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  • May 14, 2007 | International Edition

    Lovells hikes NQ pay to £63,500 to match CC

    Lovells has become the latest City firm to up its associate salaries, with the top 10 UK outfit boosting its rate for newly-qualified lawyers by 15% to £63,500. The hike is Lovells' second pay-rise for newly-qualified lawyers in the last year, having raised salaries from last May's £53,000 to a new mark of £55,000 in November.

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  • May 14, 2007 |

    Lovells hikes NQ pay to £63,500 to match CC

    Lovells has become the latest City firm to up its associate salaries, with the top 10 UK outfit boosting its rate for newly-qualified lawyers by 15% to £63,500. The hike is Lovells' second pay-rise for newly-qualified lawyers in the last year, having raised salaries from last May's £53,000 to a new mark of £55,000 in November.

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  • May 14, 2007 |

    Schulte Roth joins NY giants on Chrysler sale

    New York outfit Schulte Roth & Zabel has bagged a lead role alongside Milbank Tweed Hadley McCloy, Shearman & Sterling and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom on Cerberus' acquisition of DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler division in a €5.5bn (£3.8bn) deal. Schulte Roth and Milbank are representing the US buy-out house on M&A and financing of the bid respectively, while Shearman and Skadden are representing DaimlerChrysler on the sale.

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  • May 11, 2007 |

    Real estate hire continues Shepherds' City push

    Shepherd & Wedderburn has underlined its ambitions in the capital with the hire of a new real estate partner for its burgeoning City arm. Elaine Colville will join the big four Scots firm at the end of this month from City outfit Taylor Wessing, where she was also a partner in the real estate division.

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  • May 9, 2007 |

    US giant Skadden gears up for European class action onslaught

    America's largest law firm, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, has launched a class action defence practice in the UK in preparation for what it believes could be an onslaught of group actions across Europe.

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  • May 9, 2007 |

    City duo boost as M&A soars to record level

    Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy (A&O) are among a raft of firms to benefit this week from two major M&A mandates worth more than $10bn (£5bn), as research shows 2007 is on course to smash all deal records.

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  • May 8, 2007 | International Edition

    Slaughters hits headlines with media merger

    Slaughter and May is leading a raft of international firms advising Reuters Group on its merger talks with Canadian financial data company Thomson, valued at $17.6bn (£8.8bn). Rainmaker Nigel Boardman is leading the team advising Reuters, which this morning (8 May) confirmed it had received a takeover bid from Thomson. If successful, the deal would create the world's biggest news and financial data company.

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  • May 8, 2007 |

    Slaughters hits headlines with media merger

    Slaughter and May is leading a raft of international firms advising Reuters Group on its merger talks with Canadian financial data company Thomson, valued at $17.6bn (£8.8bn). Rainmaker Nigel Boardman is leading the team advising Reuters, which this morning (8 May) confirmed it had received a takeover bid from Thomson. If successful, the deal would create the world's biggest news and financial data company.

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  • May 8, 2007 | International Edition

    White & Case tops Shearman with double-digit pay-hikes

    White & Case has responded to the latest round of pay rises in the City with the US giant unveiling associate salary increases of between 12% and 18%. The increases mean that a newly qualified lawyer at the US firm's City base will now receive £76,000 before bonuses - an increase of 12.6% on last year's salary of £67,500.

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  • May 8, 2007 |

    White & Case tops Shearman with double-digit pay-hikes

    White & Case has responded to the latest round of pay rises in the City with the US giant unveiling associate salary increases of between 12% and 18%. The increases mean that a newly qualified lawyer at the US firm's City base will now receive £76,000 before bonuses - an increase of 12.6% on last year's salary of £67,500.

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