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May 16 2012
Singapore law firm Allen & Gledhill was the big winner at the ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2012, an industry event to recognised excellence in the South East Asia region....
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Apr 27 2012
A league table of dealmakers in the Indian legal services market has put Amarchand Mangaldas Suresh A Shroff & Co and Luthra & Luthra at the top of the list - each...
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Apr 13 2012
Over the past two years, numerous US law firms have entered the market in Hong Kong and recruited top talent from their UK rivals, and now they are starting to see...
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Feb 10 2012
Amarchand and Mangaldas has taken the top rank among Indian firms working in project finance, according to data provider Dealogic, edging out last year’s leader Luthra...
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Jan 02 2012
Herbert Smith and its former European alliance partners Gleiss Lutz and Stibbe saw their share of the M&A market plummet in 2011, according to recently published...
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Sep 09 2011
Greenberg Traurig has lured leading mergers and acquisitions lawyer Dennis Block from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. Block will chair the firm’s global M&A practice...
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Jun 08 2011
Amarchand & Mangaldas has been chosen as the ‘Indian Deal Firm of the Year’ for 2011 at ALB SE Asia 2011 Law Awards.
Amarchand & Mangaldas took the award for ‘Debt...
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Mar 29 2011
Kirkland & Ellis has boosted its M&A practice with the hire of former Federal Trade Commission Chairman Tim Muris, along with three other prominent antitrust lawyers....
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Mar 09 2011
The Asia Pacific region is showing strong activity capital markets issuance and M&A, with deals hitting a high of US$84.9bn in Jan 2011.
Singapore M&A partner at...
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Mar 02 2011
Shearman & Sterling has had a tough year, seeing revenue drop by 8 per cent from $801m in 2009 to $737m in 2010, while profits per equity partner fell from $1.74m to...
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Feb 07 2011
After a dismal 2009, 2010 proved to be a banner year for Indian M & A transactions. According to Thomson Reuters, deal volume was up more than threefold from $21.3...
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Jan 31 2011
Suzlon Energy Limited, world’s third largest turbine maker has signed a $1.28 billion deal for 1,000 megawatts of wind power projects with Caparo Energy India.
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Jan 07 2011
US law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom has held onto it’s position as top dealmaker for the second year in a row.
The value of worldwide deals rose by 23...
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Dec 21 2010
US firm Sullivan & Cromwell has climbed five spots to the No. 2 spot in the Thomson Reuters league tables for dealmakers. The firm advised on $230.2 billion worth of...
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Dec 07 2010
Ronald Barusch spent over 30 years as an M&A practitioner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, before retiring this year. In this article he gives some insight...
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Nov 12 2010
Indonesia’s consumer and resources boom is fueling an investor frenzy in the market, with Bloomberg reporting that investors have bought $23.3 billion of debt this...
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Oct 13 2010
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz has hired Patricia Robinson, who joins the firm from a role as assistant general counsel at the US Federal Reserve. Robinson’s work at...
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Oct 12 2010
Luthra & Luthra has topped the Dealogic Global Private Finance Initiatives / Public Private Partnerships project finance deals rankings for the first three quarters...
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Sep 20 2010
Paul Hastings is shifting talent to Asia in anticipation of an increase in large deals coming out of the region in the next six to 12 months.
Real estate partner...
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Aug 31 2010
AZB & Partners and Khaitan & Co have assisted Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries in its Rs 1020 crore ($217m) buy today of a 14.12 per cent stake in the Oberoi hotel...
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Jul 29 2010
Malaysian Sovereign wealth fund Khazanah outbid Fortis Healthcare to acquire Parkway Holdings, Southeast Asia's largest hospital chain, for around $2.6 billion.
The...
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Jul 29 2010
JFE Holdings,the second largest Japanese steelmaker, has announced its India investment to buy a 14.9 percent stake in India’s third largest steel manufacturer JSW...
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Jun 23 2010
Amarchand & Mangaldas has been awarded the ‘International Turnaround Deal of the Year’ at the Turnaround Atlas Awards 2010 in Chicago, USA on June 17, 2010.
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Jun 09 2010
Tejas Networks Limited (Tejas), a Bangalore-based company engaged in the manufacturing of optical networking products has acquired Israel based Ethos Networks, which...
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Jun 09 2010
Multinational giant IMS Health (IMS) has recently acquired a 50 percent stake in ORG-IMS Research Private Limited (ORG-IMS) from the Nielson Company. This deal makes...
