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Trowers builds on regeneration portfolio with £125m east London redevelopment
Trowers & Hamlins has landed a lead role advising on a £125m regeneration project in east London.
15 Nov 2007 | 01:24 | 
X marks the spot
It's a familiar conceit: dozens of nobodies queuing for what seems like forever to debase themselves before a panel of whimsically arbitrary judges in the faint hope of fortune and glory.
15 Nov 2007 | 00:15 |
Deal Week Dispatch: 14/11/07
Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Ashurst, Wragges and Bakers among the movers and shakers
14 Nov 2007 | 09:00 |
Norton Rose, LG top new AIM adviser rankings
Norton Rose, LG, Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and DLA Piper are among a clutch of UK firms to have cashed in on the rapid growth of the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in recent years, according to new figures released today (12 November). Top 10...
12 Nov 2007 | 11:14 |
Links in for Rio Tinto on BHP's £67bn mega-bid
Linklaters has bagged a headline role opposite Slaughter and May advising Rio Tinto on the £67bn takeover bid by rival mining giant BHP Billiton - an approach that looks likely to spark a protracted bidding war. The magic circle giant would not comme...
09 Nov 2007 | 11:33 |
Linklaters wins DIC deal double
Linklaters has pushed aside Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer to sign its first deals for Dubai International Capital (DIC) in several years. The firm has advised DIC - the international investment arm of Dubai Holding - on its £600m acquisition of Alli...
09 Nov 2007 | 11:00 |
KKR, Permira and Apax storm ahead in private equity league
Buy-out giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR), Permira and Apax Partners have emerged as the most lucrative clients in the sector in recent years, according to new research. Mergermarket rankings compiled exclusively for Legal Week show the privat...
08 Nov 2007 | 04:31 |
A&O's hot streak in Holland continues
Allen & Overy (A&O) has picked up another big-ticket European mandate advising car navigation system maker Garmin on its E2.3bn (£1.6bn) hostile bid for Tele Atlas. Amsterdam corporate partners Jan Louis Burggraaf and Tim Stevens are advising the new...
08 Nov 2007 | 03:46 |
Commentary: Thou shalt not covet - there's just no point
Here we have it. The best private equity house clients in Europe are the following: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR), Permira, Apax Partners, Blackstone and Macquarie Bank. Some may disagree with this, but new Mergermarket rankings show that the fiv...
08 Nov 2007 | 02:28 |
Linklaters finishes €71bn ABN mega-deal marathon
If Linklaters' burgeoning international network was built for anything, it is for deals such as the one that has just seen an international consortium, led by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), acquire Dutch bank ABN Amro for €71.1bn (£49.5bn) after a m...
08 Nov 2007 | 02:24 |
Beachcroft works pro bono on school project
Beachcroft has deployed a 90-lawyer team to work with property client Balfour Beatty on a pro bono project to renovate a primary school in the West Midlands. The national firm provided lawyers from its London, Manchester, Leeds and Bristol offices and...
08 Nov 2007 | 02:13 |
Sidley edges in to advise on $80bn 'superfund' creation
Top US securitisation practice Sidley Austin has secured a high-profile instruction to advise alongside rival Mayer Brown on the cutting-edge $80bn (£38bn) 'superfund' designed to restore confidence in the credit markets, as firms look to secure role...
08 Nov 2007 | 02:11 |
Deal Week Dispatch: 7/11/2007
Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Ashurst, Norton Rose and Travers Smith among the movers and shakers
07 Nov 2007 | 09:00 |
Norton Rose wins BA role opposite Slaughters
Norton Rose has advised opposite Slaughter and May on British Airways' (BA) new $1.7bn (£820m) debt facility agreement. Norton Rose fielded a team from its London office to act for a multinational line-up of lending banks on the multiple option facil...
05 Nov 2007 | 09:48 |
DLA Piper, Eversheds, Addleshaws and Pinsents race ahead of national rivals in Euro M&A tables
DLA Piper, Eversheds, Addleshaw Goddard and Pinsent Masons are well ahead of their national rivals in transactional performance over the last three years, new research has shown. Bespoke data provided exclusively to Legal Week by mergermarket shows th...
01 Nov 2007 | 05:03 |
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