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Simmons and Taylor Wessing head up HMV's £53m Waterstone's sale
Simmons & Simmons and Taylor Wessing have taken headline roles on the £53m sale of the Waterstone's book chain by struggling music retailer HMV. Simmons took the lead role for the seller, fielding a team led by City M&A partner Giles Dennison, whi...
23 May 2011 | 11:34 | 
Freshfields and Camerons lead on €9.6bn pharma acquisition
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and CMS Cameron McKenna have advised on the largest European private equity deal since before the global financial crisis, worth €9.6bn (£8.4bn). The two law firms have advised as Japanese pharma company Takeda mak...
20 May 2011 | 14:50 |
Weil and SJB head up $950m private equity buyout of environmental consultancy
Weil Gotshal & Manges, SJ Berwin and Dickson Minto have scored key roles on Charterhouse Capital Partners' acquisition of a majority stake in environmental consultancy Environmental Resources Management (ERM) from Bridgepoint. The Charterhouse-led ...
19 May 2011 | 15:55 |
SJ Berwin joins firms to help resurrect AllSaints’ fortunes
SJ Berwin has joined a number of law firms advising on the private equity rescue of troubled London fashion chain AllSaints Spitalfields. The top-20 City law firm secured the mandate to advise the buyers – Lion Capital and Goode Partners – on t...
19 May 2011 | 00:00 |
Will the Hackgate scandal finally usher in exemplary damages?
It is a mark of the media frenzy over privacy injunctions that the topic has continued to hog the headlines even while a related issue of arguably far more significance has played out: the dramatic escalation of the phone-hacking scandal. True, the is...
19 May 2011 | 00:00 |
SNR Denton sweats out deal for Virgin Active on Esporta takeover
SNR Denton has taken a lead role alongside a raft of City firms on Societe Generale’s £78m disposal of Esporta to rival gym chain Virgin Active. The transatlantic firm advised Virgin Active, which is majority-owned by Sir Richard Branson, on the...
12 May 2011 | 00:00 |
Links and Simmons lead on HMV but restructuring work remains subdued
Linklaters and Simmons & Simmons have picked up lead advisory roles on the high-profile restructuring of entertainment retailer HMV. The deal, which sees Simmons advising HMV and Linklaters advising the company's banks, including Royal Bank of Scot...
05 May 2011 | 08:19 |
Dewey and Linklaters head up landmark Polish media M&A deal
Dewey & LeBouef has taken a lead role on the biggest-ever M&A deal in the Polish media sector. The firm was instructed in the summer of 2010 by longstanding client Cyfrowy Polsat, Poland's biggest satellite TV broadcaster, to advise on its £843.9m...
28 Apr 2011 | 14:57 |
Charles Russell and Slaughters lead as Bahamas privatises telecoms operator
Charles Russell and Slaughter and May have taken lead roles on the $210m (£128.5m) privatisation of the Bahamas' national telecommunications operator. The deal, completed on 6 April, will see the Bahamas Government sell a 51% interest in the Baham...
21 Apr 2011 | 08:18 |
Trio of City firms lead on Battersea Power Station debt restructuring
Ashurst, Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters are among a raft of firms to have advised on the £1.96bn debt restructuring of the ownership of Battersea Power Station. The deal will see the iconic power station transferred to a new holding company, wit...
21 Apr 2011 | 08:18 |
Wragges and Linklaters lead on €20bn military aircraft contract negotiations
Wragge & Co has taken a lead role on the renegotiation of a €20bn (£12.2bn) defence contract for the supply of military transport aircraft to seven European nations. The contract will see Airbus Military develop and supply up to 170 A400M aircra...
20 Apr 2011 | 16:02 |
Addleshaws, A&O lead on Yorkshire Building Society merger deal
Addleshaw Goddard and Allen & Overy (A&O) have picked up lead advisory roles on Yorkshire Building Society's merger with Norwich and Peterborough (N&P) Building Society, creating a combined company with three million members and 224 branches. A&O i...
20 Apr 2011 | 15:30 |
Linklaters and Bakers win roles as Total signs energy partnership in Russia
Linklaters and Baker & McKenzie have taken lead roles on a $4bn (£2.5bn) energy deal that saw French oil company Total buy a 12% stake in Russian gas producer Novatek as part of a strategic partnership. Linklaters advised the acquirer on the deal,...
14 Apr 2011 | 06:41 |
Camerons leads for Royal Mail on facilities deal worth £1.8bn
CMS Cameron McKenna has won the lead role for Royal Mail on its largest transaction since cutting down its legal panel to just three firms at the end of last year. The UK top 15 law firm advised Royal Mail on an agreement to extend its facilities m...
14 Apr 2011 | 06:41 |
Freshfields takes first role for new client on Centre Point acquisition
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has taken a lead role on new property developer Almacantar's acquisition of London's landmark Centre Point tower. The deal also handed roles to Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), which advised the administrator for bankru...
11 Apr 2011 | 15:36 |
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