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  • March 6, 2007 |

    Ashurst joins Slaughters on £1bn Countrywide sale

    Ashurst has bagged a major role opposite Slaughter and May acting for longstanding client Countrywide on the £1bn takeover approach from US private equity group Apollo Management. Ashurst is advising Countrywide - the UK's largest estate agent - on a bid that values the group at 590p per share.

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  • March 5, 2007 | International Edition

    Slaughters bags £2bn Olympic Village development role

    Slaughter and May has bagged a plum role advising on the £2bn development of the 2012 Olympic Village. Slaughters' corporate real estate group is acting for new client Lend Lease on the high-profile project, advising on the development, real estate and financing aspects of the Olympic development In its first instruction for the client, the magic circle firm is fielding a team headed by corporate partner James Featherby, real estate partner Dermot Rice and project finance partner Steven Edwards.

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  • March 5, 2007 |

    Slaughters bags £2bn Olympic Village development role

    Slaughter and May has bagged a plum role advising on the £2bn development of the 2012 Olympic Village. Slaughters' corporate real estate group is acting for new client Lend Lease on the high-profile project, advising on the development, real estate and financing aspects of the Olympic development In its first instruction for the client, the magic circle firm is fielding a team headed by corporate partner James Featherby, real estate partner Dermot Rice and project finance partner Steven Edwards.

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  • February 28, 2007 |

    National salaries left behind as gap widens between London and regions

    Top firms operating in major regional markets are to come under renewed pressure to raise pay for junior lawyers amid evidence that the gap between the City and the rest of the UK is widening. Newly-qualified lawyers in the UK's five biggest cities outside London now take home an average salary of £35,200, compared with the benchmark £56,000 figure for top London lawyers.

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  • February 28, 2007 |

    Scots govt review set to slash adviser roster

    Firms are vying to secure Government panel appointments as news emerges that the Scottish Executive is reviewing its advisers, while the UK Government's centralised legal review has been delayed due to unprecedented demand. The Scottish Executive, the executive arm of the Scottish Parliament, is midway through a review and is understood to be intent on stripping back the existing 12-strong roster to just six firms.

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  • February 28, 2007 |

    Energy giant unveils eight-strong UK adviser line-up

    French utility company Veolia Environnement has put the finishing touches to its review of UK advisers, appointing eight firms to the panel. Corporate adviser Lovells has been retained, while existing advisers Reynolds Porter Chamberlain, Pinsent Masons and Simmons & Simmons also secured places on the roster.

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  • February 28, 2007 |

    Pinsents hires duo for London property team

    Pinsent Masons has hired a brace of senior real estate lawyers for its London arm. Urban regeneration specialist Jacqueline Harkin joins the firm as a partner from national rival Eversheds, where she was a senior associate. Lena Sentongo has also joined Pinsents' London arm as a senior property associate from City practice Manches. In addition, Pamela Young has been installed as Pinsents' new head of property in Manchester.

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  • February 28, 2007 |

    Norton Rose beats Ashurst to head Hemscott corporate adviser league

    Norton Rose has topped rankings of corporate advisers, taking over from Ashurst as the firm with the most quoted UK clients. Hemscott's quarterly corporate adviser rankings show Norton Rose in pole position with 120 stock market clients, Slaughter and May in second with 113 quoted clients, Ashurst and Eversheds in equal third place with 110 clients and Pinsent Masons in fifth place with 97 clients.

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  • February 28, 2007 |

    Deals: M&A 01/03/2007

    Addleshaw Goddard has advised Barclays Private Equity on the sale of clothing retailer Phase Eight valuing the company at £51.5m. Corporate partner Simon Pilling led the team. Phase Eight has been acquired by an investor consortium composed of management, Kaupthing Principal Investments, the Tchenguiz Family Trust and retail investors Michael Rahamim, Saj Shah and Ian Findlay. Eversheds advised the investor consortium and Pinsent Masons advised management.

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  • February 28, 2007 |

    Letter 's' goes missing in Nabarros re-brand

    Nabarro Nathanson has re-branded as 'Nabarro', following an image re-vamp. The firm announced today (28 February) that it is now trading as Nabarro following a re-branding exercise that has resulted in a new logo based on repetition of the letter 'N' and an improved website, which can be found at nabarro.com.

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