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• Clifford Chance and DLA Piper lead $11.9bn sale of baby food business to Nestle

  Apr 26 2012 Clifford Chance and DLA Piper have taken leading roles on Pfizer's $11.9 billion cash sale of its baby food business to Nestle. Nestle is advised by US law firm... more

• GC at Boeing leads $18bn deal with Emirates Airlines

  Nov 16 2011 The General Counsel at Boeing, J. Michael Luttig, is leading an in-house team that will guide the largest sale of aircraft in the company’s 95 year history. The deal... more

• Freshfields leads $6.6bn China Mobile sell-off

  Sep 10 2010 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has taken a leading role in the $6.6 billion sale of Vodafone’s 3.2 per cent stake in China Mobile. Seventy per cent of the proceeds... more

• Halliwells no more?

  Jun 25 2010 Halliwells is in negotiations with Hill Dickinson for the sale of its business in a deal that would lead to the dissolution of the firm and the end of the Halliwells... more

• Herbert Smith and Latham & Watkins lead sale of Harrods

  May 11 2010 Herbert Smith and Latham & Watkins have taken lead roles on Al Fayed’s sale of the iconic department store Harrods to the investment arm of the Qatari Investment... more

• Three law firms cash in on $511m Brooklyn Arena bond sale

  Jan 28 2010 Three law firms earned nearly $5.7 million in fees advising on last month's bond sale used to finance construction of the Nets' arena at the Atlantic Yards project in... more

• Freshfields, Simmons, Hengeler lead on Springer Media sale

  Dec 14 2009 Swedish private equity firm EQT and the Singapore Government's GIC are buying Springer Science and Business Media for up to €2.2bn, allowing an exit for the two UK... more

• Linklaters advises UK Government on £16bn asset sale

  Oct 13 2009 Linklaters is advising the UK Government on the planned sale of £16bn worth of assets over the next two years in a bid to reduce the UK's budget deficit. more

• Jones Day claims Barclays sale was based on 'inaccurate record'

  Sep 17 2009 Jones Day, the law firm which represents the Lehman estate, claims Barclays and certain Lehman executives offered a record that was "inaccurate due to mistakes,... more

• Chrysler Fiat sale delayed by U.S. Justice Ginsburg

  Jun 09 2009 Chrysler's planned asset sale to a group led by Italy’s Fiat was delayed by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who granted a request for a delay sought by state pension funds. more

• Skadden Arps and Linklaters advise on Lehman sale in Asia

  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... more

• Wachtell, Shearman head up $50bn Merrill takeover

  Sep 16 2008 Elite US firms Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Shearman & Sterling have taken the lead advisory roles on the $50bn all-stock sale of banking giant Merrill Lynch to... more

• Shearman lands key role on Dresdner Bank sale

  Sep 08 2008 Just months after losing its 30-lawyer Mannheim office, Shearman & Sterling has been handed the mandate to advise the insurer Allianz on the sale of Dresdner Bank to... more

• Cravath, Paul Weiss lead $9bn Time Warner cable sale

  May 23 2008 Cravath Swaine & Moore and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison have bagged lead roles on the divestment by by Time Warner of its cable division in a $9.25bn deal, as... more

• Bear Stearns' Demise Leaves Law Firms Jockeying for Position

  Mar 18 2008 The bargain-basement sale of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase brought out some of the biggest names in the legal profession. Sullivan & Cromwell; Skadden, Arps,... more

• German Law Firms Gleiss Lutz and Hengeler Mueller Bag €1.7bn Property Sale

  Jan 08 2008 Domestic firms Gleiss Lutz and Hengeler Mueller have advised on the sale of a second German commercial real estate portfolio by Allianz Immonilien in a €1.7bn... more