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  • April 17, 2012 |

    College of Law agrees £200m sale to Montagu and charity arm spin-off

    The College of Law has agreed a £200m sale of its legal education and training business to buyout house Montagu Private Equity, in a deal which marks the end of a strategic review by the charity's governors. The College announced the sale today (17 April) at the same time as announcing that its charitable activities will be spun off into a separate entity to be known as The Legal Education Foundation.

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  • April 12, 2012 |

    Ashurst signs up corporate team in Italy

    Ashurst has strengthened its Milan office with the hire of a corporate team lead by Alessandro Giovannelli from Italian independent Pavia & Ansaldo. Giovannelli, who will take over as head of Ashurst's Italian corporate practice, specialises in private equity and M&A with a particular focus on joint ventures and corporate reorganisations.

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  • April 4, 2012 |

    Ashurst Australia spends £1m on ambitious advertising campaign

    Ashurst's Australia arm has spent A$1.5m (£971,000) on an advertising campaign to promote the recent combination between UK law firm Ashurst and legacy Blake Dawson. The two firms, which combined their Asian operations and came together under the Ashurst banner last month (1 March), instructed advertising agency Principals to create a multi-platform advertising campaign across Australian media outlets to increase brand awareness.

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  • April 4, 2012 | International Edition

    The agenda - sizing up the profession's efforts to tackle social diversity

    The legal profession has finally put social diversity 'on the agenda'. Georgina Stanley asks if it will be enough to counter an increasingly unequal British society

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  • April 4, 2012 |

    Links dominates thin Q1 deal market as lawyers talk up 2012 prospects

    Linklaters has topped Mergermarket's European M&A rankings by value and volume for the first quarter of 2012, with the magic circle law firm seeing its position boosted by a role on the largest global deal of the period – the proposed $53.5bn (£33.4bn) merger between commodities trader Glencore and mining giant Xstrata. Overall trend data from Mergermarket shows both global and European M&A volumes fell to their lowest levels in nearly three years during the quarter, down by more than 20% compared with Q1 2011.

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  • April 4, 2012 |

    2Birds and Clydes among select few forecasting double-digit growth

    Bird & Bird and Clyde & Co are among a select band of firms expecting to post double-digit revenue growth for 2011-12 after a challenging year for the UK's top law firms. The duo are joined by Olswang and Watson Farley & Williams predicting growth of at least 10%, with the vast majority of the UK's largest firms expecting to see modest single-digit increases amid a prolonged lull in transactional work levels.

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  • April 4, 2012 |

    The agenda - sizing up the profession's efforts to tackle social diversity

    The legal profession has finally put social diversity 'on the agenda'. Georgina Stanley asks if it will be enough to counter an increasingly unequal British society

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  • March 29, 2012 |

    The teeming crowd - is India's dynamic legal elite built to last?

    Riding a dynamic private sector in one of the world's most touted emerging economies, Indian law firms have rapidly evolved in recent years. Friederike Heine asks if this legal elite is ready to compete on the global stage

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  • March 29, 2012 |

    New Delhi dawn - can India become a global arbitration hub?

    The Indian Government is trying to make India an arbitration hub, but much investment and political change is still needed, say Stephenson Harwood's Kamal Shah and Jide Adesokan

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  • March 29, 2012 |

    Man's man - what's filling the legal in-tray at one of the UK's top hedge funds

    An old-fashioned approach to legal services has helped Man Group's enigmatic general counsel cut costs, explains Caroline Hill

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