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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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  • December 14, 2007 |

    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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  • December 4, 2007 |

    US duo carve up $19bn Vivendi video game deal

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have won lead advisory roles on the merger of computer games giants Vivendi and Activision. The $18.9bn (£9.2bn) deal will see the makers of best-selling computer games including James Bond and World of Warcraft come together to form the world's largest video games publisher ahead of market rival Electronic Arts.

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  • December 2, 2007 |

    Hiring Mr Enron for global domination

    If you start from the basis that 90% of partner moves aren’t that interesting, the proportion of the noteworthy 10% this year hailing from bankruptcy…

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  • November 29, 2007 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 29/11/07...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts and a Talkback special that puts the PR into pro bono

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  • November 29, 2007 |

    The firm that came in from the cold

    Dimitry Afanasiev would like to get a few things straight. Russian president Vladimir Putin is not a dictator and not everyone with money in Russia is a crook. Fed up with what he sees as the West's - and in particular America's - media bias against Russia, the 38-year-old managing partner of Moscow's fast-rising Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners becomes animated.

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  • November 29, 2007 |

    East vs west

    Helsinki saw a rare merger among law firms this summer, as the jury remains out on the best business strategy to take in Finland. Sophie Evans reports

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  • November 29, 2007 |

    Tight ship

    A good year for M&A deals has seen Sweden's independents miss out on some of the big instructions, but the Government's sell-off of prized assets has benefited the country's top firms. James Illman reports

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