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  • February 29, 2012 |

    Kirkland, Freshfields head up €1.8bn CVC buyout from Cinven & Goldman

    Kirkland & Ellis and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are advising on CVC Capital Partners' €1.8bn (£1.5bn) acquisition of Nordic tool distributor Ahlsell. Kirkland is advising the sellers, Cinven and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, fielding a team led by City private equity partners Gavin Gordon and David Arnold, who joined the firm from Ashurst in 2010.

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  • February 28, 2012 |

    Linklaters holds talks with Australian leader over strategic tie-up

    Linklaters partners have confirmed that the City firm has held discussions with Australian leader Allens Arthur Robinson (AAR) about a potential tie-up. The pair started discussions about a strategic union late last year according to senior lawyers within the magic circle law firm, with one Linklaters partner indicating that an alliance is likely to be the preferred strategy.

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  • February 27, 2012 |

    The Transfer Window: recent moves including Ashurst, BLP and K&L Gates

    Ashurst has added a partner to its City banking practice with the hire of Linklaters London managing associate Nicholas Moore. Moore, who has spent almost 12 years at the magic circle firm, focuses on investment grade loans, an area Ashurst is aiming to expand into. He is currently negotiating his exit terms from Linklaters and is due to join Ashurst's partnership in the summer.

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  • February 23, 2012 |

    Ashurst and A&O advise on Doughty Hanson purchase of Spanish hospital operator

    Ashurst and Allen & Overy (A&O) have taken roles on the €355m (£295m) sale of one of Spain's largest hospital operators to private equity house Doughty Hanson. Ashurst advised Doughty on its acquisition of USP Hospitales led by European corporate head Simon Beddow in London and Madrid corporate head Jesus Almoguera, alongside Madrid technology and commercial head Carmen Perete.

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  • February 23, 2012 |

    Credit Suisse appoints line-up of top UK law firms to new EMEA roster

    Clifford Chance (CC), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy (A&O) are among a raft of firms to have been appointed to Credit Suisse's EMEA panel. The trio have been reappointed to the roster alongside firms including Herbert Smith, Simmons & Simmons and Ashurst. Linklaters, which still has a close relationship with Credit Suisse, is not on the EMEA roster. It is unclear whether the magic circle firm was appointed to the panel during its last review in 2009.

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  • February 23, 2012 |

    Friday's children - how RollOnFriday got kinda respectable

    Over a decade and a bit, irreverent legal website RollOnFriday has given City associates a voice and become respectable – almost. Suzanna Ring and Alex Novarese report...

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  • February 23, 2012 |

    Singapore relaxes ban on foreign ownership of law firms as market opens up

    Singapore is planning to open up its legal market by allowing overseas firms to take stakes in local law practices and share profits. Changes to the Legal Profession (Amendment) Bill 2012 announced by the Singapore Ministry of Law last week (14 February) will relax rules on foreign ownership of law firms, allowing overseas firms to take a profit and equity share in a Singapore firm of up to 33% in the event of a tie-up. The plans, which are expected to come into effect in the second quarter of 2012, could pave the way for the proposed merger between Linklaters' local joint venture partner, Allen & Gledhill, and Allen & Overy (A&O), which confirmed they were in talks to combine in November last year.

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  • February 23, 2012 |

    Dealmaker: Andrew Edge

    Stephenson Harwood's Andrew Edge on kudos from a senior partner and the dark ages of email...

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  • February 23, 2012 |

    Shearman posts static PEP for 2011 as City revenues grow 5%

    Shearman & Sterling saw partner profits remain static at $1.56m (£993,000) in 2011, while revenue inched up 2% to $750m (£477m), reports The Am Law Daily. Despite a strong first half of the year, the firm began to suffer a general slowdown in transactional work amid the explosion of the Greek debt crisis in August, said senior partner Rohan Weerasinghe.

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  • February 9, 2012 |

    The non-retirement plan - Ashurst's efforts to widen partners' career horizons

    Charlie Geffen on what Ashurst has learned from its efforts to expand lawyers' capabilities beyond law

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