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  • June 9, 2008 |

    Camerons faces A&O on £3bn Informa merger bid

    CMS Cameron McKenna has landed a lead advisory role opposite magic circle firm Allen & Overy (A&O) on the proposed merger between United Business Media (UBM) and business data provider Informa - with the deal set to create a media giant with a combined value of more than £3bn. Camerons is understood to be acting on behalf of Informa, with corporate partner Gary Green thought to be leading the team.

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  • June 6, 2008 |

    CC litigator seals Siemens in-house move

    Telecoms giant Siemens has appointed Clifford Chance (CC) partner Anke Sessler as its new chief counsel of litigation. Sessler will take up her new post on 1 September after spending 10 years as a litigation and dispute resolution partner at CC's Frankfurt office.

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  • June 5, 2008 | International Edition

    Euro delivers seven-figure boost to firm profits but drawings squeezed

    Leading City firms have seen multimillion-pound revenue boosts in their latest financial year thanks to the soaring rise in value of the euro against the pound. Some of the City's biggest players, including Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, confirmed that the rising value of the euro had gifted them seven-figure uplifts from their Continental offices.

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  • June 5, 2008 |

    Euro delivers seven-figure boost to firm profits but drawings squeezed

    Leading City firms have seen multimillion-pound revenue boosts in their latest financial year thanks to the soaring rise in value of the euro against the pound. Some of the City's biggest players, including Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, confirmed that the rising value of the euro had gifted them seven-figure uplifts from their Continental offices.

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  • June 5, 2008 |

    Ashurst secures senior CC telecoms hire

    Ashurst has expanded its communications practice in the City with a senior hire from Clifford Chance (CC). Dhana Doobay is set to leave CC - where she was director of the international telecommunications projects - and join Ashurst as a partner by mid-August.

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  • June 5, 2008 |

    Norton Rose continues Dubai drive with new finance partner

    Norton Rose has bolstered its Middle East practice with the hire of corporate partner Andrew Abernethy for its Dubai office. Abernethy joined the firm on 2 June from the Wellington office of New Zealand firm Bell Gully, where he was a partner in the corporate finance practice for five years. Before joining Bell Gully, Abernethy spent six years with Shearman & Sterling in New York and is admitted to practise both US and New Zealand law.

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  • June 4, 2008 |

    ...Legal Week Lunchbox: 5/06/08...

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts; a new Career Clinic dilemma; and more

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  • June 2, 2008 |

    DAC latest to go LLP after City merger

    Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) has become the latest firm to covert to a limited liability partnership (LLP), it was announced today (2 June). The conversion, which took effect from the beginning of the month, was backed via a partner vote at the end of last year and will apply to the firm's UK offices in London, Manchester and St Albans as well as offices in Spain and Mexico.

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  • June 1, 2008 |

    Only Links boosts FTSE 100 clients in Q2

    Linklaters was the only City firm to increase its FTSE 100 client tally over the last quarter, according to the latest quarterly rankings from Hemscott. The firm gained two FTSE 100 clients over the quarter running from 6 Feb to 9 May, taking its tally to 21 with a market cap of £588bn. The firm's position was bolstered through the listing of Kazakhstan mining company Kazakhmys and Tate & Lyle and Alliance Trust, which entered the FTSE 100 over the quarter.

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  • May 29, 2008 |

    Global 100 countdown: CC outstrips Skadden by half a billion

    Clifford Chance (CC), the world’s largest law firm barring a market-shattering performance from Linklaters, announced its revenues for the last financial…

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