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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 14/11/07

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Ashurst, Wragges and Bakers among the movers and shakers

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  • November 9, 2007 |

    Norton Rose hits Dentons with Bi capture

    Norton Rose has boosted its Islamic finance team with the hire of rated capital markets partner Farmida Bi from City finance rival Denton Wilde Sapte. Bi resigned from the top 20 firm this week (6 November), although her departure date is subject to negotiation and she is likely to be required to serve a period of gardening leave.

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  • November 8, 2007 | International Edition

    City defies crunch with double-digit H1 growth

    City leaders have defied struggling credit markets to announce strong H1 results, despite longer-term worries about the rest of the year. Just one out of nearly 20 top 50 firms to have reported H1 results has failed to record double-digit growth, with a wide range of firms enjoying increases of more than 20% on the same period last year.

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  • November 8, 2007 |

    City defies crunch with double-digit H1 growth

    City leaders have defied struggling credit markets to announce strong H1 results, despite longer-term worries about the rest of the year. Just one out of nearly 20 top 50 firms to have reported H1 results has failed to record double-digit growth, with a wide range of firms enjoying increases of more than 20% on the same period last year.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    London boutiques target expansion with Addleshaws and Withers hires

    Two London boutiques have moved to broaden their horizons with senior partner hires from larger City rivals. Bates Wells & Braithwaite and Forsters have hired well-known partners from Addleshaw Goddard and Withers respectively.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Eighteen of 19 top firms report double-digit H1 growth

    The UK's top law firms have posted a robust set of half year results, with 18 out of 19 firms to have announced their figures so far unveiling double-digit revenue growth. The results (see table below) show no less than seven firms posting turnover increases of 20% or more compared to the equivalent period last year.

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  • November 6, 2007 |

    Hill Dicks recruits DLA private equity chief

    Hill Dickinson has scored a major coup for its ambitions in the UK corporate market with the trophy hire of DLA Piper private equity chief Darryl Cooke, one of the most high-profile transactional lawyers in the northwest. Cooke will join the UK top 40 firm's Manchester arm as a partner next week and will also head up its local corporate practice.

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  • November 5, 2007 |

    Straw will not let judges return to private practice

    The convention banning judges from returning to private practice will remain in place after the Government today (5 November) issued its long-awaited response to a consultation paper on the controversial subject. The Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice, Jack Straw, said lifting the prohibition would not increase diversity in the judiciary and that the ban would therefore remain in place.

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  • November 1, 2007 |

    DLA Piper, Eversheds, Addleshaws and Pinsents race ahead of national rivals in Euro M&A tables

    DLA Piper, Eversheds, Addleshaw Goddard and Pinsent Masons are well ahead of their national rivals in transactional performance over the last three years, new research has shown. Bespoke data provided exclusively to Legal Week by mergermarket shows the top four firms are well ahead of their national competitors on European and UK M&A deals since 2004 by both volume and value.

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  • October 25, 2007 |

    Govt review to address if US firms should disclose results

    US law firms in London are on heightened alert this month ahead of a Government consultation which is expected to address whether US limited liability partnerships (LLPs) operating in the City should be required to disclose their financial results.

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