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  • December 7, 2011 |

    Property Team of the Year: Ashurst

    Ashurst was lead adviser to longstanding client Westfield on its £4bn Westfield Stratford City shopping centre development. It is the largest urban shopping centre in Europe and was visited by 100,000 people on its first day of business.

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    Banking, Finance or Restructuring Team of the Year: Ashurst

    Ashurst has played a potentially defining role in the ongoing saga relating to the future of the Battersea Power Station site in London by advising on the restructuring of the property holding. The judges were impressed both by the complexity and sensitivity of the deal and by its impact on London's cultural heritage.

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    London Office of the Year: Weil Gotshal & Manges

    Weil Gotshal & Manges has dubbed 2011 "the most strategically significant year for its London office since it was launched 15 years ago". The judges were suitably impressed with the evidence to support this statement, including a hugely impressive roster of senior partner hires from leading UK rivals. In recent months the office, which is led by Mike Francies, has hired partners from Jones Day, Ashurst, Shearman & Sterling and Debevoise & Plimpton.

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    British Legal Awards 2011: who won what - and why...

    A full run-down of all the winners at the British Legal Awards 2011, as well as detailed reports of the thinking behind the award in each category...

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    The institution - can Herbert Smith reinvent itself for a fast-changing global market?

    With cracks appearing in Herbert Smith's venerable exterior, Suzanna Ring and Georgina Stanley ask if this proud City firm can renew itself for a rapidly changing global market

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    Deloitte research shows leading firms posted robust growth in second quarter

    The UK's top 100 law firms saw a year-on-year increase in fee income of nearly 10% during the second quarter of the 2011-12 financial year, with new research showing a continued improvement in trading despite the economic uncertainty in the eurozone. Figures compiled by professional services firm Deloitte show fee income across the 100 largest UK law firms by revenue increased by 9.8% during the three months ending 31 October compared with the same period last year. The increase is more than double that seen in Q1 2011-12, when revenues grew by 4% compared with the same 
period last year.

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  • December 7, 2011 |

    Eurozone crisis sees UK partners predict a tough 2012 despite positive H1 results

    As managing partners forecast a tough start to 2012, firms focus on growth outside Europe. Simon Petersen reports

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  • December 2, 2011 |

    CMS sees single digit increase in revenues to hit £106m

    CMS Cameron McKenna has posted a 5% increase in half year revenues, with turnover standing at £106m for the first six months of 2011-12. The UK firm also posted a 5% increase for the same period last year, taking unaudited revenues to around £100m. The firm had seen a 13% dip at the same point in 2009-10.

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  • December 2, 2011 |

    A&O, Clydes and Centrica among winners at British Legal Awards 2011

    Allen & Overy (A&O), Clyde & Co and Centrica were among the winners at last night's (1 December) British Legal Awards, in London's Old Billingsgate Market. A&O scooped up the coveted law firm of the year award, seeing off competition from Clydes, Hogan Lovells, Kirkland & Ellis, Mishcon de Reya and Stephenson Harwood to win the prize.

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  • November 30, 2011 |

    Ashurst and Blake Dawson unveil the teams charged with driving pre-merger integration

    Ashurst and Australia's Blake Dawson have each named seven partners to take the lead overseeing growth across Asia and integration in the run-up to their planned merger in 2014.

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