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  • March 28, 2007 |

    Middle East and India: Highway to a new world

    According to a taxi driver in Dubai, the only old thing left in the emirate is the sea. It is a common observation, but an outsider could not hope for a more telling insight into the degree of commercial activity in the region. Not surprisingly, that expansion has been mirrored in the legal sector where foreign law firms that have opened up offices in the past three years now significantly outnumber the old hands.

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  • March 28, 2007 |

    Middle East and India: Standing guard

    As hopes of market liberalisation build, international law firms are already making a major play for Indian business, using a range of tactics to win the jealously-guarded prize

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  • March 28, 2007 |

    Commentary: The City should vote Brown (but maybe not the country)

    Some tax lawyers, perhaps feeling a twinge of sympathy for a time when the UK used to have manufacturing clients, are in the knocking camp but, by most City lawyers' yardsticks, you would have to call Gordon Brown's last Budget a result.

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  • March 28, 2007 |

    Deals: M&A 29/03/2007

    Cobbetts has acted for the sellers on the £24m sale of specialist recruitment business James Harvard to Hays. Corporate partner Sean Fitzgerald and solicitor Victoria Zivkovic led the team at Cobbetts. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner David Sonter led the team for Hays.

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  • March 28, 2007 |

    Bar restrictions rein in India ambitions

    Frustration over faltering attempts to liberalise India's highly-restrictive legal market is dampening City lawyers' hopes for the much-touted emerging market, according to new research.

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  • March 28, 2007 |

    Through the looking glass with leveraged finance

    Those searching for a better example of the current through-the-looking-glass mood of the European leveraged finance market won’t find a better example…

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  • March 22, 2007 | International Edition

    Camerons to introduce quarterly financial budgets in sector re-jig

    CMS Cameron McKenna is introducing financial budgets for its sector groups with each team given a 10% growth target over three years. Camerons has reviewed each of its eight industry focus groups and is relaunching the system, with each sector now preparing quarterly reports on its financial performance.

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  • March 22, 2007 | International Edition

    CC secures M&A breakthrough with lead role on Barclays' £80bn ABN bid

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Sullivan & Cromwell have won coveted roles on one of Europe's biggest-ever deals - acting for Barclays on its £80bn merger bid with ABN Amro. Davis Polk & Wardwell has been confirmed as adviser to ABN on US issues with Allen & Overy (A&O) in line to advise in Europe.

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  • March 22, 2007 |

    CC secures M&A breakthrough with lead role on Barclays' £80bn ABN bid

    Clifford Chance (CC) and Sullivan & Cromwell have won coveted roles on one of Europe's biggest-ever deals - acting for Barclays on its £80bn merger bid with ABN Amro. Davis Polk & Wardwell has been confirmed as adviser to ABN on US issues with Allen & Overy (A&O) in line to advise in Europe.

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  • March 22, 2007 |

    Camerons to introduce quarterly financial budgets in sector re-jig

    CMS Cameron McKenna is introducing financial budgets for its sector groups with each team given a 10% growth target over three years. Camerons has reviewed each of its eight industry focus groups and is relaunching the system, with each sector now preparing quarterly reports on its financial performance.

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