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  • April 30, 2007 |

    Lovells targets insolvency with NY partner hire

    Lovells has strengthened its New York office with the hire of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan restructuring partner Christopher Donoho, the City firm announced today (30 April). Donoho, who joins Lovells' Manhattan arm tomorrow, represents bondholders' and creditors' committees, including during Chapter 11 proceedings. Major clients he has represented include Oglebay Norton, Gentek, Beloit, Northwestern Steel & Wire, Gulf States Steel and Glenoit.

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  • April 27, 2007 |

    Priory to offer stressed lawyers executive rehab

    Stressed-out lawyers are the targets of a new initiative from mental healthcare body The Priory Group, best known for providing up-market rehab facilities for celebrities. The group, which runs the Priory Hospital Roehampton, has launched a new therapy service and stress management programme targeted at large international law firms.

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  • April 26, 2007 |

    Howrey returns to Dewey for latest IP hire

    Dewey Ballantine has suffered another senior defection with the news that Palo Alto managing partner Jeannine Yoo Sano is quitting the New York firm to join the local arm of intellectual property (IP) leader Howrey. Sano, who previously co-chaired Dewey's IP litigation practice, will join Howrey on 1 May as a partner. She is the second senior IP partner to quit Dewey for Howrey in as many months, after fellow IP litigation co-chair Cano Carrano defected to Howrey's Washington DC arm in March.

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  • April 26, 2007 |

    Blag your way through interview: Commercially conscious

    'Commercial awareness' is something that all of the top firms cite as key recruitment criteria - so if you are beginning to worry that you are not fully au fait with current goings-on in the legal market, Legal Week Student presents a crash course in this year's burning issues

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Weil Gotshal settles $100m dispute with RBS

    Weil Gotshal & Manges' London arm has settled an estimated $100m (£50m) claim brought by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Weil Gotshal settled the long-running dispute, which was based on the structuring of a collateralised debt obligation (CDO), last week (19 April) following brief discussions with the judge in charge of the case. The case was due to go to court this week (23 April).

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Travers reaps rewards of 3i links with deal windfall

    Travers Smith's longstanding ties with 3i are paying dividends as the City firm landed the pole advisory position on the majority of the buy-out house's transactions in the past year, according to new research.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    A&O's Paris branch gets environmental boost

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has boosted its public and environmental law offering in Paris with the hire of Jean-Yves Ollier from Weil Gotshal & Manges. Ollier was previously counsel in Weil Gotshal's Paris corporate department. He was formerly a junior judge and subsequently deputy secretary general at the Conseil d'Etat, France's Supreme Court for public law cases.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Weil Gotshal hires Mayer Brown employment chief

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has beefed up its New York employment team with the hire of a senior partner from US rival Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw. Gary Friedman was previously head of employment at Mayer Brown, where he was based in New York. He joins Weil Gotshal's Manhattan hub as a partner.

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  • April 24, 2007 |

    Alliance Boots is a breakthrough for private equity (and CC)

    The symbolism of the first-ever buy-out of a FTSE 100 company is not lost on private equity lawyers. They have been talking about such an event occurring…

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  • April 20, 2007 |

    2007 pay round: a Legal Week Wiki special

    As more City firms show their hands in the salary stakes, the Legal Week Wiki brings you the chance to post your views, pass on the latest gossip and help fill out our salary table.

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