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Bakers and Freshfields lead on Cargill's $2.1bn Provimi acquisition

Baker & McKenzie and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have taken lead roles on agribusiness giant Cargill's $2.1bn (£1.3bn) acquisition of Dutch company Provimi, reports the Am Law Daily.
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Slaughters scores role on Arsenal's Fabregas sale

Slaughter and May has won a role advising Arsenal Football Club on the high-profile sale of its captain Cesc Fabregas to FC Barcelona. The deal, which could be worth up to £35m, concludes one of the most protracted departures from a British premiership club, with Barcelona attempting to buy the Spanish national team star for several consecutive seasons without reaching a deal.
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Cleary and Wachtell lead on Google's $12.5bn Motorola acquisition

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton lawyers have helped guide Google towards completing the largest acquisition in the company's history—the $12.5bn (£7.6bn) acquisition of mobile-device maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc, writes the AmLaw Daily. In buying the Illinois–based handset manufacturer, Google—whose Android operating system is used in many Motorola devices—will assume control of one of the mobile industry's strongest patent portfolios, company executives said.
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Trio of US firms advise on HSBC's $2.6bn sale of credit card business

A trio of elite US firms have taken roles on HSBC's $2.6bn (£1.6bn) sell-off of its US credit card business, reports The Am Law Daily. The sale of the US credit card unit to Capital One Financial will allow HSBC to sharpen its focus on developing a stronger international operation, the bank said in a statement.
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Kirkland adds eight partners in Hong Kong with Skadden, Latham and A&O hires

Kirkland & Ellis has significantly bulked up its Asia arm with the hire of seven partners from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Latham & Watkins and Allen & Overy (A&O). Skadden Asia corporate co-heads Nicholas Norris and Dominic Tsun resigned from Skadden last Friday (5 August) to join Kirkland alongside corporate partner Li-Chien Wong. Norris has been at Skadden since 2005, when he joined from Simmons & Simmons, where he was the UK firm's Asia corporate head.
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K&L Gates sues former Hong Kong partner charged with forgery

A former corporate partner in K&L Gates's Hong Kong office is being sued by the firm after being arrested on charges of theft and forgery over the transfer of funds to a casino company in Macau, reports the Am Law Daily. Navin Kumar Aggarwal, who ceased to be a partner at K&L Gates on 11 June, is accused of stealing roughly $2m (£1.2m) from the accounts of RIM China and moving the funds to Wynn International Marketing last year.
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Norton Rose to lose quartet of Middle East partners to US firms

Norton Rose is set to see a four-partner walkout from its Middle East practice, with regional managing partner Campbell Steedman among those set to leave the firm.Steedman, a Dubai-based corporate partner, is set to join White & Case...
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Career Clinic: What can I do to line up a job at a bigger and better firm?

"I recently started a training contract at a smallish London firm; it's not a 'name', so to speak, but the quality of work it does isn't bad and it has some decent clients. Over the course of the TC I would hope to spend some time doing some corporate/commercial work in addition to commercial property.
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BLG-Clydes tie-up to take Clyde & Co name; 15% of Barlows partners to go

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert and Clyde & Co have approved the largest-ever merger between two UK law firms, with the combined firm to operate under the Clyde & Co banner when it launches later this year. As Legal Week went to press, partners were set to formally sign the merger agreement yesterday (3 August), with the union set to go live on 1 November.
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The talented Mr Baldock - BG Group legal head Graham Vinter on an eventful career

Caroline Hill finds out how BG Group's enigmatic GC Graham Vinter escaped his humble Chichester upbringing to be headhunted for the top legal role at a FTSE oil giant
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