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  • October 10, 2007 |

    CC holds lead in key European M&A league as deal market slows in Q3

    Clifford Chance (CC) has retained its place at the top of the adviser rankings for European M&A for the third consecutive quarter.

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  • October 10, 2007 |

    Norton Rose to open eight-lawyer Tokyo practice by end of the year

    Norton Rose plans to have an eight-lawyer office operating in Tokyo by the end of the year following the London law firm's announcement last week that it will be launching in Japan.

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  • October 10, 2007 |

    Where Angel didn't fear to tread

    For a generation, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom stood alone globally among law firms in combining mammoth size with regal wealth. Well, move over, Joe Flom. With revenue of £1.121bn and profits per equity partner of £1.294m, Linklaters has surpassed Skadden on both measures. As managing partner Tony Angel's nine-year tenure draws to a close, Linklaters is both big and rich.

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  • October 10, 2007 |

    Legal Week Lunchbox: 11/10/07

    The five most popular articles on legalweek.com today; plus the pick of the day's posts and a new Career Clinic dilemma

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  • October 10, 2007 |

    Dishonesty by lots of other names

    If you know the terms of a contract and deliberately persuade someone else to break it, you can be held liable for the tort of inducing a breach of contract. …

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  • October 10, 2007 |

    A&O latest called in for Northern Rock saga

    Allen & Overy (A&O) is acting as Northern Rock's banking counsel, it has emerged, and advised on the embattled lender's latest agreement with the Bank of England yesterday (9 October). The firm is acting alongside magic circle rival Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, which is advising on corporate issues. Yesterday the Treasury announced that a guarantee to protect existing deposits will be extended to new deposits made after 19 September.

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  • October 9, 2007 |

    GE unveils new European corporate advisers

    General Electric (GE) has named five firms on its first-ever European M&A panel, handing out lucrative mandates to Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Slaughter & May, Allen & Overy and Ashurst. The quintet, which have all advised GE in the past, will look after its major transactional work in Europe after winning out in the latest plank of a sweeping review of the US company external legal advisers.

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  • October 9, 2007 | International Edition

    A&O scoops latest billion-pound M&A mandate

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has scored its second high-profile corporate instruction in two days, advising a JP Morgan-led consortium on its acquisition of Southern Water from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) worth £4.2bn. The JP Morgan consortium, which also includes Australia's Challenger Infrastructure Fund and Swiss bank UBS, beat a raft of other bidders, reportedly including Goldman Sachs, to win the auction for the water supplier.

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  • October 9, 2007 |

    A&O scoops latest billion-pound M&A mandate

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has scored its second high-profile corporate instruction in two days, advising a JP Morgan-led consortium on its acquisition of Southern Water from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) worth £4.2bn. The JP Morgan consortium, which also includes Australia's Challenger Infrastructure Fund and Swiss bank UBS, beat a raft of other bidders, reportedly including Goldman Sachs, to win the auction for the water supplier.

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  • October 8, 2007 |

    A&O leads raft of firms on €4.8bn SAP deal

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has advised Germany's SAP, the world's largest business management software producer, on its €4.8bn (£3.2bn) acquisition of Business Objects. New York corporate partners Eric Shube and Peter Harwich and finance partner Elizabeth Leckie worked alongside Frankfurt M&A partner Hans-Christoph Ihrig and tax partner Eugen Bogenschuetz on the deal.

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