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• AZB, S & R and Cleary Gottlieb on Rabobank stake sale in YES Bank

  Jul 08 2010 Rabobank, after 12 years, may take up the wholly-owned route to launch its banking operations in India. more

• Skadden and Cleary take top roles on $12bn Coca-Cola buyout

  Feb 26 2010 Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has advised Coca-Cola on its $12.2bn deal to acquire the North American operations of its largest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises,... more

• Cleary Gottlieb advises Iceland in Icesave dispute

  Feb 11 2010 The government of Iceland announced it had hired US law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton as an advisor in a new round of negotiations with the United Kingdom and... more

• Cleary scores coup with rare City hire from Simmons

  Feb 10 2010 Simmons & Simmons finance litigation head Jonathan Kelly will leave the firm to join Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Kelly, one of the City's best-known banking... more

• US law firms cut bonuses for first-year associates

  Dec 21 2009 Major US law firms including Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP cut year-end bonuses for... more

• Rusal IPO postponed by Hong Kong Exchange

  Dec 08 2009 The world’s biggest aluminum company, United Co. Rusal failed to get approval for its planned $3bn initial public offering in Hong Kong. According to reports,... more

• Cleary Gottlieb and Latham & Watkins advise on Nortel sale

  Nov 24 2009 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton partners James Bromley and Lisa Schweitzer represented Nortel on its $769 million sale of its optical networking unit to Ciena Corp.,... 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

• Freshfields, Cleary, Salans head up $1.6bn Gazprom deal

  Oct 01 2009 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and Salans have won roles on a $1.6bn Russian energy deal, which saw the Russian energy giant buy a... more

• Clifford Chance, Skadden, Cleary advise on CEMEX debt restructuring

  Aug 21 2009 Clifford Chance, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Slaughter and May, Allens Arthur Robinson, and Matheson Ormsby Prentice are among... more

• Cleary hires Allen & Overy IP partner Colin Pearson

  Jul 22 2009 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has made a rare hire in London, adding former Allen & Overy intellectual property partner Colin Pearson as a consultant of its City... more

• Wachtell tops global M&A rankings in first half of 2009

  Jul 07 2009 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, the most-profitable US law firm, took the top spot on the Bloomberg list of M&A advisers for the first half of 2009, ousting UK-based... more

• Top US law firms avoid deferrals

  Jun 18 2009 Most of the top US law firms are currently not deferring associates despite the financial crisis. According to the AmLaw Daily, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz;... more

• Cleary Gottlieb, Bird & Bird keep 100 per cent of UK trainees

  Jun 12 2009 Other firms doing well include Reynolds Porter Chamberlain with an 88% retention rate, Macfarlanes with 85% and Norton Rose with 83%, according to data published by... more

• Cleary Gottlieb rehires former partner Edward Greene from Citigroup

  Jan 09 2009 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP has announced that Edward Greene, General Counsel of Citigroup’s Institutional Clients Group, will return to the firm in February.... more

• Linklaters tops M&A league as deal volume plunges 38 Percent

  Jan 02 2009 Linklaters was hired to advise on four of the 10 biggest mergers and acquisitions in 2008, leading the M&A league table published by Bloomberg today. In the smallest... more

• Dewey, Cleary Gottlieb, Milbank cut associate bonuses

  Dec 04 2008 Dewey & LeBoeuf, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy have reduced the rate for year-end associate bonuses. According to The Lawyer,... 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 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

• Vault Top 100 Law Firms 2009: Wachtell #1 for sixth year

  Aug 16 2008 The top 10 firms as ranked in the Vault Guide to the Top 100 Law Firms are: 1. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York, NY) 2. Cravath, Swaine & Moore (New York,... more