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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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  • June 13, 2007 | International Edition

    Slaughters closes thirteen deals in a week worth £4bn

    Slaughter and May has closed a lucky 13 deals in the space of a week, including five out of its Hong Kong arm, worth more than £4bn in total.

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  • June 13, 2007 |

    Slaughters closes thirteen deals in a week worth £4bn

    Slaughter and May has closed a lucky 13 deals in the space of a week, including five out of its Hong Kong arm, worth more than £4bn in total.

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  • June 13, 2007 |

    Cleary wins E9bn role on energy tie-up as Italian consolidation continues apace

    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Italian boutique Pavesi Getti have bagged the lead roles on a E9bn (£6.1bn) merger that will create Italy's third-largest energy company and biggest local utility.

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  • June 13, 2007 |

    Linklaters and Slaughters called up for top mandates as utilities attract bidders

    Linklaters and Slaughter and May are cashing in on two high-profile utilities disposals - Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS's) divestment of Southern Water for around £4bn and the sale of United Utilities' electricity distribution business, which is worth more than £1bn.

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  • June 13, 2007 | International Edition

    Linklaters and Slaughters called up for top mandates as utilities attract bidders

    Linklaters and Slaughter and May are cashing in on two high-profile utilities disposals - Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS's) divestment of Southern Water for around £4bn and the sale of United Utilities' electricity distribution business, which is worth more than £1bn.

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  • June 13, 2007 |

    Magic circle quartet plug in for Brit Energy deal

    Four of the five magic circle firms have secured substantial roles advising on the UK Government's £2.5bn disposal of a 25% share in utilities giant British Energy.

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  • June 13, 2007 |

    Giants get in-house legal re-jig

    McDonald's UK legal team was boosted last month by the hire of high-profile ex-easyGroup general counsel Dell Burnside. It is the second move in less than a year for Burnside, who left easyGroup only six months ago to head up the legal team at mobile phone trade group, the GSM Association (GSMA).

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  • June 13, 2007 |

    Legal Week 2.0

    Legal Week (the magazine) gets a makeover this week, largely to reflect the amount of reader-generated copy that legalweek.com now attracts.There will…

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  • June 12, 2007 |

    Government names record 48 firms on super-panel

    A record 48 firms have bagged places on the Government's legal panel, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) announced today (12 June). The OGC estimates the contracts will be worth a total of around £240m over the next four years.

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