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GDF Suez appoints firms to first global legal panel
GDF Suez has appointed a trio of firms to its inaugural global legal panel in the wake of its £5bn reverse takeover of electricity generator International Power last summer. Linklate...
20 Jan 2012 | 00:00 | 
Bakers wins Europe adviser role for telecoms company Colt
Baker & McKenzie has been selected as FTSE 250 telecoms company Colt’s preferred legal adviser for commercial work following a...
20 Jan 2012 | 00:00
HSBC names new chief legal officer
HSBC has appointed a new chief legal officer ahead of the impending retirement of its managing director and general counsel, Richar...
17 Jan 2012 | 12:31
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- Online trading company LCG recruits former Slaughters lawyer as first-ever GC
- Morgan Stanley and News Corp confirm new top in-house lawyers
- News Corporation in talks to recruit US litigator as new legal chief
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ANALYSIS
Going postal - Slaughters partner Jeff Triggs on filling in at the Royal Mail
When Royal Mail needed to an interim GC after the departure of Doug Evans, it looked no further than its external adviser. Caroline Hill talks to Jeff Triggs about the challenges of being a stand-in general counsel
27 Jan 2012 | 00:00 |
The enlightened GC - turning risk avoidance into competitive advantage
Bond Pearce’s Nathan Peacey and Jon Cooper on how GCs can turn risk avoidance to competitive advantage
20 Jan 2012 | 00:00 |
Endangered species - the rise and fall of the elite investment bank lawyer
"From 1997 to 2007 the scale of hiring was phenomenal and the number of lawyers at top investment banks increased tenfold. City law firms were bled of expensive talent" - Scott Gibson charts the rise and fall of the elite investment bank lawyer...
20 Jan 2012 | 00:00 |
INTERVIEWS AND PROFILES
The Cadbury hero - Hank Udow on his new role at Reed Elsevier and the epic Cadbury takeover
Ex-Cadbury GC Hank Udow tells Friederike Heine how his legal team coped with Kraft’s takeover
17 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
More connected - BT's GC on plans to overhaul the telecoms giant's legal team
When Dan Fitz took over as BT’s group general counsel in April 2010, it was with the mandate to assess whether the FTSE 100 telecoms giant was getting value for its internal and external legal expenditure – a not insignificant task, considering BT...
13 Oct 2011 | 00:00 |
The merger master - how James Retallack's merger experience served him well on the board of takeover target
Aggregate Industries’ (AI’s) former legal and compliance director James Retallack knows a thing or two about mergers. In the glare of the public eye he guided Birmingham and London law firm Edge Ellison through the rocky aftermath of dramatically ...
08 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
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