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White & Case bags Panama Canal development
US giant White & Case has bagged a lead role advising the Republic of Panama on the redevelopment of the Howard Air Force Base next to the Panama Canal.The $700m (£357m) project covers 2,750 acres of land and is expected to create around 20,000 jobs....
08 Mar 2007 | 01:06 | 
Shearman lands $800m Omani power deal
Shearman & Sterling's London arm has advised the debt -providers on an $800m (£408m) Omani power and water project. Shearman London managing partner Kenneth MacRitchie led the team advising HSBC and SMBC. The firm won the mandate through its relation...
08 Mar 2007 | 01:02 |
Freshfields leads $1.8bn materials joint venture
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has taken the lead opposite a raft of US firms to advise on the $1.8bn (£917m) joint venture between building material producers Owens Corning and Saint-Gobain.The magic circle firm advised longstanding client Saint-Gob...
08 Mar 2007 | 01:01 |
Dealmaker: David Zeffman
An Olswang partner and horse racing nut, David Zeffman is also one of Europe's top media lawyers
08 Mar 2007 | 01:00 |
Ashurst joins Slaughters on £1bn Countrywide sale
Ashurst has bagged a major role opposite Slaughter and May acting for longstanding client Countrywide on the £1bn takeover approach from US private equity group Apollo Management. Ashurst is advising Countrywide - the UK's largest estate agent - on a...
06 Mar 2007 | 12:06 |
Slaughters bags £2bn Olympic Village development role
Slaughter and May has bagged a plum role advising on the £2bn development of the 2012 Olympic Village. Slaughters' corporate real estate group is acting for new client Lend Lease on the high-profile project, advising on the development, real estate a...
05 Mar 2007 | 16:12 |
Blackstone backs Ashurst on £1bn Tussauds deal
Ashurst has bagged a lead role advising on the £1bn acquisition of the Tussauds Group by private equity giant Blackstone. The City giant is advising Blackstone and its leisure parks business, Merlin Entertainments, on its £1.03bn purchase of the Tus...
05 Mar 2007 | 16:10 |
Top LBO trio tighten grip but primary market slows
With the acquisition finance market slowing after a hectic 2006, leading finance partners are more eager than ever to position themselves with the select band of sponsors and arranging banks still getting deals to market. Recent months have seen estab...
01 Mar 2007 | 04:26 |
White & Case heads Europe debt tables
White & Case has topped debt tables in Standard & Poor's European Collateralised Debt Obligations of Leveraged Loans 2006 Review, advising on 35 out of 67 cash collateralised loans in Europe. According to the report, the number of deals is almost thre...
01 Mar 2007 | 04:24 |
Cleary and Wachtell take lead on billion-dollar US bank deal
New York leaders Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have bagged plum roles on Spanish bank BBVA's $9.6bn (£4.9bn) acquisition of Compass Bancshares. Cleary represented long-standing client BBVA, with New York M&A partne...
01 Mar 2007 | 04:06 |
Commentary: What lies beneath CC's corporate league table rankings
CC's corporate practice is certainly global, but is it ready to compete with the world's best firms? On the surface, Clifford Chance's (CC's) corporate practice looks normal. The firm might be inflated in some league tables because of bank roles and s...
01 Mar 2007 | 03:30 |
Walker Morris lands £235m Liverpool FC stadium project
Leeds firm Walker Morris has crossed the Pennines to advise Liverpool City Council on a £235m regeneration project in the northwest that paves the way for the construction of Liverpool FC's new stadium.
01 Mar 2007 | 03:28 |
A&O bolsters GE links with French deal double
Allen & Overy (A&O) has scooped its second deal in the space of a week for General Electric (GE) with the City firm advising the global conglomerate on its acquisition of a majority stake in French water treatment company Idex Aquaservices. The magic ...
01 Mar 2007 | 03:27 |
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