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Ambition and culture – the key tests CC’s deal team must pass

Ambition and culture – the key tests CC’s deal team must pass
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Legal Business
25 February 2014
Corporate and M&AComment

First, the case for the defence. Given that private equity partners gossip like fishwives, you can be somewhat sceptical over the received wisdom that the latest in a line of significant departures from Clifford Chance (CC)’s buyout team represents a terminal decline.

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