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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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  • July 6, 2007 |

    Barclays review keeps faith with familiar faces

    Barclays has unveiled its eagerly awaited new panel, with all the bank's main panel firms reappointed to its coveted main roster. Mandates for the bank's general advisory panel, which are set to run for two years, have been handed out once again to historical advisers to Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance (CC), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Lovells, DLA Piper and Simmons & Simmons.

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  • July 5, 2007 |

    Cravath transfers M&A star to European scene

    Cravath Swaine & Moore is to boost its presence in the European M&A market with the move of New York corporate partner David Mercado to London.

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  • July 4, 2007 |

    Commentary: Freshfields star becomes Magpies' latest big signing

    Lawyers love reading the sports pages. Even for the ones that know very little about it, there seems to be an inherent need to keep abreast of Premiership football affairs, if only to be able to discuss it with clients.

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  • July 3, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 3/7/2007

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of readers' comments; and Beachcroft managing partner Paul Murray is the latest law firm leader under the Herding Cats microscope

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  • June 28, 2007 |

    Kilpatrick's Newman to make Olswang switch

    Olswang has raided Kilpatrick Stockton for a five-lawyer intellectual property (IP) team led by high-profile department head Helen Newman. Newman, Kilpatrick's head of international IP, will join the City outfit with a team of three senior associates and one additional lawyer on Monday (2 July).

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Bonelli delays more to back key remuneration shake-up

    Slaughter and May best friend Bonelli Erede Pappalardo has sidelined plans to address succession issues facing the firm after it failed to reach a consensus to overhaul its payment structure at a recent partnership meeting.

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