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Kirkland and Freshfields take lead roles on $5bn pharma buyout
Kirkland & Ellis and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have advised on the $5bn (£3.3bn) acquisition of German drugmaker Ratiopharm by Teva Pharmaceuticals, the world's leading generic drug company, reports The Am Law Daily. Kirkland took a lead role...
19 Mar 2010 | 10:40
Hammonds and CC advise on £281m healthcare buyout by Bridgepoint
Hammonds and Clifford Chance (CC) have won leading roles on Bridgepoint Capital's £281m acquisition of social care provider Care UK. Hammonds corporate partner Trevor Ingle advised health and social care provider Care UK, a longstanding client of ...
18 Mar 2010 | 00:01
Freshfields appoints Paris partner as new head of MENA corporate
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has named a new head of the firm's Middle East and North Africa (MENA) corporate practice. Bertrand Pellet, who has been based in Paris for the past seven years, will succeed corporate partner David Higgins in the rol...
16 Mar 2010 | 14:54
Simpson Thacher and Wachtell lead on Apax's $3bn Tommy Hilfiger sale
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have taken lead roles on buyout house Apax Partners' sale of Tommy Hilfiger to US clothing giant Phillips-Van Heusen for $3bn (£1.9bn). The sale comes around four years after Apax purchas...
16 Mar 2010 | 10:27
OC makes French Connection with debut role on private equity sell-off
Osborne Clarke has taken a lead role advising French Connection on its sale of the Nicole Farhi fashion label to private equity house OpenGate Capital - the firm's first instruction for the clothing retailer. Osborne Clarke corporate partner and co...
15 Mar 2010 | 12:43
Linklaters takes lead role for BP on $7bn global expansion
Linklaters has taken a key role alongside five other firms on BP's $7bn (£4.6bn) acquisition of assets in Azerbaijan, Brazil, and the Gulf of Mexico from oil and gas producer Devon Energy, reports The Am Law Daily. Linklaters M&A partner Joshua Be...
12 Mar 2010 | 10:37
Norton Rose adds partner quartet in Australia
Norton Rose has bulked up its Australia presence with the addition of four new partners. The partner hires, which are split between Sydney, Brisbane and Perth, come after the firm's merger with Australian firm Deacons went live at the start of this...
11 Mar 2010 | 12:49
Dentons re-elects City and Dubai partner duo to main strategy board
Denton Wilde Sapte has reappointed two members to its main strategy board. The firm has elected City-based head of restructuring and insolvency Mark Andrews to a fourth non-consecutive term on the partnership board, while Dubai corporate partner St...
11 Mar 2010 | 00:01
Dealmaker: Steven Fox
Ashurst corporate partner Steven Fox takes wise counsel from The Hungry Caterpillar...
11 Mar 2010 | 00:01 | 
Eversheds and CC lead on £250m UK retail property joint venture
Eversheds and Clifford Chance (CC) have won leading roles advising on a £250m joint venture between property investment company NewRiver and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) to invest in UK retail property. The Guernsey-registered join...
10 Mar 2010 | 12:02
Sullivan and Weil lead on $15.5bn AIG sell-off
Sullivan & Cromwell and Weil Gotshal & Manges have taken key roles on AIG's $15.5bn (£10.4bn) sale of its life insurance unit to rival company MetLife, reports The Am Law Daily. Sullivan advised AIG on the sale of the American Life Insurance Compa...
09 Mar 2010 | 14:14
Ashurst Rusal contact partner joins Stephenson Harwood corporate team
Stephenson Harwood has strengthened its City corporate practice with the hire of Ashurst corporate and commercial partner Andrew Edge. Edge has been with Ashurst for 17 years and has been a partner since 2002. He recently took an English law role o...
03 Mar 2010 | 12:37
Magic circle trio take roles on Babcock's £1.1bn VT Group bid
A trio of magic circle law firms have won advisory roles relating to Babcock International's £1.1bn unsolicited bid for government support services company VT Group. Clifford Chance (CC), Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have all pick...
03 Mar 2010 | 11:48
Linklaters acts for private equity house on €850m Nordic LBO
Linklaters has advised on the largest leveraged buy-out in the Nordic region since the onset of the credit crunch. A team from the magic circle law firm's London office has advised private equity house Triton on its e850m (£761.5m) acquisition of ...
03 Mar 2010 | 11:37
A&O and Weil Gotshal bag roles on $615m crisps buyout
Allen & Overy (A&O) and Weil Gotshal & Manges have taken lead roles on the $615m (£412m) sale of Kettle Foods. US snacks group Diamond Foods is set to buy the crisp manufacturer from current owner Lion Capital in a cash deal, which was definitivel...
02 Mar 2010 | 11:26
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