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  • July 25, 2007 |

    A&O finance star Flanagan heads to Milan to rebuild firm's banking team

    One of Allen & Overy's (A&O's) top London finance partners is to relocate to the firm's troubled Milan office as the City giant moves to boost its UK banking capability in the region.

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  • July 25, 2007 |

    Germany: The Freshfields effect

    Freshfields' partnership shake-up means more than a flurry of CVs for recruiters - the effects of the firm's restructuring are being felt throughout Germany's main legal centres. James Illman reports

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  • July 25, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 25/7/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Allen & Overy, Dentons and Gibson Dunn among the deal-doers.

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  • July 11, 2007 |

    Heading up HP

    Veteran Hewlett-Packard (HP) in-house lawyer Joyce Norcini is adjusting to her new environment. Plucked from the sunny hills of Palo Alto earlier this year when she landed a coveted role as HP's new general counsel for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Norcini now heads up the computer giant's 115-strong regional legal team from Switzerland.

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  • July 5, 2007 |

    HP US legal review could lead to Euro shake-up

    Computing giant Hewlett Packard (HP) has embarked upon an overhaul of its external legal advisers in the US, in a process that looks set to be replicated in Europe.

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  • July 4, 2007 |

    Projects & Energy: Taking the toll

    In 2003 the AA Motoring Trust labelled the northbound bore of the Blackwall Tunnel the fourth most dangerous tunnel in Europe. Major concerns included a lack of lay-bys, emergency lanes and emergency lighting and no automatic closure of tunnels or activation of fire ventilation after a blaze is detected. In fact, the northbound bore of the tunnel, still in use today, was designed for horses and completed in 1897 - high vehicles using the tunnel today have to keep to the left-hand lane so that they do not hit the tunnel's inner lining.

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  • July 4, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 4/7/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Linklaters, Macfarlanes and Pinsent Masons among the deal-doers.

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    LG, Sullivan advise on Goldman AIM first

    LG and Sullivan & Cromwell have advised on a E500m (£337m) Alternative Investment Market (AIM) share placing for Dolphin Capital Investors in a deal that marks Goldman Sachs' first foray as an underwriter on the exchange.

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  • June 22, 2007 | International Edition

    Latham loses London partner to private equity fund

    Latham & Watkins is to lose the co-head of its London projects practice with the news that Joseph Blum is leaving the US firm to join a private equity fund. Blum, who has been with Latham for more than 20 years, is set to join Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) on 1 July as a partner and general counsel. He will be based in GIP's City office.

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  • June 22, 2007 |

    Latham loses London partner to private equity fund

    Latham & Watkins is to lose the co-head of its London projects practice with the news that Joseph Blum is leaving the US firm to join a private equity fund. Blum, who has been with Latham for more than 20 years, is set to join Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) on 1 July as a partner and general counsel. He will be based in GIP's City office.

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