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The ‘excellent’ team at Kenneth Elliott + Rowe recently handled a £25m refinancing package for a care home client, and the sale and leaseback of a West End London head office. Chris Dixon leads the team.

Grace Kerr leads the Chelmsford team at Birketts LLP, which in 2010 advised on regional office acquisitions for an insurance company and the refinancing of a portfolio of seven care homes for a national bank. Other clients include Benefit Cosmetics and Essex County Cricket Club.

Jane Calnan’s team at Birkett Long LLP acts for clients ranging from local landowners to national banks. The team advised on the sale and leasing of various sites on behalf of the East of England Co-operative Society. David Rayner recently joined from Blake Lapthorn and heads the Chelmsford team.

Kevin Wilsher’s team at Ellisons is praised for its ‘excellent industry knowledge and business acumen’. Clients include HSBC and Essex Wildlife Trust.

Wortley Byers’ clients include Veolia Environmental Services and the Woodland Group. Practice head Jane Winfield is ‘very experienced and personable’.

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    - Bindmans LLP

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    - 11KBW

  • Bindmans partner Tamsin Allen achieves High Court victory for phone hacking victims

    Tamsin Allen , who heads the firm’s media practice, has secured settlements against News Group Newspapers Ltd for the former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, Chris Bryant MP, Denis MacShane MP, journalists Joan Smith and Tom Rowland and Christopher Shipman.
    - Bindmans LLP

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    In R (Greenwich Community Law Centre) v Greenwich LBC [2011] EWHC 3463 (Admin), the Administrative Court (Cranston J) has dismissed a challenge by a leading law centre to the decision by Greenwich Council to withdraw its funding of around £200,000 per year.
    - 11KBW

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    - 11KBW

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    - 11KBW

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    - Bindmans LLP

  • 11KBW welcomes David Stead as its Chief Executive

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    - 11KBW

  • Marcus Pilgerstorfer joins 11KBW

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