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Keen legal insight on the world of business mergers and acquisition
By Mark Goddard | June 3, 2009
Shearman & Sterling has won a lead role on the acquisition of General Motors' Hummer brand by a Chinese industrial manufacturer. Shearman advised China's Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery (Tengzhong) on its purchase, in a deal reportedly worth up to $250m (£151m).
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By Mark Goddard | June 2, 2009
Shearman & Sterling and Bredin Prat have taken lead roles on French dairy and water company Danone's €3bn (£2.6bn) rights issue. The company, whose flagship products include Evian, Activia and Actimel, launched a public offering in France and Switzerland yesterday (1 June) accompanied by an international private placement in a bid to reduce its debt.
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By Mark Goddard | June 2, 2009
Allen & Overy (A&O) has launched a standalone Singapore office after recruiting all lawyers at White & Case's former joint venture (JV) firm, Venture Law. It is understood that the magic circle law firm broke off its own JV with Singapore practice Shook Lin & Bok around a month ago. The two firms had been in a formal alliance since 2000.
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By Mark Goddard | June 2, 2009
Bristows is set to boost its relationship with Kilpatrick Stockton after the intellectual property boutique this month hired the US law firm's last London-based partner.
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By Mark Goddard | May 29, 2009
Field Fisher Waterhouse has made its fifth lateral hire this year with the recruitment of a corporate partner from Addleshaw Goddard.
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By Mark Goddard | May 29, 2009
Cravath Swaine & Moore has taken the lead role on Time Warner's split from AOL, signalling the end of a $124bn (£77bn) tie-up that in 2000 was the biggest deal ever
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By Mark Goddard | May 27, 2009
Falling in the shadow of the vast North American market, it would be fair to say that the Canadian legal market does not typically generate much foreign press coverage. Major US firms take little heed of their conservative Canadian neighbours, while scant attention is paid by the UK and European legal industries.
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By Ben Wheway | November 14, 2008
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr has secured a Frankfurt launch with the hire of four high-profile partners from Mayer Brown, including two practice group heads. The firm has recruited Mayer Brown's co-head of corporate Ruediger Herrmann, intellectual property (IP) head Reinhart Lange, litigation partner Christofer Eggers and regulatory partner Hans-Georg Kamann and will also relocate Berlin corporate partner Christian Crones for the office launch.The new office will focus on corporate, IP, litigation and antitrust in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, energy and cleantech sectors.
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By Legal Week | November 29, 2007
Dimitry Afanasiev would like to get a few things straight. Russian president Vladimir Putin is not a dictator and not everyone with money in Russia is a crook. Fed up with what he sees as the West's - and in particular America's - media bias against Russia, the 38-year-old managing partner of Moscow's fast-rising Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners becomes animated.
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By Ben Wheway | June 12, 2007
A record 48 firms have bagged places on the Government's legal panel, the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) announced today (12 June). The OGC estimates the contracts will be worth a total of around £240m over the next four years.
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