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Beachcroft makes up two partners in London and Ireland offices
Beachcroft has expanded its London and Ireland bases with the hire of two new partners. Former Blake Lapthorn partner Jimmy Desai has joined Beachcroft's City arm as a partner in the commercial services team. Desai will sit within the UK top 30 ...
23 Nov 2010 | 07:17 | 
Slaughters and Herbert Smith advise on £1.7bn food company merger
Slaughter and May and Herbert Smith have taken roles on the merger of Northern Foods and Greencore Group, two food companies seeking to cut costs by combining operations, reports The Am Law Daily. The new company, called Essenta Foods, will be one ...
22 Nov 2010 | 11:56 |
Shearman and Skadden lead on €1.7bn sale of metal packaging co
A duo of US law firms has taken lead roles on a €1.7bn (£1.5bn) deal that will form a new worldwide food packaging group. The deal, which was financed in the high-yield bond market, handed roles to both Shearman & Sterling and Skadden Arps Slate...
06 Oct 2010 | 09:36 |
Freshfields acts alongside Irish law duo on Anglo Irish Bank wind-down
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Arthur Cox and McCann FitzGerald have secured key advisory roles as the Irish Government moves to split troubled lender Anglo Irish Bank into two parts. Anglo Irish has teetered on the edge of insolvency since the co...
10 Sep 2010 | 14:42 |
Magic circle duo head up £1bn Northern Irish energy M&A deal
Magic circle firms Slaughter and May and Linklaters have acted on a £1bn energy M&A deal in Northern Ireland. The transaction, which was announced on 7 July, saw Government-owned electricity utility company ESB buy Northern Ireland Electricity (NI...
21 Jul 2010 | 12:19 |
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Dechert to open new office in Ireland in investment funds push
Dechert is to open in Dublin with the hire of partner Declan O'Sullivan from Irish firm William Fry. The new office will focus on investment funds, investment managers and other fund service providers, becoming the first transatlantic funds practic...
09 Jun 2010 | 15:56 |
Ireland's A&L Goodbody makes up five to partnership
Ireland's A&L Goodbody has announced its annual promotions round with four of the five new partners made up in the firm's Dublin base. The number is an increase on last year's figure when only one lawyer was made up to the partnership in the firm's...
02 Jun 2010 | 15:11 |
Linklaters and Dewey take cross-border roles on $1.34bn zinc mining deal
Linklaters and Dewey & LeBoeuf have taken lead roles on a $1.34bn (£907m) cross-border mining deal which is set to see Indian mining group Vedanta Resources become the world's largest zinc producer. The deal sees Vedanta purchase three zinc mines ...
19 May 2010 | 09:53 |
Republic of Ireland
A year after the recession took hold and rendered the Celtic Tiger clawless, Ireland's local law firms are tentatively voicing hopes of a recovery...
04 May 2010 | 13:29 |
Republic of Ireland: With open arms
Since the inception of the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) over 20 years ago, Ireland has gained a reputation as one of the most advantageous jurisdictions in the world in which to establish an investment fund. With its favourable ta...
27 Apr 2010 | 05:58 |
Republic of Ireland: Bad bank bail-out
The Irish Government will shortly pay in the region of €50bn (£44bn) to its banks for loan books that were previously valued at €77bn (£67bn). The loans are largely classed as land and development loans, with around €19bn (£17bn) of them secu...
27 Apr 2010 | 05:57 |
Eversheds adds partner for Irish investment funds launch
Eversheds has launched an Irish investment funds team in Dublin with a lateral partner hire from Irish firm Dillon Eustace. Stephen Carty joins the UK top 10 firm as head of the new team after 12 years at Dillon, including a spell managing the Iris...
22 Apr 2010 | 17:28 |
SJB acts alongside magic circle duo on €45m private equity refinancing
A trio of City firms have taken lead roles on the refinancing of European payment network, Payzone. The deal saw private equity investor Duke Street inject €45m (£39m) into Ireland-based Payzone, giving the buyout house a controlling stake in th...
18 Feb 2010 | 00:01 |
Ropes & Gray and Mason Hayes lead on billion-dollar private equity buyout
Ropes & Gray and Mason Hayes & Curran have lined up to advise on one of the largest leveraged buyouts in Ireland since the credit crunch - the $1.1bn (£700m) sale of SkillSoft to a private equity consortium. Boston's Ropes and Ireland's Mason Haye...
15 Feb 2010 | 12:30 |
European managing partner of the year
Padraig O Riordain is a law firm leader from the old school. Alongside his duties managing his firm, he is also a business leader and rainmaker. During his tenure as managing partner of Arthur Cox he has presided over period of rapid, but sustainab...
08 Dec 2009 | 07:15 |
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