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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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  • 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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