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  • January 25, 2007 |

    Top trio dominate latest projects rankings

    Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and Linklaters have been ranked top of project finance league tables announced this week.According to Dealogic tables for legal advisers on 2006 global project finance deals, the three firms finished top after advising on a combined total of 139 transactions.

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    Dentons and Addleshaws adopt liability caps as standard

    Denton Wilde Sapte and Addleshaw Goddard lead a growing number of top UK firms capping their liability on individual deals, with many City practices now seeking to agree such terms as a matter of course.

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    Dechert partner takes communications role

    Dechert telecoms partner Chris Watson has been appointed to the board of the International Bar Association's communications law committee. Watson joined the US firm's London office last year from Allen & Overy. He is a member of the firm's competition practice.

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    Barlows raids A&O and Latham & Watkins

    Barlow Lyde & Gilbert has hired Latham & Watkins commercial and technology associate Andrew Giverin and Allen & Overy commercial litigation associate Maurice Kenton to join the firm as partners. Giverin joins in the wake of the resignation of a four-partner outsourcing team which quit Barlows for Bird & Bird late last year. He specialises in the IT and financial services sectors. Kenton specialises in Lloyds and international markets and insurance disputes.

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    Trio ride projects boom as infra goldrush fires market

    Clifford Chance (CC), Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters have ridden the wave of surging infrastructure investment in 2006 to dominate the top end of the global project finance market.Research from Infrastructure Journal shows the three City firms dominating the global rankings for project finance in 2006, with CC topping the table after closing 34 deals with a combined value of $43.9bn (£22.3bn).

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  • January 25, 2007 |

    City leaders take tougher stance on mandate risk management

    City leaders extend use of liability caps as legal profession follows in the footsteps of banks and accountants with controversial risk management tactics. Caroline Grimshaw reports on the results of the latest Big Question survey

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  • January 24, 2007 |

    Simmons and A&O take lead roles on £1bn retail centre refinancing

    Simmons & Simmons and Allen & Overy (A&O) have advised on a major £1bn refinancing of the Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield.Simmons banking partner John Davies advised British Land as the UK property investment company put in place a new finance structure that will permit £1.015bn of debt to be issued.

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  • January 24, 2007 |

    Two more partners quit embattled Milberg

    Embattled class action giant Milberg Weiss & Bershad has seen two more partners leave the firm, in the latest in a long line of departures over the last nine months.

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  • January 23, 2007 |

    Magic circle reticence on capping is a real liability

    For once it seems that the magic circle is trailing the rest of the UK top 50. London's five elite firms are refusing to take the initiative on the issue…

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  • January 23, 2007 |

    Barlows lands Gide aviation specialist McGilchrist

    Barlow Lyde & Gilbert has boosted its aviation insurance and litigation practice with the hire of Neil McGilchrist from Gide Loyrette Nouel.

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