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  • February 8, 2007 |

    Law firms braced as five top banks review panels

    UK firms are gearing up for a surge of panel reviews by major financial institutions, with a number of Europe's biggest banks set to review their advisers in the coming months.

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  • February 7, 2007 |

    Editor's Comment:On young shoulders

    Like policemen, managing partners are getting younger. And if not radical, Simon Davies' elevation to one of the top law firm management jobs in the world at the age of 39 is still pretty good going for a City legal institution that makes Ashurst look wacky by comparison.

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  • February 7, 2007 |

    Browne Jacobson hires duo for profile drive

    Browne Jacobson has hired its first-ever professional development lawyers as part of a drive to expand its profile outside the Midlands. Diane Faulks joins from Ashurst, where she was also a professional development lawyer. Hilary McEwan arrives from DLA Piper, where she was an associate in the clinical negligence team. At Browne Jacobson, Faulks and McEwan will oversee market strategy, knowledge management and training.

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  • February 7, 2007 |

    Commentary: Linklaters' weirdly credible buy-out relaunch gets better

    While the hire of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer acquisition finance partner David Ereira raised a few eyebrows, last week's news that Clifford Chance (CC) rising star Ian Bagshaw is to help rebuild Linklaters' buy-out team leaves little doubt that Silk Street is serious about bulking up in private equity.

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  • February 7, 2007 |

    Deals: M&A 08/02/2007

    Slaughter and May has advised Standard Chartered Bank on the sale of its shareholding in Standard Chartered Trustee and Standard Chartered Asset Management to a subsidiary of UBS, for $120m (£61m). Corporate partner Paul Olney led the team, working with Desai & Diwanji in India. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer corporate partner Philip Richards led the team advising UBS.

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  • February 7, 2007 | International Edition

    Lovells loses US restructuring duo to MoFo

    Lovells is set to lose the bulk of its US restructuring practice after two partners, including its US restructuring head, Gary Lee, handed in their notice. Lee, who leads the firm's US insolvency and restructuring practice and is one of the firm's best-known US partners, and Karen Ostad are both understood to have handed in their notice within the last week.

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  • February 7, 2007 |

    Lovells loses US restructuring duo to MoFo

    Lovells is set to lose the bulk of its US restructuring practice after two partners, including its US restructuring head, Gary Lee, handed in their notice. Lee, who leads the firm's US insolvency and restructuring practice and is one of the firm's best-known US partners, and Karen Ostad are both understood to have handed in their notice within the last week.

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  • February 1, 2007 |

    Young gunning for private equity

    Another week, another Linklaters magic circle partner hire.The impending end of Tony Angel’s managing partner term seems to have given the City giant…

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  • February 1, 2007 |

    Ashurst takes lead on e2.85bn healthcare deal

    Ashurst has won the lead role on a e2.85bn (£1.87bn) disposal of Swedish healthcare company Moelnlycke for private equity house Apax. The top 10 City firm ran two separate teams with one advising Apax on the exit and another acting for Moelnlycke on a listing on the London Stock Exchange proposed as an alternative exit option. The firm initially pitched to the company for the initial public offering last summer and was then instructed by Apax on the M&A side several weeks later.Legalweek.com (29 January).

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  • January 31, 2007 |

    Diary Book Club

    Your guide to the best in legal fiction (not including certain City firms' financial results).

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