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  • January 11, 2007 |

    Euro muscle gives edge as top trio open M&A lead

    Magic circle trio carve up M&A market with roles on half of Europe's top 200 deals

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  • January 11, 2007 | International Edition

    Euro muscle gives edge as top trio open M&A lead

    Magic circle trio carve up M&A market with roles on half of Europe's top 200 deals

    1 minute read

  • January 11, 2007 |

    Freshfields powers ahead of rivals in top M&A league

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has increased its dominance in top-tier European M&A, outstripping its rivals in Legal Week's 2006 primary adviser rankings

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  • January 10, 2007 |

    Slaughters rises to top of Asian M&A rankings

    Big-ticket run sees magic circle firm head Thomson Financial standings

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  • January 10, 2007 |

    Diary special: your guide to the year ahead

    What a year 2006 was. Mergers, M&A and the triumph that was Senior Partner, The Diary's (extremely) long-running unreality extravaganza, which captivated…

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  • January 10, 2007 |

    Upbeat lawyers still fear leverage could prick M&A bubble

    Given that the value of European M&A rose 29% in 2006 according to Mergermarket, bullishness is unsurprisingly pretty widespread among deal lawyers sizing up this year's prospects. A weaker but still solid outlook for corporate earnings and a continuing supply of cheap debt to back up cash-driven acquisitions is obviously still proving a heady mixture 18 months into Europe's M&A revival. Cynics would dub these conditions as bubble-like.

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  • January 10, 2007 |

    Camerons advises RBS on £1bn hotels disposal

    CMS Cameron McKenna has acted on another major transaction for the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), advising the bank on its disposal of 47 Marriott hotels in a deal worth around £1bn.Camerons fielded a team headed by corporate finance partner Louise Wallace and corporate partner Chris Southorn to advise RBS on the sale of the UK-based hotels to Israeli investor Delek Real Estate.

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  • January 10, 2007 |

    Deals: Competiton 11/01/07

    Legal Week reports

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  • January 8, 2007 |

    Travers Smith

    First it dropped the 'Braithwaite', then it dropped Berlin. Without either, the famously independent - and impressively profitable - City firm continues to be a bellwether for mid-tier rivals in the capital.

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  • January 3, 2007 |

    Softly, softly Sullivan raises old questions for Slaughters with Emmerson hire

    Nobody can accuse Sullivan & Cromwell of rushing headlong into the UK corporate market. Indeed, the phrase 'softly, softly' could have been invented…

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