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Simmons and A&O take lead roles on £1bn retail centre refinancing

Simmons & Simmons and Allen & Overy (A&O) have advised on a major £1bn refinancing of the Meadowhall Shopping Centre in Sheffield.Simmons banking partner John Davies advised British Land as the UK property investment company put in place a new finance structure that will permit £1.015bn of debt to be issued.
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International Edition

Deals: M&A 25/01/2007

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has advised Eastman Kodak Company on the European aspects of its agreement to sell its Health Group to Onex Healthcare Holdings for up to $2.55bn (£1.3bn). The team at Freshfields was led by corporate partner Julian Long, competition partner Vanessa Turner and employment, pensions and benefits partner Kathleen Healy. Sullivan & Cromwell acted as Kodak's lead legal advisers. Onex was advised by Kaye Scholer.
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International Edition

Deals: Property 25/01/2007

SJ Berwin has advised Redevco Properties on the sale of the Marble Arch Unit Trust for around £160m to two of the UK property industry's biggest private investors, David and Simon Reuben. Real estate partner Jon Vivian led the team. Denton Wilde Sapte corporate partner Leonard Sebastian advised the purchasers.
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International Edition

Deals: Capital Markets 25/01/2007

Ashurst has advised Oriel Securities, in its capacity as nominated adviser and joint broker, on the £38m placing of shares by Novera Energy. The Ashurst team comprised corporate partner Michael Robins and associate Dafydd Leighton. Corporate partner Gareth Jones (pictured) from Nabarro Nathanson acted for Novera Energy, while Linklaters corporate partner Matthew Middleditch acted for the other joint brokers, Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander. Addleshaw Goddard corporate partner Roger Hart advised underwriter NM Rothschild & Sons.
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Legal Week

Herbies enlisted for £16bn military training PFI

Herbert Smith is in line for a fees windfall after scoring a major role advising on one of the UKs biggest private finance schemes to date.
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International Edition

Herbies enlisted for £16bn military training PFI

Herbert Smith is in line for a fees windfall after scoring a major role advising on one of the UKs biggest private finance schemes to date.
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International Edition

City giants dominate global projects league

CC, Linklaters and A&O top 2006 projects rankings as Middle East underlines status as key battleground
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International Edition

A&O and Slaughters land aerospace sale

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Slaughter and May have landed lead roles on the $4.8bn (£2.4bn) sale of Smiths Group's aerospace business to General Electric…
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International Edition

Freshfields and Bakers in driving seat on F1 deal

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Baker & McKenzie have taken lead roles in the acquisition of a stake in the Formula 1 company McLaren Group by the Kingdom of Bahrain. Bakers advised McLaren, which sold a 30% stake to The Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company, which is wholly owned by the Middle East kingdom. Freshfields Dubai corporate partner Bruce Embley advised the holding company.
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International Edition

£1.1bn biotech deal just the tonic for Simmons

Simmons & Simmons has advised Danish biotech company Genmab on its £1.1bn licensing deal with drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in one of the largest…
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