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Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

99 GRESHAM STREET, LONDON, EC2V 7NG, ENGLAND

Washington DC, Tokyo, Paris, New York, Menlo Park, Madrid , and 4 more

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Corporate and commercial

Within Equity capital markets: US capability, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is a first tier firm,

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has a superb reputation, handling securities transactions for banking clients. It advised the joint bookrunners, including Santander, Commerzbank and Merrill Lynch, on a €10.2bn rights offering by Deutsche Bank; and Resolution on its £2bn rights issue. Elsewhere, the team advised Danish jewellery designer Pandora on its $2.1bn IPO on the NASDAQ OMX Copenhagen. Jeffrey Oakes, Paul Etienne Kumleben and John Banes are all recommended.

Within M&A: US law capability, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP is a first tier firm,

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP’s global M&A brand has, if anything, been enhanced by the global financial crisis. The London team includes the highly rated Jeffrey O’Brien, Nigel Wilson and John Banes, and advised on a number of impressive global mandates including advising PepsiCo on its $3.8bn acquisition of a 66% stake in Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods.

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Revisions to the rules for tier 1 investors and entrepreneurs?

There are a number of aspects of the rules for tier 1 investors and entrepreneurs that are unclear or unnecessarily restrictive and we have been in extensive dialogue for many months now with the UKBA on a range of issues, both policy and technical.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
No substitute for experience

If there is one part of the Localism Act 2011 about which local government lawyers have considerable concerns, it is the new standards regime.

- 11KBW
CONSULTATION AND LEGITIMATE EXPECTATIONS

Clive Sheldon QC

- 11KBW
Changes to list of approved English language tests are made by the UKBA

It has been announced by the UKBA that the list of approved English language tests for those individuals applying under tiers 1,2 and 4 of the points based system has been amended. One of the main changes is the lowering of the TOEFL points score against the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). TOEFL now includes scores for spouse and partner applications.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Important information about London 2012 released by the UKBA

Important information about the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games has been published online by the UKBA. With the UKBA expecting to carry out security checks on more than 380,000 workers and participants, it has set out detailed information for those individuals who will be travelling to the UK for the event. The information is divided into the following categories:

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Premium sponsorship for tier 2 and tier 2 and 4 sponsors

As reported in our November 2011 Update the UKBA is planning to introduce a 'premium sponsor' category and we expect that this will be in April 2012.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
Arts Council England introduces new procedure for tier 1 (exceptional talent) applicants

From 3 January 2012, individuals applying under tier 1 (exceptional talent) of the points based system will need to follow new guidelines if they wish to have their application endorsed by Arts Council England (ACE).

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
The UKBA contacts tier 2 sponsors regarding COS allowances

The UKBA has been contacting authorised officers at tier 2 sponsors in relation to the new certificate of sponsorship allowance which will become effective from 6 April 2012. Any COS issued from that date will come from the new allocation.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
The UKBA updates tier 4 sponsors on educational oversight

The UKBA has reminded all current tier 4 sponsors that if they are not already subject to inspection or review by the relevant educational oversight bodies, they must apply before the deadline stated in the current sponsor guidance.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP
London 2012 visa applications open for spectators

From 1 January 2012 the UKBA will begin to process visas for non-UK spectators wishing to travel to the UK to watch the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

- Penningtons Solicitors LLP