Slaughters advises on another Arsenal transfer
Arsenal Football Club has turned to Slaughter and May once again for the transfer of midfield player Samir Nasri to Manchester City.
Samir Nasri
The north London club hired corporate partner Andrew Jolly, the same lawyer it instructed to advise on captain Cesc Fàbregas’ move to Spanish side Barcelona, which was confirmed last week (16 August 2011).
Manchester City was advised in-house by legal counsel Nick Carter, who is part of a team headed by general counsel Simon Cliff, a former associate at Shearman & Sterling, one of the club’s main advisers.
While at the US firm, Cliff was seconded to Abu Dhabi United Group, the company owned by Sheikh Mansour, who acquired Manchester City in 2008, and joined the club in April 2009 (11 May 2009).
Reports of an agreement over the Nasri deal, thought to be worth £25m to Arsenal, emerged this afternoon.
Jolly, an Everton fan, has advised Arsenal on a raft of player transfers, including striker Thierry Henry’s move to Barcelona in 2007 and the transfer of Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Touré to Manchester City in 2009.
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Arsenal for life | 23-Aug-2011 5:04 pm
(History Lesson!!!)
2 decades ago... Newcastle consolidated their place in Division One but then a period of selling their best players (Beardsley to Liverpool, and Waddle and Gazza both to Tottenham), rocked the club and led to supporter unrest, as did a share-war for control of the boardroom. The effect of this on the pitch soon proved evident, as McFaul was sacked after a shaky start to the 1988-89 season, and new boss Jim Smith proved unable to turn Newcastle around, resulting in them finishing at the foot of the first division for the first time ever.
courtesy of wikipedia
history only repeats itself so much for the future!!!
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mcfc for ever | 23-Aug-2011 7:51 pm
arsenal 0 LIVERPOOL 2
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Jon | 23-Aug-2011 8:06 pm
The arsenal board are nothing more than leeches living off a profitable business which used to be a fantastic football club. The manager is about to walk as the board refuse to allow him to buy decent players but are happy to fleece hard working supporters of money for over priced tickets and merchandise.
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ForceMajeureCity | 23-Aug-2011 8:31 pm
Is it not bad for the image of a firm as glamourous as Slaughter and May to be associated with a "feeder club" minnow such as Arsenal who constantly bow to the world superpower that is Manchester City Football Club??
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Boiled Ham | 24-Aug-2011 10:53 am
This could also have been handled by former West Ham Chief Executive Scott Duxbury, now a Partner at Rix & Kay.
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Scep Tick | 24-Aug-2011 11:38 am
Boiled Ham's post has two of the six post-war England player surnames with an x in them.
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Janet Jobling | 24-Aug-2011 11:54 am
Boiled Ham - I have been following Scott Duxbury's career with interest myself and was delighted to see him appointed partner at Uckfield's pre-eminent law firm
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Boiled Ham | 24-Aug-2011 5:55 pm
@Janet Jobling - I think Dawson Hart may have something to say about the pre-eminence of Rix & Kay. You cannot assume just because legal fromage-grand Duxbury has joined them that they necessarily "best" their competition
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C Synnott | 25-Aug-2011 11:08 am
Am I the only one not to have heard of Scott?
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Anonymous | 25-Aug-2011 8:19 pm
At least if he doesn't make it in the law he can have a bloody good stab at the next Joker in the Batman franchise.....scary pic on website!
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