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Jun 09 2010
The British mobile services giant had purchased 52 percent of Hutchison's stake in Hutchison Essar for $10.9 billion (Rs. 52,320 crores) in 2007. One of the biggest...
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May 27 2010
Since today shares in Euro Asia Premier Real Estate Company Limited (“Euro Asia”) are being traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Euro Asia was advised by Salans on...
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May 26 2010
Sullivan & Cromwell and Chadbourne & Parke have scored leading roles on the $1.3 billion acquisition by UIL Holdings Corporation of three natural gas utilities in New...
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May 26 2010
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom’s corporate partner from Hong Kong, Edward Lam with Moshe Kushman, the tax partner based out of Los Angeles, advised the bankers...
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May 18 2010
New York-based IT outsourcing firm Sutherland Global Services (Sutherland) has acquired a 100 percent stake in the Mumbai headquartered Adventity Global Services...
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May 14 2010
Private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) invested Rs. 750 crores ($166 Million) in Dalmia Cements to record the largest private equity investment in India's...
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May 07 2010
The Mumbai offices of J. Sagar Associates (JSA) have advised Hitachi Transport System (HTS), a subsidiary Hitachi Japan in its acquisition of logistics and warehousing...
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May 07 2010
Ciena Corporation, a US based provider of communication network infrastructure, associated software and professional services has acquired the optical networking and...
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May 07 2010
AZB’s Mumbai based Telecom partner, Abhijit Joshi advised Matrix Partners India Investments in acquiring a 15 percent stake in Bhartiya Samruddhi Finance Limited...
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Apr 30 2010
Invensys Process System, a Singapore based subsidiary of the London based Invensys Plc, a global IT group, acquired a 100 percent stake in Bangalore-based Skelta...
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Mar 08 2010
Baker & McKenzie and Hunton & Williams have helped Thai National Power to reach a financial close on a new co-generation power plant in Thailand. Hunton & Williams...
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Feb 09 2010
Industrial gas producer Airgas filed suit against Cravath, Swaine & Moore last Friday over the firm's role as legal adviser to rival Air Products and Chemicals on its...
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Jan 29 2010
Despite a 61% drop in merger and acquisition (M&A) activity last year in South Africa, corporate law firm Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs ranked first in value in the legal...
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Jan 08 2010
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom overtook its UK competitor Linklaters LLP to advise on the highest value of mergers and acquisitions in 2009 according to...
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Jan 05 2010
Allen & Overy is advising pharma giant Novartis on its $28bn acquisition of a majority stake in eye-care company Alcon, with a team led by Eric Shube.
US firms...
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Dec 29 2009
French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis is purchasing Tennessee-based consumer care products company Chattem Inc. for $1.9-billion in a move to diversify from its...
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Dec 22 2009
Mayer Brown advised Beijing Automotive Industry Holding (BAIC) on its purchase of Swedish carmaker Saab assets and intellectual property rights from General Motorsm...
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Dec 15 2009
Exxon Mobil will acquire natural gas company XTO Energy for $31 billion and $10 billion in debt, the biggest energy deal since 2006.
Davis Polk & Wardwell and...
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Dec 08 2009
Jones Day and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr are handling the planned acquisition of Gloucester Pharmaceuticals Inc. by biotech company Celgene Corporation, a...
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Nov 26 2009
Gartmore Group Ltd., the manager of about 21.8 billion pounds ($36 billion) in hedge and mutual funds, is preparing an initial public offering (IPO) of at least 250...
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Nov 25 2009
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters, Allen & Overy and Slaughter and May have secured lead roles on Lloyds Banking Group’s record-breaking £22.5bn capital...
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Nov 20 2009
Linklaters and Slaughter and May have won mandates on JPMorgan’s £1bn buy-out of the remaining half of UK broker Cazenove.
Linklaters corporate partner Stephen...
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Oct 13 2009
Baker & McKenzie’s Zurich team represented Switzerland's Julius Baer on the buyout of the local business of Dutch bank ING for a total of 345m EUR.
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Oct 01 2009
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and Salans have won roles on a $1.6bn Russian energy deal, which saw the Russian energy giant buy a...
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Sep 18 2009
Latham & Watkins advised Adobe on its acquisition of Analytics company Omniture for $1.8 billion, with Silicon Valley partners Peter Kerman, Glenn Nash, and Luke...
