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  • October 17, 2007 |

    Lovells builds up US IP with Morgan Lewis appointment

    Lovells has strengthened its fledgling US intellectual property (IP) practice with the hire of a partner from Morgan Lewis & Bockius.

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  • October 17, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 17/10/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with A&O, Shearman and Platt & Fishwick among the movers and shakers

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  • October 9, 2007 | International Edition

    A&O scoops latest billion-pound M&A mandate

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has scored its second high-profile corporate instruction in two days, advising a JP Morgan-led consortium on its acquisition of Southern Water from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) worth £4.2bn. The JP Morgan consortium, which also includes Australia's Challenger Infrastructure Fund and Swiss bank UBS, beat a raft of other bidders, reportedly including Goldman Sachs, to win the auction for the water supplier.

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  • October 9, 2007 |

    A&O scoops latest billion-pound M&A mandate

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has scored its second high-profile corporate instruction in two days, advising a JP Morgan-led consortium on its acquisition of Southern Water from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) worth £4.2bn. The JP Morgan consortium, which also includes Australia's Challenger Infrastructure Fund and Swiss bank UBS, beat a raft of other bidders, reportedly including Goldman Sachs, to win the auction for the water supplier.

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  • October 4, 2007 |

    Global 100: international converts put pressure on Wall Street's elite

    National US firms and the magic circle have emerged as winners in The Global 100 from The American Lawyer and Legal Week, which shows both groups making ground on New York's legal elite.

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  • October 1, 2007 |

    Orrick hires Morgan Lewis corporate veteran

    Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is set to announce today (1 October) that it has recruited the head of the business and finance practice at Morgan Lewis & Bockius to its New York office, writes the New York Law Journal. Howard Shecter will join Orrick's M&A group and is expected to take a lead role in expanding the practice in New York.

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  • September 27, 2007 |

    Reward to retain

    Law firms must change their reward strategy in order to retain staff, says Tony Morgan

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Slaughters sets the Standard with banking mandate double

    Slaughter and May has cemented its ties with longstanding client Standard Chartered Bank, advising on the issue of a $15bn (£7.45bn) debt issuance prospectus and its $860m (£427m) acquisition of American Express Bank.

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  • September 22, 2007 |

    - The post-Lehman landscape: a Legal Week Wiki special

    The dramatic collapse of investment banking giant Lehman Brothers rocked financial markets around the world, as the credit crunch claimed its most high-profile victim to date. The days that followed saw a flurry of action as the financial world scrambled to make sense of events. Here's how Legal Week reported the post-Lehman fallout.

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  • September 12, 2007 |

    Eversheds leads on $1bn deal in fast-growing care home sector

    Eversheds has landed a role opposite Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer on the $1.1bn (£542m) acquisition of a retirement home portfolio from Sunrise Senior Living in one of the biggest deals in the sector this year.

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