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  • July 18, 2007 |

    Skadden snaps up £12bn Sainsbury's bid role

    The City arm of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has bagged a key mandate acting on the £12bn bid for Sainsbury's by a Qatari investment group. The New York leader is advising Delta Two on its approach for the supermarket giant, which comes just months after Sainsbury's dismissed an approach from a private equity consortium comprising CVC Capital, Blackstone and Texas Pacific Group.

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  • July 11, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 11/7/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Clifford Chance, Ashurst and Fried Frank among the deal-doers.

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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 3, 2007 |

    Shearman taps US rival for Paris finance hire

    New York giant Shearman & Sterling has strengthened its European finance practice with the hire of Paris-based Jones Day partner Pierre-Nicolas Ferrand, it was announced yesterday (2 July). Ferrand, who focuses on banking and structured finance, as well as restructuring and insolvency matters, joins Shearman in the French capital as a partner.

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Chicago's Jenner to downsize partnership

    Chicago-based Jenner & Block has become the latest US firm to announce it will be cutting back its partnership, with the firm demoting around 15 of its equity partners.

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  • June 25, 2007 | International Edition

    Freshfields, Shearman join Chiomenti on LSE's Italian job

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Shearman & Sterling and Chiomenti have taken the lead roles on the London Stock Exchange's (LSE) €1.5bn (£1.1bn) acquisition of Borsa Italiana. Freshfields is advising long-term client LSE on both UK and Italian law aspects of the deal which was agreed on Friday (22 June). The Italian team includes partners Mario Ortu (corporate), Raffaele Lener (regulatory) and Gian Luca Zampa (competition). In London principal consultant Graham Nicholson has the lead role with finance partner Peter Hall and competition partner Deidre Trapp also advising.

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  • June 25, 2007 |

    Freshfields, Shearman join Chiomenti on LSE's Italian job

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Shearman & Sterling and Chiomenti have taken the lead roles on the London Stock Exchange's (LSE) €1.5bn (£1.1bn) acquisition of Borsa Italiana. Freshfields is advising long-term client LSE on both UK and Italian law aspects of the deal which was agreed on Friday (22 June). The Italian team includes partners Mario Ortu (corporate), Raffaele Lener (regulatory) and Gian Luca Zampa (competition). In London principal consultant Graham Nicholson has the lead role with finance partner Peter Hall and competition partner Deidre Trapp also advising.

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  • June 21, 2007 |

    Latham seizes rival's Diem in Euro hiring spree

    Latham & Watkins has continued its aggressive expansion in continental Europe with the hire of a senior finance partner from US rival Shearman & Sterling. Respected Shearman partner Andreas Diem joins Latham's Munich office as a partner. His practice focuses on acquisition finance, real estate finance and general syndicated lending.

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  • June 21, 2007 |

    DLA Piper makes China corporate capture

    DLA Piper has strengthened its Beijing corporate team with the hire of Heller Ehrman partner Steven Liu, the transatlantic firm announced today (21 June). Liu - who spent the best part of a decade with tech leader Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati prior to joining Heller - focuses on venture capital and technology work.

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  • June 21, 2007 | International Edition

    US firms resist Weil-style pay hikes as salary market begins to fragment

    O'Melveny & Myers, LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae and Hogan & Hartson have set their London associate salary rates, with the firms holding fast against the increases announced at Weil Gotshal & Manges last week. All three have remained in line with the mid-Atlantic newly-qualified rates set by White & Case (£76,000) and Shearman & Sterling (£75,000) earlier this year.

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