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  • June 13, 2012 |

    Freshfields, CC and Bakers lead on €1.8bn Euro private equity deal

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Clifford Chance (CC) are among a number of firms advising on Swedish private equity group EQT's €1.8bn (£1.5m) purchase of Germany's BSN medical, reports The Am Law Daily. EQT secured the deal after reaching an agreement with company management and Montagu Private Equity, which acquired the medical device company for roughly €880m (£700m) in 2005.

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  • June 11, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including CMS, Shoosmiths and K&L

    CMS Cameron McKenna has appointed Rita Lowe as its new UK head of banking and finance, replacing Will Meredith in the role. Lowe, whose practice focuses on advising distressed companies and investors, is currently leading the Camerons team advising Dewey & LeBoeuf's UK LLP on its wind-down proceedings, which is expected to take up to 12 months to complete.

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  • June 1, 2012 |

    Australia unveils new 68-firm government super-panel

    The Australian Government has slashed its legal panel to 68 firms, with Clifford Chance (CC) emerging as the only UK adviser with an Australian presence not included on the line-up. The panel - known as the legal services multi-use list (LSMUL) - is the first time national government agencies have been required to use the streamlined roster for legal services purchasing, with the aim driving cost efficiencies...

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  • June 1, 2012 |

    Bird & Bird sees turnover grow 10%; Taylor Wessing posts 7% firmwide hike

    Bird & Bird has announced double-digit revenue growth for 2011-12, while partner profits are set to return to the pre-recession highs of 2007-08. The UK top 20 firm has posted turnover of £235m for the year, up 10% from the figure of £214.6m took in during 2010-11.

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  • May 31, 2012 |

    Bakers, A&O advise as Saudi sukuk lists on London Stock Exchange

    Baker & McKenzie has advised Banque Saudi Fransi (BSF) on a $2bn (£1.3bn) deal which marks the first-ever London-listed sukuk programme by a Saudi bank.

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  • May 29, 2012 |

    Bakers secures South Africa launch with hire of 31-strong Dewey team

    Baker & McKenzie has launched in South Africa with the hire of Dewey & LeBoeuf's 31-strong Johannesburg office, one of the disintegrating firm's last remaining international bases. The move, which comes as Dewey filed for bankruptcy last night (28 May), will gift Bakers a fully operational South Africa presence.

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  • May 28, 2012 |

    CC, Weil and Bakers field London teams on $1.3bn private equity deal

    Clifford Chance (CC), Weil Gotshal & Manges and Baker & McKenzie have advised on a $1.3bn (£829m) private equity deal which has seen buyout house Silver Lake and investment management firm Partners Group agree to purchase Swiss duty free shopping company Global Blue, reports The Am Law Daily. Silver Lake and Partners Group will buy Global Blue from investment firm Equistone Partners Europe, which acquired the Nyon, Switzerland–based company from Apax Partners in 2007 for about $450m (£287m).

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  • May 24, 2012 |

    The long run - a 25-year view of the Am Law 100

    "The profit increases by non-New York firms are just enormous. They are encroaching on the New York firms' historic position alone at the top..." - 25 years since the first Am Law 100 table, some fundamental patterns in the world's largest legal market can be seen...

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  • May 24, 2012 |

    The haves and haves less - 2011 results from world's largest legal market

    In a turbulent 2011, the largest US firms managed to edge ahead of smaller rivals and make ground on the Wall Street elite. Robin Sparkman reports

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  • May 17, 2012 |

    Foreign growth helps US leaders buck Dewey effect as top 100 revenues hit $71bn

    Top 100 law firms push through bumpy markets to hike revenue by 5.3% as PEP hits $1.4m

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