Mergers & Acquisitions

Field Fisher signs up Addleshaws corporate partner

By Mark Goddard | May 29, 2009

Field Fisher Waterhouse has made its fifth lateral hire this year with the recruitment of a corporate partner from Addleshaw Goddard.

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Cravath takes top role on AOL-Time Warner split

By Mark Goddard | May 29, 2009

Cravath Swaine & Moore has taken the lead role on Time Warner's split from AOL, signalling the end of a $124bn (£77bn) tie-up that in 2000 was the biggest deal ever

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Canada: Canada's sisters in law

By Mark Goddard | May 27, 2009

Falling in the shadow of the vast North American market, it would be fair to say that the Canadian legal market does not typically generate much foreign press coverage. Major US firms take little heed of their conservative Canadian neighbours, while scant attention is paid by the UK and European legal industries.

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WilmerHale hits Frankfurt with Mayer Brown hires

By Ben Wheway | November 14, 2008

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr has secured a Frankfurt launch with the hire of four high-profile partners from Mayer Brown, including two practice group heads. The firm has recruited Mayer Brown's co-head of corporate Ruediger Herrmann, intellectual property (IP) head Reinhart Lange, litigation partner Christofer Eggers and regulatory partner Hans-Georg Kamann and will also relocate Berlin corporate partner Christian Crones for the office launch.The new office will focus on corporate, IP, litigation and antitrust in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, energy and cleantech sectors.

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The firm that came in from the cold

By Legal Week | November 29, 2007

Dimitry Afanasiev would like to get a few things straight. Russian president Vladimir Putin is not a dictator and not everyone with money in Russia is a crook. Fed up with what he sees as the West's - and in particular America's - media bias against Russia, the 38-year-old managing partner of Moscow's fast-rising Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners becomes animated.

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Government names record 48 firms on super-panel

By Ben Wheway | June 12, 2007

A record 48 firms have bagged places on the Government's legal panel, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) announced today (12 June). The OGC estimates the contracts will be worth a total of around £240m over the next four years.

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International Edition

Olswang closes deal double as Halabi shakes up portfolio

By Ben Wheway | November 29, 2006

Roles on City property refinancing and Esporta purchase mark good week for Olswang

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Olswang closes deal double as Halabi shakes up portfolio

By Ben Wheway | November 29, 2006

Roles on City property refinancing and Esporta purchase mark good week for Olswang

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A&O and Weil Gotshal take the United Biscuits auction

By Ben Wheway | August 30, 2006

Billion-pound food auction attracts advisers as NY duo lands Hanson bond mandate

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International Edition

A&O and Weil Gotshal take the United Biscuits auction

By Ben Wheway | August 30, 2006

Billion-pound food auction attracts advisers as NY duo lands Hanson bond mandate

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