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  • February 7, 2007 |

    Insolvency, Banking and Finance: International rescue

    Internet companies are very much back in vogue and the dotcom collapse in 2000 seems long forgotten. The growth of online newspapers and magazines has lined internet investors' pockets with silver, but it has not been such good news for others. With advertising and readers moving away from hard copy, the printing sector has been facing serious financial pressure. Pagination and advertising revenues have dropped and, with that, there has been a spate of collapses. Last year there were more than a dozen insolvencies in the UK printing sector, including New Jarrold Printing and Pillans & Waddies. Even the big players have faced financial distress and, in December 2006, the Polestar Group - Europe's leading independent printing group - underwent restructuring.

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  • February 1, 2007 |

    Linklaters raids CC for senior buy-out partner

    Linklaters has snared highly-rated Clifford Chance (CC) corporate partner Ian Bagshaw in a major boost for its private equity practice. Bagshaw, one of CC's best-known up-and-coming partners, is due to join Linklaters as a partner in the coming months.

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  • January 31, 2007 |

    A clearer picture

    Fraud is nasty stuff. It is estimated to cost UK plc between £40bn and £72bn a year, yet it is difficult to uncover, investigate and prosecute successfully. One problem that has been identified for many years has been the absence of a statutory definition of 'fraud'. The Government has dealt with this in the Fraud Act 2006, which came into force on 15 January, 2007.

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  • January 31, 2007 |

    Deals: Property 01/02/2007

    Forsters property partner Glenn Dunn has advised Invista Real Estate Investment Management on the purchase of two West Midlands warehouses for £26.7m. Wragge & Co real estate associate Mark Blair acted for the warehouse developers Rosemound Developments, which was also the seller of one of the properties. The other seller, GE Commercial, was advised by DLA Piper London property partner Richard Crossfield.

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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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