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  • August 1, 2007 |

    McDermott bolsters London securitisation

    McDermott Will & Emery has expanded its London securitisation team with the hire of Ashurst finance partner Kate Lamburn, who will join the firm later this month (13 August). Lamburn is currently director of professional development for Ashurst's securities and structured finance group but will return to fee earning at McDermott. Before joining Ashurst in 2001 she was a partner in the London arm of Weil Gotshal & Manges.

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  • August 1, 2007 |

    Weil Gotshal and Freshfields bag major publishing M&A mandate

    Weil Gotshal & Manges' City arm has bagged a major public M&A mandate, advising opposite Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer on the $4bn (£1.96bn) sale of educational publishing operation Harcourt.

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  • July 27, 2007 |

    Mayer Brown hit by $245m Refco lawsuit

    Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw is facing a $245m (£119.5m) lawsuit from a former creditor of Refco, the futures broker on whose 2005 bankruptcy the Chicago-based law firm advised, it emerged yesterday (26 July). Thomas H Lee Partners (THL) - which acquired a controlling stake in Refco in 2004 - filed a claim in New York alleging that Mayer Brown had failed to inform it of the true state of Refco's finances.

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  • July 13, 2007 |

    Refco creditors eye Mayer Brown 'fraud' action

    Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw could face legal action after a court examiner in the Refco bankruptcy case said evidence had been found that the firm had committed professional negligence and fraud. Creditors of Refco - the futures broker that filed for bankruptcy in 2005 - were told they had a strong case against the Chicago-based law firm after a court examiner found "sufficient evidence" to bring a claim against the firm for "aiding and abetting a breach of fiduciary duty and fraud".

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  • July 6, 2007 |

    Barclays review keeps faith with familiar faces

    Barclays has unveiled its eagerly awaited new panel, with all the bank's main panel firms reappointed to its coveted main roster. Mandates for the bank's general advisory panel, which are set to run for two years, have been handed out once again to historical advisers to Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance (CC), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Lovells, DLA Piper and Simmons & Simmons.

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  • July 6, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 6/7/2007

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of readers' comments; and editor Alex Novarese on the legacy of Linklaters' Tony Angel

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  • July 5, 2007 |

    Weil to protect Euro partners from dollar slump

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has agreed to shield its European partners' drawings against the sliding dollar, which this week fell to a 26-year low against the pound.

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  • July 5, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 5/7/2007

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of readers' comments; and a new Career Clinic dilemma.

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  • July 5, 2007 |

    Editor's Comment: Discordant success

    Weil Gotshal & Manges' City practice seems more contradictory by the day. Reinforced by a productive team recruited from Lovells last year, an office with partner talent to spare has chalked up an impressive run of mandates. Instructions from Terra Firma and Providence Equity Partners have come alongside a market-topping run in the US, where the firm has secured the pick of the current surge of buy-outs; a trend underlined by its current role on the Bell Canada P2P.

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  • July 4, 2007 |

    Saudi telecoms company calls up Freshfields for $3bn buy-out

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has won a major Middle Eastern client, advising Saudi Telecom Company (STC) on its $3.05bn (£1.5bn) acquisition of a 25% stake in a Malaysian telecoms operator.

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