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• Dewey & LeBoeuf loses senior London partner to KPMG

  Apr 25 2012 Dewey & LeBoeuf has lost one of the firm’s most senior London partners, Fred Gander. Gander, a taxation specialist who has been with Dewey since 1991, will join KPMG... more

• PE firm Duke Street buys controlling interest in London law firm

  Feb 06 2012 Private equity firm Duke Street has taken a stake of just over 50 per cent in London-based law firm Parabis. The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval and is... more

• Australian law firm Slater & Gordon buys British firm Russell Jones & Walker

  Jan 31 2012 Australian law firm Slater & Gordon has concluded a deal for the takeover of British firm Russell Jones & Walker for $80 million. The deal, which is still subject to... more

• Vinson & Elkins and Wachtell Lipton lead $1 billion hostile takeover of Tulsa-based SemGroup

  Oct 28 2011 Houston-based Plains All American Pipeline is intent on the acquisition of rival Tulsa-based company SemGroup. but when its $1 billion offer was rejected by the board... more

• Amarchand advises JSW Steel on ISPAT takeover

  Dec 22 2010 JSW Steel Limited has bought a 41 percent stake by way of preferential allotment of 1 billion equity shares in ISPAT Industries Limited in a deal amounting to Rs.... more

• Canadian firm Bennett Jones opens office in Beijing

  Sep 29 2010 Bennett Jones has opened the doors to a new office in Beijing – its first branch outside of Canada. The firm specializes in the oil and gas business, and will cater to... more

• Cleary and Freshfields take lead on €9.8bn Deutsche Bank deal

  Sep 17 2010 Deutsche Bank has called upon Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton to advise on its project of raising €9.8 billion to bolster the balance sheet and complete the proposed... more

• Wongpartnership and Freehills advise on $1.54bn takeover

  Aug 26 2010 Singapore firm WongPartnership and Australian firm Freehills have advised on the first major private equity deal in Australia since 2007: a US$1.54 billion takeover... more

• Daiichi Zenotech ruling - “person acting in concert”

  Jul 14 2010 The Supreme Court of India has given a ruling in favor of Daiichi to pay to the shareholders of Zenotech Laboratories Limited an exit price of Rs. 113.62 ($2.52) per... more

• Linklaters, Slaughter & May lead on JPMorgan Cazenove deal

  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... more

• Latham ousts Dewey in Adobe's $1.8bn Omniture takeover

  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... more

• Herbies, Linklaters, Slaughters advise on Friends Provident takeover

  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... more

• Norton Rose, Freshfields advise on RWE's $11bn Essent deal

  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... more

• Linklaters and Cleary Gottlieb take lead roles on Fortis takeover

  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... more

• Wachtell advises US Treasury on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac takeover

  Sep 10 2008 Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz has scored the lead role on the US government’s seizure of beleaguered mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with corporate partner... more

• Shearman and Sullivan lead on Dresdner Bank sale

  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. more

• Ashurst and Linklaters take lead on oil giant takeover

  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... more

• DLA Piper advises Sophos PLC on takeover offer for Utimaco Safeguard AG

  Jul 31 2008 DLA Piper is advising Sophos Plc, a global leader in endpoint security and control solutions, on its €217 million voluntary public takeover offer for Utimaco Safeware... more

• International firms line up for roles on $13bn BG Group bid

  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... more

• Hungary okays "Lex-MOL" despite EU criticism

  Oct 09 2007 Hungary's parliament on Monday approved a law which many investors say is designed to protect oil company MOL from being taken over by Austria's OMV and which has been... more

• Freshfields, Norton Rose and Macfarlanes steer D&G take-private

  Sep 10 2007 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Norton Rose and Macfarlanes have secured the UK’s first major public-to-private takeover since a global credit crunch hit the debt... more