Insurance firm Parabis Group is set to receive a £50m war chest to fund up to five acquisitions by the end of this year through an investment from private equity house Duke Street.
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Parabis plans acquisitions with private equity cash
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BTA v Ablyazov: the secret billionaire
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The High Court is about to rule on Mukhtar Ablyazov’s role in the mystery of the Kazakh bank’s disappearing billions.
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Cleary and Shearman lead on $7bn Petrobras bond deal
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Shearman & Sterling have both scooped roles advising on Brazilian oil giant Petrobras’s up to $ 7bn bond issue.
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Stocks and ’mares
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IPOs may often land new clients but they don’t bring in much money and can also fail altogether. Are they worth the bother?
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Big bang, big crash
February 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Broadly speaking, computer projects make three sorts of news headline. One is the ‘gee-whiz gizmo’ of fond Tomorrow’s World memory. Second is the ‘big brother’ scare story about surveillance or intrusive data-sharing.
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A fixed deal for fixed share partners
February 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The concept of partnership has been transformed in the post-Legal Services Act world, says Michelle Chance in response to today’s Appeal Court ruling in Tiffin v Lester Aldridge LLP
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An ABS game-changer as UK says g’day to Aussies
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Those Aussies just can’t resist a bit of competition.
From their cricket team beating us with depressing regularity in the 1990s to Paul Hogan (‘you call that a knife?’), it seems a nation devoted to one-upmanship. So we shouldn’t be too surprised to see an Aussie law firm this week muscling into the UK legal profession with all the subtlety of a Prisoner Cell Block H plotline.
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Dressing down
February 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Somehow West London Magistrates’ Court in Southcombe Street near Barons Court tube station seemed more informal than Bow Street and Marlborough Street, certainly so far as dress code was concerned. I remember at Marlborough Street seeing my friend, the giant Irishman David Sarch, appearing one morning in a Prince of Wales check suit minus waistcoat and the magistrate refusing to hear him, going through the old routine – ‘It’s no use speaking louder, Mr Sarch, I still won’t be able to hear you’ – until someone whispered to him that he was considered to be improperly dressed.
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