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A&O strengthens Paris office with hire of six-strong CC team

Allen & Overy (A&O) has boosted its Paris office with the hire of a six-lawyer team from Clifford Chance (CC). The team is led by Marcus Billam, who has been a partner with CC since 2000. He joins A&O along with counsel Frederic Jungels, senior consultant Catherine Maison-Blanche and three associates.
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DLA Piper wins lead adviser role for student loans provider

DLA Piper's Edinburgh office has won the Student Loans Company (SLC) as a new client. The three-year contract as SLC's primary adviser will see DLA work with the company's in-house legal team on matters including litigation, debt recovery, data protection, corporate and commercial property.
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Shearman seals Hong Kong boost with hire of corporate partner duo

Shearman & Sterling has boosted its Hong Kong law capacity with the hire of two partners from O'Melveny & Myers in the region. O'Melveny's Hong Kong corporate head Colin Law and corporate partner Peter Chen have left to set up a local law firm, which will be incorporated into Shearman's Hong Kong office subject to regulatory approval.
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Milbank seals hire of corporate partner from Slaughters' German ally

Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has boosted its Munich office with the hire of a partner from Slaughter and May's German ally Hengeler Mueller. Corporate partner Wolfgang Grobecker joined the US firm's 36-lawyer German practice last week (1 January), after leaving Hengeler at the end of last year.
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A&O takes headline role alongside US trio on $28bn Novartis deal

Allen & Overy (A&O) has advised pharma giant Novartis on its $28bn (£17.4bn) acquisition of a majority stake in Alcon, the world's largest eye-care company, reports The Am Law Daily. The deal is the second stage of a larger transaction originally struck in spring 2008, when Novartis purchased a 25% stake in Alcon for $10.4bn (£6.5bn), handing the company an option to purchase the 52% of the company owned by Nestle.
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Weil Gotshal and Skadden lead on $1.9bn Sanofi-Aventis buyout

Weil Gotshal & Manges and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have taken lead roles on Sanofi-Aventis's $1.9bn (£1.2bn) purchase of consumer care products company Chattem, reports The Am Law Daily. The acquisition, set to create the fifth-largest consumer products company in the world, will give the French pharmaceutical company a toehold in the over-the-counter drugs market.
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Weil heads up quartet of firms on $2.4bn amusement park buyout

Four US firms have taken taken roles on the $2.4bn (£1.5bn) buyout of amusement park owner Cedar Fair by an affiliate of private equity firm Apollo Global Management, reports The Am Law Daily. Weil Gotshal & Manges and Squire Sanders & Dempsey advised Cedar Fair, which operates some of the tallest and fastest rollercoasters in the US.
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Freshfields appoints new heads of City banking and Asia finance

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has appointed a new head of banking in the City, as the firm bulks up its Asia practice with the addition of three new partners. The magic circle firm has named finance partner David Trott to head up its City banking practice. Trott, who has been a partner at the firm since 1997, takes up his new role immediately.
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Lovells to enter global top 10 after securing Hogan merger vote

Lovells is to forge a transatlantic giant with US firm Hogan & Hartson after securing a partner vote backing the high-stakes merger. The close of voting today (15 December) clears the way for the two firms to unite as Hogan Lovells from 1 May, creating a top 10 global practice with 2,500 lawyers and revenues of around $1.8bn (£1.1bn).
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Dewey makes up six to partnership as London misses out

Dewey & LeBoeuf has left London out of its latest promotions round, with the firm making up six new partners. The lion's share of the promotions come in the US firm's New York office, which receives four new partners, with the other two promotions coming in Hong Kong and Milan.
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