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  • July 11, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 11/7/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Clifford Chance, Ashurst and Fried Frank among the deal-doers.

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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 4, 2007 |

    Busy M&A market keeps business confidence at top firms on a high

    An unprecedented 100% of lawyers polled are predicting revenue growth. Claire Ruckin reports on the latest Big Question survey

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  • July 4, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 4/7/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Linklaters, Macfarlanes and Pinsent Masons among the deal-doers.

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  • July 2, 2007 | International Edition

    Ashurst acts for Quinlan on £1bn Citi HQ sale

    Ashurst has landed its first instruction for Irish financier Derek Quinlan, advising opposite SJ Berwin and Allen & Overy (A&O) on his £1bn acquisition of Citigroup's London headquarters with PropInvest. Ashurst won the appointment around a month ago through its position as a regular adviser to Glenn Maud's PropInvest. Real estate head Adrian Dear led the team on the latest deal, alongside partner Susan Roy and tax head John Watson.

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  • July 2, 2007 |

    Ashurst acts for Quinlan on £1bn Citi HQ sale

    Ashurst has landed its first instruction for Irish financier Derek Quinlan, advising opposite SJ Berwin and Allen & Overy (A&O) on his £1bn acquisition of Citigroup's London headquarters with PropInvest. Ashurst won the appointment around a month ago through its position as a regular adviser to Glenn Maud's PropInvest. Real estate head Adrian Dear led the team on the latest deal, alongside partner Susan Roy and tax head John Watson.

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Ashurst profits surge 36% as firm gears up for LLP switch

    Ashurst has announced a massive 36% surge in average profits per equity partner (PEP) to just below the £1m mark as the top 10 City firm prepares to become a limited liability partnership (LLP).

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Ashurst in the picture for lead role on Jessops restructuring

    Ashurst has edged Eversheds aside to advise camera retailer Jessops on the restructuring that has seen it close 81 stores and make 550 redundancies.

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Italy: The cult of personality

    Italy's lawyers see themselves as individuals, rather than cogs in the corporate wheel. Claire Ruckin analyses the management challenges this presents as Italy's firms go global

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  • June 27, 2007 |

    Doctorate No

    Ashurst commissars recently sent out a firm-wide diktat banning academic qualifications from the email signatures of its partners. The Diary is not entirely sure what prompted the e-decree, but your correspondent could hear the unmistakable whinnying of City blue-bloods irked that the £60 they shelled out to upgrade their BA Cantab to an MA Cantab was not money well spent after all.

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