Leveraged finance, bank lending, structured debt finance and capital markets, restructuring and insolvency law
Cleary lands latest citi equity offering
Addleshaws acts on A&O landlords loan
Clifford Chance shores up Far East
Magic circle flies in for syndicated loan talks
A&O elects joint banking heads
A&O appoints new banking chiefs
Rocking the boat
12-May-2007The Northern Rock affair has called the UK's principles-based approach to financial services regulation into question, while the same could be said for the FSA's position as sole regulator.
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Why pay off your debt when it's cheaper to owe it to yourself?
14-April-2007US and UK lawyers are divided over the legitimacy of loan buybacks
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Finance and global reach key as magic circle seeks inroads into US
07-April-2007Cracking the US legal market has been one of the toughest challenges faced by the UK's magic circle.
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Freshfields and White & Case: Outside influence
31-March-2007Banking partners Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz are no strangers to building a business from scratch. But can they help Freshfields catch up with the rest of the magic circle?
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No bank deals in the UK? Try a slice of Turkey
31-March-2007Times are tough in the private equity arena. According to some, the world is now facing the very real prospect of financial meltdown and, in the mainstream markets at least, liquidity is nowhere to be had.
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Magic circle moves into middle lane as banking bubble bursts
24-March-2007Despite, or perhaps even because of, the rocky trading conditions, 2007 will be remembered as a banner year for the top US law firms - as The Lawyer's exclusive research reveals.
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Magic circle moves into middle lane as banking bubble bursts
04-Feb-2007At The Lawyer's Hot 100 party, held at the Royal Exchange last month, a group of leveraged finance lawyers were standing at the bar ruefully exchanging experiences. Read more »
Nabarro and White & Case win coveted hedge fund roles on Northern Rock
03-Dec-2007Nabarro and White & Case have found themselves holding key roles in the battle for Northern Rock.
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Linklaters trumpets new IT tool - but does the City really care?
29-Oct-2007Linklaters recently launched its latest IT offering, the Leveraged Term Sheet Generator (LTSG). But will reducing loan documentation time be a key factor for the firms' clients?
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Where have all the derivatives specialists gone?
01-Oct-2007Despite being a growing area of City work, derivatives still holds limited appeal for trainees. This is because derivatives are extremely complicated and technical financial instruments.
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Uncertain times call for certain measures
10-Sept-2007Financial markets have been in turmoil over the past seven weeks. The one common theme to emerge is that nobody quite feels yet, with any certainty, that they know how things will shake out.
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Rocking the boat
12-May-2008The Northern Rock affair has called the UK's principles-based approach to financial services regulation into question, while the same could be said for the FSA's position as sole regulator.
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The untouchables
21-Apr-2008 Economists and bankers expect the Italian credit system to remain largely unaffected by the global credit crunch.
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No bank deals in the UK? Try a slice of Turkey
31-Mar-2008Clifford Chance and Cleary are already looking at the Turkish
market
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Jumbos jettisoned
10-Mar-2008The day of the jumbo leveraged deal is over for now, with fund investors that previously invested in the leveraged loan markets still unable to get funding from the short-term debt markets.
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Little trouble in big China
10-Mar-2008 So far China's economy, exporting industries and foreign investors' businesses have been only marginally affected by the ongoing US sub-prime crisis. This is partly due to China's rigid foreign exchange policies and restrictions on capital moving free...
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The rogue to ruin
10-Mar-2008The shocking news that Société Générale lost an estimated e4.9bn (£3.75bn) from unauthorised derivatives transactions executed by junior trader Jérôme Kerviel in Paris has provoked a review of regulation to guard against the repetition of such an episode.
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