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  • November 28, 2007 |

    Slaughters, Links line up £5bn Aviva debt deal

    Slaughter and May has taken the lead advising Aviva on the update and revision of its £5bn debt programme, as the insurance giant moves to have greater flexibility in current market. Slaughters finance partner Miranda Leung took the lead advising long-time client Aviva on the annual update of its subordinated debt programme. The programme was adjusted to meet regulatory requirements and to gain more favourable rating agency treatment.

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  • November 28, 2007 | International Edition

    Lovells secures £722m outsourcing deal for Pru

    Lovells has helped seal one the largest-ever outsourcing deals in the insurance sector - advising long-term client Prudential on a £722m agreement to transfer staff to Capita. The 15-year agreement, announced today (28 November), is expected to save Prudential £60m a year by 2010, with some 1,750 staff in Stirling and Reading transferring to outsourcing group Capita as well as around 1,250 of Prudential's 1,800 Mumbai-based staff.

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  • November 28, 2007 |

    Lovells secures £722m outsourcing deal for Pru

    Lovells has helped seal one the largest-ever outsourcing deals in the insurance sector - advising long-term client Prudential on a £722m agreement to transfer staff to Capita. The 15-year agreement, announced today (28 November), is expected to save Prudential £60m a year by 2010, with some 1,750 staff in Stirling and Reading transferring to outsourcing group Capita as well as around 1,250 of Prudential's 1,800 Mumbai-based staff.

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  • November 27, 2007 | International Edition

    City giants commit £750k to new diversity drive

    A clutch of London's leading law firms have committed around three-quarters of a million pounds to a new initiative aimed at increasing diversity in the legal profession. Thirteen members of the City Solicitors Educational Trust (CSET) have set aside £250,000 for next year to finance the new project - which aims to encourage students from a wider range of universities and backgrounds to consider a career in law - with similar totals expected for 2009 and 2010.

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  • November 27, 2007 |

    City giants commit £750k to new diversity drive

    A clutch of London's leading law firms have committed around three-quarters of a million pounds to a new initiative aimed at increasing diversity in the legal profession. Thirteen members of the City Solicitors Educational Trust (CSET) have set aside £250,000 for next year to finance the new project - which aims to encourage students from a wider range of universities and backgrounds to consider a career in law - with similar totals expected for 2009 and 2010.

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  • November 22, 2007 |

    Italian indies: giant killers turned masochists

    Just a few years ago, Italy’s leading law firms looked like the exception to the rule in global legal markets.Where the top US and UK law firms had…

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  • November 22, 2007 |

    Latham taps Bonelli for Italian law launch

    Latham & Watkins has launched an Italian law practice and opened in Rome after hiring a five-partner team from Slaughter and May's Italian ally Bonelli Erede Pappalardo. Bonelli partners Andrea Novarese, Maria Cristina Storchi, Fabio Coppola, Tommaso Amirante and Simone Monesi all join the US firm as partners.

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  • November 21, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 21/11/07

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Herbies, DLA Piper and Hammonds among the movers and shakers

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  • November 20, 2007 | International Edition

    BPP gets full marks in latest LPC assessment

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has awarded BPP Law School top marks for all areas of its Legal Practice Course (LPC) in a boost for the private sector education provider. The school's LPC was rated as a "commendable practice" by the SRA's panel of assessors across all six performance criteria: teaching, learning and the curriculum; assessment; students and their support; learning resources; leadership and management; and quality assurance and enhancement.

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  • November 20, 2007 |

    BPP gets full marks in latest LPC assessment

    The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has awarded BPP Law School top marks for all areas of its Legal Practice Course (LPC) in a boost for the private sector education provider. The school's LPC was rated as a "commendable practice" by the SRA's panel of assessors across all six performance criteria: teaching, learning and the curriculum; assessment; students and their support; learning resources; leadership and management; and quality assurance and enhancement.

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