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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Simmons bags second lucrative deal for Telefonica in £2bn Airwave 02

    Simmons & Simmons has secured its second major instruction for Telefonica, advising the Spanish telecoms giant on its £2bn sale of emergency services network Airwave to Guardian Digital Communications.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Strategy dispute hits Linklaters Brazil ally with 27-lawyer split

    Linklaters' Brazilian ally, Lefosse, is to split, with a significant number of lawyers leaving to create an independent firm after a strategy dispute.

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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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