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Guinea
A roaring trade for legal advisers

Hardly a month passes in Conakry without a law firm being awarded a contract to advise in the review of [...]

Published on 12/02/2013 at 23:02 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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SNR Denton's whopping bill

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