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  • January 29, 2007 | International Edition

    Apax hands Ashurst Swedish healthcare sale

    Ashurst has won the lead role on a €2.85bn (£1.87bn) disposal of Swedish healthcare company Molnlycke for private equity house Apax.The top 10 City firm ran two separate teams with one advising Apax on the exit and another acting for Molnlycke on a listing on the London Stock Exchange proposed as an alternative exit option.

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  • January 29, 2007 |

    Apax hands Ashurst Swedish healthcare sale

    Ashurst has won the lead role on a €2.85bn (£1.87bn) disposal of Swedish healthcare company Molnlycke for private equity house Apax.The top 10 City firm ran two separate teams with one advising Apax on the exit and another acting for Molnlycke on a listing on the London Stock Exchange proposed as an alternative exit option.

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    Skadden surges ahead of US rivals to take M&A top spot

    Manhattan leader Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has topped the US M&A rankings after acting on $540bn (£274bn) worth of deals in a blockbuster year for US deal lawyers. The New York firm rose one place to take top spot after advising on 237 deals, according to figures from Mergermarket. Sullivan & Cromwell came second, acting on 136 deals worth a total of $504bn (£255bn).

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    JP Morgan recruits new law chief

    Banking giant JP Morgan Chase generated the US move of the month by recruiting high-profile securities partner Stephen Cutler from top 50 US law firm Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr.

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  • January 24, 2007 |

    Simmons and A&O take lead roles on £1bn retail centre refinancing

    Simmons & Simmons and Allen & Overy (A&O) have advised on a major £1bn refinancing of the Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield.Simmons banking partner John Davies advised British Land as the UK property investment company put in place a new finance structure that will permit £1.015bn of debt to be issued.

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  • January 19, 2007 |

    Another partner exits Freshfields Germany

    Frankfurt-based corporate partner Jens-Dietrich Mitzlaff becomes third partner in a month to quit Freshfields' German arm

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  • January 17, 2007 |

    Fladgate Fielder recruits new finance partner

    Fladgate Fielder has boosted its tax and private client practice with the hire of Boodle Hatfield partner David Way.

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  • January 17, 2007 |

    Deals: M&A 18/01/07

    Olswang corporate partners Simon Morgan and Stephen Rosen have advised pharmaceutical company Vectura Group on its £130m acquisition of Innovata to create one of the UK's largest biotech companies. Innovata was advised by Bird & Bird corporate partner Simon Allport. Simmons & Simmons, led by corporate partner Gavin Weir and senior associate Isabella Roberts, acted for Vectura's financial adviser, Piper Jaffray.

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  • January 15, 2007 |

    Another German partner exits Freshfields

    City giant loses second Frankfurt partner in a week as Lutz Robert Kraemer joins White & Case

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  • January 10, 2007 |

    CC dealt Brobeck claim blow

    Clifford Chance's (CC's) bid for a quick recovery of millions of pounds in costs from its dispute with former Brobeck Phleger & Harrison partners has…

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