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  • November 14, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 14/11/07

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Ashurst, Wragges and Bakers among the movers and shakers

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  • November 9, 2007 |

    CC matches City pace with 18% H1 growth

    Magic circle giant Clifford Chance (CC) is the latest to report its half year results with the firm announcing an 18% rise in H1 turnover for 2007-08, taking its revenue for the period up to around £680m. The percentage increase matches that of fellow magic circle firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and is ahead of arch City rival Allen & Overy, which recorded a 16% increase in turnover. The results put those firms' revenues for the period at £560m and £456m respectively.

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  • November 8, 2007 | International Edition

    City defies crunch with double-digit H1 growth

    City leaders have defied struggling credit markets to announce strong H1 results, despite longer-term worries about the rest of the year. Just one out of nearly 20 top 50 firms to have reported H1 results has failed to record double-digit growth, with a wide range of firms enjoying increases of more than 20% on the same period last year.

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  • November 8, 2007 |

    City defies crunch with double-digit H1 growth

    City leaders have defied struggling credit markets to announce strong H1 results, despite longer-term worries about the rest of the year. Just one out of nearly 20 top 50 firms to have reported H1 results has failed to record double-digit growth, with a wide range of firms enjoying increases of more than 20% on the same period last year.

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  • November 8, 2007 |

    Top firms battle for British Legal Awards

    Allen & Overy (A&O), White & Case and Travers Smith are among a cross-section of firms battling it out to secure prizes at the 2007 British Legal Awards. Shortlists published today (8 November) show A&O, White & Case and DLA Piper among those in contention for the coveted international firm award, while Ashurst, Travers Smith and Nabarro have been selected in the competitive UK category.

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  • November 8, 2007 |

    Editor's Comment: What goes up...

    The proverb that begins 'don't count your chickens...' will no doubt inform the attitude of managing partners to this week's bullish set of half-year results. It is telling that in the same week that a succession of UK firms report budget-busting figures, the world's largest law firm has initiated a redundancy programme. The future is hardly certain.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Budding lawyers give A&O thumbs up

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has been voted the UK's most popular firm for students and graduates looking to become a solicitor, according to new research. Sixty-four percent of more than 1,400 students and graduates polled rated A&O as 'excellent' and said that the firm provided the best work experience and internships, in the survey by graduate jobsite targetjobs.co.uk

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  • November 7, 2007 | International Edition

    KKR, Permira and Apax storm ahead in private equity league

    Buy-out giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR), Permira and Apax Partners have emerged as the most lucrative clients in the sector in recent years, according to new research. Mergermarket rankings compiled exclusively for Legal Week show the private equity houses have completed the highest value of deals in Europe over the last three years.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    KKR, Permira and Apax storm ahead in private equity league

    Buy-out giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR), Permira and Apax Partners have emerged as the most lucrative clients in the sector in recent years, according to new research. Mergermarket rankings compiled exclusively for Legal Week show the private equity houses have completed the highest value of deals in Europe over the last three years.

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  • November 7, 2007 |

    Commentary: Thou shalt not covet - there's just no point

    Here we have it. The best private equity house clients in Europe are the following: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR), Permira, Apax Partners, Blackstone and Macquarie Bank. Some may disagree with this, but new Mergermarket rankings show that the five buy-out houses have worked on the greatest value of deals in Europe during the past three years.

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