DEALS
UK trio win out in Standard Life Investments panel review
Dundas & Wilson, Herbert Smith and Addleshaw Goddard have all been reappointed to Standard Life Investments' real estate funds panel. The firms successfully tendered to remain on the real estate funds panel for another three years, with Dundas & Wi...
26 Oct 2009 | 14:57
Dealmaker: Mark Stewart
Clifford Chance's Mark Stewart on the changes facing the profession and cringeworthy jargon...
22 Oct 2009 | 01:52
Magic circle trio check in for lead roles on BAA's £1.5bn Gatwick sale
Allen & Overy (A&O), Slaughter and May and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have taken lead roles on airport operator BAA's £1.5bn sale of Gatwick airport to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). Slaughters took the lead for GIP, acting opposite Fre...
21 Oct 2009 | 12:14
CC, Freshfields and Latham lead on billion-pound Barclays stake sale
Clifford Chance (CC), Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Latham & Watkins have taken key roles on Qatar Holdings' sell-off of part of its stake in Barclays Bank. The sale - which amounts to around 50% of the warrants the Middle East investment comp...
20 Oct 2009 | 15:52
Freshfields reshuffles corporate: can the winning streak continue?
Good bench, strength in depth, sensible management and flair - you would be forgiven for thinking Deal Week has lapsed into football punditry. But even if it can't match the glamour of the Premier League there's one team that currently gets City lawye...
20 Oct 2009 | 08:41
Freshfields, CC lead on CVC's $2bn buyout of AB InBev CEE breweries
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised key private equity client CVC Capital Partners on the biggest buyout of the year so far. CVC has agreed a deal worth $2.23bn (£1.36bn) to purchase the Central and Eastern European operations of Anheuser-B...
16 Oct 2009 | 11:14
A&O takes top role on €1bn leveraged finance deal
Allen & Overy (A&O) has advised on the €1.025bn (£955m) financing of the acquisition of a majority stake in Italian natural gas distributor Enel Rete Gas (ERG). The magic circle firm drafted in a team from its City headquarters to advise a conso...
14 Oct 2009 | 14:24
Debevoise and Simpson Thacher lead on $2.15bn AIG sell-off
Debevoise & Plimpton and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett have picked up lead roles on AIG's sale of its life insurance business in Taiwan to a Hong Kong-based investment company. Primus Financial will pay $2.15bn (£1.35bn) to acquire AIG's Nan Shan uni...
14 Oct 2009 | 13:20
Commentary: (Here's hoping) things can only get better on the M&A front
M&A activity has picked in recent weeks but, as the latest statistics show, it couldn't have come off a much lower base, in Europe at least. The plain fact is that the third quarter M&A figures from Legal Week's exclusive data provider Mergermarket ma...
14 Oct 2009 | 10:43
Bond Pearce and Blake Lapthorn land roles on £100m defence financing
Bond Pearce and Blake Lapthorn have won roles advising on the £100m financing of an acquisition by defence company Chemring. Bond Pearce picked up a mandate to advise its longstanding client Chemring on the financing aspects of its acquisition of ...
14 Oct 2009 | 10:43
US trio win lead roles on £678m Eastern European telecoms deals
A trio of US firms have taken lead roles on a series of deals in Central and Eastern Europe which will give buyout house Mid Europa Partners a controlling stake in Hungarian telecoms company Invitel. Shearman & Sterling, White & Case and Simpson Th...
14 Oct 2009 | 10:43
Dewey takes top role on Aviva's US listing
Dewey & LeBoeuf has won a lead role advising insurance giant Aviva on its New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) listing. The world's fifth-largest insurance group, formerly known as Norwich Union in the UK, will make a secondary listing on the NYSE on 20 ...
08 Oct 2009 | 13:53
Commentary: High-yield debt in Europe - let's take this from the top
Here we go again. Nearly a decade since making abortive first attempts to break into the high-yield market, a handful of UK law firms are making a renewed effort with a product line that many are predicting - once again - will go mainstream in Europe....
08 Oct 2009 | 01:01
Care home operator debt restructure hands roles to Macfarlanes and A&O
Macfarlanes and Allen & Overy (A&O) have scored roles as care home operator Four Seasons Healthcare restructured its £1.5bn debt pile after more than a year of negotiations with lenders. The deal, which signed last week (28 October), saw some 30 l...
08 Oct 2009 | 01:01
Links and Freshfields dominate Euro M&A but activity hits six-year low
Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have dominated the battered European M&A markets over the first three quarters of 2009. Research from Mergermarket exclusively provided to Legal Week shows Freshfields topping the European rankings by v...
08 Oct 2009 | 01:01
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