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Linklaters high yield hire heads up firm's team on House of Fraser bond issue
Linklaters and Latham & Watkins have taken lead roles on department store group House of Fraser's £250m bond issue. The issuance, part of an effort by the company to refinance debt taken on when it was taken private in 2006, saw Linklaters take th...
14 Jun 2011 | 10:26 | 
A&O and Ogilvy on target with €3.4bn Bombardier financing
Allen & Overy (A&O) and Norton Rose’s Canadian merger partner Ogilvy Renault have taken lead roles on a €3.4bn (£3bn) financing deal for transport manufacturer Bombardier. Montreal-based Bombardier turned to legacy Ogilvy for advice, while mag...
09 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
Bakers and Addleshaws lead as Jones Lang acquires King Sturge for £197m
Baker & McKenzie and Addleshaw Goddard have taken lead roles on the £197m merger between global real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle and property consultancy King Sturge. Bakers was instructed by longstanding client Jones Lang LaSalle on the deal, ...
09 Jun 2011 | 00:00 |
Bakers and Addleshaws advise on merger of Jones Lang and King Sturge
Baker & McKenzie and Addleshaw Goddard have taken lead roles on the £197m merger between global real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle and property consultancy King Sturge. Bakers was instructed by longstanding client Jones Lang LaSalle on the deal, ...
06 Jun 2011 | 10:12 |
Freshfields, Norton Rose, Ashurst advise on Betfred's Tote purchase
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Norton Rose and Ashurst have taken lead roles on UK-based bookmaker Betfred's winning bid for state-owned betting company Tote Sport in a deal worth £265m. Freshfields advised the winning bidder Betfred, the UK's fo...
03 Jun 2011 | 12:07 |
Addleshaws and Freshfields win roles on sale of German shopping centre
Addleshaw Goddard has taken a role alongside Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer on the €270m (£235m) sale of a 50% stake in German ‘super-regional’ shopping centre CentrO. The deal, which was completed on 10 May, saw Stadium Group sell a non-contr...
02 Jun 2011 | 00:25 |
Sullivan, Shearman and Hogan lead on £1bn Jaguar high-yield bond
Sullivan & Cromwell, Shearman & Sterling and Hogan Lovells have lined up on Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) first high-yield bond offering since it was taken over by Tata Motors in 2008, in a deal valued at £1bn. The company – which appointed Hogan Lo...
02 Jun 2011 | 00:23 |
CC and Links secure lead roles on bond-backed finance for £1.2bn deal
Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters have advised on the financing of a £1.2bn European private equity deal. The deal, which closed earlier this month (5 May), saw Swedish buyout house EQT buy local refrigeration products manufacturer Dometic for S...
26 May 2011 | 00:00 |
City duo win roles on Middle East jeweller’s debt restructuring
Ashurst and Clifford Chance (CC) have picked up key roles on the AED3bn (£505m) debt restructuring of Middle Eastern jewellery manufacturer and retailer Damas International. Ashurst won a first-time appointment to advise Damas on the restructuring...
26 May 2011 | 00:00 |
OC, Bakers and Skadden head up $975m Motorola-Nokia deal
Osborne Clarke has taken a role alongside a number of US firms on Motorola's $975m (£600m) sale of assets to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). The deal, which was announced in July 2010 and completed on 30 April 2011, sees NSN take responsibility for ...
23 May 2011 | 12:47 |
Simmons and Taylor Wessing head up HMV's £53m Waterstone's sale
Simmons & Simmons and Taylor Wessing have taken headline roles on the £53m sale of the Waterstone's book chain by struggling music retailer HMV. Simmons took the lead role for the seller, fielding a team led by City M&A partner Giles Dennison, whi...
23 May 2011 | 11:34 |
Freshfields and Camerons lead on €9.6bn pharma acquisition
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and CMS Cameron McKenna have advised on the largest European private equity deal since before the global financial crisis, worth €9.6bn (£8.4bn). The two law firms have advised as Japanese pharma company Takeda mak...
20 May 2011 | 14:50 |
Weil and SJB head up $950m private equity buyout of environmental consultancy
Weil Gotshal & Manges, SJ Berwin and Dickson Minto have scored key roles on Charterhouse Capital Partners' acquisition of a majority stake in environmental consultancy Environmental Resources Management (ERM) from Bridgepoint. The Charterhouse-led ...
19 May 2011 | 15:55 |
Will the Hackgate scandal finally usher in exemplary damages?
It is a mark of the media frenzy over privacy injunctions that the topic has continued to hog the headlines even while a related issue of arguably far more significance has played out: the dramatic escalation of the phone-hacking scandal. True, the is...
19 May 2011 | 00:00 |
SJ Berwin joins firms to help resurrect AllSaints’ fortunes
SJ Berwin has joined a number of law firms advising on the private equity rescue of troubled London fashion chain AllSaints Spitalfields. The top-20 City law firm secured the mandate to advise the buyers – Lion Capital and Goode Partners – on t...
19 May 2011 | 00:00 |
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