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• DLA Piper merges with DLA Phillips Fox to enter Australian market

  May 04 2011 International law firm DLA Piper has entered the Australian market after merging with local firm DLA Phillips Fox. The integration of the two firms bolsters DLA... more

• Banks won't tolerate problems at law firms: the collapse of Yoss

  Mar 16 2011 Yoss LLP has announced that it will close by 31 March, after negotiations with the firm’s bank broke down. Coming after months of partner defections and payment... more

• Cleary Gottlieb wins mandate for €4.3bn BNP Paribas rights issue

  Oct 01 2009 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has won the role as deal counsel to BNP Paribas on its €4.3bn rights offering launched on 29 September. more

• Linklaters, Nabarro take lead roles on latest bank insolvency

  Dec 01 2008 Linklaters and Nabarro are advising the financial services company London Scottish Bank, which went into administration today. London Scottish Bank specializes in... more

• Clifford Chance and Latham line up for £7bn Barclays financing

  Nov 01 2008 Clifford Chance is leading a quartet of legal advisers to secure principal roles on the £7bn cash injection into Barclays from the Middle East. Latham & Watkins... more

• Asian banker awarded £2.8million in discrimination claim against Abbey

  Oct 24 2008 An Asian banker has been awarded a record £2.8 million in compensation. Balbinder Chagger, 40, successfully claimed race discrimination against Abbey. His compensation... more

• Linklaters and Cleary Gottlieb take lead roles on Fortis takeover

  Oct 07 2008 Linklaters and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton are continuing to cash in on the turmoil in the global banking markets, with the pair taking leading roles as BNP... more

• Mayer Brown grabs final Northern Rock mandate

  Oct 03 2008 Mayer Brown has won the last major role up for grabs on the Northern Rock saga, litigation partner Clare Canning advising the valuer of the bank’s compensation scheme... more

• Linklaters, Cleary represent Merrill Lynch and Bank of America

  Sep 26 2008 Linklaters and Cleary Gottlieb Hamilton & Steen have scored the mandates to represent Merrill Lynch and Bank of America respectively, advising them on all non-US... more

• Freshfields on Nomura's Lehman buy-out

  Sep 26 2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has emerged as the latest firm to score a role on Japanese investment bank Nomura’s acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ Asian operations and... more

• Milbank Tweed grabs Lehman creditor role

  Sep 19 2008 Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy has landed a role advising the creditors’ committee of Lehman Brothers, which recreates the law firm line-up of the Enron bankruptcy.... more

• Wachtell, Shearman head up $50bn Merrill takeover

  Sep 16 2008 Elite US firms Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Shearman & Sterling have taken the lead advisory roles on the $50bn all-stock sale of banking giant Merrill Lynch to... more

• Lehman hires Weil Gotshal & Manges for biggest bankruptcy filing in history

  Sep 15 2008 Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest U.S. investment bank, succumbed to the subprime mortgage crisis it helped create in the biggest bankruptcy filing in history.... more

• Shearman lands key role on Dresdner Bank sale

  Sep 08 2008 Just months after losing its 30-lawyer Mannheim office, Shearman & Sterling has been handed the mandate to advise the insurer Allianz on the sale of Dresdner Bank to... more

• Shearman and Sullivan lead on Dresdner Bank sale

  Sep 02 2008 New York leaders Shearman & Sterling and Sullivan & Cromwell have bagged top roles on insurance giant Allianz’s €9.8bn sale of Dresdner Bank to German rival Commerzbank. more

• UBS lawyer David Aufhauser quits amid fallout over auction-rate inquiry

  Aug 06 2008 David Aufhauser has quit as the general counsel of UBS's investment banking division as the fallout widens from investigations into the failed market in auction-rate... more

• Eversheds replaces DLA Piper as Abbey's provider of routine employment work

  Jul 28 2008 DLA Piper has lost its ­status as Abbey’s sole employment adviser after Eversheds joined the bank’s panel. Eversheds has replaced DLA Piper as Abbey’s provider of... more

• Goldman Sachs man in Orrick New York switch

  Jun 24 2008 Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe has bagged a high-profile structured finance partner in the US, with former Goldman Sachs in-house counsel Howard Altarescu joining the... more

• JPMorgan axes Linklaters from panel after litigation row

  Jun 23 2008 JPMorgan has ditched Linklaters from its list of preferred advisers following a row over the magic circle firm’s role in suing Bear Stearns on behalf of ­Barclays... more

• Dewey & LeBoeuf joins Slaughter and May for Zurich's RBS bid

  Jun 14 2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf has snared a lead advisory role alongside City royalty Slaughter and May to advise one of the front-runners in the race to acquire the insurance... more

• UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) raids law firm bankers

  Jun 04 2008 The Office of Fair Trading conducted a series of dawn raids at offices of Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) as part of an investigation into price-fixing on... more

• Australian duo Allens and G&T take lead roles in $17.5bn Westpac merger

  May 20 2008 Australian duo Allens Arthur Robinson and Gilbert & Tobin (G&T) have bagged high-profile lead roles on the $17.5bn (£8.99bn) merger between Westpac Banking Co and... more

• Freshfields and Linklaters scoop key roles on RBS £12bn rights issue

  Apr 24 2008 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have secured the key legal roles in Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) record £12bn rights issue. RBS has turned to... more

• White & Case Expands in Hong Kong with Lovells Finance Team

  Apr 23 2008 Global law firm White & Case LLP has made a major addition to its Bank Finance and Restructuring Practices in Asia with the arrival of partner John Hartley. Hartley is... more

• Slaughter and May and Linklaters lead €2bn GE-Santander swap

  Mar 29 2008 Magic circle duo Slaughter and May and Linklaters take the lead advisory roles on the agreement between Santander and GE Money to swap European assets worth a combined... more

• Skadden and Wachtell seal Bear Stearns buyout

  Mar 18 2008 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have scooped lead roles on JPMorgan Chase's acquisition of troubled investment bank Bear Stearns.... more

• Allen & Overy and Baker & McKenzie develop €3bn bond plan for OTP Bank

  Feb 04 2008 Allen & Overy (A&O) and Baker & McKenzie have been hired to develop a €3bn covered bond programme for Hungarian lender OTP Mortgage Bank. The placing is being arranged... more

• Linklaters first magic circle firm to litigate against bank since credit crunch

  Jan 21 2008 Law firms will be closely watching a move by Linklaters – which has emerged as the first magic circle firm to litigate against a bank since the credit crunch. It... more

• Dresdner Kleinwort Wins Race-Discrimination Case Against Banker

  Nov 02 2007 Allianz SE's Dresdner Kleinwort won a race-discrimination case filed by a former investment banker who sought 10 million pounds ($21 million) over claims he was fired... more