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Freshfields and Mayer Brown head up ex-BP CEO's $4.2bn Turkey tie-up
Mayer Brown and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won roles on the planned $4.2bn (£2.6bn) merger of former BP chief executive Tony Hayward's investment vehicle Vallares with Turkish oil company Genel Energy International. Mayer Brown's London o...
07 Sep 2011 | 14:11 | 
Slaughters and A&O win roles on $2bn Cathay Pacific bond programme
Slaughter and May has advised Cathay Pacific Airways on its application for the listing of a $2bn (£1.2bn) medium-term note programme on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, reports The Asian Lawyer. According to the Hong Kong airline, the programme will...
02 Sep 2011 | 12:37 |
Freshfields and Skadden advise on $3.2bn Rosneft Arctic deal
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have lined up to advise on a $3.2bn (£1.96bn) Arctic exploration deal between oil giants ExxonMobil and Rosneft. Freshfields advised Russian state oil company Rosneft on the deal, w...
31 Aug 2011 | 12:54 |
Magic circle duo and Gibson Dunn head up CVC's Virgin Active buyout
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Slaughter and May and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher have taken lead roles on private equity group CVC Capital Partners' acquisition of a controlling stake in Virgin Active. Freshfields advised the acquirers on the deal, whi...
23 Aug 2011 | 12:48 |
Gibson Dunn, Slaughters lead firms on HP's £7bn Autonomy takeover
Gibson Dunn and Slaughter and May have won lead roles on Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) £7.1bn takeover bid for Britain’s largest software company Autonomy, in a deal which could become the largest ever in the history of the European IT sector.
19 Aug 2011 | 10:53 |
Norton Rose and DLA act on G&J Greenall gin sale
Norton Rose, DLA Piper and Reed Smith have taken lead roles on the recent acquisition of G&J Greenall, the UK's oldest distiller and bottler of gin and vodka from hotels business De Vere Group. Norton Rose advised a private investor group on the acqui...
18 Aug 2011 | 14:41 |
Cleary and Wachtell lead on Google's $12.5bn Motorola acquisition
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton lawyers have helped guide Google towards completing the largest acquisition in the company's history—the $12.5bn (£7.6bn) acquisition of mobile-device maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc, writes the AmLaw Daily. In...
16 Aug 2011 | 10:31 |
Jones Day, Norton Rose, A&O lead raft of firms on €3.3bn French PPP deal
Jones Day, Norton Rose and Allen & Overy (A&O) are among a raft of firms winning advisory roles on one of the first ever French public-private-partnership (PPP) rail infrastructure projects, valued at €3.3bn (£2.9bn).
15 Aug 2011 | 14:07 |
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Olswang and Taylor Wessing act on £160m sale of St Katharine's Docks
Olswang and Taylor Wessing have lined up to advise on the £160m sale of St Katharine's Docks in central London to Max Property Group and a South African family trust.Olswang advised real estate fund manager F&C REIT on its sale of St Katharine’s Es...
10 Aug 2011 | 10:55 |
Herbert Smith and Latham lead on £150m O2 arena refinancing
Herbert Smith and Latham & Watkins have taken lead roles on the £150m refinancing of London’s landmark O2 arena. Herbert Smith advised Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), which controls the venue, with the law firm fielding a team led by London ...
04 Aug 2011 | 00:00 |
Shearman and White & Case act on $20bn Saudi petrochemical project
Shearman & Sterling and White & Case have taken lead roles on a $20bn (£12.3bn) joint venture (JV) that will see Dow Chemical and Saudi Arabia’s Aramco build a petrochemical complex in the Saudi city of Jubail. US law firm Shearman has taken the...
04 Aug 2011 | 00:00 |
Firms line up on Hong Kong group's £4.7bn Northumbrian Water takeover
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Hogan Lovells and Ashurst have taken lead roles on the £4.7bn takeover bid for Northumbrian Water by a Hong Kong consortium. Freshfields has won the lead role for the consortium - which is led by Cheung Kong Infrast...
02 Aug 2011 | 13:12 |
Slaughters and A&O act on $7.5bn Petrohawk acquisition financing
Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy (A&O) have picked up advisory roles as BHP Billiton agreed a $7.5bn (£4.6bn) financing package for its takeover of Petrohawk Energy Corporation. The Anglo-Australian mining giant announced earlier this month (14...
28 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
Trio of UK firms lead on £113m sandwich maker takeover
Eversheds and Stephenson Harwood have won roles alongside Slaughter and May on Greencore Group’s £113m takeover of convenience food maker Uniq. Eversheds advised Irish food company Greencore, a longstanding client, on its purchase of Uniq, which...
28 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
A&O dominates global bond rankings at halfway mark
Allen & Overy (A&O) has topped Thomson Reuters’ debt capital markets (DCM) rankings for international cross-border bonds for the first half of 2011 by both manager and issuer. The firm advised managers on 238 bond deals worth $180bn (£110bn) dur...
28 Jul 2011 | 00:00 |
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