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Simmons and A&O advise on £200m Thomas Cook lifeline
Simmons & Simmons and Allen & Overy (A&O) have taken lead roles on the rescue of stricken UK travel giant Thomas Cook. Thomas Cook, which appeared to be on the brink of bankruptcy last week, negotiated a £200m loan facility on 25 November with a c...
01 Dec 2011 | 00:00 | 
Stephenson Harwood lands $21bn Lion Air order
Stephenson Harwood has advised Indonesia’s largest private airline on a $21.7bn (£13.9bn) aeroplane order from Boeing, writes The Asian Lawyer. Boeing and PT Lion Mentari Airlines, which operates as regional low-cost carrier Lion Air, announc...
01 Dec 2011 | 00:00 |
Hogan Lovells and BLP take lead on £400m Prudential business park sale
Hogan Lovells and Berwin Leighton Paisner have taken lead roles on Prudential’s £400m sale of Green Park business park near Reading to Oxford European Holdings. The transaction, which closed earlier this month (18 November), marks Prudential’s...
01 Dec 2011 | 00:00 |
Freshfields, CC lead as Russian mining company floats in London
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Clifford Chance (CC) have taken lead roles on Russian gold and silver mining company Polymetal’s $500m (£317m) initial public offering (IPO) on the London Stock Exchange. Polymetal, the world’s third-largest ...
24 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
Latham and RPC secure big-ticket Euro deal
Latham & Watkins and Reynolds Porter Chamberlain (RPC) have picked up lead advisory roles as Swedish paper and hygiene products maker SCA announced plans to buy Georgia-Pacific’s European tissue business for $1.8bn (£1.14bn), writes The Am Law Dail...
24 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
SJB and Links advise as Westfield sells assets in the north
SJ Berwin and Linklaters have taken lead roles as Westfield has moved to sell £55m worth of assets in the north of England in order to focus on high-scale shopping ventures. Westfield has sold the 75% stake it held in the Broadmarsh shopping centr...
24 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
Herbert Smith, Links advise on Saudi holy city rail project
Herbert Smith and Linklaters are advising on a €6.5bn (£5.6bn) project to build a high-speed rail link to connect the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia. Herbert Smith is advising the Saudi-Spanish consortium selected to build the r...
24 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
Davis Polk and Sullivan advise on Japanese exchange merger
Davis Polk & Wardwell and Sullivan & Cromwell have lined up alongside several Japanese firms to advise on The Tokyo Stock Exchange Group's (TSEG) $1.lbn (£706m) acquisition of the Osaka Securities Exchange (OSE), writes The Am Law Daily. The rivals p...
23 Nov 2011 | 11:20 |
Ashurst and SNR Denton in prime position as Westfield considers Croydon mall
Ashurst and SNR Denton have scored advisory roles as Westfield considers developing its third shopping mall in London. Ashurst is advising longstanding client Westfield on negotiations to develop a site in Croydon, South London, which could give the A...
18 Nov 2011 | 12:44 |
Simmons wins role on Secure Trust’s AIM listing
Simmons & Simmons has taken a first-time role for Secure Trust Bank on the retail bank’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) listing. The listing, announced on 28 October, has seen the fast-growing lender raise £25m, valuing it at £102m. The de...
17 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
SJB, CC and others act as music company EMI split in two and sold
SJ Berwin and Clifford Chance (CC) are among a host of firms to win roles as beleaguered music company EMI is split into two, with Universal Music set to take over the recording unit for £1.2bn and a Sony-led consortium bidding $2.2bn (£1.4bn) for t...
17 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
Boutique radiant.law leads on £1.4bn admin and IT outsourcing project for Friends Life
Outsourcing boutique radiant.law has scooped up a lead role on a £1.4bn outsourcing project for financial services group Friends Life to the UK subsidiary of India’s Tata Consultancy Services, Diligenta. The boutique, which was created early ...
17 Nov 2011 | 00:00 |
Freshfields and Clifford Chance lead on Barclays Private Equity MBO
Clifford Chance (CC) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have advised on the spin-off of Barclays private equity arm. The deal, which completed yesterday (14 November), saw Barclays Capital sell Barclays Private Equity to its management team.
15 Nov 2011 | 12:27 |
SJ Berwin and CC lead as Universal and Sony-consortium split EMI
SJ Berwin and Clifford Chance (CC) are among a host of firms to win roles as beleaguered music company EMI is to be split into two, with Universal Music set to take over the recording unit for £1.2bn and a Sony-led consortium bidding $2.2bn (£1.4bn)...
11 Nov 2011 | 17:06 |
Shearman and Clifford Chance advise on $5.4bn Chilean copper deal
Clifford Chance (CC) and Shearman and Sterling have advised as London mining giant Anglo American agreed to sell a share of its Chilean copper business to Mitsubishi for $5.39bn (£3.38bn).
11 Nov 2011 | 12:24 |
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