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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Bakers City arm advises on American Standard's Bain bath and kitchen sale

    Six hundred Baker & McKenzie lawyers across more than 40 offices have advised on the $1.745bn (£832m) sale of American Standard's bath and kitchen products business and the wider separation of the company's operations.

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  • November 14, 2007 |

    The transformers

    It was ingenious and audacious, and officials at the Internal Revenue Service were upset.

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  • November 11, 2007 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 12/11/07...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; the pick of the day's posts; and lots more this sunny Monday

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  • November 9, 2007 |

    Skadden snaps up Weil City restructuring head

    New York giant Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has strengthened its London practice with the hire of Weil Gotshal & Manges local restructuring head Chris Mallon. Mallon, who announced his departure earlier this week, will head up Skadden's UK law restructuring practice.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    A&O's hot streak in Holland continues

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has picked up another big-ticket European mandate advising car navigation system maker Garmin on its E2.3bn (£1.6bn) hostile bid for Tele Atlas. Amsterdam corporate partners Jan Louis Burggraaf and Tim Stevens are advising the new client, alongside Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 7/11/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Ashurst, Norton Rose and Travers Smith among the movers and shakers

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  • November 1, 2007 | International Edition

    Simmons scores client double on back of new energy financing deal expertise

    Simmons & Simmons has won two new clients on the back of its experience of a new financing structure, as the firm continues to build on its energy credentials. The firm has advised Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital on its subsidiary's $850m (£415m) purchase of oil and gas exploration company Rally Energy Group.

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  • November 1, 2007 |

    Simmons scores client double on back of new energy financing deal expertise

    Simmons & Simmons has won two new clients on the back of its experience of a new financing structure, as the firm continues to build on its energy credentials. The firm has advised Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital on its subsidiary's $850m (£415m) purchase of oil and gas exploration company Rally Energy Group.

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  • October 31, 2007 |

    Companies under backdating spotlight shell out massive legal fees for independent investigations

    Perhaps no corporate scandal of recent years has created such wide-ranging troubles as the stock option backdating mess. Companies have spent untold millions on legal fees for independent investigations, government negotiations and shareholder and derivative suits. And even if the companies clean house, the disgraced executives can - and do - insist that their former employers keep paying their high-priced lawyers, thanks to indemnification contracts that are a standard perk in executive suites. In the case of Brocade Communications Systems, which cut ties with its convicted former chief executive, Gregory Reyes, legal fees could eventually reach $100m (£48.7m).

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  • October 24, 2007 |

    Credit squeeze set to prompt private equity IPO exit flurry

    Equity capital markets (ECM) lawyers are hoping for an increase in initial public offering (IPO) activity as the effects of the credit crunch spill over into the public markets, where IPOs could be seen as an increasingly attractive exit route.

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