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  • November 26, 2010 |

    Camerons among trio appointed as Royal Mail cuts back legal panel

    Royal Mail has cut back its UK legal panel from eight firms to three, with CMS Cameron McKenna, Beachcroft and Bond Pearce winning coveted places on the roster. The trio will formally start their three-year terms on 1 December, with the option of extending it for one year. The panel covers company & commercial, IT, intellectual property, pensions, dispute resolution and the higher value end of property and employment work for both Royal Mail and the Post Office.

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  • November 18, 2010 |

    Freshfields wins lead role on $3bn Indonesia mining deal

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has been instructed by UK financier Nathaniel Rothschild's mining investment firm Vallar on its acquisition of stakes in two of Indonesia's top coal mining businesses, reports The Am Law Daily. Vallar is set to pay $3bn (£1.9bn) for a 25% stake in Bumi Resources and a 75% stake in Berau Coal Energy, Indonesia's first and fifth-largest coal producers respectively.

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  • November 10, 2010 |

    Half-year financial results show UK leaders edging back to growth mode

    Many of the UK's leading law firms are on course to report increases in revenue over the first half of 2010-11, as the economic recovery continues to gather pace. Allen & Overy (A&O) kicked off the reporting season on Monday (8 November), posting a 3% growth in revenues for the six months ending 31 October.

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  • November 10, 2010 |

    DLA Piper revenues up by 8.5% at halfway mark in UK and international

    DLA Piper has announced an 8.5% rise in turnover at the half-year mark with revenues for its UK and international practice hitting £280m, up from £258m at the same point last year. The figure outpaces DLA's budget target of £277m for the period ending 31 October. The firm expects its profits will be up substantially in the current financial year.

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  • November 10, 2010 |

    Pinsents sees half-year revenues inch up on last year's performance

    Pinsent Masons has posted a marginal increase in revenues for the first half of the 2010-11 financial year. The UK top 15 firm's total fee income for the first six months of the year stood at £98.3m, 0.5% up from the figure of £97.8m taken in during H1 last year. Pinsents managing partner David Ryan said: "I am pleased with the progress that we have made so far.

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  • November 2, 2010 |

    Trowers plans private sector push with hire of Pinsents construction partner

    Trowers & Hamlins is targeting the private construction sector with the hire of Pinsent Masons' London transactional construction team head Michael Mullarkey. Mullarkey, who advises contractors in the health, education, water, transport, social housing and private development sectors, joined Trowers' projects and construction group earlier this week (1 November).

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  • October 28, 2010 |

    Salans managing partner wins third term after contested vote

    Salans has re-elected Dariusz Oleszczuk as global managing partner for his third consecutive term in the role. Oleszczuk, who was voted in yesterday (27 October) after a contested election, has held the role since 2004 and has been a partner at Salans for almost 20 years.

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  • October 26, 2010 |

    Norton Rose seals hire of Jones Day finance partner for Perth office

    Norton Rose has expanded its Australian arm with the hire of Jones Day Singapore banking and finance partner Herman Yip. Yip has rejoined the firm in Perth, after leaving Norton Rose's Singapore arm in 2006 to move to Jones Day. He was previously with Norton Rose between 1999 and 2006.

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  • October 26, 2010 |

    Fit for practice - the new hurdles for overseas lawyers taking the QLTS

    The Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test (QLTT) has paved the way for numerous overseas solicitors to practise law in England and Wales since it was created in 1990, but after setting the standard for 20 years, the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) recently decided that the time had come to reform the system. With the new Qualified Lawyers Transfer Scheme (QLTS) now in play as of 1 September 2010, new applicants face a number of hurdles.

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  • October 25, 2010 |

    Brabners scores high-profile role on Rooney contract negotiations

    Northwest firm Brabners Chaffe Street has taken a high-profile role advising on Wayne Rooney's contract negotiations with Manchester United Football Club, following last week's intense media speculation over the England striker's future. The firm worked on the contract overnight last Thursday (21 October), with Manchester United announcing the deal the following day. The contract sees Rooney sign up to another five years at the club, replacing his existing deal that was set to expire at the end of next season.

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