Mergers & Acquisitions

Keen legal insight on the world of business mergers and acquisition

  • Shearman in top gear on GM's Hummer sell-off

    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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  • Shearman leads on €3bn Danone rights issue

    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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  • A&O hires Venture Law team to go it alone in Singapore

    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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  • Bristows to build links with Kilpatrick after US firm's City exit

    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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  • Field Fisher signs up Addleshaws corporate partner

    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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  • Cravath takes top role on AOL-Time Warner split

    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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  • Canada: Canada's sisters in law

    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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  • WilmerHale hits Frankfurt with Mayer Brown hires

    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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  • The firm that came in from the cold

    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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  • Government names record 48 firms on super-panel

    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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