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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Bakers raises London profile with $7bn finance deal haul

    Baker & McKenzie's profile in structured finance has been boosted after the firm won a series of securitisation mandates worth a total of nearly $7bn (£3.5bn) in the first part of 2007.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Energy client hands AIM leader Memery Crystal M&A boost on £208m oil sale

    Memery Crystal has closed one of its biggest ever M&A mandates after advising on RAK Petroleum's £208m acquisition of Gulf Keystone Petroleum.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Holman Fenwick secures $1.3bn mining sell-off role with Indonesian energy giant

    Holman Fenwick & Willan has acted on a $1.3bn (£648m) energy deal for Indonesian-listed Bumi Resources, which has sold a stake in two mining companies to India's largest privately-owned utility company, Tata Power.

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  • April 20, 2007 |

    Linklaters Brazil ally Lefosse to split

    Linklaters' Brazilian ally, Lefosse, is set to split, with a significant number of lawyers leaving to create an independent firm after a what is believed to have been a dispute over strategy. Local competition partner Jose Orlando Lobo and corporate partner Valdo de Rizzo are leading a breakaway group, which is thought to comprise around 27 lawyers and will practise under the banner Lobo & de Rizzo from the end of the month.

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  • April 19, 2007 |

    Holman Fenwick secures $1.3bn mining deal

    Holman Fenwick & Willan has acted on a $1.3bn (£648m) energy deal for Indonesian-listed Bumi Resources, which has sold a stake in two mining companies to Tata Power. The firm's Singapore, London and Dubai offices acted on a deal in which Bumi sold a 30% stake in Kaltim Prima Coal and Arutmin Indonesia to India's largest privately-owned utility company, Tata. It is one of South East Asia's largest M&A deals in the mining sector in to date.

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    Shell names 11-firm line-up for global mandates

    Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has overhauled its top-tier legal panel, awarding coveted places to 11 firms for international work.

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    Mishcons' revenues up 30% and PEP set to break £600,000 in bumper year-end results

    Mishcon de Reya has seen its revenues increase by more than 30% over the last financial year with profits per equity partner (PEP) set to rise by more than 45% to break £600,000.

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    US Top 50/New York: The bigger picture

    Legal Week's top 50 US results show plenty of firms excelling in 2006. But, finds Paul Hodkinson, there is nervousness behind the numbers

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  • April 4, 2007 |

    Environmental specialist GC joins Norton Rose

    Norton Rose has recruited boutique investment bank Climate Change Capital (CCC) general counsel Anthony Hobley as head of the firm's global climate change and carbon finance practice. Norton Rose advised CCC last year on the formation of the biggest private fund created to trade in carbon dioxide emission credits. CCC had traditionally used Hobley's former firm, Baker & McKenzie, but Norton Rose won the deal after pitching for work in 2006.

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  • April 4, 2007 |

    Bakers beefs up Japanese team with seven-partner Tokyo hire

    Baker & McKenzie has boosted its Japanese operation with a seven-partner team hire from domestic firm Asahi Koma Law Offices and a linked operation.

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