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  • February 11, 2008 |

    Those BHP mandates – credit crunch? What credit crunch?!

    Oh, for a part in BHP Billiton’s battle for mining rival Rio Tinto Group. While the two Anglo-Australian mining giants keep a long line of legal…

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  • February 11, 2008 |

    LG to take on banks after Dorsey litigation hires

    LG has bagged a four-lawyer litigation team from Dorsey & Whitney, as the City firm becomes the latest UK practice to target litigation work against banks. Jean-Pierre Douglas-Henry, James Curle and Thomas Ross joined LG's London office this week (11 February) as partners. Douglas-Henry and Curle were previously partners at Dorsey. They will be joined by associate Verity Barker.

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  • February 8, 2008 |

    Links and Herbies bag £1.2bn Biffa buy-out

    Linklaters and Herbert Smith have taken the lead roles on the £1.2bn acquisition of waste management company Biffa by a private equity consortium. Linklaters advised the buyers, which were led by longstanding Silk Street clients Montagu Private Equity and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). Private equity partner Richard Youle and banking partner Adam Freeman led the team for the City giant.

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  • February 6, 2008 |

    Dealmaker: Alan Samson

    Confirmed deal junkie Alan Samson co-heads Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's highly rated real estate team

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  • February 5, 2008 | International Edition

    Magic circle firms eye M&B pub chain sell-off

    A raft of City firms, including Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy (A&O), are in line to win roles on the potential sale of pub and restaurant company Mitchells & Butlers (M&B). The company, which owns chains such as Harvester and O'Neill's, last week (29 January) admitted it was open to offers after revealing a £274m post-tax loss from hedging an aborted property transaction with Robert Tchenguiz in 2007.

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  • February 5, 2008 |

    Magic circle firms eye M&B pub chain sell-off

    A raft of City firms, including Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy (A&O), are in line to win roles on the potential sale of pub and restaurant company Mitchells & Butlers (M&B). The company, which owns chains such as Harvester and O'Neill's, last week (29 January) admitted it was open to offers after revealing a £274m post-tax loss from hedging an aborted property transaction with Robert Tchenguiz in 2007.

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  • January 31, 2008 | International Edition

    Nabarro to join LLP ranks after partners vote to convert within next six months

    Nabarro is to become the latest firm to convert to limited liability partnership (LLP) status following a vote of the partnership earlier this month. Partners at the firm voted on the conversion on 10 January after months of debate and the firm expects to adopt its new status within the first half of this year. Both full equity and fixed-share partners will become members of the LLP, although voting rights and internal management will remain the same under the new structure. The firm's offices in London, Sheffield and Brussels will all join the LLP, while its alliances with GSK Stockmann & Kollegen in Germany and August & Debouzy in France will be unchanged.

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  • January 31, 2008 |

    Nabarro to join LLP ranks after partners vote to convert within next six months

    Nabarro is to become the latest firm to convert to limited liability partnership (LLP) status following a vote of the partnership earlier this month. Partners at the firm voted on the conversion on 10 January after months of debate and the firm expects to adopt its new status within the first half of this year. Both full equity and fixed-share partners will become members of the LLP, although voting rights and internal management will remain the same under the new structure. The firm's offices in London, Sheffield and Brussels will all join the LLP, while its alliances with GSK Stockmann & Kollegen in Germany and August & Debouzy in France will be unchanged.

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  • January 30, 2008 | International Edition

    Commentary: Market turmoil sees revival of the M&A Renaissance men

    They say a change can be as good as a rest so, for anxious lawyers facing turbulent commercial markets, a change can start to look a lot better than the alternative. You can seen such logic in recent initiatives from three of London's leading firms that, in different ways, will promote movement of staff between teams and offices. Perhaps the most striking move has come from Allen & Overy (A&O), which has put in place a number of measures to encourage staff to move to busier areas or locations. Managing partner David Morley says: "It is about making sure we are flexible to adapt to market conditions and client needs. We have invested time in looking at how we can build up practices and overcome concerns, giving training so it is less scary. Giving people a new opportunity they can be excited about is also one of the objectives."

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  • January 30, 2008 |

    Commentary: Market turmoil sees revival of the M&A Renaissance men

    They say a change can be as good as a rest so, for anxious lawyers facing turbulent commercial markets, a change can start to look a lot better than the alternative. You can seen such logic in recent initiatives from three of London's leading firms that, in different ways, will promote movement of staff between teams and offices. Perhaps the most striking move has come from Allen & Overy (A&O), which has put in place a number of measures to encourage staff to move to busier areas or locations. Managing partner David Morley says: "It is about making sure we are flexible to adapt to market conditions and client needs. We have invested time in looking at how we can build up practices and overcome concerns, giving training so it is less scary. Giving people a new opportunity they can be excited about is also one of the objectives."

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