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Norton Rose's £500m Bahraini coup

Norton Rose's corporate and finance departments have advised three Bahrain Government bodies on the $506m (£257m) acquisition of a stake in Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco) from Cable & Wireless (C&W). Norton Rose was first instructed on the deal - said to be the largest telecoms deal to date in Bahrain - last November. It secured the mandate due to its longstanding relationship with Bahrain's Ministry of Finance. London corporate partner Campbell Steedman led the Norton Rose team and was assisted by Patrick Watson-Thorp in Bahrain.
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International Edition

Deals: Property 01/02/2007

Forsters property partner Glenn Dunn has advised Invista Real Estate Investment Management on the purchase of two West Midlands warehouses for £26.7m. Wragge & Co real estate associate Mark Blair acted for the warehouse developers Rosemound Developments, which was also the seller of one of the properties. The other seller, GE Commercial, was advised by DLA Piper London property partner Richard Crossfield.
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International Edition

Deals: M&A 01/02/2007

Osborne Clarke corporate partner Jonathan King has advised communications software company Ubiquity Software Corporation on its £76m takeover by telecoms network company Avaya. Simmons & Simmons corporate partner Alistair Bird advised Avaya.
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International Edition

Slaughters joins Linklaters for £575m Egg sale

Slaughter and May has landed a lead advisory role opposite Linklaters on Prudential's £575m sale of internet banking business Egg to Citigroup. Slaughters is advising Prudential on the sale, while magic circle rival Linklaters is acting on behalf of US financial services giant Citigroup.
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Legal Week

Apax hands Ashurst Swedish healthcare sale

Ashurst has won the lead role on a €2.85bn (£1.87bn) disposal of Swedish healthcare company Molnlycke for private equity house Apax.The top 10 City firm ran two separate teams with one advising Apax on the exit and another acting for Molnlycke on a listing on the London Stock Exchange proposed as an alternative exit option.
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International Edition

Apax hands Ashurst Swedish healthcare sale

Ashurst has won the lead role on a €2.85bn (£1.87bn) disposal of Swedish healthcare company Molnlycke for private equity house Apax.The top 10 City firm ran two separate teams with one advising Apax on the exit and another acting for Molnlycke on a listing on the London Stock Exchange proposed as an alternative exit option.
2 minute read

International Edition

Top trio dominate latest projects rankings

Allen & Overy, Clifford Chance and Linklaters have been ranked top of project finance league tables announced this week.According to Dealogic tables for legal advisers on 2006 global project finance deals, the three firms finished top after advising on a combined total of 139 transactions.
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International Edition

Trio ride projects boom as infra goldrush fires market

Clifford Chance (CC), Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters have ridden the wave of surging infrastructure investment in 2006 to dominate the top end of the global project finance market.Research from Infrastructure Journal shows the three City firms dominating the global rankings for project finance in 2006, with CC topping the table after closing 34 deals with a combined value of $43.9bn (£22.3bn).
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International Edition

Dealmaker: David Higgins

A duff sailor and fan of weird cheeses, David Higgins has also swiftly established himself as one of the leading lights in Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's ascendant private equity practice
4 minute read

International Edition

Military training provider calls up Herbies for £16bn PFI deal

Herbert Smith is in line for a fees windfall after scoring a major role advising on one of the UK's biggest private finance schemes to date.Herbert Smith corporate partner Paul Ryan is advising Metrix, a joint venture between former state-owned military research body Qinetiq and property outsourcing group Land Securities Trillium, on a £16bn training contract with the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
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