Deal watch: Corporate activity in June 2015 Legal Business US CITY TEAMS TAKE LEAD ROLES ON GHG’S £1.5BN DEBT RESTRUCTURING General Healthcare Group (GHG)’s £1.5bn debt restructuring, involving two…
Dealwatch: CC and Linklaters take lead on GE’s $2.2bn finance unit sale to Japan’s SMBC Legal Business Magic Circle duo Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters have taken lead advisory roles on General Electric’s $2.2bn sale of its…
Dealwatch: A&O and Linklaters sweep roles on €25bn supermarket merger alongside US trio Kathryn McCann The €25bn merger between international food retailers Delhaize Group and Royal Ahold has seen Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters…
Dealwatch: Ashurst and BLP gifted roles on Nutella-maker Ferrero’s takeover bid for Thorntons Sarah Downey LB100 firms Ashurst and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) have both landed leading roles advising on the recent £112m takeover bid by…
Dealwatch: Dickson Minto lands role alongside A&O and Ashurst on $1.7bn ERM sale to Canadian pension funds Kathryn McCann Allen & Overy (A&O), Ashurst and Dickson Minto have won key roles on the off-market acquisition of Environmental Resources Management…
Dealwatch: Pinsents, Travers, CC join Debevoise on £500m Motor Fuel Group disposal Legal Business A trio of LB100 firms –Travers Smith, Clifford Chance, Pinsent Masons – have lined up alongside Debevoise & Plimpton in…
Dealwatch: US trio’s City teams take lead roles on GHG’s £1.5bn three-year debt restructuring alongside Simmons and CC Legal Business Teams at the London offices of Paul Hastings; Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy all took…
Deal watch: Corporate activity in May 2015 Legal Business SLAUGHTERS AND LINKS ACT ON SANTANDER AND UNICREDIT’S ASSET MANAGEMENT TIE-UP Slaughter and May, best-friend firm Uría Menéndez and Davis…
Deal watch: Corporate activity in April 2015 Legal Business GE RESTRUCTURING BRINGS IN RAFT OF ADVISERS A host of firms picked up work on General Electric (GE)’s restructuring, fielding…
Dealwatch: Clifford Chance, Travers Smith, Debevoise and BLP advise on £1.2bn BCA sale Sarah Downey A quartet law firms including Clifford Chance (CC), Travers Smith, Debevoise & Plimpton and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) have all secured…
Dealwatch: Linklaters, HSF and Travers Smith win key roles as Man Group acquisition targets Japan Kathryn McCann Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) won its first M&A mandate for Man Group, as the hedge fund acquired the investment management…
Dealwatch: Linklaters, Davis Polk, and De Brauw act on Vision Express owner’s €1bn IPO Legal Business US heavyweight Davis Polk & Wardwell, Dutch firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek and Magic Circle firm Linklaters have all scored…
Dealwatch: Mayer Brown, Macfarlanes and Gateley act on City Link administration Kathryn McCann Mayer Brown, Macfarlanes and Gateley are all acting on the administration of parcel delivery company City Link following its collapse…
Dealwatch: Freshfields, CC and NRF called in on BT’s £12.5bn purchase of EE Legal Business Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Clifford Chance and Norton Rose Fulbright have won roles as telecoms giant BT plumps to acquire Britain’s…
Dealwatch: Baker & McKenzie and Ropes & Gray lead on Merck’s $8.4bn superbug takeover Legal Business One of the world’s biggest pharma groups, New Jersey-based Merck, instructed an all-female partner team from Baker & McKenzie to…
Deal watch: Corporate activity in November 2014 Legal Business BATTERSEA POWER STATION SEES BAKER & MCKENZIE AND NRF TAKE THE LEAD In one of the largest real estate financings…
Deal watch: Corporate activity in October 2014 Jaishree Kalia MAGIC CIRCLE DUO TAKE KEY ROLES ON MULTIBILLION TRAIN LEASE COMPANY SALE Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer acted for the sellers, a…
Dealwatch: Linklaters and Clifford Chance drive webuyanycar.com owner’s IPO Legal Business As the rush by British companies to float on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) continues apace, Magic circle pair Linklaters…
Dealwatch: Linklaters acts on Microsoft’s $2.5bn deal for Minecraft as the firm sees deal flurry Legal Business Linklaters’ Stockholm outpost closed two major deals last week being selected by Microsoft to handle its $2.5bn acquisition of Mojang,…
Dealwatch: Travers Smith and Baker Botts lead on $1bn demerger; Mills & Reeve and Burges Salmon advise on Co-op farm sale Sarah Downey A healthy uptick in transactional activity has brought a handful of players in line for a windfall, as City-firm Travers…
