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  • July 25, 2007 |

    Middle East presence gives A&O the edge in projects league table

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has emerged as leader of the latest global project finance league tables, ahead of its rivals by both value and volume for the first half of 2007.

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  • July 25, 2007 |

    A&O finance star Flanagan heads to Milan to rebuild firm's banking team

    One of Allen & Overy's (A&O's) top London finance partners is to relocate to the firm's troubled Milan office as the City giant moves to boost its UK banking capability in the region.

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  • July 25, 2007 |

    Germany: The Freshfields effect

    Freshfields' partnership shake-up means more than a flurry of CVs for recruiters - the effects of the firm's restructuring are being felt throughout Germany's main legal centres. James Illman reports

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  • July 25, 2007 |

    Deal Week Dispatch: 25/7/2007

    Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Allen & Overy, Dentons and Gibson Dunn among the deal-doers.

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  • July 23, 2007 |

    A&O takes lead role on record £2.6bn Metronet restructuring

    Allen & Overy (A&O) looks set for a fees windfall after landing the mandate to advise the administrator on the £2.6bn restructuring of struggling transport group Metronet.

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  • July 23, 2007 |

    Lovells, Norton Rose lead on Barclays' £2bn Asian sale

    Norton Rose and Lovells have become the latest firms to benefit from the £45bn merger bid between Barclays and ABN Amro, with the City firms each advising major Asian clients on more than £2bn worth of investment in the UK financial services giant. Norton Rose is acting for the China Development Bank and Lovells is representing Temasek, the investment arm of the Singapore Government, which have acquired stakes worth a combined £2.4bn in Barclays ahead of its planned takeover of ABN.

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  • July 20, 2007 |

    A&O tops H1 projects league for 2007

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has once again come out on top of the latest global project finance league tables, leading its rivals by value and volume for the first half of 2007. Research by Infrastructure Journal shows A&O on top after advising on 35 deals worth a combined $27.4bn (£13.4bn). Clifford Chance (CC) is in second place by value, with 24 deals worth $23.2bn (£11.3bn), while New York law firm Shearman & Sterling completes the top three by value after acting on deals worth $15.3bn (£7.5bn).

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  • July 19, 2007 |

    Big four secure world-beater status as top 50 breaks £10bn

    London's big four have secured their place among the emerging global elite after what will be seen as a breakthrough year for the UK's leading law firms.

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  • July 18, 2007 |

    Editor's Comment: End of road for PEP

    They've done it. The big gambles - defensive and offensive - that UK firms made a decade ago as the concept of a global legal market emerged have paid off handsomely. Obviously, that success is most unambiguously demonstrated by the big four, which as a group picked up pace during another 12 months of uniformly busy M&A and securities markets. The four alone clocked up £4.18bn in fees, equivalent to 40% of the entire UK top 50's income in 2006-07. It was, in short, an amazing year for them - in global terms, a breakthrough year. Forget talk of a leading six or seven firms, just four are moving on to another level and Allen & Overy has done fantastically well to put itself convincingly back into that group after a turbulent 2005-06.

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  • July 18, 2007 |

    Associate fears grow as firms stretch leverage

    The UK's top law firms are continuing to hike leverage to boost their partner profits, with results this year showing on average seven fee earners to every equity partner.

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