Meal Deal Maker: LB lunches with top City partners – Willkie’s Gavin Gordon
In the first of Legal Business’s new Meal Deal Maker series, Gavin Gordon, chair of Willkie’s European private equity team,…
Deals
Kirkland and Davis Polk among firms advising on Sycamore’s $10bn take-private of Walgreens
Kirkland & Ellis, Ropes & Gray, Debevoise and Plimpton, Latham & Watkins, Davis Polk & Wardwell and Bass Berry &…
Dealwatch: Baker McKenzie and Gibson Dunn lead on $5bn data centre investment while US trio orchestrate $27bn energy deal
Baker McKenzie and Gibson Dunn have played key roles in KKR’s $5bn investment in a stake in Gulf Data Hub,…
‘A win-win solution’: Paul Hastings advising on investor bid to acquire TikTok’s US operations
Paul Hastings is advising a consortium of investors on an all-cash offer to acquire TikTok’s US operations and assets from…
Dialling in the deal – the inside track on the Vodafone/Three merger
Whatever metric you track, 2023 was a poor year for M&A. One bright spark amid the gloom was the proposed…
‘A cautious return’: M&A activity picks up pace as Skadden and Slaughter and May top global and UK rankings respectively
Following a less than stellar 2023, M&A activity in Q1 has picked up pace as market confidence grows, according to…
Dealwatch: US firms lead on household names The Body Shop and Yodel as restructuring returns
The long-dormant restructuring market has had a shot in the arm recently, with the City teams of US stalwarts winning…
Dealwatch: Big-ticket life sciences activity picks up again as overseas investors buy into the UK
The broader life sciences sector saw a spate of deal activity in recent weeks, with two acquisitions over the billion-dollar…
Sponsored briefing: Reviewing the M&A landscape
Milbank’s Lisa O’Neill, Andrea Hamilton and Lara Watt on developments in the M&A market as well as the strength of…
The Last Word: Gender agenda
‘Firms have to be flexible and acknowledge they may have fantastic senior associates who want to put their partnership ambitions…
M&A veterans: Got the T-shirt – M&A Hall of Famers on closing deals in a crisis
A global pandemic, the war in Ukraine, soaring energy prices and inflation, as well as interest rate hikes significantly pushing…
‘The wind was taken out of everyone’s sails’ – the M&A report 2023
2021 was always going to be a tough year to follow. Quite how tough, few could have foreseen at the…