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  • March 14, 2007 |

    Deals: M&A 15/03/2007

    DLA Piper has advised McBride, a UK supplier of household and personal care products, on its £39.3m bid to acquire Chemolux from Henkel. Corporate partner Jonathan Watkins led the team at DLA Piper. Luxembourg soaps manufacturer Chemolux was advised by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton M&A partner William Groll.

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  • March 14, 2007 |

    College of Law tightens grip on market as BPP outguns relaunched Nottingham

    The College of Law has strengthened its standing with the upper echelons of the City profession, according to new research that gives it more than three times the support of nearest rival BPP Law School. The latest Legal Week/EJ Legal Big Question survey found that two-thirds (66%) of senior lawyers thought the College offers the best Legal Practice Course (LPC) training, compared with 21% favouring BPP, which drops from 23% last year.

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  • March 14, 2007 |

    What students want

    Anyone with teenage children will appreciate the problems in understanding exactly what makes them tick - and it seems that graduate recruitment is suffering from a similar syndrome. Since today's graduate recruitment partners were students, the economics and philosophy of higher education have changed radically, which in turn has significantly altered the outlook and priorities of students and graduates. These are the main findings of the inaugural Legal Week Intelligence Student Survey, which questioned more than 2,000 students at the Russell Group of leading UK universities, from which the vast majority of trainees are hired by commercial firms.

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  • March 14, 2007 | International Edition

    CC bags KKR mandate on Alliance Boots bid

    Clifford Chance (CC) has bagged a key mandate opposite magic circle rival Slaughter and May to advise on the £9.7bn takeover bid for Alliance Boots by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. CC joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to advise the US private equity giant on its offer for regular Slaughters client Alliance Boots, which rejected the bid earlier this week (12 March).

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  • March 14, 2007 |

    CC bags KKR mandate on Alliance Boots bid

    Clifford Chance (CC) has bagged a key mandate opposite magic circle rival Slaughter and May to advise on the £9.7bn takeover bid for Alliance Boots by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. CC joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to advise the US private equity giant on its offer for regular Slaughters client Alliance Boots, which rejected the bid earlier this week (12 March).

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  • March 9, 2007 |

    Slaughters seals £300m Post Office aid package

    Slaughter and May is advising the Post Office on a deal with the Government to secure more than £300m of state aid. As part of the restructuring of the Post Office and Royal Mail, the Post Office is to receive an aid package worth £313m in the form of public service compensation.

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  • March 9, 2007 | International Edition

    Slaughters seals £300m Post Office aid package

    Slaughter and May is advising the Post Office on a deal with the Government to secure more than £300m of state aid. As part of the restructuring of the Post Office and Royal Mail, the Post Office is to receive an aid package worth £313m in the form of public service compensation.

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  • March 9, 2007 |

    City giants land plum outsourcing mandate

    Lovells and Slaughter and May have landed lead roles on a major outsourcing deal between insurance giants Aviva and Swiss Re. Lovells is advising longstanding client Swiss Re on an agreement that sees the administration of three million life and pension policies held by Norwich Union Life - the UK life business of Aviva - transfer to the Zurich-based insurance giant from October 2007.

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  • March 7, 2007 |

    College v BPP in showdown for City LPC prize

    BPP Law School faces losing trophy client the City Legal Practice Course (LPC) consortium after it announced last week that it was putting its contract out to tender. The law school will now have to battle it out against arch rival the College of Law to keep hold of the five-firm contract with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Slaughter and May, Herbert Smith, Lovells and Norton Rose.

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  • March 7, 2007 |

    Bredin Prat boosts finance with ex-Orrick hire

    Slaughter and May best friend Bredin Prat has hired former Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe Paris managing partner Raphaele Courtier as the firm looks to build its finance capabilities. Courtier, who joined the Paris leader last week (1 March), was a partner in Orrick's finance practice. She was appointed to head Orrick's Paris arm in July 2004, before handing the role over at the end of 2005.

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