. Travers Smith corporate partner Edmund Reed has advised UK private equity house Phoenix Equity Partners on its £124m acquisition of UK waste management company ASCO. Paull & Williamsons corporate partner Jamie Stark advised ASCO.

. Matheson Ormsby Prentice corporate partner George Brady has advised Irish company Bord na Mona on its £54m acquisition of Edenderry Power. William Fry corporate partner Fergus Devine advised the Irish power plant.