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  • February 8, 2010 |

    Unilever names former Linklaters lawyer as new legal chief

    Unilever has appointed Tonia Lovell as its new chief legal officer and group secretary, replacing longstanding legal head Steve Williams. Williams will step down at the end of the year after 24 years at the company in a variety of roles.

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  • February 3, 2010 |

    Slaughters and CC in on New Look IPO

    Slaughter and May and Clifford Chance have bagged leading roles on New Look's £650m Initial Public Offering (IPO), announced yesterday (2 February). Slaughter and May corporate partners Martin Hattrell and Simon Nicholls are leading a team advising the fashion retailer, whose majority shareholders include private equity houses Permira Advisers and Apax Partners, on its proposed floatation on the London Stock exchange.

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  • January 25, 2010 |

    Student round-up: CoL signs up Beachcroft while Hammonds invites clients on vac scheme

    Beachcroft has become the latest law firm to sign an exclusive deal to send its future trainees to study at the College of Law.The arrangement, which will come into effect from September, will see students with training...

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  • January 5, 2010 |

    Milbank seals hire of corporate partner from Slaughters' German ally

    Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has boosted its Munich office with the hire of a partner from Slaughter and May's German ally Hengeler Mueller. Corporate partner Wolfgang Grobecker joined the US firm's 36-lawyer German practice last week (1 January), after leaving Hengeler at the end of last year.

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  • January 4, 2010 |

    Freshfields and Slaughters head up $3.1bn Hong Kong listing

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have won lead roles on China Pacific Insurance's $3.1bn (£1.9bn) Hong Kong initial public offering. The listing, one of the largest global IPOs of 2009, saw Freshfields take a role for the China-based insurance company. The magic circle firm's team was led by global co-head of capital markets Kay Ian Ng and capital markets partner Calvin Lai, both of whom are based in Hong Kong.

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  • December 21, 2009 |

    Training and education: All tied up

    The last few years have seen the College of Law, BPP Law School and, to a lesser extent, Kaplan Law School jostle with each other to secure tie-ups with the top law firms. In the main, firms have been receptive to their advances, with the result being that the vast majority of UK top 20 law firms - and many top 50 firms and US firms with London offices - now have arrangements in place to send their future trainees to study the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) and Legal Practice Course (LPC) exclusively with a certain course provider.

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

    One of the City's most established and respected firms, the ancient blueblood is regarded alongside Linklaters and Slaughter and May as part of the 'inner magic circle' of London's elite corporate firms.

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    DLA Piper

    The transatlantic giant has become an increasingly omnipresent force of late - with or without post-merger financial integration.

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    Linklaters

    The City giant's uncompromising focus on performance has reaped spectacular dividends, but under new managing partner Simon Davies, will the upward curve continue?

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  • December 13, 2009 |

    Herbert Smith

    There IS a magic circle and this firm is not in it. But Herbert Smith is a class outfit and one of London's most effective high-enders, not to mention the City's top litigation shop. Could yet start to justify its own sales pitch.

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