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  • February 19, 2007 |

    Lovells leads advisers on new John Lewis panel

    Lovells has retained its place on John Lewis' advisory panel as the UK retailer completes a review of its external legal services. The City giant, which has historically been the group's lead adviser, is named alongside Travers Smith and national duo Eversheds and Pinsent Masons on the all-purpose panel. Beachcroft has been appointed to deal with real estate matters while Wragge & Co will handle property litigation for the group.

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  • February 14, 2007 |

    Nabarros bolsters City arm with quartet

    Nabarro Nathanson has made four partner hires in recent weeks in a bid to boost its capability in projects and property litigation. Nabarros has taken on Hammonds London health, safety and environment partner Tom Bainbridge, former DLA Piper projects partner Louisa Cilenti and Pinsent Masons senior associate Robin Baillie for its projects team, with Dechert partner Keith Conway joining the firm's property litigation team.

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  • February 9, 2007 |

    DLA Piper makes up 66 new partners; 10 in City

    DLA Piper has promoted 66 lawyers to its global partnership, the firm announced today (9 February). The appointments, which were effective from 1 January, 2007, see 27 new partners made up across Europe and Asia, with a further 39 promotions in the US. Ten new partners have been made up in London, - the largest haul in a single office.

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  • February 7, 2007 |

    Lawyers try their hands for Manchester 'super-casino'

    The project is also likely to generate work for firms on the six-strong panel of the Northwest Regional Development Agency, which currently includes Hammonds, Beachcroft, Eversheds and Mace & Jones, as well as Wigan's Platt & Fishwick and Warrington practice Forshaws.

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  • January 31, 2007 |

    Agent provocateur

    The recent football 'bungs' scandal neatly illustrates the issues faced by businesses when employing the services of agents or middlemen to facilitate business contracts. Agencies can arise automatically, and the definition of 'agent' in this context may surprise some people.

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  • January 31, 2007 |

    Deals: Capital Markets 01/02/2007

    Pinsent Masons has advised home shopping retailer N Brown Group on its £80m payout to shareholders. Corporate partner Helen Ridge led the team. CMS Cameron McKenna structured finance partner Douglas Colliver advised N Brown on banking aspects. Eversheds Manchester-based banking partner Samantha Rollason advised the debt providers, HSBC and The Royal Bank of Scotland. Herbert Smith advised Credit Suisse.

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    AOL halves Euro legal team in reshuffle

    AOL has shed half of its 22-strong European legal team as it sells off the internet access side of its business to Neuf Cegetel in France, Carphone Warehouse in the UK and Telecom Italia in Germany.

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    Dentons and Addleshaws adopt liability caps as standard

    Denton Wilde Sapte and Addleshaw Goddard lead a growing number of top UK firms capping their liability on individual deals, with many City practices now seeking to agree such terms as a matter of course.

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    Pinsents bags Knowles' right-hand man for strategic push

    Pinsent Masons has lured a heavyweight management figure from national rival DLA Piper as the firm prepares to revise its strategy two years after bedding down its merger.Peter Coleman joins Pinsents next month as strategic development director after a seven-year spell at DLA Piper, where he headed up the business development function and was one of chief executive Nigel Knowles' main strategic advisers.

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  • January 18, 2007 |

    DLA Piper boosts German property team

    Global giant lures ex-Linklaters partner Uwe Steingroever from Cologne firm

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