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  • August 13, 2007 |

    Former Wachtell team joins Vinson

    Vinson & Elkins has acquired New York boutique Cronin & Vris in a boost to the Texas-based law firm's bankruptcy practice. The five-lawyer practice is set to join Vinson's New York office, with founding partner Dennis Cronin becoming a partner and co-head of Vinson's insolvency practice. Also joining Vinson as partners will be Jane Vris and Dov Kleiner.

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  • August 2, 2007 |

    West Coast duo strengthen in New York

    West Coast firms Latham & Watkins and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati have both moved to beef up their New York practices with partner hires, it was announced this week. Los Angeles giant Latham has hired Dewey Ballantine corporate partner M Adel Aslani-Far, who focuses on M&A, stock and asset acquisitions, recapitalisations, joint ventures and related financings.

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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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