Corporate partner Roger Finbow led the Ashurst team acting for Gissings Holdings, one of the UK’s leading business process outsourcing providers, on a £100m pensions and human resources outsourcing deal with the business consultancy Liberata UK. Liberata was advised by Macfarlanes corporate partner John Dodsworth.

Corporate partner Andrew Gillen and head of acquisition finance Jeremy Walsh of Travers Smith Braithwaite have advised underwriter Collins Stewart on the £22m takeover of Coutts Holdings by Media Square. Jones Day corporate partner John Phillips acted for Media Square, while Iain Newman, a corporate partner at Nabarro Nathanson, advised Coutts.