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Norton Rose leads for National Bank of Greece on €2.35bn securitisation deal double
Norton Rose has advised the National Bank of Greece on two securitisations worth €2.35bn (£2bn), with the deals representing the first securitisation mandates the firm’s London office has carried out for the bank. The transactions, completed l...
20 Oct 2011 | 00:00 | 
Weil, Simpson, W&C head up buyout of loan manager
A trio of US firms have taken lead roles on GSO Capital Partners’ acquisition of loan manager Harbourmaster Capital in a deal which will boost GSO’s European loan holdings to €11.5bn (£10bn). GSO, the credit investment arm of Blackstone Grou...
20 Oct 2011 | 00:00 |
Linklaters takes top role for Lloyds on £1.5bn retail branch sale
Linklaters has won a role advising Lloyds Banking Group on the sale of 632 of its UK branches. The bank has been given until the end of 2013 to sell the branches by the European competition authorities and put the branches to auction earlier this year...
14 Oct 2011 | 14:59 |
Norton Rose and Linklaters take roles on €700m BMW deal
Norton Rose and Linklaters have advised on BMW’s €700m (£604m) acquisition of ING’s car leasing and fleet management business. The deal, which received competition clearance last month, will see ING Car Lease become part of BMW’s own multi...
13 Oct 2011 | 00:00 |
Ashurst, Hogan and Travers act on acquisition of UK engineer
Ashurst, Hogan Lovells and Travers Smith have taken lead roles on the £124m acquisition of British engineering company Halcrow by US infrastructure company CH2M Hill. Ashurst advised Halcrow, fielding a team under global head of corporate Stephen ...
13 Oct 2011 | 00:00 |
SJ Berwin and LG secure lead roles as Debenhams signs up for new HQ
SJ Berwin and LG have picked up lead roles as high street retailer Debenhams signed up to space from British Land for its new London headquarters. British Land has agreed to pre-let 145,000 sq ft of office space to the retailer in a new office buil...
13 Oct 2011 | 00:00 |
Trio of firms lead on £660m sell-off of 'bad bank' debt
Hogan Lovells, Weil Gotshal & Manges and DLA Piper have taken lead roles on Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) sale of £660m in debt it held on hotels including Claridges to the Barclay brothers. The deal, which closed last month ...
13 Oct 2011 | 00:00 |
Jones Day, CMS and Linklaters lead on hotel restructuring
Jones Day, CMS Cameron McKenna and Linklaters have taken lead roles on the restructuring and pre-pack administration of Jarvis Hotels by Royal Bank of Scotland’s distressed property unit and buyout firm Patron Capital.
12 Oct 2011 | 15:27 |
Cleary and Linklaters among firms on multibillion-euro Belgian bank bailout
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Stibbe, Linklaters, Clifford Chance (CC) and Belgian firm Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck & Kirkpatrick are among a raft of firms to have picked up roles on the state rescue of Dexia bank in Belgium. Cleary is advisi...
10 Oct 2011 | 16:11 |
Slaughters and A&O lead on £472m private equity credit card sale
Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy (A&O) are leading a four-firm line-up advising on the £472m private equity sale of credit card provider SAV Credit to investment manager Vaerde Partners. Slaughters advised SAV owner Palamon Capital Partners on the...
10 Oct 2011 | 13:50 |
BLP, Nabarro and DLA lead on £400m refinancing for airport company
Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP), Nabarro and DLA Piper have picked up lead roles on a £400m refinancing for airport real estate investor Airport Property Partnership (APP). The deal saw APP, a joint venture between commercial property investors SEGR...
06 Oct 2011 | 00:00 |
Latham and Linklaters take lead roles on first French 'dim sum' bond
Linklaters and Latham & Watkins have advised on the first renminbi-denominated bond by a French company, reports The Asian Lawyer. L'Air Liquide, a French producer of industrial and medical gases, has guaranteed the issue of two tranches of bonds, ...
30 Sep 2011 | 11:01 |
Linklaters and Davis Polk advise as Rio Tinto taps bond markets for $2bn
Linklaters and Davis Polk & Wardwell have taken lead roles on a $2bn (£1.3bn) notes offering by Rio Tinto, which saw the mining giant take advantage of current low yields on corporate bonds to reduce its debt costs. Linklaters advised Rio – a lo...
29 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
Herbert Smith and Hogan lead on $1.75bn energy acquisition
Herbert Smith and Hogan Lovells have advised on the acquisition of North Sea assets from ExxonMobil worth $1.75bn (£1.1bn) by US oil and gas company Apache Corporation. Herbert Smith advised Apache subsidiary Apache North Sea on the acquisition of...
29 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
Addleshaws and Linklaters lead on $408m Mexican gas terminal JV
Addleshaw Goddard and Linklaters have picked up lead roles on the financing of a liquefied natural gas terminal acquisition in Mexico. The deal saw a joint venture (JV) between Spanish gas storage company Enagas and tank storage company Royal Vopak...
29 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
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