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Freshfields and Slaughters head up $3.1bn Hong Kong listing
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have won lead roles on China Pacific Insurance's $3.1bn (£1.9bn) Hong Kong initial public offering. The listing, one of the largest global IPOs of 2009, saw Freshfields take a role for the China...
04 Jan 2010 | 16:17
CC, Travers lead on £400m private equity deal
A quartet of firms have landed roles advising on the £400m purchase of British Car Auctions by private equity house Clayton Dubilier & Rice (CD&R) from Montagu Private Equity.
04 Jan 2010 | 14:19
Weil Gotshal and Skadden lead on $1.9bn Sanofi-Aventis buyout
Weil Gotshal & Manges and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have taken lead roles on Sanofi-Aventis's $1.9bn (£1.2bn) purchase of consumer care products company Chattem, reports The Am Law Daily. The acquisition, set to create the fifth-largest co...
22 Dec 2009 | 11:51
Mayer Brown leads on GM sale of Saab assets to Chinese company
Mayer Brown has taken the lead role for Beijing Automotive Industry Holding (BAIC) on the purchase of Saab assets and intellectual property rights from General Motors. The deal, valued at SEK1.4bn (£119m), could stave off bankruptcy for Swedish ca...
17 Dec 2009 | 12:23
Freshfields, Simmons head up €2bn sale of German publishing company
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Simmons & Simmons have both won lead roles on the sale of Springer Science+Business Media, a deal understood to be worth up to €2.2bn (£2bn). Springer was advised by Freshfields on the sale, announced today (11...
11 Dec 2009 | 15:45
CC and Freshfields take lead roles on £935m BAA bond launches
Clifford Chance (CC) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have picked up mandates on airports operator BAA's programme of bond issuances. CC advised co-arrangers Citi and The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), with London capital markets partners Emma Mat...
11 Dec 2009 | 12:29
Dewey leads on $1.2bn drinks company buyout
Dewey & LeBoeuf has fielded a large cross-border team advising drinks company CEDC on its $1.2bn (£736m) high yield financing and equity acquisition of Russian Alcohol Group (RAG). After entering into a joint venture agreement with vodka producer ...
10 Dec 2009 | 14:26
City trio take headline roles on biggest UK buyout of the year
Allen & Overy (A&O), Travers Smith and Ashurst have all picked up roles on the biggest buyout in the UK for more than a year. Apax is set to purchase pharmaceutical support company Marken for a reported £975m from Intermediate Capital Group (ICG),...
08 Dec 2009 | 15:52
Quartet lead on £136m dental company buyout
Dundas & Wilson, Slaughter and May, Allen & Overy (A&O) and Wragge & Co have advised on the £136m management buyout (MBO) of Associated Dental Practices (ADP). Big four Scots firm Dundas advised ADP chief executive Bharat Patel and management on t...
08 Dec 2009 | 07:20
SJB finance recruit helps to sign off $225m private equity restructuring
SJ Berwin finance partner Ian Borman has completed his first major deal since joining the UK top 20 firm in September from Allen & Overy (A&O), advising private equity firm APEN on its restructuring and $225m (£135m) fund raising. The deal saw ex-...
08 Dec 2009 | 07:20
Hammonds wins branding role for Cath Kidston
Hammonds has secured a role acting as sole adviser to luxury retailer Cath Kidston for intellectual property (IP), branding and trademark work. The appointment officially started this month following a competitive tender process. It will see Hammon...
08 Dec 2009 | 07:17
Ashurst and Cleary win lead roles on Rusal's $3bn Hong Kong listing
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Ashurst have won roles on Rusal's planned $3bn (£2bn) flotation on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Cleary has landed the main role on the listing, fielding a team led by City-based partner Dan Braverman advising ...
04 Dec 2009 | 15:37
Dealmaker: Sharon Lewis
Lovells capital markets head Sharon Lewis gets in a nod to Hogan and salutes the Pooh school of management
03 Dec 2009 | 00:22
Lovells leads for Babcock & Brown on £1bn recapitalisation
Lovells has taken the lead role for Australian group Babcock & Brown Infrastructure (BBI) as it completes a A$1.8bn (£1bn) recapitalisation, signing up Brookfield Asset Management as a new cornerstone investor. Corporate partner Steven Bryan led t...
02 Dec 2009 | 03:47
Financial Bill produces more heat on banks but not much light
For all the practical good it will do, it seems that the greatest significance of the new Financial Services Bill is in illustrating the current state of the increasingly ill-tempered policy debate over how to reform and monitor banks. Since the summe...
26 Nov 2009 | 11:54
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