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  • July 20, 2011 |

    Bird & Bird, Clydes and Freshfields emerge as star performers over five-year run

    Bird & Bird, Clyde & Co, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and DLA Piper have emerged among the best-performing firms in the top 25 over the last five years, but Legal Week research confirms that many smaller firms have outpaced their larger rivals in growth terms. Of the UK's top 25 law firms, Bird & Bird has seen the largest percentage jump in revenues since 2005-06, rising 121.9% from £96.7m five years ago to £214.6m in 2010-11.

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  • July 19, 2011 |

    Egorov Puginsky and Magisters join forces to create 300-lawyer CIS firm

    Russia's Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners and leading CIS firm Magisters are set to merge, creating the biggest firm in the region. The merger, which was announced today, will create a law firm with combined revenues of around £101m and more than 300 lawyers - including 27 partners - with a launch date yet to be announced.

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  • July 13, 2011 |

    Aviva set to launch European panel as new GC joins from GE

    Aviva is set to put together an inaugural European legal panel after hiring GE Capital's Monica Risam as the global insurer's first European general counsel. Risam, the former global GC of GE Capital's Working Capital Solutions division, joined Aviva's London headquarters last month to take up the newly-created role.

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  • July 13, 2011 |

    Links finalises launch of new base in Abu Dhabi

    Linklaters has launched an office in Abu Dhabi, with New York finance partner Paul Kruger among a number of partners relocating to the new arm. The office launch, first reported by Legal Week last month, marks Linklaters' 27th office worldwide.

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  • July 13, 2011 |

    Gov't refers News Corp-BSkyB bid to Competition Commission as Hackgate racks up legal roles

    Legal wrangling over News Corporation's controversial bid to take over BSkyB stepped up a gear this week as the proposed deal was referred to the Competition Commission. The referral by culture secretary Jeremy Hunt on Monday afternoon (11 July) was made in response to News Corp withdrawing from a proposed undertaking to spin off Sky News and came amid mounting public pressure for the tie-up to be halted as allegations continued to emerge in the ongoing phone-hacking scandal.

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  • July 12, 2011 |

    Dealmaker: Deborah Finkler

    Slaughters' effortlessly superior litigator on a ride in a Rolls-Royce and a stylish pair of shoes...

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  • July 11, 2011 |

    Linklaters adds MoFo partner in shake-up of China management

    Linklaters has shaken up its China practice with the appointment of new management and the hire of a partner from Morrison & Foerster (MoFo). MoFo corporate partner Tien-yo Chao, who is set to join Linklaters in August, will split his time between Hong Kong and Beijing. He has a particular focus on M&A and equity capital markets, and before joining MoFo in 2003 was a partner at Slaughter and May.

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  • July 7, 2011 |

    Linklaters relocates partners to Abu Dhabi as new office opens

    Linklaters has launched an office in Abu Dhabi, with New York finance partner Paul Kruger among a number of partners relocating to the new base. The office launch, first reported by Legal Week last month, marks Linklaters' 27th office worldwide.

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  • July 6, 2011 |

    Competing colleagues - the growing field of inter-law firm sporting events

    Dragon boat racing and sitting volleyball may not be sports that are traditionally associated with lawyers and law firms, but they are two of the more quirky sports in which law firms have got involved in recent years. Keen to attract the best talent, law firms are increasingly up to promote their extra curricular sporting prowess. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is viewed among many as the ones to beat when it comes to both promoting and participating in sport. Official sponsors of the London 2012 Olympics, lawyers at the firm are involved in no less than 18 different sporting activities. Sitting volleyball is the current craze sweeping Freshfields' London office, with staff from across the firm getting involved in a competition which is aimed at boosting the profile of the 2012 Paralympic Games.

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  • July 6, 2011 |

    Five firms win first-time spots on new Santander UK legal panel

    Bird & Bird, Wragge & Co and Taylor Wessing are among five firms to have been added to Santander's own-account panel in the UK following a three-month competitive tender process. Santander turned to online procurement company Aquanima to handle the first review of its merged UK panel since 2009, which covers the legacy Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley brands.

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