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  • September 5, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 5/9/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Travers Smith, DLA Piper and Camerons among the movers and shakers

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  • August 29, 2007 |

    Trowers helps Qtel to Iraq telecoms auction success

    Trowers & Hamlins has scored a key role advising the Asia Cell consortium on its $1.25bn (£630m) Iraqi telecoms licence, one of the largest commercial deals in the country this year.

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  • August 29, 2007 |

    Asia: Three's the charm

    With bulging workloads and a dearth of suitable lawyers, why are law firms stretching themselves to have a presence in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong? Dominic Carman speaks to China's top lawyers about the three-office debate

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  • August 29, 2007 |

    Diary Christmas Campaign: a pre-emptive strike

    Well, so much for summer. Floods, the return of foot and mouth and a meltdown of global financial markets so terrifying it had steel-balled capital markets lawyers bawling in panic like toddlers lost at the fair.

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  • August 29, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 29/8/07

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Cleary, A&O and Ashurst among the movers and shakers

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  • August 16, 2007 | International Edition

    Bakers breaks $1m partner profits barrier

    Baker & McKenzie has reported a 20% increase in global turnover with profits per equity partner breaking the $1m (£502,000) mark for the first time, the New York Law Journal reported this morning (16 August). The international firm announced today its third consecutive year of double-digit growth in revenue, with the 20% increase taking global fee income to $1.829bn (£918m) for its most recent financial year, which ended 30 June.

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  • August 16, 2007 |

    Bakers breaks $1m partner profits barrier

    Baker & McKenzie has reported a 20% increase in global turnover with profits per equity partner breaking the $1m (£502,000) mark for the first time, the New York Law Journal reported this morning (16 August). The international firm announced today its third consecutive year of double-digit growth in revenue, with the 20% increase taking global fee income to $1.829bn (£918m) for its most recent financial year, which ended 30 June.

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  • August 15, 2007 | International Edition

    London partner becomes Fulbright arbitration head

    US law firm Fulbright & Jaworski has appointed London partner David Howell as the new co-head of its international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution practice. Howell, who is UK-qualified and has practised in London, Dubai and Singapore, will co-head the 30-lawyer practice group with Fulbright Houston partner Mark Baker. Howell joined from Baker & McKenzie in 2003 and has more than 25 years experience working in international commercial investment, construction and engineering disputes.

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  • August 15, 2007 |

    London partner becomes Fulbright arbitration head

    US law firm Fulbright & Jaworski has appointed London partner David Howell as the new co-head of its international arbitration and alternative dispute resolution practice. Howell, who is UK-qualified and has practised in London, Dubai and Singapore, will co-head the 30-lawyer practice group with Fulbright Houston partner Mark Baker. Howell joined from Baker & McKenzie in 2003 and has more than 25 years experience working in international commercial investment, construction and engineering disputes.

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  • August 8, 2007 |

    Bakers wins first securitisation role for UBS on €1.25bn RMBS

    Baker & McKenzie's London finance team has sealed its first major securitisation mandate from UBS, advising the investment bank on a €1.25bn (£841m) residential mortgage-backed securitisation (RMBS).

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