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• Cleary Gottlieb promotes 8 to partnership

  Nov 11 2008 US firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has promoted eight lawyers to partner and two to counsel in the firm’s latest round of promotions with six promotions in New... more

• Excel error by a Cleary Gottlieb associate alters Lehman asset deal

  Oct 20 2008 A first-year associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton made an Excel reformatting error that mistakenly added 179 contracts to an agreement to buy Lehman Brothers... 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

• Cleary and Ropes & Gray on latest Lehman sale

  Sep 24 2008 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Ropes & Gray have secured the key roles on the joint acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ investment management unit by Bain Capital... more

• Slaughter and May, Linklaters, Freshfields top UK law firm rankings

  Sep 09 2008 Slaughter and May took the top spot in the UK for the third consecutive year. The top-ten UK law firms for prestige, as ranked in the 2009 Vault Guide to the Top 50... more

• Cleary appeals sanctions over Congo witness row

  Jun 27 2008 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton attemps to reverse a stinging sanctions order by Southern District of New York Judge Loretta Preska last August saying the firm had... more

• Cleary retains 100 per cent of trainees

  Jun 11 2008 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton will be retaining all of the trainee solicitors who are due to qualify with the firm this September. This is the second year in a row... more

• Trio of firms act on multi-billion dollar Alltel sell-off

  Jun 10 2008 Debevoise & Plimpton, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy have scooped lead roles advising Verizon Wireless on its $28.1bn acquisition... more

• Cleary most ethnically-diverse law firm

  May 08 2008 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has been crowned as the US’s most ethnically-diverse major law firm, according to research that shows US firms drawing on a wider pool... more

• Mayer Brown, Cleary Gottlieb on Akzo London Nobel-Henkel Deal

  Apr 24 2008 Fiona Adams and Henrietta Walker, two London-based Mayer Brown M&A partners, led a team advising the world’s largest paint maker, Akzo Nobel N.V., in a $5 billion... more

• Law Firms Find Work Abroad as U.S. Mergers Hit a Low

  Apr 19 2008 As the credit crisis drove first-quarter U.S. mergers and acquisitions down 54 percent to $248.1 billion from $536.3 billion last year, deal volume in Asia, Latin... more

• Clifford Chance celebrates $14bn Chinalco corporate coup

  Feb 03 2008 Clifford Chance has won a high-profile mandate to advise the Aluminium Corporation of China (Chinalco) on its joint acquisition with Alcoa of a 12% stake in Rio Tinto... more

• Cleary and Sullivan scoop $19bn Citi equity offering

  Feb 02 2008 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Sullivan & Cromwell scooped lead roles on the $19bn Citigroup equity offering. The transaction is the latest investment bank... more

• Cleary and Allen & Overy bag North Africa's biggest ever M&A deal

  Dec 12 2007 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has advised the world's biggest cement-maker Lafarge on its £6.32bn purchase of Egyptian rival Orascom Cement, making it North... more