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  • July 6, 2011 |

    Shoosmiths leads for Thorntons on outsourcing deal and bank agreement

    Shoosmiths is advising troubled retailer Thorntons on its restructuring plans and an associated outsourcing agreement set to save the chocolate maker at least £5m over the next six years. The national law firm's commercial team is advising the company as it prepares to close a number of its stores following a strategic review of its business.

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  • July 1, 2011 |

    Elite US trio added to Barclays panel after review of bank's advisers

    Barclays has added three US firms to its general advisory panel, following a comprehensive panel review intended to increase value for money from the bank's regular advisers. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Shearman & Sterling and Sullivan & Cromwell have been added to the bank's main general advisory panel after Barclays decided to include the creation of a US sub-division for the first time.

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  • July 1, 2011 |

    SNR Denton – careful what you didn't wish for

    It's an irony that as SNR Denton faces a tough post-merger period, a fair number of partners seeking to explain the firm's struggles have sought to pin the blame on Denton Wilde Sapte's previous management. The argument goes that the UK firm persistently ducked addressing difficult performance issues in the years preceding its US merger. You can make a solid case for that assertion, but long-time Dentons-watchers are also likely to ask how much the firm as a whole was ready to stomach that sort of medicine.

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  • June 29, 2011 |

    SNR Denton takes tough line on exit terms as partners quit and UK PEP falls 36%

    SNR Denton has been hit by the resignation of two more key partners as it emerges that the firm may hold senior equity partners to a 12-month notice period. The latest partners to hand in their notice are regulatory head Chris Borg and senior banking partner Michael Black, who are set to join Reed Smith and Norton Rose respectively.

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  • June 29, 2011 |

    Senior banking partner quits SNR Denton to join Norton Rose

    SNR Denton London banking partner Michael Black is set to leave the firm to join Norton Rose. Black, who is co-head of SNR Denton's financial institutions and funds sector group, joined legacy Denton Wilde Sapte in 2003 from Theodore Goddard (now Addleshaw Goddard), where he had been the firm's head of banking. He originally qualified as a barrister and lawyer in New Zealand in 1992 and has been working in London since 1995.

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  • June 22, 2011 |

    Pinsent Masons takes lead on $855m acquisition of specialist power firm

    Pinsent Masons has advised investment vehicle Horizon Acquisition on its $855m (£527m) purchase of US-based temporary power provider APR Energy. Pinsents took the lead role for Horizon in the sale after being instructed in April, with a team led by corporate partners Rob Hutchings and Paul Amiss.

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  • June 22, 2011 |

    Berrymans and Shoosmiths head up female-friendly partnership rankings

    Bird & Bird has emerged as the UK top 20 law firm with the largest percentage of female partners, with Hogan Lovells topping the rankings within the top 10. Legal Week research into female representation at partner level across the 50 largest UK law firms by revenue shows that, with women making up just under 23% of its partnership as at 1 May 2011, Bird & Bird is the highest placed firm within the top 20, closely followed by Berwin Leighton Paisner and Pinsent Masons.

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  • June 22, 2011 |

    Legacies lost - can Addleshaws regain that old polish?

    Lauded as one of the most promising mid-market players in the UK until recently, Addleshaw Goddard has run into the unfamiliar ground of poor growth and internal tensions. Georgina Stanley and Simon Petersen ask if the firm can regain that old polish

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  • June 15, 2011 |

    Linklaters and Norton Rose secure first-time RSA panel roles

    Linklaters and Norton Rose have won first-time appointments as UK insurer RSA expands its global legal panel from three firms to five. The FTSE 100 company has selected the pair to sit alongside existing panel firms Allen & Overy, Slaughter and May and Ashurst, with all five firms appointed to advise on corporate and commercial matters for a three-year term.

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  • June 1, 2011 |

    US law firms score high marks for London vacation schemes

    Three US firms have been rated among the best vacation scheme providers in the UK market, with Legal Week research also seeing Allen & Overy (A&O) identified by students as the most prestigious global law firm for the second year running. The Legal Week Intelligence 2011 Law Student Report saw Latham & Watkins and Baker & McKenzie take the top two spots for UK vacation schemes, with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton coming in fourth place behind Ashurst.

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