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Keen legal insight on the world of business mergers and acquisition
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Simpson, Cravath and Bredin Prat line up on KKR merger deal
By Legal Week | July 22, 2009
A trio of international firms have advised on private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co's (KKR's) merger with its European affiliate KKR Private Equity Investors (KPE), reports The Am Law Daily. The transaction has been approved by directors at KKR and KPE and will be completed on 1 October if a majority of KPE unit holders agree to the merger during voting in the third quarter. The deal could bring KKR one step closer to a public listing in New York, which it delayed last year amid turmoil in the credit markets.
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Squire Sanders boosts Frankfurt arm with hire of Faegre trio
By Legal Week | July 21, 2009
Squire Sanders & Dempsey has bolstered its German practice with a three-lawyer team from Faegre & Benson in Frankfurt. The firm has hired Faegre corporate partner Karl Walter and banking partner Manfred Baumbach as a partner and of counsel respectively. Meanwhile special counsel Louis Wakatsuki, a corporate lawyer, is also joining as of counsel.
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Stephenson Harwood signs up former Ashurst corporate partner
By Legal Week | July 20, 2009
Stephenson Harwood has boosted its corporate practice with the hire of former Ashurst partner Duncan Stiles. Stiles will join the top 40 UK firm on 3 August after leaving Ashurst earlier this year. He had spent 18 years at the firm, making partner in 2000.
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Overworked corporate counsel cut back on use of outside firms
By Legal Week | July 20, 2009
Corporations are using fewer law firms because short-staffed corporate legal departments have little time to manage outside firms, according to new research. The study, carried out by BTI Consulting Group, canvassed 550 companies with average revenues of £16bn and average annual legal spend of £12m.
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Halliwells corporate trio quit London office to join DAC
By Legal Week | July 20, 2009
Halliwells is to lose a heavyweight corporate trio to Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC), leaving the national firm with just one corporate partner in London. Former senior partner Clive Garston - currently a consultant at the top 40 firm - is set to join DAC in September alongside London corporate partners Ian Brent and Steven Raize. They will be joined by Halliwells corporate solicitor Melissa Needham.
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Weil Gotshal, DLA and Links lead on $2bn Middle East media merger
By Legal Week | July 17, 2009
Weil Gotshal & Manges, DLA Piper and Linklaters have taken roles on a $2bn (£1.2bn) merger which will create the largest pay TV company in the Middle East and North Africa, reports The Am Law Daily. Weil Gotshal, which opened its first office in the Middle East this January in Dubai, advised Showtime Arabia on the deal, which sees it join forces with TV company The Orbit Group.
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Freshfields and A&O advise on $3.4bn China green energy deal
By Legal Week | July 17, 2009
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy (A&O) have taken roles on the largest Chinese M&A deal so far this year, reports The Am Law Daily. The deal, which is set to close this week, sees Chinese power company GCL-Poly Energy acquire leading solar-cell parts manufacturer Jiangsu Zhongneng Polysilicon Technology Development for $3.4bn (£2.1bn).
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Bevan Brittan boosts partner profits by 35% as revenue remains static
By Legal Week | July 16, 2009
Bevan Brittan has seen profits per equity partner (PEP) increase by 35%, the firm announced today (16 July). PEP for 2008-09 stood at £222,000 compared with £164,000 in 2007-08, with the increase coming against a marginal dip in turnover to £41.1m compared to £41.6m the previous year. Overall profits increased by 56% to £8.6m.
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Top law firms drafted in to advise on Liberty's £510m buyout of Pearl Group
By Legal Week | July 16, 2009
A raft firms have landed roles advising on the £510m buyout of Pearl Group by acquisition vehicle Liberty International. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Lovells, Clifford Chance (CC), Olswang and Greenberg Traurighave all won roles on the deal, which reduces Pearl's debts.
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DLA and Dickson Minto advise on Southampton FC sale
By Legal Week | July 16, 2009
DLA Piper has advised administrator Begbies Traynor on the sale of Southampton Football Club to Switzerland's Markus Liebherr. The deal, which was announced last week (8 July), saw DLA Piper London restructuring head Michael Fiddy advising Mark Fry and David Hudson - the administrators to Southampton Leisure Holdings - on its sale of Southampton FC to Liebherr, for an undisclosed sum.
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