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  • November 16, 2011 |

    Bright lights, big city - meet the young barristers making their mark

    Ben Rigby profiles 10 promising junior barristers singled 
out as some of the best in the profession

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  • November 16, 2011 |

    Slaughters and Linklaters lauded as City's best-run firms as partners chase leadership dividend

    Nine out of 10 senior lawyers view leadership as key to success while DLA Piper's recruitment of former Linklaters head Tony Angel wins widespread backing. Simon Petersen reports

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  • November 16, 2011 |

    Simmons wins role on Secure Trust's AIM listing

    Simmons & Simmons has taken a first-time role for Secure Trust Bank on the retail bank's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) listing. The listing, announced on 28 October, has seen the fast-growing lender raise £25m, valuing it at £102m. The deal also handed a role to Norton Rose, which acted for Hawkpoint Partners, the nominated adviser, and Collins Stewart, the broker.

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  • November 16, 2011 |

    Fee income at Pinsent Masons up 6% over first half of year

    Pinsent Masons has become the latest firm to announce its half year financial results, posting a 6% increase in revenue for the first half of 2011-12. The UK top 20 firm's total fee income for the first six months of the year stood at £105m, up 6% from the figure of £98.3m posted during the first six months of last year.

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  • November 15, 2011 |

    LG grows City real estate with SJ Berwin hire

    LG is set to boost its City real estate practice with a hire from SJ Berwin. SJ Berwin senior associate Mark Mallon is set to join LG on 12 December as a partner in the real estate group. Mallon specialises in real estate investment and development work, with a client base including a number of overseas investment funds and companies, as well as UK-based retailers, hoteliers and land owners.

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  • November 9, 2011 |

    Top UK firms post rising revenues for first half of financial year

    Many of the UK's top law firms are reporting rising revenues for the first half of 2011-12, despite protracted instability across Europe and lingering fears of a double-dip recession. At least four firms among the UK top 30 are set to unveil double-digit increases on last year's H1 results, defying concerns prompted by the sustained upheaval in the global financial markets.

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  • November 7, 2011 |

    Trio of LG partners join Pinsents as spate of City exits continues

    LG is to lose a trio of finance and restructuring partners to Pinsent Masons, taking the number of London partners to hand in their notice since September to eight. Head of finance and restructuring Nicholas Pike, head of restructuring and insolvency Tom Withyman and restructuring and insolvency partner Steven Cottee are all set to join Pinsents' London banking and restructuring practice in the coming months.

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  • November 3, 2011 |

    DAC Beachcroft makes up duo to partnership and adds Pinsents lateral

    DAC Beachcroft has bolstered the partnership ranks at the newly-merged firm with two internal promotions and a lateral hire from Pinsent Masons. The firm - formed by the merger of Beachcroft and Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) earlier this week (31 October) - has made up two legacy Beachcroft associates, Claire Reynolds and Julitta Yates, in its Leeds and Bristol office respectively.

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  • October 26, 2011 |

    Attorney general takes soundings on move to US-style plea bargaining for corporate crime

    The Attorney General's Office (AGO) is consulting on proposals to usher in US-style plea bargaining in the UK to help prosecutors crack down on white-collar crime. The AGO has begun consulting on a form of plea bargaining called deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs), a tactic often used by prosecutors in the US to pursue fraud and corporate-wrongdoing.

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  • October 26, 2011 |

    All for one – DLA Piper revives plans to move to all-equity partnership

    "Our remuneration system aims to reward partners for performance, not status, and that will continue" - Will an all-equity model overhaul galvanise DLA Piper's partnership? Georgina Stanley and Simon Petersen report...

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