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Sep 17 2009
Shearman & Sterling and Baker & McKenzie took lead roles in the acquisition of a majority stake in the bankrupt Kentucky Fried Chicken supplier Pilgrim's Pride by...
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Sep 14 2009
Clifford Chance is advising French media company Vivendi on its $2.9bn offer for Brazilian telecom company GVT Holding.
The surprise cash offer by Vivendi could...
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Sep 10 2009
Indian law firm AZB & Partners has advised a total of four private equity deals, while DSK Legal and Trilegal have each advised three private equity buyers in the past...
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Sep 01 2009
US law firms Dewey & LeBoeuf and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker have won lead roles on Walt Disney's $4 billion acquisition of Marvel Entertainment.
The deal...
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Aug 21 2009
Allen & Overy and Linklaters have taken key roles on the €12bn debt restructuring of German ball-bearing manufacturer Schaeffler, clearing the way for the company to...
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Aug 18 2009
Magic circle firms Clifford Chance and Linklaters have won lead roles on China Construction Bank's acquisition of AIG Finance, the consumer finance operations of the...
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Aug 12 2009
Herbert Smith, Linklaters, Slaughter and May have won key advisory roles as buyout firm Resolution completes its £1.86 billion ($3.1 billion) takeover of British...
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Jul 31 2009
In the first half of 2009, Indian firms advised on project finance deals valued at $31.9 billion, a rise of more than 150 per cent, according to data compiled by...
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May 12 2009
Linklaters and Herbert Smith have advised on a £2.3bn deal that saw British Gas owner Centrica buy a 20 per cent stake in UK energy group British Energy.
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Feb 13 2009
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and DLA Piper have advised on a £7.5bn deal to build a new fleet of high speed trains, one of the largest public transport contracts...
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Feb 13 2009
Mannheimer Swartling has advised the Swedish National Debt Office on its sale of Carnegie Investment Bank AB and Max Matthiessen Holding AB to Altor and Bure Equity...
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Feb 05 2009
The Swedish office of Roschier and local M&A powerhouse Mannheimer Swartling have bagged lead roles on the merger between Sweden's Posten and Post Danmark.
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Feb 02 2009
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Linklaters have won advisory roles on a £4.1bn rights issue for Swiss mining group Xstrata.
A Freshfields team led by corporate...
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Jan 27 2009
Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, Simpson Thacher, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz have won lead roles on US drug manufacturer Pfizer's $68bn acquisition of rival...
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Jan 13 2009
Clifford Chance and O’Melveny & Myers jointly advised emerging markets private equity house Actis a $2.9bn (£1.99bn) fundraising for Actis Emerging Markets 3.
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Jan 13 2009
Norton Rose is advising Gernany's RWE, Europe's fifth-largest utility, on its planned acquisition of Dutch peer Essent's production and delivery assets for 8.2 billion...
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Jan 09 2009
German independent Oppenhoff & Partner has continued to develop its international profile by instructing NYSE-listed business Johnson Controls on its purchase of...
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Jan 03 2009
Bonelli Erede Pappalardo (BEP), Pavesi Gitti Verzoni and d’Urso Gatti have completed the largest Italian M&A deal in 2008.
BEP partners Roberto Pistorelli and...
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Jan 02 2009
Linklaters was hired to advise on four of the 10 biggest mergers and acquisitions in 2008, leading the M&A league table published by Bloomberg today. In the smallest...
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Dec 23 2008
Allen & Overy (A&O), Linklaters and Sullivan & Cromwell have advised on a €6.3bn rights issue for recently formed brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev.
Allen & Overy...
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Dec 11 2008
Clifford Chance and Weil Gostshal & Manges have taken lead roles advising on the sale of AIG Private Bank to Abu Dhabi investment group Aabar Investments PSJC.
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Nov 29 2008
A team led by Eversheds partner David Emberson has been appointed by Stock Market-listed property group Segro to handle legal work at Treforest Industrial Estate,...
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Nov 07 2008
Finnish electricity business Fortum Oyj has finalised a landmark €5bn Russian investment, with Dewey & LeBoeuf’s London and Moscow offices acting as lead legal counsel.
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Oct 24 2008
Norton Rose is advising HSBC on the purchase of Indonesian lender Bank Ekonomi for $608m. Lovells was handed a role by the sellers, a group of Indonesian private...
