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Giant - will size make Clydes and Barlows the future of insurance law?

The beginning of the end of 170 years of legal history happened on 15 March 2011, the day Barlow Lyde & Gilbert's highly-rated aviation team handed in its notice to move to Holman Fenwick Willan. Until that point, Barlows had looked as if it was finally turning the corner after nearly a decade dominated by partner departures, poor financials and management inertia to regroup around its core insurance practice, a business the firm had hopes of rapidly taking international.
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Freshfields, RPC and Gibson Dunn lead on property website merger deal

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) have taken advisory roles on the merger of property websites Zoopla, FindaProperty.com and Primelocation.com. RPC advised longstanding client Daily Mail and General Trust (DGMT), which owns FindaProperty.com and Primelocation.com, with a team led by corporate head Tim Anderson.
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Weil Gotshal and Wachtell among US firms on $38bn pipeline takeover

Weil Gotshal & Manges and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz are among a line-up of firms to have taken roles on US energy company Kinder Morgan's multibillion-dollar acquisition of El Paso Corporation, reports The Am Law Daily. Oil and gas pipeline company Kinder announced on Sunday (16 October) that it will pay $21.1bn (£13.4bn) to acquire its rival with an eye toward amassing the largest natural gas pipeline network in the US.
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Slaughters and Herbert Smith head up £5.2bn facilities takeover

Slaughter and May and Herbert Smith have won lead roles on one of this year's largest M&A deals - the £5.2bn purchase of Danish facilities outsourcing firm ISS by UK security group G4S. The acquisition is set to make the Crawley-based security services provider the world's largest combined security and facilities service provider, with revenues of around £15.9bn.
2 minute read

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Beachcroft and DAC put trainee recruitment on hold as firms prepare for merger

Beachcroft and Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) have frozen their trainee recruitment processes indefinitely as the duo gear up to complete their merger later this month. The firms have decided to delay their usual trainee recruitment activities until a decision has been made about how recruitment will operate at the combined firm, which is set to go live on 31 October.
2 minute read

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Linklaters takes top role for Lloyds on £1.5bn retail branch sale

Linklaters has won a role advising Lloyds Banking Group on the sale of 632 of its UK branches. The bank has been given until the end of 2013 to sell the branches by the European competition authorities and put the branches to auction earlier this year.
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International Edition

Taylor Wessing Brussels corporate chief leaves for K&L Gates

K&L Gates has bulked up its Brussels arm with the hire of Taylor Wessing's regional corporate head Jeroen Smets. Smets has joined the US firm after five years at Taylor Wessing, where he launched the firm's Brussels corporate practice. Prior to Taylor Wessing he was a senior associate at Ashurst.
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China's Jun He continues recent growth with Weil Gotshal hire

Leading Chinese firm Jun He Law Offices has bolstered its Beijing corporate practice with a hire from Weil Gotshal & Manges, marking the firm's fourth new partner addition since August. Jasson Han is set to rejoin Jun He as a partner, after leaving in 1993 to pursue a degree in commercial law. Since then, he has worked at Simmons & Simmons in London and Hong Kong, and then in Weil Gotshal's Beijing and Hong Kong offices as a partner-level senior consultant.
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Ashurst, Hogan and Travers act on acquisition of UK engineer

Ashurst, Hogan Lovells and Travers Smith have taken lead roles on the £124m acquisition of British engineering company Halcrow by US infrastructure company CH2M Hill. Ashurst advised Halcrow, fielding a team under global head of corporate Stephen Lloyd, who worked alongside employment partner Paul Randall and tax partner Richard Palmer. The deal marks Ashurst's first mandate for Halcrow –which has an annual turnover of around £500m.
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Norton Rose and Linklaters take roles on €700m BMW deal

Norton Rose and Linklaters have advised on BMW's €700m (£604m) acquisition of ING's car leasing and fleet management business. The deal, which received competition clearance last month, will see ING Car Lease become part of BMW's own multi-brand fleet management division, Alphabet, increasing its company car fleet to roughly 540,000, with operations across 16 countries in Europe.
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