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  • November 7, 2007 | International Edition

    Linklaters finishes €71bn ABN mega-deal marathon

    If Linklaters' burgeoning international network was built for anything, it is for deals such as the one that has just seen an international consortium, led by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), acquire Dutch bank ABN Amro for €71.1bn (£49.5bn) after a marathon hostile takeover battle. Recent days have seen the firm's legal team celebrating the culmination of the exhausting, touch-and-go tussle - all 400 of them.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Linklaters finishes €71bn ABN mega-deal marathon

    If Linklaters' burgeoning international network was built for anything, it is for deals such as the one that has just seen an international consortium, led by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), acquire Dutch bank ABN Amro for €71.1bn (£49.5bn) after a marathon hostile takeover battle. Recent days have seen the firm's legal team celebrating the culmination of the exhausting, touch-and-go tussle - all 400 of them.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Red alert

    In the autumn of 2003, executives from Californian tech company UTStarcom stopped at a countryside restaurant in Vietnam to celebrate securing $30m (£14.4m) worth of telecoms contracts. A cobra was slaughtered and its heart presented to Tim Donovan, then head of global marketing. "It was still beating," recalled a former UTStarcom employee who was there. "It was probably the size, of a golf ball. He just ate it."

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 7/11/2007

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

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  • November 6, 2007 |

    CC lays off NY six in structured finance

    In one of the first clear signs that slumping credit markets are causing economic pain at law firms, Clifford Chance (CC) laid off six structured finance associates on Monday (5 November), writes the New York Law Journal. John Christian, the partner in charge of the magic circle firm's US personnel committee, said the firm had made a difficult "business decision" to lay off the six associates in a practice group that worked exclusively for credit rating agency Standard & Poor's (S&P). The lawyers in the group had reviewed the documentation S&P used to rate mortgage-backed securities, the market for which has collapsed in recent months.

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  • November 5, 2007 | International Edition

    Coppin stuns Hogan after opting to leave law

    Hogan & Hartson is to lose the head of its City corporate team, Jonathan Coppin, after less than 18 months with the US law firm. Coppin, who joined Hogan last summer from the London arm of US rival Shearman & Sterling, told partners of his decision to leave the firm - and the law - last month.

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  • November 5, 2007 |

    Coppin stuns Hogan after opting to leave law

    Hogan & Hartson is to lose the head of its City corporate team, Jonathan Coppin, after less than 18 months with the US law firm. Coppin, who joined Hogan last summer from the London arm of US rival Shearman & Sterling, told partners of his decision to leave the firm - and the law - last month.

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  • October 23, 2007 |

    A&O gets set for life after Titchmarsh

    It could be said the decision of Allen & Overy’s (A&O's) global head of project finance, Graham Vinter, to leave for BG Group is akin to…

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  • October 17, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 17/10/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with A&O, Shearman and Platt & Fishwick among the movers and shakers

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  • October 10, 2007 |

    Where Angel didn't fear to tread

    For a generation, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom stood alone globally among law firms in combining mammoth size with regal wealth. Well, move over, Joe Flom. With revenue of £1.121bn and profits per equity partner of £1.294m, Linklaters has surpassed Skadden on both measures. As managing partner Tony Angel's nine-year tenure draws to a close, Linklaters is both big and rich.

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