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  • July 25, 2007 |

    Travers lands Derwent as new client with £111m Greenwich property deal

    Travers Smith has scored a significant new client after advising property giant Derwent London on the £111.8m sale of its one million sq ft Greenwich Reach scheme.

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  • July 23, 2007 | International Edition

    Cheyne leads for Links on £8bn insurance bid

    Linklaters senior partner David Cheyne is playing a lead role on the £8bn merger talks between UK insurance companies Friends Provident and Resolution. Cheyne is leading the Linklaters team acting for Friends Provident alongside corporate partner Owen Clay.

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  • July 23, 2007 |

    Cheyne leads for Links on £8bn insurance bid

    Linklaters senior partner David Cheyne is playing a lead role on the £8bn merger talks between UK insurance companies Friends Provident and Resolution. Cheyne is leading the Linklaters team acting for Friends Provident alongside corporate partner Owen Clay.

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  • July 23, 2007 |

    Lovells, Norton Rose lead on Barclays' £2bn Asian sale

    Norton Rose and Lovells have become the latest firms to benefit from the £45bn merger bid between Barclays and ABN Amro, with the City firms each advising major Asian clients on more than £2bn worth of investment in the UK financial services giant. Norton Rose is acting for the China Development Bank and Lovells is representing Temasek, the investment arm of the Singapore Government, which have acquired stakes worth a combined £2.4bn in Barclays ahead of its planned takeover of ABN.

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  • July 19, 2007 |

    The end of an era

    When I became Law Society president this time last year, I made it my task to take the lead in communicating with the profession on our progress in transforming…

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  • July 19, 2007 |

    Big four secure world-beater status as top 50 breaks £10bn

    London's big four have secured their place among the emerging global elite after what will be seen as a breakthrough year for the UK's leading law firms.

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  • July 19, 2007 |

    Slaughters and Rabinowitz in key Lords tax win

    Slaughter and May has advised on a landmark tax ruling that will see hundreds of businesses receive millions in compensation from the UK Revenue & Customs (HMRC). The firm secured victory yesterday (18 July) after a 12-year battle when the Lords ruled that companies wrongly charged advance corporation tax (ACT) should be able to recover interest on the sum on a compound interest rate rather than a lower flat rate.

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  • July 19, 2007 |

    Uria Menendez chairman dies

    Rodrigo Uria, the chairman of Slaughter & May Spanish best friend Uria Menendez, passed away this week (17 July). Uria, who was the firm's managing partner from 1978 until 2005, died as the result of a heart attack while in Croatia. He was 66.

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  • July 19, 2007 |

    Legal Week Top 50: Views from the Market

    The top names in the legal industry give their thoughts on the financial year and what lies ahead

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  • July 18, 2007 |

    Diary picture special: Sports Spectacular

    F1 prodigy Lewis Hamilton might be the name on the oily lips of petrol-heads across the nation, but Lovells did its bit to accelerate global warming by putting the pedal to the metal at a charity karting event earlier this month.

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