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Hammonds wins lead role on £280m private equity buyout

Hammonds took a leading role advising on the sale of survival equipment maker Survitec Group to US private equity firm Warburg Pincus for nearly £280m. The national firm advised longstanding private equity client Montagu on its £274m disposal of the company, which focuses on serving the marine, military, aerospace and homeland security markets, to buyout house Warburg Pincus.
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Latham seals hire of thirteenth White & Case partner with Doha hire

White & Case has lost its 13th partner to Latham & Watkins, with Doha-based M&A specialist Andrew Macklin becoming the latest to switch between the two firms. Macklin, who made partner at White & Case in January 2009 after joining the firm in 2005, relocated to Doha in October last year to head up the US firm's new office in the region.
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Herbert Smith names corporate and finance heads in top-level shake-up

Herbert Smith has elected James Palmer and Malcolm Hitching as its new global heads of corporate and finance respectively. Palmer, who stood uncontested, will replace Michael Walter, who has held the corporate role since 2005.
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Leadership roles in play at Linklaters and Freshfields

Two of the City's leading law firms are preparing for a number of top-level changes, with Linklaters' global corporate head role and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's senior partner, managing partner and chief executive positions to be decided this year. Linklaters corporate chief David Barnes is to step down in April after five years in the role, with the magic circle firm expected to make a decision on his successor in the spring.
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Taylor Wessing creates new group head role to bolster India practice

Taylor Wessing has appointed its first India group head in a bid to increase its focus on the emerging market. The firm, which already had an India desk but no dedicated leader for the group, said it has taken the step as part of a refreshed strategy to increase its focus on the growing opportunities for business in and out of India.
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Protracted Shadbolt talks end in a tidy acquisition for Clydes

It took some time to get there, and it didn't pan out as initially expected, but the conclusion to the merger talks between Clyde & Co and Shadbolt appears to be a good result for the London-based insurance firm. Talks between the two started over a year ago after the construction boutique completed a strategic review of its business. The retirement of high-profile name partner Dick Shadbolt in 2008 left the firm without a clear-cut strategy and struggling to maintain its financial performance, according to a variety of partners familiar with the firm. With 18 partners spread across its offices in London, Guildford, Reigate and Paris, Shadbolt was struggling to adopt its focus of handling corporate and projects work for UK subcontractors to an increasingly international construction market.
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Hogan Lovells names global heads for five core practices

Lovells and Hogan & Hartson have finalised the leadership line-up for the merged firm's five core practice areas. Hogan Lovells will have two leaders - one in the US and one in Europe - for its corporate, finance and disputes practices, while the remaining two streams - government and regulation and intellectual property (IP) - will have a single chief.
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On the fiddle

Music has always been a big part of my life. I started learning the piano and the violin at primary school, but my road to Damascus moment happened after arriving at secondary school and discovering traditional fiddle music. To begin with, I played with some of the big fiddle orchestras and fiddlers' rallies all over Scotland. In 1978, at the ripe old age of 15, I went to a residential fiddle course at the University of Stirling, which changed my life. While these courses are now extremely popular and held all over the world, this was the first fiddle course of its kind. It introduced me to the incredible variety of fiddle music encompassed in the Scottish tradition.
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DLA, CC and Travers win roles on £440m outsourcing company buyout

A raft of firms have landed roles on the £440m buyout of legal process outsourcing company CPA Global by private equity investor Intermediate Capital Group (ICG). DLA Piper advised CPA on the deal with a team led by UK corporate chief David Raff, alongside London corporate partner Kiran Sharma.
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Simpson Thacher wins lead role on KKR's £955m Pets at Home purchase

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Travers Smith and DLA Piper have lined up on the sale of Pets at Home for almost £1bn, in the latest deal signalling a resurgence in the private equity sector. Simpson Thacher took the lead role for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR), which won the high-profile auction to purchase the pet supplies chain from Bridgepoint Capital with a bid of £955m.
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