targeting the wealthy at the core of a budget that is also set to cut tax for business and clamp down on tax avoidance by corporates and individuals.

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  • March 21, 2012 |

    CC and Travers advising as GAME Group confirms administration plan

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Travers Smith are advising GAME Group as the video games retailer confirmed today (21 March) that it has filed a notice of intention to appoint an administrator. The confirmation comes after the company announced that trading in its shares had been suspended pending clarification of its financial position.

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  • March 19, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: latest moves including BLP, Mayer Brown and DLA

    Simmons & Simmons has hired another partner from Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) in London, with the recruitment of real estate specialist John Kelsey taking the number of partners the firm has hired from BLP to seven in less than a year. Kelsey specialises in real estate investment and development work as well as real estate finance and restructuring advice.

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  • March 18, 2012 |

    Linklaters rated as top law firm brand in 2012 Superbrands rankings

    Linklaters has overtaken Clifford Chance (CC) as the top-ranked law firm in this year's Superbrands index of leading UK business brands. The firm rose 13 places on last year to reach 175th place, three spots ahead of CC, the highest-ranked law firm in 2011's list.

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  • March 15, 2012 |

    Partners believe fragmented legal industry is set for intense merger run

    "Definition of law firm merger - poorly managed; driven largely by overpaid incumbent management with little real support from grass roots; justifed rarely on good logic but instead on catch words like 'scale', 'footprint' and 'globalisation'...

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  • March 14, 2012 |

    Maclay Murray and Bond Pearce call off talks over £95m merger

    Scotland's Maclay Murray & Spens and southwest firm Bond Pearce have called off talks over a merger that would have created a firm just outside the UK top 30 with turnover of around £95m. The firms are understood to have started discussing a merger last summer before deciding in the middle of February not to pursue a union at this time.

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