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  • April 22, 2009 |

    Pinsents, Eversheds and Nabarro advise on 'green lease toolkit'

    Nabarro, Eversheds and Pinsent Masons have advised on a new initiative to help companies reduce their carbon dioxide emissions.The trio have teamed up to advise the Better Buildings Partnership (BBP) - a group of property companies brought together by the Mayor of London and the London Development Agency (LDA) including Land Securities, British Land and GE Real Estate - on the creation of a green lease toolkit.

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  • April 22, 2009 |

    Full steam ahead for Pinsents and Ashurst on €188m trains purchase

    Pinsent Masons and Ashurst have advised on the purchase of a new fleet of trains for the Stansted Express worth around €188m (£166.2m). The deal sees London Eastern Railway, a subsidiary of National Express, procure 30 four-carriage trains for the rail link. The trains will be owned by Lloyds TSB General Leasing and then leased to London Eastern Railway

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  • April 9, 2009 |

    Pinsents makes up eight as downturn continues to curb partner promotions

    Pinsent Masons has appointed eight new partners, with Linklaters, CMS Cameron McKenna and Lewis Silkin all also announcing partner promotions during the past week. Pinsents' promotion round marks a significant drop on last year's tally of 17, with the promotions evenly spread across five practice areas. The dispute resolution, outsourcing, technology and commercial and projects and international construction (PIC) practices each gain two new partners. Meanwhile, employment and UK construction and engineering gain one partner apiece.

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  • April 8, 2009 | International Edition

    Generation why?

    When it comes to law firm prestige there is no denying that the magic circle tag still works its, well, magic. And there are few other groups that buy into the brand power of these five firms more so than the student population.Given free choice to name five law firms they would rate highly, students consistently turned to the magic circle group, viewing them as offering the best career options, work-life balance, partnership prospects and training - not to mention prestige - of all law firms.

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  • April 8, 2009 |

    Generation why?

    When it comes to law firm prestige there is no denying that the magic circle tag still works its, well, magic. And there are few other groups that buy into the brand power of these five firms more so than the student population.Given free choice to name five law firms they would rate highly, students consistently turned to the magic circle group, viewing them as offering the best career options, work-life balance, partnership prospects and training - not to mention prestige - of all law firms.

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  • April 8, 2009 |

    Arrested development

    Over the last few months, increasing numbers of firms have been asking their 2009 graduate intake to delay their training contract start dates.Clifford Chance (CC), Norton Rose, Herbert Smith and Simmons & Simmons are among the firms to pay off recruits due to start in September, giving them the opportunity to put off their entry into the working world for a year. Some of the offers are dependent on the firms getting enough volunteers to defer; otherwise compulsory deferral may be introduced.

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  • April 3, 2009 |

    LG, Dundas & Wilson latest to defer trainees

    LG and Dundas & Wilson have become the latest firms in the top 50 to announce that they are deferring trainee start dates in response to the poor market conditions. LG has asked its September 2009 and 2010 trainees to defer for 12 months, also opting to halt recruitment altogether in 2011 to balance out the deferred intakes.

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  • April 2, 2009 |

    Faegre boosts London arm with Crowell & Moring double partner hire

    Faegre & Benson has bolstered its London corporate practice with the hire of two partners and a special counsel from Crowell & Moring. Paul Finlan, who previously headed Crowell's London office, and fellow partner Gary Laitner joined the firm as partners last month (23 March) with their colleague Linda Crow joining as special counsel.Finlan and Laitner had been at Crowell since 2005 when they were brought in to kick-start the practice from Pinsent Masons. At Pinsents they were two of the national firm's most senior partners.

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  • April 2, 2009 |

    Hammonds partner quartet resign from firm

    Hammonds is to lose four of its most senior partners, with human capital partners David Beswick and Jay Doraisamy and corporate finance partners Amanda Allen and Martin Letza all opting to leave the national firm. All four handed in their notice earlier this week (31 March) - on one of only two days each year on which equity partners are able to resign from the firm.Employment specialist Beswick - head of the firm's Birmingham employment practice, is set to join national rival Eversheds' employment group. It is unclear where Doraisamy, Allen and Letza are headed.

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  • April 1, 2009 |

    Pinsents, Simmons and MoFo line up for £340m placing as SIG moves to cut debt

    Pinsent Masons, Simmons & Simmons and Morrison & Foerster have won lead roles on a £341.3m fundraising as building materials company SIG moves to cut its debt burden. Sheffield-based SIG is raising money in order to pay off creditors and avoid breaching loan agreements, making additional shares available to existing shareholders as well as on open offer.

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