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  • September 12, 2007 |

    Former Alcatel-Lucent GC takes on key Motorola role

    Former Alcatel-Lucent general counsel Richard Pithcaethly has bagged a role as vice president and UK legal director for mobile phone giant Motorola, Legal Week can reveal.

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  • September 5, 2007 |

    New York pair close $3.3bn Madagascan mining project

    Milbank Tweed and Sullivan & Cromwell act on one of year's biggest mining deals

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  • September 5, 2007 |

    Bakers seals €2.18bn Swiss hospital sale

    Baker & McKenzie has landed its first deal for South African hospital group Medi-Clinic after advising on its €2.18bn (£1.48bn) acquisition of Switzerland's Hirslanden from European private equity group BC Partners.

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  • September 5, 2007 |

    Bird & Bird wins iSOFT takeover role

    Bird & Bird has scored its first deal for Australian client Allco Equity Partners, advising on the £166m bid for iSOFT.

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  • September 5, 2007 |

    Searching questions

    Launched from a garage by two students, Google has grown to become the internet's biggest success story. Michelle Madsen talks to European general counsel Nigel Jones about the paradox at his company's heart

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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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