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  • January 23, 2008 |

    One year on: lawyers remain unconvinced of SRA potency

    After 12 months of operation, senior transactional lawyers still feel detached from the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) despite risk and compliance heads' assertion that the body has been giving City firms more attention. Next week (29 January) will mark the one-year anniversary of the Law Society's separation of its representative and regulatory arms, a move that created the SRA. Since then, City firm general counsel and compliance heads say the organisation has been more in touch with the profession.

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  • January 23, 2008 |

    Bredin Prat makes up two to partnership

    France's Bredin Prat has promoted two associates to its partnership as well as naming two new counsel in Paris. Olivier Rogivue, formerly an associate in the London and Paris offices of Slaughter and May, and Olivier Saba, a former Shearman & Sterling lawyer, joined the partnership in the corporate department on 1 January. Raed Fathallah and Kate Romain have become counsel.

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  • January 23, 2008 |

    Hammonds lands major role opposite Olswang on £148m social housing business takeover

    National firm Hammonds has bagged a lead role opposite Olswang on construction company Willmott Dixon's move to buy back its former social housing arm, Inspace, in a £148m takeover.

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  • January 23, 2008 |

    Beachcroft goes international on £350m steel deal

    Beachcroft's corporate team has scored a key European transaction, advising Ukrainian steel group Metinvest on its £350m acquisition of steel factories in the UK and Italy.

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  • January 17, 2008 |

    Slaughters names Saul as new senior partner

    Slaughter and May is overhauling its senior management, with senior partner Tim Clark standing down to be replaced by head of corporate Chris Saul. The 52-year-old Saul will take the role from 1 May, when Clark retires. An election to decide his successor as corporate head will take place later in the year. Saul will shadow Clark in his responsibilities until he officially takes on the role.

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  • January 17, 2008 | International Edition

    UK trainees avoid crunch fallout as top firms' retention soars above 90%

    Trainee retention rates across the UK's elite legal profession have remained steadfast, with many firms keeping hold of more than 90% of their intake despite a sharp dip in City lawyers' overall business confidence. Eighteen out of 25 of the UK's top firms are holding on to more than 90% of their March class of qualifying lawyers, including six firms with a 100% retention rate.

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  • January 17, 2008 |

    UK trainees avoid crunch fallout as top firms' retention soars above 90%

    Trainee retention rates across the UK's elite legal profession have remained steadfast, with many firms keeping hold of more than 90% of their intake despite a sharp dip in City lawyers' overall business confidence. Eighteen out of 25 of the UK's top firms are holding on to more than 90% of their March class of qualifying lawyers, including six firms with a 100% retention rate.

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  • January 16, 2008 | International Edition

    Big four cast long shadow in deal league but nationals gain ground

    It was a good year for London's big four in the key M&A markets, no doubt, but 2007's wildly uneven corporate market also drew a strong performance from firms such as Eversheds and Pinsent Masons. Echoing its market-leading performance in Legal Week's primary adviser tables, which track lead corporate roles on Europe's largest deals, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer topped the full tables for European M&A, according to recently-released research from Mergermarket.

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  • January 16, 2008 |

    Big four cast long shadow in deal league but nationals gain ground

    It was a good year for London's big four in the key M&A markets, no doubt, but 2007's wildly uneven corporate market also drew a strong performance from firms such as Eversheds and Pinsent Masons. Echoing its market-leading performance in Legal Week's primary adviser tables, which track lead corporate roles on Europe's largest deals, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer topped the full tables for European M&A, according to recently-released research from Mergermarket.

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  • January 16, 2008 |

    A disarming new head to lead Slaughters

    There has been no shortage of praise for Slaughter and May’s newly-elected senior partner, Chris Saul, this afternoon, following the announcement…

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