Lehman Brothers Holdings has signed an agreement to buy out the remaining 26.5 per cent in apartment building operator Archstone that it does not already own from Barclays and the Bank of America for $1.58 billion. | 14yrs
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Three leading firms bagged roles in a $1.3 billion private equity deal that has seen investor Silver Lake and investment management firm Partners Group agree to purchase Swiss duty-free shopping company Global Blue. | 14yrs
Irwin Mitchell advises logistics company Gazeley | 14yrs
Ogier acts for global financial services firm Cantor Fitzgerald | 14yrs
London-headquartered law firm Norton Rose had advised a group of export credit agencies, development banks and commercial lenders to the $4 billion Surgil gas-to-petrochemicals project located in Uzbekistan. | 14yrs
Wolf Theiss advises on biomass facility | 14yrs
Leading Middle East firm Al Tamimi & Co acted for the Global Investment House of Kuwait (GIH) in a $250 million dispute with the National Bank of Umm Al Qaiwain. | 14yrs
The Australian government has slashed its law firm panel by more than half in a dramatic move that sees some big names dropped from the list. | 14yrs
Leading lawyers have slammed the South African government over proposed legislation described as being the 'biggest threat to an independent legal profession' in the country's history. | 14yrs
Creditors and partners pressing claims as China practice head bails out. | 14yrs
The re-engineering of Australian law firms continues. But where will it end, asks Dr George Beaton. | 14yrs
A freshly-minted Australian legal practice has announced plans to shift away from time-based billing in a move mirroring recent developments in England. | 14yrs
An oppressive media law has been repealed by the Malawi parliament, removing the power given to the information minister to ban any publication that is deemed to be bad for the public. | 14yrs
Global law firm Jones Day is to sponsor rule-of-law studies in China as the Ohio-based practice donated more than three quarters of a million dollars to a leading local law school. | 14yrs
Energy specialist law firms in Asia-Pacific are anticipating a significant boost as forthcoming government-linked investment vehicles target assets in an effort to supply local markets. | 14yrs
An Argentine lawyer who has previously led investigations into war crimes at the International Criminal Court is set to become the first head of Fifa's ethics committee and lead its investigation work. | 14yrs
Plans are afoot to make it easier to renew expiring electrical power concessions in Brazil, with the country's top electricity regulator suggesting generators and transmission operators will be able to avoid competitive tenders. | 14yrs
A Brazilian senate committee has passed an anti-homophobia bill, adding to an earlier human rights committee decision to approve civil unions for same-sex couples. | 14yrs
Fifa whistle-blower Chuck Blazer may have acted unlawfully over a multi-million dollar TV rights contract, according to a memo produced by New York law firm King & Spalding. | 14yrs
The collapse of New York-based law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf is sending shockwaves around the world in more ways than one, as clients begin to feel the squeeze of having their once respected law firm go to the wall. | 14yrs