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  • January 16, 2008 |

    Big four cast long shadow in deal league but nationals gain ground

    It was a good year for London's big four in the key M&A markets, no doubt, but 2007's wildly uneven corporate market also drew a strong performance from firms such as Eversheds and Pinsent Masons. Echoing its market-leading performance in Legal Week's primary adviser tables, which track lead corporate roles on Europe's largest deals, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer topped the full tables for European M&A, according to recently-released research from Mergermarket.

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  • January 10, 2008 |

    After primary adviser victory, Freshfields tops overall M&A deal league

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has stormed to the top of the European M&A adviser rankings for 2007 after ousting Clifford Chance (CC) from top spot by deal value. After a strong fourth quarter Freshfields completed 282 deals worth €482.8bn (£360bn) in 2007, according to figures from Legal Week's data partner, Mergermarket. CC - which had topped the third-quarter rankings - slipped to second, advising on 292 deals worth a combined €464.7bn (£346bn).

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  • January 9, 2008 |

    UK's 'big four' outpace Euro rivals in 2007 adviser tables

    If there was any doubt that Europe's major deal market is dominated by just a handful of players, Legal Week's primary adviser deal rankings for 2007 comprehensively show the top four UK firms to be a class apart from their rivals.

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  • January 9, 2008 |

    Major US law firms bet on Obama to win 2008 presidential election race

    US law firms are throwing their financial muscle behind the Democrats' attempts to reach the White House, with the legal sector providing more funding to the party's leading candidates than any other industry.

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  • January 9, 2008 |

    Shearman partner joins Skadden Arps Frankfurt

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has strengthened its German offering with the hire of banking partner Johannes Kremer, who joins from Shearman & Sterling. Kremer, who focuses on banking and acquisition finance work, will join Skadden's Frankfurt office in February. Prior to joining Shearman in 2000, Kremer spent six years with Clifford Chance in London and Frankfurt.

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  • January 9, 2008 |

    Russian bear meets bull market

    Russia's oil-driven economic revival is generating a flood of corporate work and surging demand for City partners. Richard Lloyd reports on Moscow's white-hot legal market

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  • December 20, 2007 |

    Skadden snares German Shearman partner

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has strengthened its German offering with the hire of banking partner Johannes Kremer, who joins from US rival Shearman & Sterling. Kremer - who focuses on banking and acquisition finance work - will join Skadden's Frankfurt office in February.

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  • December 18, 2007 |

    Dow Jones nabs new GC from Harper Collins

    Dow Jones has swiped Harper Collins associate general counsel Mark Jackson to head up its legal team. Jackson is to take over from current Dow Jones general counsel Joseph Stern, who joined the financial newswire in 2004 as general counsel and company secretary from the New York office of Dow Jones' main corporate adviser, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobsen.

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  • December 17, 2007 |

    Simpson, Skadden scoop $10bn Trane sale

    Elite New York firms Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have bagged lead roles on the $10.1bn (£5.2bn) acquisition of air conditioning company Trane by US conglomerate Ingersoll-Rand. Simpson Thacher advised Ingersoll-Rand, a long-term client of the firm, while Skadden advised the target on a deal that was announced earlier today (17 December).

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  • December 14, 2007 | International Edition

    Mergermarket ranks 2007's busiest deal lawyers

    Clifford Chance (CC) Duesseldorf competition partner Marc Besen and Linklaters UK private equity partner Richard Youle have been named as Europe's most active deal-doers for 2007, according to Mergermarket. Individual rankings produced for Legal Week show Besen and Youle have both advised on 15 M&A deals over the calendar year, with both acting on deals worth a combined value of slightly less than €5bn (£3.59bn).

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