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  • January 4, 2008 |

    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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  • January 2, 2008 | International Edition

    City giants lead Emap's £1bn B2B sell-off

    Ashurst and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are advising Guardian Media Group and private equity house Apax on their £1bn takeover of the business-to business arm of publishing giant Emap. The terms of the recommended cash offer, announced on 21 December, together with a £1bn special dividend payable to shareholders following the sale of Emap's consumer and radio divisions, effectively value the company at £2bn.

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  • January 2, 2008 |

    City giants lead Emap's £1bn B2B sell-off

    Ashurst and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer are advising Guardian Media Group and private equity house Apax on their £1bn takeover of the business-to business arm of publishing giant Emap. The terms of the recommended cash offer, announced on 21 December, together with a £1bn special dividend payable to shareholders following the sale of Emap's consumer and radio divisions, effectively value the company at £2bn.

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  • December 14, 2007 | International Edition

    Camerons takes lead role on hospitals sell-off

    CMS Cameron McKenna has completed its second deal in a month for Nuffield Hospitals with the City firm scoring a role on the sale of nine hospitals to General Healthcare Group (GHG). Camerons corporate partner David Day took the lead for Nuffield on the sale of the hospital portfolio to GHG for an undisclosed sum. Camerons real estate head Edward Benzecry advised on property issues.

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  • December 14, 2007 |

    Camerons takes lead role on hospitals sell-off

    CMS Cameron McKenna has completed its second deal in a month for Nuffield Hospitals with the City firm scoring a role on the sale of nine hospitals to General Healthcare Group (GHG). Camerons corporate partner David Day took the lead for Nuffield on the sale of the hospital portfolio to GHG for an undisclosed sum. Camerons real estate head Edward Benzecry advised on property issues.

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  • December 13, 2007 |

    Simmons urges veterans to take non-law roles

    Simmons & Simmons is set to formally encourage partners nearing retirement to take on roles outside of the law, as ageing partnerships continue to raise issues for major UK law firms.

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  • December 12, 2007 |

    Can A&O turn 'lucky year' into that elusive M&A breakthrough?

    Just like claims that India's legal market is about to liberalise, predictions that Allen & Overy's (A&O's) corporate practice was to take its place among Europe's M&A elite have been one of commercial law's most reliable false dawns.

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  • December 12, 2007 |

    Ashurst's Vickers set for new role in Euro finance practice

    Ashurst London finance partner Mark Vickers will take on a newly-created role managing the firm's European banking practice when he stands down from the firm's management board at the end of the calendar year.

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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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