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Raft of firms lead on Soho House majority stake sale
Olswang, Latham & Watkins, Ashurst and Withers have all taken a role on the sale of a majority stake in private members’ club chain Soho House Group. Olswang advised Soho House owners Richard Caring and Nick Jones with a team led by City corpo...
27 Jan 2012 | 00:00
Links leads on HSBC's $801m LatAm sell-off
Linklaters is among six law firms to have taken roles for HSBC on the $801m (£512m) sale of its Latin American businesses to Colombia's Banco Davivienda, reports The Am Law Daily. The deal will see Banco Davivienda pick up 136 bank branches in Cos...
26 Jan 2012 | 07:04
Tods Murray bulks up in private client with Edinburgh boutique merger
Scots firm Tods Murray and Edinburgh boutique Fyfe Ireland are to merge, creating a combined practice to be known as Tods Murray LLP. Fyfe partners Greig Honeyman and Drew Taylor will take eight lawyers and six support staff to Tods Murray's Edinbu...
24 Jan 2012 | 12:38
Linklaters takes key China role on closely-watched Thames Water deal
Linklaters has taken the lead role for China Investment Corporation (CIC) on its acquisition of a 9% stake in Thames Water. The high-profile deal - which marks the Chinese sovereign wealth fund's first major UK share purchase - saw the magic circle...
24 Jan 2012 | 07:00
Merger mania again - but has anything changed this time?
You can forget all the forensic stuff about strategic tie-ups; large UK mergers usually don't make it over the line because the partners haven't wanted them enough and didn't sufficiently fear the consequences of not doing a deal...
20 Jan 2012 | 15:47
Kirkland City chief Learner quits to take up US private equity role
Kirkland & Ellis London head Jim Learner is set to leave the firm this summer to take up a role at a US private equity house. Learner, who was involved in launching the US firm’s London office in 1994 and is now responsible for all European operatio...
20 Jan 2012 | 11:07
The enlightened GC - turning risk avoidance into competitive advantage
Bond Pearce’s Nathan Peacey and Jon Cooper on how GCs can turn risk avoidance to competitive advantage
20 Jan 2012 | 00:00 | 
Hogan Lovells, Browne Jacobson lead on PE sale of Nicole Farhi fashion brand
Hogan Lovells and Browne Jacobson have taken lead roles on private equity group Kelso Place Asset Management’s acquisition of a majority stake in fashion brand Nicole Farhi. Kelso Place has purchased the stake from OpenGate Capital, which has own...
20 Jan 2012 | 00:00
Pinsents and McGrigors in merger talks over near-£300m tie-up
Pinsent Masons and McGrigors are in merger talks over a deal that could create a combined firm with revenues of around £282m. The talks have been confirmed by both firms today (19 January) with partner votes expected to be held in February. If ...
19 Jan 2012 | 15:26
Macfarlanes corporate partner exits firm for new in-house role
Macfarlanes corporate partner Rachel Bond has left the firm and taken up an in-house role at financial services company Byhiras. Bond left Macfarlanes at the close of 2011 and joined Byhiras earlier this month. Her role at the company, which was la...
19 Jan 2012 | 08:36 | 2 comments
Cobbetts confirms early-stage merger discussions with DWF
Cobbetts has confirmed it is in merger talks with DWF, with senior partner Stephen Benson describing the discussions as being at an "early" stage. In a statement, Benson said: "I can confirm that we are in early discussions with DWF, but with respe...
18 Jan 2012 | 16:47
CC leads for RBS on $7.3bn sale of aircraft leasing business
Clifford Chance (CC) has clinched the key adviser role on the Royal Bank of Scotland's $7.3bn (£4.7bn) sale of its aircraft leasing business to Japanese banking giant Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation The deal, which has kept a large CC team bus...
17 Jan 2012 | 11:05
Latham builds Paris with double hire from Debevoise
Latham & Watkins has strengthened its Paris corporate practice with the hire of two partners from Debevoise & Plimpton - including the co-head of the US firm’s Paris arm Patrick Laporte. Laporte and fellow corporate partner Pierre-Louis Clero both j...
16 Jan 2012 | 14:01
Macfarlanes adds hedge funds team with City boutique takeover
Macfarlanes has taken over specialist hedge fund law firm D Harris & Co International (DHCI) in a bid to grow the firm's footprint in the hedge fund market. All of DHCI's nine City-based employees have joined Macfarlanes' private equity practice to...
16 Jan 2012 | 10:54
Travers Smith secures pension work mandate for Vodafone
Travers Smith has won Vodafone as a first-time client, with the City firm securing a mandate to carry out pensions work for the telecoms giant. The firm was appointed in December last year, despite missing out on a spot on Vodafone’s new UK panel...
13 Jan 2012 | 00:00 |
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