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  • January 15, 2008 |

    Bar's Vos takes access charity chairman role

    Former Bar Council chairman Geoffrey Vos QC has taken up a role as chairman of the trustees of the Social Mobility Foundation (SMF). The charity, which aims to help youngsters from underprivileged backgrounds enter major professions, named Vos to replace Conservative MP Oliver Letwin at the helm of its board of trustees.

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  • January 14, 2008 |

    City elite battle OFT in overdraft fees test case

    A landmark case brought by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) regarding the fees charged by banks for unauthorised overdrafts is set to hit the High Court later this week (16 January), with a host of top City firms lining up to oppose the competition authority. The case will see the OFT take on seven banks and one building society in a bid to prove that the charges, which have affected thousands of customers, are illegal.

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  • January 10, 2008 | International Edition

    Ashurst adds two to management board

    Ashurst has elected two new members to its management board, with partners from London and Germany winning posts on the committee. Ashurst partners voted London litigation partner Ben Tidswell and Frankfurt corporate partner Reinhard Eyring on to the board, with effect from the start of this month.

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  • January 10, 2008 |

    Ashurst adds two to management board

    Ashurst has elected two new members to its management board, with partners from London and Germany winning posts on the committee. Ashurst partners voted London litigation partner Ben Tidswell and Frankfurt corporate partner Reinhard Eyring on to the board, with effect from the start of this month.

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  • January 9, 2008 |

    Bristows takes lead role on mobile phone dispute

    Bristows is advising T-Mobile on its dispute against 3 Mobile relating to an allegation that four of the UK's biggest mobile phone operators abused their majority in a regulatory body in 2005. Legal Week incorrectly stated on 13 December that T-Mobile was solely advised in-house. Barlow Lyde & Gilbert is advising 3, while O2, Vodafone and Orange are being advised by Ashurst, Herbert Smith and Field Fisher Waterhouse respectively.

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  • January 9, 2008 |

    Commentary: New year brings new uncertainties in post-crunch environment

    This time last year, this column made a few predictions about how 2007 would pan out. Its conclusion - that liberal use of cheap debt could soon prick the M&A bubble - turned out to be pretty close to the mark.

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  • January 9, 2008 |

    2008 - your guide to the year ahead

    Last January The Diary sensationally predicted that Dewey and LeBoeuf would become Dewey & LeBoeuf, global financial markets would go into meltdown and Alesha would beat that smarmy orange chap in the final of Strictly Come Dancing. Sadly, none of those uncannily accurate forecasts made it into last year's Guide To The Year Ahead, which was mostly a bunch of cheap gags about Nigel Boardman. Ah well. Read on for your first glimpse of 2008's key stories.

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  • January 9, 2008 |

    Russian bear meets bull market

    Russia's oil-driven economic revival is generating a flood of corporate work and surging demand for City partners. Richard Lloyd reports on Moscow's white-hot legal market

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  • January 9, 2008 |

    Freshfields relocates senior finance partner to Dubai

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's former London finance head, Bob Charlton, is being transferred to the Middle East in a significant boost the magic circle firm's presence in the region. Charlton, who is currently on sabbatical until February, is set to take up a post in the firm's Dubai office, adding a major heavyweight to the region.

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  • January 4, 2008 | International Edition

    Dewey in Dubai debut after hire of Akin Gump duo

    Dewey & LeBoeuf is making its long-awaited debut in Dubai after securing the hire of two partners from US rival Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. The two Dubai-based partners leaving Akin Gump are local office head Gavin Watson and banking partner Chris Sioufi, who joined last year from DLA Piper.

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