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Mergers & Acquisitions
Keen legal insight on the world of business mergers and acquisition
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Bakers names new chair to oversee Southeast Asia offices
By Legal Week | June 30, 2009
Baker & McKenzie has appointed M&A partner Clive Cook as chair of its Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesian offices. Cook is relocating to the region to take up the newly-created role as of 1 July. He will be based in Singapore and will take overall responsibility for the firm's four branches in the region - Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Singapore - with each office retaining a managing partner of its own.
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Former Latham partner jailed for defrauding clients and firm
By Legal Week | June 30, 2009
A former partner at Latham & Watkins has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 (£6,000) fine and $350,000 (£210,000) in restitution to Latham for defrauding both clients and his own firm. Samuel Fishman, an M&A specialist in the US firm's New York office from 1993 to 2005, pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud in March 2008. He faced a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
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Germany and Austria: Broad measures
By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
On April 24, 2009, almost unnoticed by the public, an important amendment to the German Foreign Trade and Payments Act (Aussenwirtschaftsgesetz - AWG) entered into force. The amendment materially impacts a significant number of transactions involving German businesses and allows the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (MET) to prohibit investors outside Europe from buying German enterprises or voting stakes of 25% or more in German companies if such acquisitions constitute a threat to the security or public policy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Dealmaker: John Bennett
By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
BLP's unfailingly upbeat head of corporate on hiring Neville, selling Tottenham Hotspur and 'circling back'
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Partners predict market consolidation as downturn drives merger interest
By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
Two out of three partners believe the recession will present attractive opportunities to secure opportunistic mergers, suggesting that the UK market could be set for a run of consolidation. The latest Big Question survey found that 68% of partners believe the downturn will present attractive opportunities to secure domestic mergers. A further 28% thought there may be such deals, leaving only 4% claiming such unions were unlikely.
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Magic circle duo lead on £41bn mega-merger
By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won lead roles as mining giants Anglo American and Xstrata discuss a potential merger worth £41bn. Anglo-Swiss group Xstrata confirmed this week (21 June) that it had approached the board of Anglo American about a possible union.
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Mishcons merges practices with Libson to head new group
By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
Mishcon de Reya has merged its corporate & commercial and employment practices and, in an unusual move, installed former litigation head James Libson to lead the newly-combined group. The shift gives the combined corporate and employment group 18 partners and 38 other fee earners, of which five partners and around 14 other fee earners come from employment.
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City firms line up on £553m LBO as debt market hints at revival
By Legal Week | June 22, 2009
A handful of City firms have won roles on the largest European leveraged buyout (LBO) so far this year. Ashurst, Allen & Overy (A&O), Macfarlanes and Dickson Minto all advised on as Charterhouse Capital Partners' £553m LBO of Candover-owned energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
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Linklaters and Freshfields lead on £41bn mining mega-merger
By Legal Week | June 22, 2009
Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won lead roles as mining giants Anglo American and Xstrata discuss a potential merger worth £41bn. Anglo-Swiss group Xstrata confirmed yesterday (21 June) that it had approached the board of Anglo American about a possible union, describing a merger between the two as "highly compelling".
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DLA Piper lays off 9% of workforce in Middle East offices
By Legal Week | June 18, 2009
DLA Piper has launched a second round of job cuts in the Middle East, with the firm cutting 9% of staff in the region, including one partner. In total, 22 staff will lose their jobs in the region, including nine fee earners. Staff were informed last week, with the cuts taking effect immediately.
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