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  • November 20, 2007 | International Edition

    BPP gets full marks in latest LPC assessment

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has awarded BPP Law School top marks for all areas of its Legal Practice Course (LPC) in a boost for the private sector education provider. The school's LPC was rated as a "commendable practice" by the SRA's panel of assessors across all six performance criteria: teaching, learning and the curriculum; assessment; students and their support; learning resources; leadership and management; and quality assurance and enhancement.

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  • November 12, 2007 | International Edition

    Norton Rose, LG top new AIM adviser rankings

    Norton Rose, LG, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and DLA Piper are among a clutch of UK firms to have cashed in on the rapid growth of the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in recent years, according to new figures released today (12 November). Top 10 City firm Norton Rose advises more AIM-listed clients than any other UK practice, according to the Hemscott statistics, having acted for 64 businesses to have floated on London's junior stock exchange.

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  • November 12, 2007 |

    Norton Rose, LG top new AIM adviser rankings

    Norton Rose, LG, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and DLA Piper are among a clutch of UK firms to have cashed in on the rapid growth of the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in recent years, according to new figures released today (12 November). Top 10 City firm Norton Rose advises more AIM-listed clients than any other UK practice, according to the Hemscott statistics, having acted for 64 businesses to have floated on London's junior stock exchange.

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  • November 8, 2007 | International Edition

    City defies crunch with double-digit H1 growth

    City leaders have defied struggling credit markets to announce strong H1 results, despite longer-term worries about the rest of the year. Just one out of nearly 20 top 50 firms to have reported H1 results has failed to record double-digit growth, with a wide range of firms enjoying increases of more than 20% on the same period last year.

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  • November 8, 2007 |

    City defies crunch with double-digit H1 growth

    City leaders have defied struggling credit markets to announce strong H1 results, despite longer-term worries about the rest of the year. Just one out of nearly 20 top 50 firms to have reported H1 results has failed to record double-digit growth, with a wide range of firms enjoying increases of more than 20% on the same period last year.

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  • November 6, 2007 | International Edition

    H1 results: SJB turnover up 22%, Lovells up 10%

    SJ Berwin and Lovells have become the latest firms to unveil double-digit turnover increases for the first half of the year, with the City duo reporting rises of 22% and 10% respectively. SJ Berwin has seen its half-year turnover rise by almost a quarter to reach £99m - putting the top 20 City practice on track to break the £200m mark for a full financial year for the first time. Last year SJ Berwin reported a year-end turnover of £189m.

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  • November 5, 2007 | International Edition

    Coppin stuns Hogan after opting to leave law

    Hogan & Hartson is to lose the head of its City corporate team, Jonathan Coppin, after less than 18 months with the US law firm. Coppin, who joined Hogan last summer from the London arm of US rival Shearman & Sterling, told partners of his decision to leave the firm - and the law - last month.

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  • November 1, 2007 | International Edition

    UK elite to post budget-busting H1 results

    The UK's leading firms have enjoyed a strong first half of the year, despite turmoil in the credit markets, with the majority of the top 10 City firms ahead of budget for the last six months. Early indications show firms including Clifford Chance (CC) and Allen & Overy (A&O) are expecting to be well ahead of budget going into the third quarter. CC is currently reforecasting the second half of the year after revealing that it is significantly up on the same period last year.

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  • November 1, 2007 |

    UK elite to post budget-busting H1 results

    The UK's leading firms have enjoyed a strong first half of the year, despite turmoil in the credit markets, with the majority of the top 10 City firms ahead of budget for the last six months. Early indications show firms including Clifford Chance (CC) and Allen & Overy (A&O) are expecting to be well ahead of budget going into the third quarter. CC is currently reforecasting the second half of the year after revealing that it is significantly up on the same period last year.

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  • October 31, 2007 | International Edition

    Herbies bags role next to Slaughters on upcoming listing of Turkish broadcaster

    Herbert Smith has landed a role alongside Slaughter and May on the upcoming London float of Turkish broadcaster Digiturk. The deal sees Herbert Smith instructed for co-ordinators and bookrunners Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse as Turkey's largest digital television company moves to complete a London listing in November. The move is expected to offer a 25% stake in the business with a value of around $550m (£270m).

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