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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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  • June 21, 2007 |

    Nine bluechips sign up 60 firms for cutting-edge legal network

    A group of the world's leading companies, led by Cisco, have developed an innovative networking website that will give them free access to major law firms' precedents. The computer company is joined by Microsoft, General Motors and investment banking giants Citi and Merrill Lynch in the venture, dubbed Legal OnRamp, which will offer clients access to legal advice, precedents and updates as well as networking facilities such as 'wikis' and online chatrooms.

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  • June 21, 2007 |

    Summer surge gifts top City firms big-ticket IPOs

    A busy seven days for initial public offerings (IPOs) has gifted corporate mandates to a raft of City law firms as the number of companies coming to market surges before the summer break. White & Case, Norton Rose and Baker & McKenzie were among the main recipients of the listings, which had a combined value of more than £3bn.

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