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  • March 14, 2007 |

    Commentary: Cadwalader faces test as curtain draws on Wilkinson show

    So it was rumoured, so it has come to pass. The persistent gossip in restructuring circles was that Andrew Wilkinson would be quitting Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft as the Eurotunnel restructuring winds down for a major investment bank. And so, with Cadwalader's star confirming last week that he is moving to Goldman Sachs to co-head its restructuring department, he has.

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  • March 14, 2007 |

    Weil Gotshal and Addleshaws step out in style with £190m fashion buy-out

    Weil Gotshal & Manges' London arm has strengthened its ties with private equity house HgCapital, advising on its £190m acquisition of Manchester-based fashion business Americana International Group from ISIS Equity Partners.

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  • March 14, 2007 |

    Trowers rings up $3.8bn Kuwaiti mobile deal

    Trowers & Hamlins has landed a role on the $3.8bn (£2bn) purchase of a controlling stake in Kuwaiti mobile operator Wataniya. Trowers advised Qatar telecoms provider Qtel on its acquisition of a 51% stake in Wataniya from a shareholder consortium led by the Kuwait Projects Company Holding. Bahrain-based partner Abdullah Mutawi led the team for Travers.

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  • March 14, 2007 |

    Deal Week's Manhattan transfer finds New Yorkers less than bullish

    Breakfast with Cravath, coffee with Sullivan, now on to Wachtell – it has been a busy week on Legal Week’s ongoing tour of Manhattan.The…

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  • March 13, 2007 |

    Cads in heavyweight restructuring raid on Weil NY

    Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft's New York office has poached four of Weil Gotshal's most prominent bankruptcy partners in a significant boost for the firm's restructuring practice. George Davis, Deryck Palmer, John Rapisardi and Andrew Troop are all set to join Cadwalader as partners from Weil Gotshal's business finance and restructuring department.

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  • March 8, 2007 |

    Insolvency legend Miller rejoins Weil Gotshal

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has re-hired the high-profile former head of its global finance and restructuring practice, Harvey Miller, it was announced yesterday (7 March). Miller, who has spent the last four years at merchant banking firm Greenhill & Co, where he served as managing director and vice chairman, will join the US giant's Manhattan hub as a partner 12 March.

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  • March 7, 2007 |

    Kirkland bags first Bridgepoint Capital deal with E500m German acquisition

    US giant Kirkland & Ellis has bagged its first instruction from UK private equity house Bridgepoint Capital after advising on its acqui-sition of contact-lens maker Rodenstock from Permira, in a deal worth more than A500m (£339m). Munich head Volker Kullman led the team on the deal, which will close this month, along with German private equity partners Christian Zuleger and Frank Becker and London banking partner John Markland.

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  • March 7, 2007 | International Edition

    Commentary: US City results: for whom the bellwether tolls

    If there is one theme emerging from the figures for US firms' London outposts in 2006, it is just how divergent this amorphous group has become - particularly the more established players. On paper, 2006 should have been a great year: markets booming, M&A activity up and UK firms of all sizes mostly announcing record results.

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  • March 7, 2007 |

    Commentary: US City results: for whom the bellwether tolls

    If there is one theme emerging from the figures for US firms' London outposts in 2006, it is just how divergent this amorphous group has become - particularly the more established players. On paper, 2006 should have been a great year: markets booming, M&A activity up and UK firms of all sizes mostly announcing record results.

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  • March 7, 2007 |

    Deals: Corporate 08/03/2007

    Travers Smith advised the management of STAR Capital on its £140m ($275m) acquisition of Swedish flight simulation company SAS Flight Academy and a majority…

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