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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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  • April 18, 2007 |

    Addleshaws recruits City duo as five promoted in partner round

    Addleshaw Goddard has swelled its partner numbers in the UK with two lateral hires and five internal partner promotions.

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    Fladgate brews £255m deal for Bristol redevelopment

    Fladgate Fielder has sealed a big-ticket regeneration mandate after landing a lucrative role advising long-term client HDG Mansur on a £255m redevelopment scheme in Bristol.

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  • April 4, 2007 |

    Addleshaws offers pro bono incentive for assistants aiming for billable hours target

    Addleshaw Goddard assistants will be able to count pro bono activities towards their chargeable hours target for the first time following a vote by the firm's management.

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  • March 28, 2007 |

    Editor's Comment: Here, there and everywhere

    London, Paris, Istanbul... Milton Keynes. This is the extent of Denton Wilde Sapte's current network of offices in Western Europe. It makes for an unusual geographic spread. But this somewhat uneven, if not downright quirky European network is not atypical of those on offer at many of London's large band of mid-market firms.

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  • March 26, 2007 |

    Dentons hands real estate reins over to Hill

    Denton Wilde Sapte has appointed Andrew Hill as the new head of its key real estate and retail (RER) group, taking over from Stephen Ashworth at the end of his two-year term. Hill will continue as head of Dentons' real estate finance team, a role he has held since joining the top 20 City firm from Addleshaw Goddard in 2004.

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  • March 21, 2007 |

    Talent no-show

    Addleshaw Goddard was making a song and dance last month as two partners from the fee-plundering national titan hosted an X-Factor rip-off - sorry, homage - dubbed The Crypt Factor to raise much-needed cash for local homeless shelter St George's Crypt.

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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 |

    Deals: M&A 15/03/2007

    DLA Piper has advised McBride, a UK supplier of household and personal care products, on its £39.3m bid to acquire Chemolux from Henkel. Corporate partner Jonathan Watkins led the team at DLA Piper. Luxembourg soaps manufacturer Chemolux was advised by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton M&A partner William Groll.

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  • March 1, 2007 |

    An unsentimental education

    Several years back, College of Law chief executive Nigel Savage must have been tempted to give up.The College was doing OK but pesky law school upstarts…

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