Deals & Transactions

Relates to mergers between law firms and big deals law firms handle for clients, including financing of those deals.

  • Hogan bags $4.8bn mandate as aggressive bid tactics rule

    By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | May 16, 2007

    Norilsk Nickel calls in Hogan in competitive bid as aggressive acquirers power M&A market

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  • SJ Berwin checks in top deal with Vector as £2.64bn float goes live

    By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | May 16, 2007

    SJ Berwin has landed its largest-ever mandate in the thriving hotel and leisure sector, with the City firm advising Vector Hospitality on its £2.64bn float on the London Stock Exchange.

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  • Addleshaws and DLA check in for Yorkshire airport sale

    By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | May 16, 2007

    Bridgepoint hands airport role to Addleshaws while Linklaters City HQ takes first mandate

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  • Latham, CC and Camerons take lead roles on $565m Candover buy-out

    By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | May 16, 2007

    Latham & Watkins, Clifford Chance (CC) and CMS Cameron McKenna have advised on the $565m (£283m) management buy-out of Capital Safety Group from Electra Private Equity.

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  • Wachtell, Cleary bag $4.5bn optician buy-out

    By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | May 16, 2007

    Elite Manhattan firms Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have bagged the lead roles on Warburg Pincus' $4.5bn (£2.3bn) acquisition of opticians Bausch & Lomb. Cleary advised the buyer, with M&A partners Robert Davis and David Leinwand spearheading the New York-based team alongside finance partner Meme Stowers.

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  • CC and LeBoeuf lead Telefonica's Endemol sale

    By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | May 15, 2007

    Clifford Chance (CC) has bagged a lead role on the €2.62bn (£1.78bn) acquisition of a 75% stake in Dutch television company Endemol from Spanish telecoms group Telefonica. The deal, which closed yesterday (14 May), sees a consortium comprising Italian media company Mediaset and Spanish subsidiary Gestevision Telecinco, Endemol founder John De Mol and a Goldman Sachs fund acquire Endemol Investment Holding, which owns a 75% stake in Endemol.

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  • CC New York lands $5bn Terra Firma deal

    By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | May 15, 2007

    Clifford Chance's (CC's) New York office has bagged a plum role advising Terra Firma on its acquisition of Pegasus Aviation Finance for $5.2bn (£2.6bn) from a partnership of investment funds. CC is fielding team out of its New York and London bases, with US co-chair of M&A Brian Hoffmann leading the team in Manhattan and London-based corporate finance partner David Pearson and finance partner Geoffrey White playing key roles in the City.

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  • Schulte Roth joins NY giants on Chrysler sale

    By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | May 14, 2007

    New York outfit Schulte Roth & Zabel has bagged a lead role alongside Milbank Tweed Hadley McCloy, Shearman & Sterling and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom on Cerberus' acquisition of DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler division in a €5.5bn (£3.8bn) deal. Schulte Roth and Milbank are representing the US buy-out house on M&A and financing of the bid respectively, while Shearman and Skadden are representing DaimlerChrysler on the sale.

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  • Linklaters wins first UK Bridgepoint mandate

    By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | May 10, 2007

    Linklaters has advised Bridgepoint Capital for the first time in London, acting on the buy-out house's acquisition of Gambro Healthcare. The City giant, which has a relationship with the client in Stockholm and Paris, advised on the acquisition of the dialysis care services division of Swedish-based Gambro Group for an undisclosed sum. Press reports have put the value of the deal as high as €600m (£407.5m). The business is the second-largest of its type in Europe and has 155 clinics across 14 countries.

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  • Ashurst bags first deal for DIC on E850m German buy-out

    By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | May 9, 2007

    Ashurst has closed its first-ever deal for Dubai International Capital (DIC), advising the highly-coveted investment house on a A850m (£579m) deal in Germany.

    1 minute read

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