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  • January 17, 2007 |

    Deals: M&A 18/01/07

    Olswang corporate partners Simon Morgan and Stephen Rosen have advised pharmaceutical company Vectura Group on its £130m acquisition of Innovata to create one of the UK's largest biotech companies. Innovata was advised by Bird & Bird corporate partner Simon Allport. Simmons & Simmons, led by corporate partner Gavin Weir and senior associate Isabella Roberts, acted for Vectura's financial adviser, Piper Jaffray.

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  • January 17, 2007 |

    Norton Rose loses another Dubai partner to rival

    Ashurst raids Norton Rose for Dubai corporate finance partner Tahir Ahmed.

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  • January 16, 2007 |

    LG recruit hands MoFo plum Skandia role

    MoFo closes Skandia outsourcing deal after hire of Jon Edgell from top 50 UK firm

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  • January 16, 2007 |

    GE names Curry as new corporate finance Euro GC

    GE Commercial Finance names Lorna Curry as general counsel for its European corporate finance arm.

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  • January 11, 2007 | International Edition

    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 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 |

    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 |

    Trophy private equity client calls in DLA Piper for £267m restaurant group deal

    DLA Piper's property team has secured a trophy private equity mandate after being instructed to act as UK counsel to buy-out giant Blackstone on its £267m acquisition of restaurant group Tragus.The national firm landed the mandate on the back of a referral and worked with the London arm of Blackstone's lead US corporate adviser, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

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  • January 10, 2007 | International Edition

    Former Linklaters IP head joins Howrey

    Former Linklaters IP head joins Howrey

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  • January 10, 2007 |

    Former Linklaters IP head joins Howrey

    Former Linklaters IP head joins Howrey

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