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  • April 23, 2007 |

    Winning the PR battle in the City pay war

    So when exactly was the starting gun fired on this year’s associate salary pay round? And which firm will emerge from the fray with the best publicity…

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  • April 23, 2007 |

    NY elites lead ABN's $21bn LaSalle sell-off

    Elite Manhattan firms Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Davis Polk & Wardwell have bagged plum roles on Bank of America's $21bn (£10.5bn) bid for ABN Amro subsidiary LaSalle Bank. Wachtell is representing the buyer, while Davis Polk picked up the lead role for ABN Amro on its sale of the Chicago-based bank.

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  • April 20, 2007 |

    2007 pay round: a Legal Week Wiki special

    As more City firms show their hands in the salary stakes, the Legal Week Wiki brings you the chance to post your views, pass on the latest gossip and help fill out our salary table.

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  • April 20, 2007 |

    A&O bags Macquarie role on £2bn comms deal

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has landed a high-profile corporate mandate advising two Macquarie infrastructure funds on their £1.9bn acquisition of UK public safety communications network Airwave 02 from Telefonica. The acquisition by Guardian Digital Communications, a company wholly owned by Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group and Macquarie European Investment Fund II, was announced yesterday and completed today (20 April).

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    Shell names 11-firm line-up for global mandates

    Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has overhauled its top-tier legal panel, awarding coveted places to 11 firms for international work.

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    Editor's Comment: Lipton service

    "All competitive instincts are outward rather than inward... the basic premise is that every associate will become a partner... the firm is not a business."

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    Linklaters edges ahead of A&O and CC with 16% salary boost

    Linklaters is to increase its associate salaries by around 16%, overtaking magic circle rivals Allen & Overy (A&O) and Clifford Chance (CC) as a pay war looks increasingly likely.

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    Rival ABN bid hands trophy roles to host of top firms

    A raft of European firms have secured new roles on the £40bn bidding war for Dutch bank ABN Amro.

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    Kirkland ups rates to match City firms

    Kirkland & Ellis has upped its charge-out rates across the firm - bringing its London arm in line with City firms.

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  • April 18, 2007 |

    French tax ruling clears way for LLP conversions

    UK firms including Ashurst, Norton Rose and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have had their path to limited liability partnership (LLP) eased after a breakthrough in the French tax treatment of UK LLPs.

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