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Relates to mergers between law firms and big deals law firms handle for clients, including financing of those deals.
By Jessica Seah | April 25, 2024
The sole legal advisers to issuers on many Hong Kong Stock Exchange IPOs are Greater China-based law firms. Big Law can't compete with Chinese firms on fees and justify the low margins that come with the listings, which are much smaller than the billion-dollar deals they handled in the past.
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | April 24, 2024
The deal pits the world's largest private equity firms and their Big Law legal advisers against one another.
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By Amy Guthrie | April 21, 2024
The $550 million sale to local financial group Galicia will allow the UK-headquartered bank to exit a difficult market, as Argentina struggles to conquer triple-digit inflation.
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By Paul Hodkinson | April 19, 2024
Law.com International editor-in-chief Paul Hodkinson discusses the implications for UK law firms when they lose mandates and clients that go to the US.
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | April 19, 2024
It is another blow for UK capital markets and potentially also for domestic legal advisers whose clients are being bought up by US businesses.
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By Christopher Niesche | April 19, 2024
Kinetic needs funds to meet its net zero targets.
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By Jack Womack | April 18, 2024
Slaughter and May has advised DS Smith on a number of occasions over recent years.
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By Kasvi Sehgal | April 18, 2024
French company Vinci Airports is acquiring 50.01% stake in the airport, while Global Infrastructure Partners will manage the remaining share.
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By Christopher Niesche | April 17, 2024
They will face more hurdles, however, as Australian regulators, like their counterparts in many other countries and regions around the world, increase their scrutiny of M&A deals.
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By Kasvi Sehgal | April 17, 2024
A range of partners believe a series big-name lawyer moves in the field of leveraged finance has changed the pecking order of leading law firms in the UK.
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By ALM Staff | March 20, 2024
It was another challenging year in 2023 for dealmaking, but Big Law's talented transactional lawyers brought expertise, creativity and profoundly hard work to bear.
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By Patrick Smith | March 20, 2024
Interviews with leaders at tech law firms don't indicate a shift in strategy. And despite all the layoffs, their financial results and trajectories in the rankings show how they are keeping pace in the industry.
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By Maria Dinzeo | March 14, 2024
Lynch was CEO of the software firm Autonomy when HP bought it for $11 billion, a deal that's gone down as one of the biggest flops in M&A history. Prosecutors allege he duped the Silicon Valley giant into overpaying by inflating Autonomy's financial performance at a time the company was tanking.
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By Amanda O'Brien | March 13, 2024
Chairman and CEO Matt Taylor pinned the 3.6% dip on pressures on transactional work.
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By Kasvi Sehgal | March 11, 2024
Law.com International spoke with top UK finance partners, their rivals and recruiters, among other market commentators, to find the most frequently named lawyers to have power or influence while designating private equity mandates.
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By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | March 11, 2024
Kirkland & Ellis represents EQT Corp. in its pending acquisition of Equitrans Midstream Corp., which will create a vertically integrated natural gas company valued at more than $35 billion.
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By Kasvi Sehgal | March 11, 2024
Law.com International spoke with top UK finance partners, their rivals and recruiters, among other market commentators, to find the most frequently named lawyers to have power or influence while designating private equity mandates.
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By Chris O'Malley | March 8, 2024
"You see significant enforcement where enforcement is meant to drive policy—policy as far as economic concerns, social concerns and stepping beyond the more traditional realm of merger review," said Peter Julian, a Jones Day partner.
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By Amanda O'Brien | March 7, 2024
The firm's revenues climbed by 5.5% to hit $653 million. "We're not looking for a business that's up 20% in the good years and down 8% in the bad years," explained firm chairman Michael Heller.
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By Amanda O'Brien | February 29, 2024
This is the fifth consecutive year in which net income growth surpassed 8.5%, coinciding with the course of the firm's five-year strategic plan.
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