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  • January 30, 2007 |

    Slaughters joins Linklaters for £575m Egg sale

    Slaughter and May has landed a lead advisory role opposite Linklaters on Prudential's £575m sale of internet banking business Egg to Citigroup. Slaughters is advising Prudential on the sale, while magic circle rival Linklaters is acting on behalf of US financial services giant Citigroup.

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  • January 25, 2007 | International Edition

    Camerons U-turn introduces salaried partners

    CMS Cameron McKenna is to introduce a non-equity tier to its partnership in a major U-turn by the City firm. The firm, which became an all-equity partnership in 2003, has introduced a tier of salaried partners who will not be able to vote on major strategic decisions.

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    Camerons U-turn introduces salaried partners

    CMS Cameron McKenna is to introduce a non-equity tier to its partnership in a major U-turn by the City firm. The firm, which became an all-equity partnership in 2003, has introduced a tier of salaried partners who will not be able to vote on major strategic decisions.

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    Veil Jourde name partners brother among recruits as Paris boutique restructures

    Veil Jourde is set to take on an extra four partners as the Paris independent goes through a major period of restructuring.The firm has bolstered its litigation offering with the hire of Dubarry Le Douarin Veil name partner Pierre-Francois Veil, who joined the firm at the beginning of the year. The firm is also set to recruit Bredin Prat counsel Yves-Charles Zimmermann as a partner in the coming weeks.

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  • January 24, 2007 |

    Dealmaker: David Higgins

    A duff sailor and fan of weird cheeses, David Higgins has also swiftly established himself as one of the leading lights in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's ascendant private equity practice

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  • January 24, 2007 |

    Deals: M&A 25/01/2007

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Eastman Kodak Company on the European aspects of its agreement to sell its Health Group to Onex Healthcare Holdings for up to $2.55bn (£1.3bn). The team at Freshfields was led by corporate partner Julian Long, competition partner Vanessa Turner and employment, pensions and benefits partner Kathleen Healy. Sullivan & Cromwell acted as Kodak's lead legal advisers. Onex was advised by Kaye Scholer.

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  • January 17, 2007 |

    HSBC to swell its lawyer ranks by 50 as banking giant shakes up law team

    Banking giant HSBC has completed an overhaul of its UK legal function as part of a wider efficiency drive that will see it hire an additional 50 lawyers…

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  • January 17, 2007 |

    A&O and Slaughters land aerospace sale

    Allen & Overy (A&O) and Slaughter and May have landed lead roles on the $4.8bn (£2.4bn) sale of Smiths Group's aerospace business to General Electric…

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  • January 17, 2007 |

    Commentary: Is Freshfields set to get its hands on your clients?

    They might not admit it but behind closed doors partners can get pretty excited when one of their clients emerges as a takeover target. Of course, it is even better when they emerge as a potential acquirer. But while 2007 looks certain to generate a busy flow of unsolicited bids for juicy UK targets, lawyers will be hoping a few of the most recent flurry of M&A rumours come true this year.

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  • January 16, 2007 |

    Inchcape names Reuters' Chapman as new GC

    Automotive giant lures EMEA general counsel from news agency to replace retiring legal chief

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