DWF snares DLA Piper corporate team following Glasgow closure

19-Jun-2013 | By Joshua Freedman

DWF is to take a team from DLA Piper following the latter’s wide-reaching restructuring, with a three-person corporate team in Edinburgh resigning to join the expansive firm.

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Dechert expands French corporate team with Orrick hires

13-Jun-2013 | By Joanne Harris

Dechert has recruited a duo of lawyers from Orrick Rambaud Martel, including partner Matthieu Grollemund, to boost its corporate team in Paris.

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Paul Hastings acts on bank sale proposal as Links, Slaughters wait on Lloyds calls

12-Jun-2013 | By Joshua Freedman

Paul Hastings’ London office has taken an advisory role for the corporate finance group behind a plan to distribute shares in RBS and Lloyds Banking Group to the public as part of the banks’ planned privatisations.

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A&O, Ashurst join US duo on £935m Vue cinema sale

10-Jun-2013 | By Hannah Gannagé-Stewart

Allen & Overy (A&O), Ashurst, Debevoise & Plimpton and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have advised on the sale of cinema operator Vue Entertainment

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Linklaters storms FTSE 100 as Norton Rose Fulbright, Slaughters pump up client lists

10-Jun-2013 | By Joshua Freedman

Linklaters and Kerman & Co are the big winners in the latest quarter’s rankings of law firms by number of listed clients, with the former’s FTSE 100 client count jumping by four to put it ahead of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.