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Ben joined Legal Week from the Press Association in 2005 and has since held a number of roles including news editor, online managing editor, production editor and bassist in Legal Week's in-house covers band The Scoops.
March 26, 2012 |
Dewey & LeBoeuf has lost six more partners, as senior lawyers continue to leave the embattled firm, reports The Am Law Daily. The latest exits include John Pruitt and Cynthia Shoss, the New York–based co-heads of the firm's insurance regulatory practice, and Jeffrey Mace, the head of the firm's Lloyd's of London and Lloyd's Market practice.
By Ben Wheway
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March 22, 2012 |
"It is important to accept the possibility that our government may try to restrict our human rights. Secret justice, abolition of jury trials, reducing access to justice; these are not figments of an Orwellian dystopia, they are a very real actuality..."
By Ben Wheway
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March 21, 2012 |
Linklaters and Ashurst are among a raft of firms taking roles on Glencore International's $6.2bn (£3.9bn) purchase of Viterra, Canada's largest grain-handler, reports The Am Law Daily. Glencore has turned to Linklaters for legal advice in Europe and Asia, with King & Wood Mallesons handling Australian aspects of the deal for the commodities trading giant.
By Ben Wheway
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March 20, 2012 |
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy (A&O) have secured lead roles on United Parcel Service's (UPS's) €5.2bn (£4.3bn) bid for Dutch shipping company TNT Express, writes The Am Law Daily. The agreed deal looks set to qualify as the largest acquisition in UPS's 105-year history, greatly expanding the Atlanta-based logistics giant's market share in Europe and providing inroads into China. If approved, the merger will create a logistics company with combined global revenues of around $60bn (£38bn).
By Ben Wheway
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March 19, 2012 |
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom's London office has taken a role on Cisco Systems' $5bn (£3.1bn) purchase of video software company NDS Group from News Corp and private equity house Permira, reports The Am Law Daily. London-based NDS, which makes software used in the delivery of digital media to TV, computers and mobile devices, has turned to Skadden for advice on the deal.
By Ben Wheway
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March 19, 2012 |
Two firms have recently received far more press attention than, one suspects, they counted on or quite know how to cope with: our own industry's Dewey & LeBoeuf, and of course the iconic (good and bad sense) Goldman Sachs...
By Ben Wheway
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March 18, 2012 |
Dewey & LeBoeuf, which has already lost at least 18 partners in the first two months of the year, has now lost its core insurance sector transactional team to Willkie Farr & Gallagher, reports The Am Law Daily. The departures include London partners Joseph Ferraro and Nicholas Bugler, as well as three practice leaders in New York - Michael Groll, co-chair of the firm's insurance sector group; John Schwolsky, co-chair of the corporate finance practice group; and Alexander Dye, chair of the firm's US M&A practice.
By Ben Wheway
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March 15, 2012 |
"We're aiming to get this signed by the end of the month" - we're expecting you to give in on everything... Thirty of the most commonly used phrases in contract negotiations, matched with their true meanings
By Ben Wheway
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March 11, 2012 |
A quartet of elite New York law firms saw revenues grow last year, as details of the 2011 financial performance of America's top firms continue to emerge, reports The Am Law Daily. The biggest of the four, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, saw revenue increase 3% to $2.17bn (£1.38bn), while profits per partner (PEP) rose 7% to $2.48m (£1.58m).
By Ben Wheway
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March 9, 2012 |
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has made a notable hire for its London office with the addition of former Stephenson Harwood chief executive Sunil Gadhia. Gadhia, a commercial litigator, has spent his entire career at the UK firm, joining as a trainee in 1988 and making partner in 1997.
By Ben Wheway
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