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  • October 6, 2010 |

    Carlsberg to refresh adviser line-up with first Euro corporate panel

    Carlsberg has kicked off a competitive tender process with a view to creating its first-ever European corporate panel. The review is being led out of Denmark by the drinks company's general counsel and vice president Ulrik Andersen. Carlsberg's current global panel features UK firms Norton Rose, Bond Pearce and Tollers, as well as Swedish law firm Vinge and Denmark's Kromann Reumert, which have all been invited to pitch.

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  • October 6, 2010 |

    Slaughters and US law duo advise on Liverpool takeover boardroom battle

    A raft of law firms are advising on the potential sale of Liverpool Football Club to Boston Red Sox owners New England Sport Ventures (NESV), amid a boardroom wrangle at the club. Slaughter and May, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Shearman & Sterling are advising the Liverpool board, US owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett and NESV respectively on the proposed takeover.

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  • October 6, 2010 |

    Chancery and commercial Bar: Stars at the Bar

    The future of the Bar always sparks a fiery debate, and never more so than now, with the Legal Services Act (LSA) opening up new opportunities set to reshape the future of the legal profession. The upcoming changes have split lawyers into two camps: there are those who see it as a dying profession, with barristers unable and unwilling to change, and others who see the Bar as a vital part of our legal system going forward, which is opening up to modern practices.

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  • October 6, 2010 |

    The only kitemark - there's one test that really counts for law firms

    At a drinks reception last week with Slaughter and May, the familiar topic came up of how and why the firm's structurally-lite approach appears to deliver. This is, on one hand, a deceptive point. Slaughters doesn't have a strategy in the conventional sense of the word - it has a culture and a group of common attitudes. Its strategy is merely the expression of what the partners want to do anyway.

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  • September 29, 2010 |

    Wall St duo advise on $3.7bn acquisition of haircare co

    Cravath Swaine & Moore and Sidley Austin have taken the lead corporate roles on a multibillion-dollar US acquisition by consumer products group Unilever. The acquisition sees Unilever acquire haircare rival Alberto Culver - owner of brands such as V05, St. Ives and TRESemme - in a $3.7bn (£2.3bn) deal, adding to the Anglo-Dutch group's portfolio of haircare brands such as Dove and Sunsilk.

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  • September 29, 2010 |

    CC litigation partner made chairman at pro bono organisation

    Clifford Chance (CC) litigation partner Roger Leese has been named chairman of pro bono organisation Advocates for International Development (A4ID). A4ID acts as a broker between law firms and developing countries that require legal assistance, to aid their international development, trade programmes and debt situation.

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  • September 27, 2010 |

    Cravath, Slaughters and Sidley lead on $3.7bn Unilever deal

    Cravath Swaine & Moore and Sidley Austin have taken the lead corporate roles on a multibillion dollar US acquisition by consumer products group Unilever. The acquisition sees Unilever acquire hair care rival Alberto Culver - owner of brands such as V05, St. Ives and TRESemme - in a $3.7bn (£2.3bn) deal, adding to the Anglo-Dutch group's portfolio of hair care brands such as Dove and Sunsilk.

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  • September 21, 2010 |

    Slaughters acts for Liverpool FC as US owner targets debt refinancing

    Slaughter and May has won a key role advising Liverpool Football Club as co-owner Tom Hicks attempts to secure backing to refinance the club's £237m debt with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Slaughters is advising the Liverpool FC board, fielding a team led by corporate partners Nigel Boardman and Mark Zerdin, alongside finance partner Stephen Powell.

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  • September 15, 2010 |

    Many, many voices - the ideas business in law is getting democratic

    The ideas business in law is getting democratic. If nothing else, the recent launch of Halsbury's Law Exchange, a new think tank, is proof of the extent to which thought leadership is all the rage in law these days. The LexisNexis-backed venture, which includes Slaughter and May's Nigel Boardman among its contributors, is billed as an attempt to draw the public into a politically-neutral debate on the role of law in society. That's no easy task, as most comparable attempts have floundered amid a sea of self-regard and legal jargon, but it appears that there are no shortage of those up for the challenge.

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  • September 8, 2010 |

    Boardman, Greene and Hockman QC join new law think tank

    Slaughter and May corporate veteran Nigel Boardman and Edwin Coe litigation head David Greene have joined a new legal think tank to research and debate key legal issues. Boardman and Greene join the 14-member board of Halsbury's Law Exchange, which is chaired by the former BBC legal editor Joshua Rozenberg. The think tank is billed as an attempt to generate debate on legal and public policy issues.

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