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Oct 14 2008
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Sullivan & Cromwell have snared the lead roles on Morgan Stanley’s $9bn (£5.2bn) injection from Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ Financial...
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Oct 10 2008
Sullivan & Cromwell and Davis Polk & Wardwell have secured roles on US insurance giant AIG’s additional $37.8bn funding.
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Oct 07 2008
Linklaters and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton are continuing to cash in on the turmoil in the global banking markets, with the pair taking leading roles as BNP...
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Sep 25 2008
Sullivan & Cromwell and Munger Tolles & Olson have snared the lead roles on Warren Buffet’s $5bn (£2.7bn) cash injection in Goldman Sachs...
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Sep 24 2008
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has advised Japanese bank Nomura on its winning auction bid for Lehman Brothers' Asian operations.
Linklaters' Hong Kong office...
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Sep 18 2008
Allen & Overy has bagged the lead instruction advising struggling mortgage lender HBOS in its reported merger talks with Lloyds TSB.
Linklaters is understood to be...
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Sep 02 2008
New York leaders Shearman & Sterling and Sullivan & Cromwell have bagged top roles on insurance giant Allianz’s €9.8bn sale of Dresdner Bank to German rival Commerzbank.
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Aug 27 2008
Ashurst and Linklaters have landed lead roles on the proposed £1.4bn takeover of Russian oil exploration giant Imperial Energy.
The deal sees Linklaters score a...
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Aug 21 2008
Clifford Chance and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have landed the leading roles in BAA's £13.3bn refinancing deal.
Freshfields represented BAA, having advised its...
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Aug 08 2008
Despite the continued slowdown in the debt finance markets and the defection of key members of its banking & finance team, law firm White & Case LLP is advising on...
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Aug 06 2008
Swiss Reinsurance Company, the global reinsurance powerhouse, agreed to buy Barclays Bank's U.K. life insurance unit for $1.5 billion in cash.
Swiss Re is advised...
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Aug 06 2008
Two US firms have won the lead roles on the $1.2bn sale of German music giant Bertelsmann’s 50 per cent interest in Sony BMG to Sony.
Davis Polk & Wardwell advised...
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Aug 01 2008
Cravath, Swaine & Moore is advising Bristol-Myers Squibb on the planned acquisition of the rest of ImClone Systems, the maker of the best-selling cancer drug Erbitux,...
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Jul 31 2008
Allen & Overy (A&O) has edged out magic circle competitor Clifford Chance to win the lead role advising Spanish airline Iberia on its proposed merger with British...
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Jul 23 2008
The German practices of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Allen & Overy are working on either side of the controversial €11.2bn investment by the Schaeffler Group in...
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Jul 23 2008
A duo of US firms have snared lead roles on Swiss pharmaceutical group Roche's $43.7bn bid for US drug giant Genentech.
Davis Polk & Wardwell New York partners...
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Jun 26 2008
Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and Norton Rose have scooped lead roles on Barclays' £4.5bn share issue.
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Jun 26 2008
Allen & Overy, Australia's Mallesons Stephen Jaques and New Zealand's Simpson Grierson are advising UK energy giant BG Group on its $13bn (£6.6bn) hostile takeover bid...
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Jun 17 2008
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom partners Paul Schnell and Tom Greenberg have been unveiled as the partners leading the firm on the iconic InBev acquisition of...
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Jun 15 2008
Salans' Istanbul office has advised STEAŞ, a joint venture between Azeri giant SOCAR and Turkish company Turcas Enerji AS, in a USD $2.04 billion privatisation tender,...
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Jun 14 2008
Skadden and DLA Piper advised two California-based companies on a $6.7 billion merger that would create one of the world's largest life sciences companies and a leader...
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Jun 14 2008
Dewey & LeBoeuf has snared a lead advisory role alongside City royalty Slaughter and May to advise one of the front-runners in the race to acquire the insurance...
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Jun 10 2008
Debevoise & Plimpton, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, and Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy have scooped lead roles advising Verizon Wireless on its $28.1bn acquisition...
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Jun 05 2008
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have advised on the £2.2bn merger of equals between market UK research company Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) and...
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Jun 05 2008
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Slaughter and May have advised on the £2.2bn merger of equals between market UK research company Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) and...
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Jun 02 2008
The Trump Marina Hotel Casino is being sold to Coastal Marina, a subsidiary of New York-based Coastal Development LLC, in a $316 million deal.
Weil, Gotshal &...
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