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Skadden's London outpost picks up call from Nokia on Nortel acquisition

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom's London arm has advised as Nokia Siemens Networks picked up part of Nortel Network's business for $650m (£397m). London-based restructuring co-head Lynn Hiestand took the lead on the deal, which saw Nokia Siemens purchase Nortel's advanced wireless technology business, working alongside UK corporate partners Scott Simpson and Michal Berkner along with Simpson.
2 minute read

International Edition

Commentary: Who will worship in St Paul's new cathedral?

Where Mayer Brown was, initially at least, a union of a good-but-sleepy London firm with a good-but-sleepy US law firm with too much regard for its own status, the Florida-based Greenberg Traurig exudes entrepreneurialism and drive unencumbered by self-image or the weight of tradition.
5 minute read

International Edition

Commentary: A&O bets on the IP market – but will it go the distance?

It's not often you see magic circle firms turn to national players for lateral partner hires, but Allen & Overy (A&O) recently made an exception with the hire of intellectual property (IP) litigators Neville Cordell and Huw Evans from DLA Piper and Wragge & Co respectively. The most interesting thing about the pairing is not where the hires came from, but that a firm like A&O made them at all. Coming after a prolonged boom that saw many of the larger City firms' commitment to IP questioned while more lucrative corporate and finance work was on offer, the latest additions take A&O to six IP partners in London, three of whom will primarily focus on disputes.
3 minute read

Legal Week

Commentary: A&O bets on the IP market – but will it go the distance?

It's not often you see magic circle firms turn to national players for lateral partner hires, but Allen & Overy (A&O) recently made an exception with the hire of intellectual property (IP) litigators Neville Cordell and Huw Evans from DLA Piper and Wragge & Co respectively. The most interesting thing about the pairing is not where the hires came from, but that a firm like A&O made them at all. Coming after a prolonged boom that saw many of the larger City firms' commitment to IP questioned while more lucrative corporate and finance work was on offer, the latest additions take A&O to six IP partners in London, three of whom will primarily focus on disputes.
16 minute read

International Edition

Nabarro reappointed to top spot on £2bn Essex waste PFI project

Nabarro has been reappointed by two County Councils to advise on a £2bn waste management private finance initiative (PFI) project. The firm beat rivals including Walker Morris, Trowers & Hamlins, Bevan Brittan and Mills & Reeve to win the mandate from Essex County Council and Southend-on-Sea Borough Council. Details of the project's lenders are still to be confirmed.
2 minute read

International Edition

Dealmaker: John Bennett

BLP's unfailingly upbeat head of corporate on hiring Neville, selling Tottenham Hotspur and 'circling back'
3 minute read

International Edition

Travers takes lead role on Pinewood real estate and community project

Travers Smith is advising Pinewood Studios on planning matters as it creates a working community in Buckinghamshire. The City firm has been advising Pinewood on real estate, planning, environment and real estate management issues connected with the studio's plans to build a living and working community for the creative industry.
2 minute read

International Edition

Magic circle duo lead on £41bn mega-merger

Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won lead roles as mining giants Anglo American and Xstrata discuss a potential merger worth £41bn. Anglo-Swiss group Xstrata confirmed this week (21 June) that it had approached the board of Anglo American about a possible union.
2 minute read

International Edition

Linklaters and Freshfields lead on £41bn mining mega-merger

Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won lead roles as mining giants Anglo American and Xstrata discuss a potential merger worth £41bn. Anglo-Swiss group Xstrata confirmed yesterday (21 June) that it had approached the board of Anglo American about a possible union, describing a merger between the two as "highly compelling".
2 minute read

International Edition

Sidley Austin and Taylor Wessing take pole position in F1 dispute

Sidley Austin and Taylor Wessing are among a raft of top firms in line to win advisory roles on the ongoing Formula One crisis. Eight F1 teams - the overwhelming majority of participants in the competition - are threatening to break away and set up their own series as a result of a dispute with the motorsport's governing body, Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), over budget capping for 2010.
2 minute read

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