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Dealmaker: Matthew White
Herbert Smith planning partner Matthew White on local politicians' bad choices and Dracula's lawyer...
25 Feb 2010 | 00:38 | 
Stephenson Harwood acts on $500m Indonesian airline financing
Stephenson Harwood has acted for Indonesia's largest airline, PT Lion Mentari, on the financing of seven new generation Boeing 737-900ER airliners worth $500m (£317m). The team at Stephenson Harwood was led by Singapore partner and global head of ...
25 Feb 2010 | 00:01
Pinsents and Freshfields take lead on buyout company's £418m listing
Pinsent Masons and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have taken lead roles on the £418m listing of restaurant entrepreneur Hugh Osmond's corporate acquisition company Horizon on the London Stock Exchange. The initial public offering (IPO), which also...
25 Feb 2010 | 00:01
City duo open batting on launch of Royals2020 global cricket franchise
Charles Russell has won a role opposite CMS Cameron McKenna advising Hampshire Cricket on the creation of the world's first global cricket franchise - Royals2020. The new brand was launched at a press conference earlier this month (8 February) and ...
25 Feb 2010 | 00:01
Sports deal rush sees top firms put some skin in the game
The deal market may be proving unbearably slow for many so far in 2010 but, as this week's lead deal (the creation of a global Twenty20 cricket brand) helps demonstrate, involvement with sports clubs is helping law firms reap greater rewards than just...
23 Feb 2010 | 07:32 |
SJ Berwin and Freshfields head up $755m private equity group sale
SJ Berwin and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have acted on the $755m (£490m) sale of UK private equity group Pantheon, a deal which has also handed roles to a trio of US firms. Freshfields advised acquisitive US money-holding company Affiliated Ma...
19 Feb 2010 | 14:07
BLP and Kirkland advise as Reader's Digest goes into administration
Kirkland & Ellis and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) have taken key roles on the administration of Reader's Digest and the Chapter 11 of its US parent company. Readers Digest Association filed for Chapter 11 in August last year after struggling with ...
18 Feb 2010 | 14:14
SJB acts alongside magic circle duo on €45m private equity refinancing
A trio of City firms have taken lead roles on the refinancing of European payment network, Payzone. The deal saw private equity investor Duke Street inject €45m (£39m) into Ireland-based Payzone, giving the buyout house a controlling stake in th...
18 Feb 2010 | 00:01
Hammonds wins negligence claims mandate from Lloyds
Hammonds has struck a groundbreaking deal with Lloyds Banking Group that will see the firm take on the majority of the retail bank's professional negligence work. The national firm has been instructed to advise the bank as it brings increasing numb...
18 Feb 2010 | 00:01
White & Case and Linklaters lead on first CIS bond offering of 2010
White & Case and Linklaters have lined up on the first Eurobond offering in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) this year. White & Case was instructed by long-term oil client TNK-BP on its $1bn (£6.4m) issuance, providing English, US and ...
16 Feb 2010 | 07:47
Ropes & Gray and Mason Hayes lead on billion-dollar private equity buyout
Ropes & Gray and Mason Hayes & Curran have lined up to advise on one of the largest leveraged buyouts in Ireland since the credit crunch - the $1.1bn (£700m) sale of SkillSoft to a private equity consortium. Boston's Ropes and Ireland's Mason Haye...
15 Feb 2010 | 12:30
A&O and Linklaters among winning firms in rare BAE adviser review
Aerospace and defence giant BAE Systems has completed the first major review of its external legal advisers in the UK for more than a decade, with law firms including Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters among those making the grade. The review, whic...
11 Feb 2010 | 00:01
Dentons and Herbert Smith lead on rescue of inflight technology firm
Denton Wilde Sapte and Herbert Smith have advised on the rescue of inflight mobile technology company AeroMobile after five weeks in administration. AeroMobile went into administration at the end of December, with Dentons instructed in the lead rol...
10 Feb 2010 | 11:30
Hammonds wins lead role on £280m private equity buyout
Hammonds took a leading role advising on the sale of survival equipment maker Survitec Group to US private equity firm Warburg Pincus for nearly £280m. The national firm advised longstanding private equity client Montagu on its £274m disposal of ...
10 Feb 2010 | 11:30
Slaughters and CC in on New Look IPO
Slaughter and May and Clifford Chance have bagged leading roles on New Look's £650m Initial Public Offering (IPO), announced yesterday (2 February). Slaughter and May corporate partners Martin Hattrell and Simon Nicholls are leading a team advising t...
03 Feb 2010 | 15:32
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