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  • April 30, 2007 |

    Ashurst adds to funds group with Ameer hire

    Ashurst has boosted its investment funds practice with the appointment of Debevoise & Plimpton funds senior associate Chezard Ameer as a partner at the firm. Ameer specialises in private investment funds and has experience of structuring pan-European private equity funds and institutional investment products.

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  • April 27, 2007 | International Edition

    Partnership track results: Associates waiting longer to make partner

    Associates at the UK's top firms are generally taking longer to make partner, according to new research conducted by Legal Week. The figures show that it took 8.7 years on average for lawyers to make partner this year, compared with 8.1 years in 2004. This is despite the fact that several firms, including Ashurst, Lovells and Herbert Smith, saw a significant drop in the time it took to make partner this year.

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  • April 27, 2007 |

    Partnership track results: Associates waiting longer to make partner

    Associates at the UK's top firms are generally taking longer to make partner, according to new research conducted by Legal Week. The figures show that it took 8.7 years on average for lawyers to make partner this year, compared with 8.1 years in 2004. This is despite the fact that several firms, including Ashurst, Lovells and Herbert Smith, saw a significant drop in the time it took to make partner this year.

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  • April 26, 2007 |

    Student news round-up - solicitors

    War for talent pushes retention rates past 90% with Freshfields looking to keep more The UK's top firms are keeping a tight grip on their trainees, with…

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  • April 26, 2007 |

    Blag your way through interview: Commercially conscious

    'Commercial awareness' is something that all of the top firms cite as key recruitment criteria - so if you are beginning to worry that you are not fully au fait with current goings-on in the legal market, Legal Week Student presents a crash course in this year's burning issues

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    A&O tops market but avoids all-out pay war

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has resisted a wholesale hike in associate salaries, effectively ending the prospect of a salary war at the top of the City's legal market.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Slaughters partner track shortest of City top 10

    Slaughter and May has the fastest partnership track of the top 10 City firms with associates taking an average of seven years to make partner.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    Commentary: Who needs M&A? Ashurst carves out a new niche

    Are investment banks really that bothered about M&A? It is a question that Ashurst, of all firms, has been asking itself of late, thanks to feedback from institutional clients.

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  • April 25, 2007 |

    DAC joins Herbies on £75m leisure complex sale

    Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) has advised Land Securities alongside Herbert Smith on its £76.5m sale of The Gate leisure complex in Newcastle to PropInvest.

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  • April 24, 2007 |

    Ashurst Germany takes on Siemens' Englisch

    Ashurst has strengthened its German corporate practice with the hire of senior Siemens in-house lawyer Lutz Englisch as a partner. Englisch, who joins the firm's Munich office on 1 May, spent more than 15 years with the German tech giant, where he headed the corporate legal team.

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