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Keen legal insight on the world of business mergers and acquisition
By Legal Week | July 2, 2009
City partners have seen the lowest levels of M&A activity since early 2003 during the first half of this year, with few optimistic of a significant recovery any time soon. Figures from Legal Week's data provider, Mergermarket, show that in Europe there were 1,449 deals during the first half of 2009 worth $169.1bn (£102bn), compared with 3,175 deals worth $504.9bn (£315bn) during the same period in 2008 and 3,365 deals worth $846bn (£514bn) during the first half of 2007.
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By Legal Week | June 30, 2009
Baker & McKenzie has appointed M&A partner Clive Cook as chair of its Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesian offices. Cook is relocating to the region to take up the newly-created role as of 1 July. He will be based in Singapore and will take overall responsibility for the firm's four branches in the region - Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Singapore - with each office retaining a managing partner of its own.
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By Legal Week | June 30, 2009
A former partner at Latham & Watkins has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 (£6,000) fine and $350,000 (£210,000) in restitution to Latham for defrauding both clients and his own firm. Samuel Fishman, an M&A specialist in the US firm's New York office from 1993 to 2005, pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud in March 2008. He faced a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
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By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
On April 24, 2009, almost unnoticed by the public, an important amendment to the German Foreign Trade and Payments Act (Aussenwirtschaftsgesetz - AWG) entered into force. The amendment materially impacts a significant number of transactions involving German businesses and allows the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (MET) to prohibit investors outside Europe from buying German enterprises or voting stakes of 25% or more in German companies if such acquisitions constitute a threat to the security or public policy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
BLP's unfailingly upbeat head of corporate on hiring Neville, selling Tottenham Hotspur and 'circling back'
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By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
Two out of three partners believe the recession will present attractive opportunities to secure opportunistic mergers, suggesting that the UK market could be set for a run of consolidation. The latest Big Question survey found that 68% of partners believe the downturn will present attractive opportunities to secure domestic mergers. A further 28% thought there may be such deals, leaving only 4% claiming such unions were unlikely.
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By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won lead roles as mining giants Anglo American and Xstrata discuss a potential merger worth £41bn. Anglo-Swiss group Xstrata confirmed this week (21 June) that it had approached the board of Anglo American about a possible union.
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By Legal Week | June 25, 2009
Mishcon de Reya has merged its corporate & commercial and employment practices and, in an unusual move, installed former litigation head James Libson to lead the newly-combined group. The shift gives the combined corporate and employment group 18 partners and 38 other fee earners, of which five partners and around 14 other fee earners come from employment.
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By Legal Week | June 22, 2009
A handful of City firms have won roles on the largest European leveraged buyout (LBO) so far this year. Ashurst, Allen & Overy (A&O), Macfarlanes and Dickson Minto all advised on as Charterhouse Capital Partners' £553m LBO of Candover-owned energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
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By Legal Week | June 22, 2009
Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have won lead roles as mining giants Anglo American and Xstrata discuss a potential merger worth £41bn. Anglo-Swiss group Xstrata confirmed yesterday (21 June) that it had approached the board of Anglo American about a possible union, describing a merger between the two as "highly compelling".
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