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  • April 20, 2007 |

    A&O bags Macquarie role on £2bn comms deal

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has landed a high-profile corporate mandate advising two Macquarie infrastructure funds on their £1.9bn acquisition of UK public safety communications network Airwave 02 from Telefonica. The acquisition by Guardian Digital Communications, a company wholly owned by Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group and Macquarie European Investment Fund II, was announced yesterday and completed today (20 April).

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    Stephenson Harwood reels in Sharma for India branch

    Stephenson Harwood has boosted its expanding India practice with the recruitment of corporate partner Pawan Sharma from corporate boutique Grundberg Mocatta Rakison.

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    Eversheds, Norton Rose to act for investment company on innovative REIT public listing

    Eversheds has bagged a role alongside Norton Rose on the first planned float of a UK real estate investment trust (REIT) as investment company The Local Shopping REIT (LSR) gears up to list for £160m.

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    US Top 50/New York: What Marty says...

    Corporate legend Wachtell Lipton has defined individualism and innovation in Manhattan's legal community for two decades. James Illman asks what the future holds as the architect of its rise nears retirement

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    Extradition: Paying the price

    On 23 January, 2007, the Divisional Court confirmed in Norris v US that a UK national should be extradited for price-fixing and obstructing the course of justice pursuant to the controversial US/UK Treaty of Extradition 2003 and the Extradition Act 2003.

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  • April 11, 2007 |

    Morgan Cole raids rival for Bristol launch

    Morgan Cole has opened the doors on a new office in Bristol after the hire of a corporate partner from regional rival Clarke Willmott, the southwest firm announced today (11 April). Paul Hardman joins Morgan Cole as a partner in Bristol, along with Clarke Willmott corporate associate Mark Gilder.

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  • April 4, 2007 |

    New boy Baird helps A&O to secure buy-out hat-trick

    Allen & Overy's (A&O's) private equity practice has been given a boost having landed mandates from buy-out giant Charterhouse Capital Partners and new clients Apax Partners and Exponent Private Equity.

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  • April 4, 2007 |

    Bakers leads Banco Santander on $1.7bn deal

    Baker & McKenzie has won a repeat instruction from the Portuguese arm of Spain's Banco Santander, advising Banco Santander Totta on a $1.75bn (£890m) bond issue.

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  • March 28, 2007 |

    JP Morgan's Hailes to head up high-level risk group

    JP Morgan assistant general counsel Tim Hailes has been named as the chairman of a high-level capital markets working party that is attempting to create industry standards to manage risky financial products. Hailes was appointed to the newly-created position of group global chairman earlier this month.

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  • March 28, 2007 |

    Middle East and India: Highway to a new world

    According to a taxi driver in Dubai, the only old thing left in the emirate is the sea. It is a common observation, but an outsider could not hope for a more telling insight into the degree of commercial activity in the region. Not surprisingly, that expansion has been mirrored in the legal sector where foreign law firms that have opened up offices in the past three years now significantly outnumber the old hands.

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