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  • June 21, 2007 |

    Freshfields wins Cinven role on £1.4bn BUPA deal

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised buy-out house Cinven on its £1.4bn purchase of BUPA's hospitals. The deal sees private equity partner David Higgins advise on the sale of 25 hospitals and a treatment centre. Slaughter and May advised BUPA on the transaction, with corporate partner Simon Robinson leading the team. Cinven has a history of investing in healthcare, with Higgins advising on its 2005 £552m acquisition of Partnerships in Care.

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  • June 21, 2007 |

    London boutique earns its Spurs on Sugar's Tottenham share sale

    London boutique Wallace has landed a role opposite Slaughter and May and Herbert Smith as Sir Alan Sugar sells his stake in Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. The 10-partner firm advised sports and media group ENIC on its £25m acquisition of Sugar's 12% stake in the football club.

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  • June 20, 2007 |

    Boarders' boardroom bed-hopping

    With conflicts of interest under the microscope like never before - the media microscope, that is - you would think City partners would be cautious about sleeping with the proverbial enemy these days.

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  • June 20, 2007 |

    Friends like these

    We are all familiar with the cosy 'best friends' arrangement between Slaughter and May and its fellow blue-bloods on the Continent. However, Burges Salmon this week nudged the envelope an inch to the left after a missive from the firm hailed a new hire by its US 'better friend' Thompson Hine.

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  • June 20, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 20/6/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Freshfields, Ashurst and Wragges among the runners and riders.

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  • June 20, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 20/6/2007

    The five most popular stories on legalweek.com; the pick of readers' comments; and Deal Week brings you a brand-new online feature

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  • June 20, 2007 |

    Slaughters hire lifts Eversheds' City IP team

    A Slaughter and May senior associate has left the firm to become a partner in Eversheds' intellectual property (IP) department. Dominic Dryden joins the UK giant's London office this month. Dryden qualified in 1999 and focuses on IP work in the technology and commercial sectors.

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  • June 19, 2007 |

    Freshfields edges in opposite Slaughters on £7bn ICI bid

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have secured lead roles on Akzo Nobel's £7.2bn takeover approach for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). Slaughters corporate partner Roland Turnill is advising paint and consumer chemical business Akzo. Its initial bid was rebuffed yesterday (18 June) after ICI's board said the offer undervalued the business but the Dutch company is expected to return with a higher offer.

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  • June 19, 2007 | International Edition

    Freshfields edges in opposite Slaughters on £7bn ICI bid

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have secured lead roles on Akzo Nobel's £7.2bn takeover approach for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI). Slaughters corporate partner Roland Turnill is advising paint and consumer chemical business Akzo. Its initial bid was rebuffed yesterday (18 June) after ICI's board said the offer undervalued the business but the Dutch company is expected to return with a higher offer.

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  • June 13, 2007 |

    Bank of Ireland, Honeywell to slash legal costs

    Two major companies have made moves to slash their legal costs with industrial giant Honeywell set to cut more than 100 advisers from its European roster and the Bank of Ireland (BOI) paring off a quarter of its in-house team.

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