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  • January 7, 2008 |

    Camerons captures £572m Carillion-McAlpine deal

    CMS Cameron McKenna has scored a lead advisory role opposite elite City firm Slaughter and May as construction company Carillion acquires Alfred McAlpine in a £572m deal. Camerons corporate partner Gary Green and senior partner Richard Price led the team acting for support services company Alfred McAlpine, assisted by James Parkes and Catherine Beckett.

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  • December 30, 2007 |

    Slaughters' best friends to become room-mates in Brussels

    Slaughter and May is to move into offices in Brussels with its European best friends in a move to boost cooperation between the firms, the firm announced today (10 October). The elite City firm will share new office premises with German ally Hengeler Mueller, Italian leader Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, Paris-based Bredin Prat and Madrid firm Uria Menendez.

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  • December 12, 2007 |

    Leading lawyers lay predictions bare as year of the credit crunch comes to a close

    Leading partners sum up the year just gone and the year ahead: will 2007 be remembered for anything other than the credit crunch?

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  • December 12, 2007 |

    Deals 2007: UK lawyers look back on a year of two halves

    For once the cheesy sporting metaphor is apt - almost every City partner agrees 2007 has been a year of two halves. While the first six months saw firms busier than ever, working on deals including the first-ever take-private of a FTSE 100 company and the E70bn (£50bn) bidding war for ABN Amro, the summer's credit crunch means firms are seeing out the year in very different style.

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  • December 7, 2007 |

    Hengeler heats up pay war with new salary hike

    Hengeler Mueller has raised its associate salaries for the second time in 18 months, as the elite German independent bids to keep pace with its foreign rivals. Junior lawyers at the Slaughter and May best friend have seen their pay rise from €90,000 (£65,000) a year to either €100,000 (£72,000) or €105,000 (£76,000), depending on academic qualifications.

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  • December 6, 2007 |

    Offshore Firm of the Year

    Winner: Cains

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  • December 6, 2007 |

    General Counsel of the Year

    Winner: Josh Bayliss, Virgin Group

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  • December 5, 2007 |

    Reckitt on hunt for GC after surprise departure

    Reckitt Benckiser is on the hunt for a new general counsel after the surprise departure of legal chief Christopher Roberts. Roberts left the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant in September and it is understood that he is yet to take on another position.

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  • December 3, 2007 | International Edition

    White & Case, Nabarro join Northern Rock saga

    White & Case and Nabarro have emerged as the latest firms to score advisory roles in the ongoing Northern Rock saga. The two firms are acting for the bank's biggest shareholders - hedge funds SRM Global and RAB Capital.

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  • December 3, 2007 |

    White & Case, Nabarro join Northern Rock saga

    White & Case and Nabarro have emerged as the latest firms to score advisory roles in the ongoing Northern Rock saga. The two firms are acting for the bank's biggest shareholders - hedge funds SRM Global and RAB Capital.

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