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  • October 8, 2007 |

    Skadden, Jones Day connect for $1.4bn energy deal

    Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Jones Day have advised on the $1.4bn (£685m) acquisition of Airtricity North America by E.ON. Skadden advised regular client Airtricity on the sale of its US wind farm operations after being instructed in the first half of the year. The firm's dual-qualified European energy and project finance head Douglas Nordlinger led the team assisted by London finance partner James Healy.

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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 3, 2007 |

    Legal Week Litigation Forum: Death of generalist to breed hyper-focused litigator

    Barristers have long been cast as dinosaurs, but solicitors are realising that they have to adapt to the demand for specialist disputes lawyers - and the decline of generalists. John Malpas and Claire Ruckin report from the Legal Week Litigation Forum

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  • September 27, 2007 |

    Links and Freshfields brands rising in US: AmLaw on the magic circle

    In June, shortly before becoming Prime Minister, Gordon Brown announced, "[This is] an era that history will record as the beginning of a new golden age…

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Hogan takes the driving seat on luxury Ford brand sell-off

    Hogan & Hartson's City arm has won a high-profile mandate to advise Ford on the planned disposal of its luxury car brands Jaguar and Land Rover.

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Links cashes in on $4bn sale of Nordic exchange OMX

    Linklaters has become the latest firm to benefit from a complex deal that sees US exchange Nasdaq set to take charge of Nordic stock market operator OMX in a $4bn (£2bn) deal.

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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 26, 2007 |

    Scandinavia and the Baltics: Flying the flag for Finland

    Finland's geopolitics mean the country's law firms are opting for a broad range of business strategies - some look east, while others are staying focused on domestic opportunities. Sophie Evans reports

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  • September 26, 2007 |

    Scandinavia and the Baltics: Sweden's deal feast

    Not content with the spoils of the region's M&A boom, law firms in Scandinavia's biggest legal market - Sweden - are fighting for a relaxation in the country's conflict rules, says James Illman

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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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