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  • July 4, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 4/7/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Linklaters, Macfarlanes and Pinsent Masons among the deal-doers.

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  • July 4, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 4/7/2007

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of readers' comments; and see another side of BSB director Mark Stobbs

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  • July 3, 2007 | International Edition

    Weil Gotshal City arm to lose rising star Rosen

    Weil Gotshal & Manges is to lose rated private equity partner Will Rosen. Rosen, who was the firm's first-ever City-based corporate assistant when he joined 11 years ago, handed in his notice today (3 July). He will officially leave the firm on Friday and is understood to be taking some time out over the summer before deciding on his next move.

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  • July 3, 2007 |

    Weil Gotshal City arm to lose rising star Rosen

    Weil Gotshal & Manges is to lose rated private equity partner Will Rosen. Rosen, who was the firm's first-ever City-based corporate assistant when he joined 11 years ago, handed in his notice today (3 July). He will officially leave the firm on Friday and is understood to be taking some time out over the summer before deciding on his next move.

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  • July 3, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 3/7/2007

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of readers' comments; and Beachcroft managing partner Paul Murray is the latest law firm leader under the Herding Cats microscope

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  • July 2, 2007 |

    Manhattan duo lead latest monster take-private

    Manhattan rivals Sullivan & Cromwell and Weil Gotshal & Manges have bagged lead roles on the latest mega buy-out as communications group Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) is taken private in a C$51.7bn (£24.2bn) deal. Weil Gotshal is advising the purchasing consortium, which is being led by Teachers Private Capital and includes Providence Equity Partners and Madison Dearborn Partners. Sullivan is acting for the target, with M&A partners James Morphy, George Sampas and Donald Crawshaw spearheading the team.

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Diary Top 10, US edition: sealing that City merger

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's impressive bid to quadruple partner profits by phasing out its entire partnership seems to have made the desired ripples on the other side of the pond. Indeed, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz aside, UK firms are now snapping at the heels of white shoe rivals in terms of profitability.

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  • June 27, 2007 | International Edition

    Lawyers split over business benefits of Web 2.0 social networking phenomenon

    Networking websites such as Facebook are causing a headache for UK firms, and lawyers are divided over how firms should to adapt to them, new research has shown.

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Lawyers split over business benefits of Web 2.0 social networking phenomenon

    Networking websites such as Facebook are causing a headache for UK firms, and lawyers are divided over how firms should to adapt to them, new research has shown.

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  • June 21, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 21/6/2007

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; the pick of readers' comments; and Latham's Christoph von Teichman returns to Legal Village

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