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  • May 20, 2009 |

    CC, Slaughters and Davis Polk take on top roles on £510m Taylor Wimpey fundraising

    Clifford Chance (CC), Slaughter and May and Davis Polk & Wardwell have all won roles advising on troubled house builder Taylor Wimpey's £510m fundraising. The fully underwritten placing, which is subject to shareholder approval this month, will cut the company's debt by around one-third. Slaughters reprised its role for regular client Taylor Wimpey, with corporate partner Jeff Twentyman leading the firm's team. Davis Polk advised the house-builder on US aspects, with London-based corporate partner Nigel Wilson advising.

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  • May 14, 2009 |

    Ashurst picks up Links star in construction boost

    Ashurst has secured its first lateral partner hire in the City so far this year, with the firm bringing in highly-rated construction partner Ann Minogue from Linklaters. Minogue, who specialises in transactional construction work, is set to join Ashurst in the autumn, when she will become the top 10 City firm's third dedicated construction partner in the UK and the 15th real estate partner in London.

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  • May 14, 2009 |

    Slaughters partner joins Competition Commission

    Slaughter and May's head of competition, Malcolm Nicholson, has retired from the magic circle firm to join the Competition Commission. After 25 years at Slaughters - including 15 of as head of the firm's competition practice - Nicholson will now begin an eight-year, part-time post at the Commission. Nicholson had been re-elected as head of competition in March 2008, but has now been succeeded by Phillippe Chapatte, who will serve the remaining two years of the three-year term.

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  • May 13, 2009 |

    Camerons advises Informa on tax shake-up and rights issue

    CMS Cameron McKenna has won a major instruction for Informa as the publishing group announces a corporate restructuring that will see it form a Swiss-taxed parent company.Camerons' City-based corporate partner Gary Green led on the tax restructuring and a related £255m rights issue, which was announced earlier this month (1 May). He was assisted by a team which also included London-based partner Nicholas Stretch advising on share schemes.

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  • May 12, 2009 |

    That was then, this is now

    Allen & Overy (A&O), Ashurst and Addleshaw Goddard recently topped a table of graduate employers in a major survey of law students' views on which firms are the best to work for. They may be household brands these days - well, for houses containing lawyers and law students - but it wasn't always this way.

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  • May 8, 2009 |

    Linklaters appoints head of corporate in Paris

    Linklaters has named a new Paris head of corporate, with Fabrice de La Morandiere taking over from Marc Loy. Loy, who has headed Linklaters' 55-lawyer corporate team in the French capital for four years, had reached the end of his term.The group, which has 12 partners, is the largest practice group in the Paris office, which has around 180 lawyers in total.

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  • May 7, 2009 |

    12 partners at top of Ashurst ladder after review

    Ashurst partners have learned their new positions in the firm's lockstep, with 12 partners now sitting in the firm's top band. Partners discovered their new positions on the 25-65 point scale last month, following an annual review process that has seen two additional partners' join the top rung of Ashurst's lockstep.

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  • May 6, 2009 |

    Management: Greasing the training wheels

    In response to constrained budgets for 2009-10, most learning and development teams have focused on real and immediate needs and driving down costs. This has most commonly meant that career-critical training programmes have remained sacrosanct, attendances at external conferences require strong justification and the use of external training providers has been significantly curtailed.

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  • April 30, 2009 |

    Nomura cuts 12 legal staff in London restructuring

    Japanese banking giant Nomura has cut up to 12 legal positions in London as the bank nears the end of restructuring its in-house team in the wake of its takeover of Lehman Brother's European and Middle East equities and investment banking operations. The cuts were made at the beginning of this month, with lawyers from legacy teams at both Lehman and Nomura affected.

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  • April 29, 2009 |

    Dealmaker: Tom Whelan

    Lovells rising star Tom Whelan on the highs and lows of City life and ballroom dancing for charidee

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