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  • July 30, 2008 |

    Herbies and Ashurst take headline roles on private equity fund's £250m LSE IPO

    Herbert Smith and Ashurst have landed lead roles on the $500m (£250.3m) float of Global MENA Financial Assets (GMFA) on the London Stock Exchange.Herbert Smith advised longstanding client JP Morgan Cazenove as sole sponsor, global co-ordinator and joint-bookrunner for the offering, fielding a team under London corporate partners Alex Bafi and Scott Cochrane.

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  • July 29, 2008 |

    CC set for Abu Dhabi launch after licence win

    Clifford Chance (CC) is set to become the latest City firm to launch an office in Abu Dhabi, with an opening date set for the end of this week (3 August) after the firm won a license to practise last month. A ten-lawyer team will be led on the ground by Dubai-based banking and finance partner Richard Ernest, and overseen from Dubai by Gulf managing partner Graham Lovett. The office will be manned by three partners, including Ernest, Peter Deegan and Chris Walsh.

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  • July 29, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 29/07/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; the pick of the day's posts; and more

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  • July 28, 2008 |

    Ashurst boosts London energy with Lovells hire

    Ashurst has added to its London energy, transport and infrastructure (ETI) team with the hire of a partner from City rival Lovells.

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  • July 28, 2008 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 28/07/08

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; the pick of the day's posts; and more

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  • July 25, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 25/07/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; the pick of the day's posts; and more

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  • July 24, 2008 |

    Ashurst partners braced for senior partner vote

    Geoffrey Green's tenure as Ashurst's longtime senior partner looks set to come to an end with partners within the firm predicting he will step down when his second term ends later this year. A formal announcement to the partnership is expected after the summer with the decision paving the way for a firm-wide election.

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  • July 21, 2008 |

    Shearman unveils new European finance head

    Shearman & Sterling's London office has appointed Clifford Atkins as the new head of the firm's European finance group, taking over from Anthony Ward. Ward will step down as the group head on 1 August to concentrate on his role as London office managing partner - as well as his position on the firm's global policy committee.Atkins joined Shearman in 1998 from top 10 City firm Ashurst and focuses on structured and leveraged finance.

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  • July 17, 2008 |

    Global focus drives UK top 50 as firms weather global crunch

    The UK's top law firms have pressed through the initial onslaught of the credit crunch and defied gloomy expectations to achieve double-digit revenue growth for the third year running. Legal Week's 2007-08 results, the first finalised picture of the performance of the UK top 50, demonstrate how the group tapped busy foreign markets to help offset the pronounced global slowdown.Total revenue across the group rose by 14.3% from £10.5bn to just over £12bn, while the top 50 averaged revenue growth of 12.5% to bill an average of £241.9m.

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  • July 17, 2008 |

    Testing times ahead: top lawyers' verdict on what the next 12 months holds in store

    Leading figures give their views on how the legal world fared over the past financial year and what they expect to happen next

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