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  • May 17, 2007 |

    Overview: A Whirlwind Tour

    The intense focus on pay rises at the top London firms may have stolen the headlines of late, but the truth is that there is just as much happening in the regional, offshore and international legal markets as in the City - as Legal Week's editorial team demonstrates in this round-up of events from Nottingham to New York.

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  • May 16, 2007 |

    Europe rallies troops as class action brigade heads this way

    Like many transatlantic trends, lawyers have long been predicting that US-style class action litigation is set to migrate to Europe but, until recently, there has been little evidence to support such wild claims.

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  • May 16, 2007 |

    US leaders continue restructuring drive

    Two New York firms have hired restructuring partners in the latest evidence of Manhattan's top firms striving to beef up their insolvency practices.

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  • May 16, 2007 |

    Hogan bags $4.8bn mandate as aggressive bid tactics rule

    Norilsk Nickel calls in Hogan in competitive bid as aggressive acquirers power M&A market

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  • May 16, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 16/5/2007

    The five most popular stories of the day on legalweek.com; the best readers' posts and all the usual lunchtime fun.

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  • May 14, 2007 |

    Schulte Roth joins NY giants on Chrysler sale

    New York outfit Schulte Roth & Zabel has bagged a lead role alongside Milbank Tweed Hadley McCloy, Shearman & Sterling and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom on Cerberus' acquisition of DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler division in a €5.5bn (£3.8bn) deal. Schulte Roth and Milbank are representing the US buy-out house on M&A and financing of the bid respectively, while Shearman and Skadden are representing DaimlerChrysler on the sale.

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  • May 11, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 11/5/2007

    The five most popular stories on legalweek.com today; plus the best of the blogs, readers' comments and A&O litigation head Andrew Clark on lookalike nuns.

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  • May 10, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 10/5/2007

    Today's five most popular stories on legalweek.com, led by the bumper results for City firms in 2007; plus the best reader posts of the day and a Legal Village debut from Kirkland's Stephen Gillespie.

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  • May 9, 2007 |

    US giant Skadden gears up for European class action onslaught

    America's largest law firm, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, has launched a class action defence practice in the UK in preparation for what it believes could be an onslaught of group actions across Europe.

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  • May 9, 2007 |

    City duo boost as M&A soars to record level

    Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy (A&O) are among a raft of firms to benefit this week from two major M&A mandates worth more than $10bn (£5bn), as research shows 2007 is on course to smash all deal records.

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