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  • October 10, 2011 |

    Slaughters and A&O lead on £472m private equity credit card sale

    Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy (A&O) are leading a four-firm line-up advising on the £472m private equity sale of credit card provider SAV Credit to investment manager Vaerde Partners. Slaughters advised SAV owner Palamon Capital Partners on the sale, with London corporate partner David Wittmann leading a team that also included tax partner Graham Iversen.

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  • October 6, 2011 |

    Network Rail recruits new legal chief with hire of Premier Foods GC

    Premier Foods general counsel Suzanne Wise is set to leave the FTSE 100 company to take up the same role at Network Rail. The move, which follows the departure of Network Rail's group company secretary Hazel Walker at the end of September, will see Wise start as general counsel at the rail operator in early 2012.

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  • October 5, 2011 |

    Top 50 German law firms post 8% hike in fees in 2010-11 but eurozone fears dampen mood

    CMS Hasche Sigle has overtaken Hengeler Mueller to emerge as the largest German law firm by revenue, with the 10 largest firms in the country seeing an average revenue rise of 4% during their last financial year, according to new research. The rankings, compiled by German legal publication Juve, show Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer retaining its position as the largest law firm in Germany with turnover of €334m (£286m), while CMS Hasche Sigle has passed Slaughter and May ally Hengeler with 3.9% revenue growth to rank second with revenues of €212m (£182m).

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  • September 29, 2011 |

    Slaughters to lead top-level review of English rugby's governing body

    Slaughter and May has been instructed by the Rugby Football Union (RFU) to undertake a review of its corporate governance amid intense media scrutiny of the top levels of English rugby's governing body. The review, which will be led by Slaughters corporate partner Nigel Boardman, will aim to assess the effectiveness of current practice at the RFU, in particular the relationship between its board of directors and council.

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  • September 28, 2011 |

    LG boosts finance with Squire Sanders Hammonds partner hire as litigation trio exit

    LG is expanding its finance practice through the hire of Squire Sanders Hammonds partner Iain Shurwood, with the addition coming as the UK firm prepares to lose a trio of litigation partners. Shurwood will join LG next month, having been a partner at legacy Hammonds since 2008. He was previously a senior associate at Denton Wilde Sapte, which merged with US law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in September last year.

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  • September 28, 2011 |

    Trio of LG financial litigation partners quit to join DLA Piper

    LG is set to lose a trio of financial litigation partners to DLA Piper in London. Jeremy Andrews, Jean-Pierre Douglas-Henry and James Curle handed in their notice earlier this month and are set to join DLA Piper after serving out some or all of their six-month notice period.

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  • September 27, 2011 |

    A&O signs up with ethnic minority recruiter to target black candidates

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has become the latest major law firm to actively target ethnic diversity recruitment by hiring an agency which focuses on African Caribbean graduates. The magic circle firm has signed up to work with Rare Recruitment, joining Clifford Chance (CC), Hogan Lovells, Herbert Smith and Travers Smith among law firm clients of the diversity specialist agency.

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  • September 21, 2011 |

    On the bonfire - moves to burn up the UK's competition regime divide lawyers

    It looks like it's almost a done deal. Among antitrust advisers, the expectation is that it is only a matter of time before the Government makes good on its proposal to merge the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) with the Competition Commission (CC).

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  • September 20, 2011 |

    RBS Insurance turns to RSA to recruit new general counsel

    RBS Insurance (RBSI) has turned to RSA Insurance for its new general counsel and company secretary. RSA's group legal director, Humphrey Tomlinson, is set to join RBSI, where he will be tasked with building the Bromley-based insurer's standalone legal and secretariat functions ahead of its divestment from RBS Group.

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  • September 15, 2011 |

    How the top international law firms stack up in Asia

    Clifford Chance: 366 lawyers across eight offices. Hong Kong - 138 lawyers including 32 partners, Singapore - 72 lawyers including 15 partners, Tokyo - 51 lawyers including nine partners, Shanghai - 22 lawyers including five partners, Beijing - 29 lawyers including six partners, Bangkok - 16 lawyers including two partners Sydney - 21 lawyers including seven partners Perth - 17 lawyers including seven partners Key deals include: • advising the underwriters on Prada's Hong Kong listing; • advising the underwriters on Glencore's dual listing in Hong Kong and London; and • advising the managers on Volkswagen's dim sum bond - the first by a German company.

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