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Cleary checks in for competition role on new Ryanair Aer Lingus bid

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has won a role to advise Ryanair on competition aspects of its latest bid for Irish aviation rival Aer Lingus. Ryanair, which already owns 30% of Aer Lingus, has made a new offer which values the airline at €694m (£560m). Arthur Cox chairman Eugene McCague is advising Aer Lingus on the corporate aspects of the bid, alongside Dublin corporate partner Stephen Hegarty, while it is understood that regular adviser A&L Goodbody is representing Ryanair on corporate law.
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International Edition

Freshfields competition veteran heads to Milbank's London arm

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer competition partner Nicholas Spearing has left the firm to join the City arm of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy. Spearing, who joined Freshfields in 1978 and made partner in 1984, has already joined Milbank, where he is the first UK competition partner in the firm's London office.
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International Edition

Burges Salmon and A&O advise on £2bn dairy co-op merger

Burges Salmon has taken a lead role opposite Allen & Overy (A&O) on the £2bn merger of dairy co-operatives Milk Link and Denmark's Arla Foods, in a deal which will create the largest operator in the UK dairy market.
2 minute read

Legal Week

The Transfer Window: recent moves including SJB, Wragges and Ashurst

SJ Berwin has appointed Simon Holmes as the new head of the firm's EU, competition and regulatory practice group. He is replacing Stephen Kon, who stepped up to become senior partner of the firm at the start of this month. Holmes, who joined SJ Berwin in 1994, has led the London EU, competition and regulatory group since 2008. The City partner will now head up both the international practice group and its London arm.
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International Edition

The Transfer Window: recent moves including SJB, Wragges and Ashurst

SJ Berwin has appointed Simon Holmes as the new head of the firm's EU, competition and regulatory practice group. He is replacing Stephen Kon, who stepped up to become senior partner of the firm at the start of this month. Holmes, who joined SJ Berwin in 1994, has led the London EU, competition and regulatory group since 2008. The City partner will now head up both the international practice group and its London arm.
5 minute read

International Edition

Linklaters turns to A&O for London competition partner hire

Linklaters is to strengthen its City competition team with the hire of Allen & Overy (A&O) partner Simon Pritchard. Pritchard, whose recruitment was confirmed at Linklaters' partner conference in Montreux last weekend (20-21 April), has been a partner at A&O since 2009. Before this he was senior director, responsible for mergers at the Office of Fair Trading (OFT). His start date with Linklaters has yet to be confirmed.
2 minute read

International Edition

The Transfer Window: recent moves including BLP, Wragges and Simmons

Simmons & Simmons has moved to boost its new asset management sector group with the hire of DLA Piper's UK investment funds team head David Williams, who is joining the firm as a partner in London. Williams, who was also a partner at DLA Piper, advises on investment funds and asset management work, especially private funds investing in private equity, illiquid credit, real estate and infrastructure.
5 minute read

International Edition

Government consults on class action-style competition reforms

The Government is considering introducing 'opt-out' collective actions to enable consumers and businesses to more easily reclaim losses resulting from anti-competitive behaviour. The proposal, which could bring the UK's regime more in line with the US class action system, is part of a consultation launched by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) yesterday (24 April).
2 minute read

International Edition

Was Jeremy Hunt's handling of the News Corp-BSkyB deal unlawful?

This week's big news was the relevation at the Leveson Inquiry of the e-mails from Frederic Michel to his NewsCorp colleagues about his contact with Jeremy Hunt, or at least with Jeremy Hunt's special adviser, while Hunt was preparing to decide whether or not to refer NewsCorp's bid for BSkyB to the Competition Commission.
9 minute read

International Edition

Cartels and law reform – a conspiracy against the public

Adam Smith is often quoted for his comment on cartels: "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices". Less well known is the sentence which followed: "It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice."
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