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Keen legal insight on the world of business mergers and acquisition
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Herbert Smith wins role alongside Davis Polk on $3bn pharma M&A deal
By Legal Week | August 28, 2009
Herbert Smith has picked up a role advising drug company Warner Chilcott on the UK aspects of its $3.1bn (£1.8bn) acquisition of the pharmaceutical business of Procter & Gamble (P&G). The City firm advised regular client Warner Chilcott alongside Davis Polk & Wardwell, with the deal approved earlier this week (24 August).
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Former Hogan UK corporate chief takes non-exec role at tech company
By Legal Week | August 25, 2009
Hogan & Hartson's former UK corporate head Jonathan Coppin has emerged as a non-executive director at Yorkshire technology company Metalysis. Coppin spent more than 20 years as a City lawyer, including stints as a partner with Norton Rose and Shearman & Sterling, before announcing his intention to leave Hogan and the law in November 2007.
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Cleary advises on billion-dollar takeover of stricken US bank
By Legal Week | August 25, 2009
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has taken the lead role on financial services company BBVA Compass's acquisition of Guaranty Financial Group, a Texas-based bank teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Last Friday (21 August) the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) took possession of Guaranty, before turning it over to BBVA, which gained $12bn (£7.3bn) in assets and $11.5bn (£7bn) in liabilities.
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Sullivan's City arm takes lead role on $2bn Rio Tinto sell-off
By Legal Week | August 18, 2009
Sullivan & Cromwell's London office has sealed its second deal for Rio Tinto in little more than a month, advising on the $2bn (£1.2bn) disposal of four packaging business units of its subsidiary Alcan. The mining giant is offloading Alcan's tobacco and drugs packaging units as well as its European and Asian food packaging arms to Australian group Amcor.
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CC and Freshfields help VW and Porsche tie the knot
By Legal Week | August 17, 2009
Clifford Chance (CC) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have advised Volkswagen and Porsche as the two European car icons took the first step in creating a combined company that could challenge Toyota's dominance in global auto sales. Under the terms of the new merger agreement, VW will initially spend $4.7bn (£2.9bn) to acquire a 42% stake in Porsche as the first step in a long-term combination that will be finalised by 2011. Volkswagen will issue new stock in 2010 to fund that purchase.
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CC corporate crime trio join DLA Piper in Germany
By Legal Week | August 13, 2009
DLA Piper has hired a three-lawyer corporate crime team from Clifford Chance (CC) in Germany, including Frankfurt-based partner Juergen Taschke. Taschke will join DLA Piper's Frankfurt office on 1 September along with two associates.
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Memery Crystal lines up alongside Freshfields on £532m takeover deal
By Legal Week | August 13, 2009
London boutique Memery Crystal has won a role opposite Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer on the £532.1m acquisition of Emerald Energy by China's Sinochem. The firm is a longstanding adviser to FTSE 250 company Emerald Energy and is fielding a team of lawyers led by London corporate partner Andrew Titmas on the deal. The mandate sees the firm advising opposite Freshfields, which was drafted in to act for state-owned Sinochem on Sinochem Resources UK's recommended acquisition of Emerald Energy, which is still awaiting shareholder approval.
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A&O wins Lloyds role on £235m investment management sell-off
By Legal Week | August 12, 2009
Allen & Overy (A&O) has landed the lead role for Lloyds Banking Group on the sale of its Insight Investment Management subsidiary to Bank of New York Mellon for £235m. The magic circle firm was drafted in to advise Lloyds on the deal, which comprises Insight's external fund management operation, fielding a team led by corporate partner Alistair Asher.
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Ashurst set to lose senior partner quartet from Milan office
By Legal Week | August 11, 2009
Ashurst is set to lose four partners in Milan, including the local office's two leaders. Daniele Raynaud, who heads the Milan office, and Riccardo Agostinelli, Milan managing partner, are both set to leave the top 10 City firm. In addition, finance partner Lorenzo Vernetti and corporate partner Stefano Roncoroni are also departing. According to Ashurst, Agostinelli and Vernetti are leaving to join one firm, while Raynaud and Roncoroni will join another, although their destinations are unknown.
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Macfarlanes and Lovells head up £25m Friends Reunited sell-off
By Legal Week | August 11, 2009
City heavyweights Macfarlanes and Lovells have scored advisory roles on ITV's sell-off of social networking site Friends Reunited for just £25m. Macfarlanes corporate partner Nicola Richards has advised the acquirer, online technology and publishing business brightsolid, and its Dundee-based owner DC Thomson, which is one of Scotland's biggest privately-owned media and publishing groups.
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