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  • June 28, 2000 |

    Battleground: Europe

    The European private equity market is booming, but it is forcing law firms to decide which market they are playing in. Philip Hoult reports on how the leading players are planning to carve out their own empires

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  • June 7, 2000 |

    Freedom or Fraternity

    As hard as it is for them to stomach, allowing the firm to be taken over may be what Ashurst Morris Crisp partners have to accept if they are to realise their ambition of sitting at the global top table, writes Philip Hoult

    1 minute read

  • February 16, 2000 |

    Looking beyond the Big Apple

    The reluctance of Wall Street's finest to contemplate a merger means that London's magic circle will have to consider the likes of Californian firm Latham & Watkins,

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  • February 2, 2000 |

    A tale of two cities

    The bust-up between US firm Weil Gotshal & Manges and rainmaking banking partner, Maurice Allen, is an apt illustration of what can happen when UK and US working practices collide. By Saira Zaki and Richard Tyler

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  • November 3, 1999 |

    Wall Street moves the goalposts

    With the cream of US firms upping their space requirements in London, Richard Tyler looks at

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  • October 13, 1999 |

    Simpsons plans English law expansion

    US firms in London

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  • August 4, 1999 |

    CC/Rogers & Wells looking to pull off a 'transatlantic Olivetti'

    Globalisation -Stuart Popham, Clifford Chance's worldwide head of finance, tells Richard Tyler that the perfect endorsement of his firm's union with Rogers & Wells will come when the newly created giant can manage a global version of Europe's Telecom Italia blockbuster

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  • July 21, 1999 |

    US dominates global M&A

    M&A

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  • July 14, 1999 |

    Shockwaves from the 'big bang'

    Clifford Chance mega-merger

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  • June 30, 1999 |

    NYC firms target Silicon Valley

    USA- Simpson Thacher; Davis Polk in IT epicentre move; NYC firms in area now total seven

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