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  • July 18, 2007 | International Edition

    Skadden snaps up £12bn Sainsbury's bid role

    The City arm of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has bagged a key mandate acting on the £12bn bid for Sainsbury's by a Qatari investment group. The New York leader is advising Delta Two on its approach for the supermarket giant, which comes just months after Sainsbury's dismissed an approach from a private equity consortium comprising CVC Capital, Blackstone and Texas Pacific Group.

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  • July 18, 2007 |

    Skadden snaps up £12bn Sainsbury's bid role

    The City arm of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has bagged a key mandate acting on the £12bn bid for Sainsbury's by a Qatari investment group. The New York leader is advising Delta Two on its approach for the supermarket giant, which comes just months after Sainsbury's dismissed an approach from a private equity consortium comprising CVC Capital, Blackstone and Texas Pacific Group.

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  • July 18, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 18/7/2007

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; the pick of readers' comments; and John Malpas on the curious case of Mr Justice Smith

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  • July 12, 2007 |

    Links leads Rio Tinto's $34bn Alcan approach

    Linklaters has bagged a high-profile lead role advising Rio Tinto on its approach for Canadian metal group Alcan, likely to be worth around $34bn (£16.8bn). City-based corporate partner Richard Godden is leading the Linklaters team advising Rio Tinto. Also playing key roles for the elice City law firm are fellow corporate partner James Inglis, competition partner Gavin Robert and banking partner Stuart Thomas.

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  • July 11, 2007 |

    US class action specialists target UK clients as market activity intensifies

    Two of the US' top class action firms are roadshowing to clients in the UK in a bid to increase British involvement in US shareholder action.

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  • July 10, 2007 |

    Linklaters Italy signs up senior corporate duo

    Linklaters has bolstered its Italian corporate practice with a brace of high-profile hires from local M&A boutiques. Giovanni Pedersoli - the youngest of three Pedersoli brothers at the firm that shares their name - joins Linklaters after a partner vote, as does former Camozzi Bonissoni Varrenti e Associati partner Claudia Parzani, it was announced today (10 July).

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  • July 4, 2007 |

    Commentary: Freshfields star becomes Magpies' latest big signing

    Lawyers love reading the sports pages. Even for the ones that know very little about it, there seems to be an inherent need to keep abreast of Premiership football affairs, if only to be able to discuss it with clients.

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  • July 3, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 3/7/2007

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of readers' comments; and Beachcroft managing partner Paul Murray is the latest law firm leader under the Herding Cats microscope

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Italy: The cult of personality

    Italy's lawyers see themselves as individuals, rather than cogs in the corporate wheel. Claire Ruckin analyses the management challenges this presents as Italy's firms go global

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  • June 22, 2007 |

    CC, A&O beat Freshfields and Links for H1 M&A

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Allen & Overy (A&O) have replaced Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters at the top of European M&A rankings for the first half of 2007. CC and A&O finished first and second respectively in the tables, knocking their magic circle rivals into third and fourth place, according to preliminary figures released by Mergermarket today (22 June).

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