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  • February 6, 2007 |

    A&O lands Liverpool FC takeover role

    Allen & Overy has won a lead role on the takeover of Liverpool Football Club by a pair of US investors. The magic circle firm is advising US-based sports entrepreneurs George Gillett and Tom Hicks on their acquisition through bid vehicle Kop Football. The club announced earlier today that its board had recommended the offer, which is worth more than £400m in total.

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  • February 6, 2007 |

    Magic circle duo land Dutch energy mega-merger

    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy (A&O) have scooped lead roles on the latest major merger deal in the European energy sector as Dutch utilities giants Essent and Nuon tie the knot in a €24bn (£16bn) deal. Freshfields is advising longstanding client Essent on the merger - the largest-ever M&A deal in the Netherlands - with Amsterdam-based corporate partner Steven Perrick and competition partner Winfred Knibbeler heading the team.

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  • February 5, 2007 |

    A&O tops 2006 capital markets league tables

    Allen & Overy (A&O) has topped the debt capital markets rankings for 2006 after advising on 693 deals worth a total value of $371.6bn (£189.1bn). The firm held onto its lead at the top of the table advising managers on European international debt issues, according to research compiled by Thomson Financial.

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  • February 2, 2007 | International Edition

    Linklaters confirms Davies as new chief

    Linklaters has formally confirmed Simon Davies as its new firm-wide managing partner, taking over from Tony Angel from 1 January, 2008. As exclusively revealed by legalweek.com (31 January), Asia managing partner Davies won the contest to take the coveted role after winning the backing of the City giant's international board ahead of rival candidate and capital markets chief Nick Eastwell.

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  • February 2, 2007 |

    Linklaters confirms Davies as new chief

    Linklaters has formally confirmed Simon Davies as its new firm-wide managing partner, taking over from Tony Angel from 1 January, 2008. As exclusively revealed by legalweek.com (31 January), Asia managing partner Davies won the contest to take the coveted role after winning the backing of the City giant's international board ahead of rival candidate and capital markets chief Nick Eastwell.

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  • February 2, 2007 |

    A&O adds associate to management team

    Allen & Overy has appointed an associate to attend its weekly management meetings, as the City giant continues with a series of measures to ease associate attrition rates. Two associates have been selected to attend board meetings over the next year. Employment, pensions and incentives lawyer Penny Caven will attend the meetings until June, with banking associate Graham Knight subsequently taking over from her until December.

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  • February 1, 2007 |

    Linklaters and Simmons ramp up capabilities on the Continent

    Linklaters and Simmons & Simmons have both taken steps to ramp up their European capabilities this week as international expansion remains high on the agenda for City firms.Linklaters has bolstered its fledgling Italian practice with the hire of Allen & Overy (A&O) finance specialist Davide Mencacci.

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  • February 1, 2007 |

    Magic circle duo follows Wall Street lead to match $160k pay benchmark

    Allen & Overy (A&O) and Clifford Chance (CC) have raised their US associate salaries to keep pace with the Manhattan pay war, with magic circle rivals Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters poised to follow.A&O and CC have announced they are raising salaries for first-year lawyers to the new benchmark of $160,000 (£81,000) and lifting rates across the board, with senior associates in line to pocket around $280,000 (£142,000).

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  • January 31, 2007 |

    A&O's party politics

    Those party animals at Allen & Overy (A&O) are at it again.Since moving into shiny new premises at Bishops Square in Spitalfields, the firm has gone into party overdrive, painting itself and the surrounding area quite literally red on decadent nights out for overseas staff, City workers and for clients.

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  • January 31, 2007 |

    Experts in the dock

    Anyone who instructs expert witnesses will have followed Meadow v General Medical Council (GMC) through the High Court and then the Court of Appeal with interest.The roots of the case lay in the conviction of Sally Clarke for the murder of her two children on the basis of, among other things, expert forensic evidence from Professor Sir Roy Meadow. Clarke's convictions were overturned on a second appeal because of a material non-disclosure by the Crown's pathologist. Questions were also raised about the reliability of Meadow's evidence. Clarke's father then made a complaint to the GMC alleging serious professional misconduct on Meadow's part. The GMC's Fitness to Practise Board concluded that he had been guilty of serious professional misconduct and erased him from the register.

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