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EUROPE TOP STORIES
Bonelli names new joint managing partners in top-level overhaul
Bonelli Erede Pappalardo has appointed a new management team as part of a wider governance overhaul which has seen the top Italian law firm split its managing partner role into two. H...
22 May 2013 | 12:17
Brick Court secures global mediation capacity
Brick Court Chambers has secured its first major international mediation capacity through an alliance with leading New Zealand medi...
17 May 2013 | 00:00 | 
Ashurst leads on Commerzbank's £4bn real estate loan portfolio sale
Ashurst has picked up a lead role advising on the potential £4bn sale of a portfolio of UK property loans by Germany’s Commerzba...
17 May 2013 | 00:00 |
NEWS
- CC and Linklaters lead as BP and Shell face price fixing investigation
- Garrigues pulls plug on LatAm alliance and targets local expansion
- Magic circle trio among host of global firms to land spots on Deutsche Bank's domestic panel
- London partnership prospects sink as promotions at UK top 30 drop by 17%
- Latham hires four-partner Shearman team for Duesseldorf launch
- Shearman Brussels chief leaves for Dechert in wake of Germany office closures
- Eversheds votes in Ireland chief as new international chairman
HIGHLIGHTS
Singapore's legal market is liberalising and, with it, the competition keeps flying in, as Elizabeth Broomhall reports...
Kent County Council's Geoff Wild - the British Legal Awards GC of the Year - on how he transformed his legal team...
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A global guide to inbound acquisitions and tax
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Structured capital markets: in-depth analysis of recent developments
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Cyprus update: enforcement of restrictive measures on transactions
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The long march: final hurdle cleared in Glencore’s takeover of Xstrata
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Leasing and outsourcing in the light of Basel III
ANALYSIS, OPINION AND INTERVIEWS
Breaking the deadlock – can Russia and Cyprus' business partnership survive the island's banking crisis?
The Cypriot banking crisis in March caused plenty of headaches for Russian businesses. It is no secret that Russian businessmen hold a significant amount of funds in accounts with Cypriot banks. Historically, the island has been the most popular j...
17 May 2013 | 00:00 |
Bureaucratic Russia still enticing investors as growth defies more mature economies
The Russian economy has been growing rapidly throughout most of the 21st century. Until 2008, the country's GDP grew by 7% annually. The latest reports suggest that in the second part of 2012 economic growth slowed, and, while more muted growth is pre...
17 May 2013 | 00:00 |
In depth: CEE and Russia
Growing harmonisation, a blurring of the lines between local and international firms, and the impact of the Cypriot banking crisis are all major topics explored in this week's special features on CEE and Russia
17 May 2013 | 00:00 |
Differences dissolved – the diminishing divide between local and global firms in CEE
The differences are dissolving. When the Berlin Wall fell, Europe's western and eastern halves barely knew each other and doing business across this divide was problematic. Today, eastern Europe's EU members have relatively harmonised legal systems ...
17 May 2013 | 00:00 |
Cautious optimism reigns across industry as partners hope for economic bounceback
As the number of firms announcing redundancy consultations this week continued to rise – with news of widespread cuts at Berwin Leighton Paisner – new research from Legal Week has found a surprising degree of business confidence among partners in ...
17 May 2013 | 00:00 |
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Top deals for April 2013: global and UK
A comprehensive overview of the best deals from April, featuring mandates for Linklaters, Eversheds and Allen & Overy
10 May 2013 | 00:02 |
Snapshot of the industry - Legal Week Law's top downloads in numbers
Jon Levene rounds up an action-packed three months since the beginning of 2013 with an overview of the best of Legal Week Law
26 Apr 2013 | 00:00 |
Consistency is key so pan-Europe patent court does not raise as many issues as it solves
After decades of false starts, European patent litigation is now set to enter the brave new world of the Unified Patent Court (UPC). The UPC has been born from a commendable desire to reduce the cost of European patent coverage, simplify the complex w...
26 Apr 2013 | 00:00 |
A rising tide – the latest US and European initiatives to tackle cyber crime
Cyber security is grabbing the headlines, and it is easy to see why. The figures are startling. Reports indicate that cyber crime costs the UK economy up to £27bn each year, with the worldwide annual cost reaching around $388bn (£253bn). As mobile d...
19 Apr 2013 | 00:00 |
M&A adviser rankings: Q1 2013
The top M&A deals by region from the past three months of 2013, featuring Davis Polk & Wardwell, DLA Piper and Latham & Watkins
12 Apr 2013 | 00:00 |
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