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  • October 15, 2010 |

    Mayer Brown acts on late Liverpool bid as £300m takeover goes through

    Mayer Brown has advised investment company Mill Financial on its failed eleventh-hour bid for Liverpool FC, as US sports group New England Sport Ventures (NESV) completes its £300m takeover of the Premier League club. US investor Mill, which was advised by Mayer Brown's UK corporate head Peter Dickinson and corporate partner Kate Ball-Dodd, today (15 October) held negotiations with co-owner Tom Hicks over the acquisition of his stake in the club.

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  • October 14, 2010 |

    Bakers takes US law role for Liverpool board as judge throws out attempt to block takeover

    Liverpool Football Club's board have succeeded in their bid to push forward with the club's takeover after the High Court dismissed a temporary restraining order granted by a Texas court to US owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. The club's board, represented by One Essex Court's Lord Grabiner QC (pictured), returned to court today to apply for an anti-suit injunction to prevent Hicks and Gillett from continuing their legal action in the US.

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  • October 13, 2010 |

    Top names ready to battle for honours at 2010 British Legal Awards

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) are among the firms shortlisted for a number of categories in the 2010 British Legal Awards. The group has been nominated for the much sought after Law Firm of the Year award alongside Clyde & Co, Sullivan & Cromwell and Travers Smith.

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  • October 13, 2010 |

    Burges Salmon leads as Eurostar buys high-speed trains for £700m

    Burges Salmon has taken the lead role on Eurostar's multimillion-pound German train purchase. The Channel Tunnel rail operator announced a £700m investment programme for its fleet last week (7 October), including the purchase of 10 new high-speed trains from German engineering giant Siemens, which are set to cut the London-Paris journey time by about 15 minutes.

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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 |

    Covington boosts City base with employment team hire from Paul Hastings

    Covington & Burling has boosted its City employment practice with a team hire from fellow US firm Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker. The firm has rehired Christopher Walter as a partner in its European employment practice after he left 2005 to join Paul Hastings as London employment chair. He will be joined at Covington by special counsel Chris Bracebridge and associate Helena Laughrin.

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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 |

    Legal Week forum to highlight huge Asia private wealth growth

    Lawyers from across Asia will gather in Singapore next week (12 October) to discuss the impact of a dramatic rise in private wealth on the region's legal market. The inaugural Legal Week Private Client Forum Asia - Legal Week's first conference in Asia - will bring together senior private client lawyers from across the region to discuss the challenges and opportunities that are posed by Asia's emergence as a private client powerhouse.

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  • October 1, 2010 |

    Bakers opens in Luxembourg with local tie-up

    Baker & McKenzie has launched an office in Luxembourg through a tie-up with local outfit Findling Collin Fessmann. The new office, which went live today (1October) will be headed by Findling founding partner Jean-Francois Findling, alongside Andre Pesch who joins the firm from Ernst & Young.

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  • September 24, 2010 |

    In depth: Latin America

    Bakers, Shearman and Sullivan on how the Latin American market has put a turbulent past behind it to secure a bold new future...

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