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A lot of Wiki this way comes
8/01/2008
If New Year is the time to get reflective, it’s also the time for Legal Week to think about our website, legalweek.com, which was comprehensively overhauled this time last year. I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that it was...Cravath peers out a little further beyond Manhattan
11/01/2008
New York’s Cravath Swaine & Moore has never been known for aggressive overseas expansion. Among its closest New York rivals, only Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz has been more conservative about venturing away from its Big Apple roots. So when...European M&A: And then there were four (plus Cleary)
14/01/2008
Unfortunately for pundits, the Legal Week/Mergermarket primary adviser table, which tracks advisers with lead M&A roles on Europe’s top corporate deals, is another reminder that the back-of-the-envelope predictions about the legal profession in the mid-1990s were, in the main, boringly...Let’s get some perspective on the doom-filled kitchen sink
16/01/2008
Having said that I was going to give the crystal ball-gazing a miss, a fresh round of melodramatic headlines in today’s papers regarding the impending economic collapse has prompted me to swiftly break that New Year’s resolution.And what grim reading...A disarming new head to lead Slaughters
17/01/2008
There has been no shortage of praise for Slaughter and May’s newly-elected senior partner, Chris Saul, this afternoon, following the announcement he is to replace Tim Clark at the helm of the magic circle firm.The compliments centre both on his...Source for the goose…
22/01/2008
Last Tuesday (15 January) we received a call from a law firm with an unusual announcement regarding the resignation of one of its partners. What made this strange was that it related to claims of substantive professional short-comings on the...Only read this blog if you’re really into private equity…
25/01/2008
Sometimes it’s nice to jump outside the legal goldfish bowl. One such occasion occurred recently when I was asked to speak at a conference on Sir David Walker’s disclosure code for private equity, which provided a fascinating insight into one...