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CC and BLP win lead roles on sale of A&O headquarters to JP Morgan

Clifford Chance (CC) and Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) have won lead roles on a major City real estate deal which has seen the ownership of Allen & Overy's (A&O) City headquarters change hands. CC advised Hammerson and Oman Investment Fund (OIF) on the deal, which saw the pair sell their 25:75 joint venture - whose principal asset is the long leasehold interest in the Bishops Square offices in London's Spitalfields - to JP Morgan Asset Management.
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Skadden and Gide head up €1bn disposal by Gucci parent company

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Gide Loyrette Nouel have taken lead roles on a €1.2bn (£1bn) disposal by Gucci owner PPR. Skadden has advised French luxury goods and retail group PPR on the deal, which will see PPR offload its furniture and household goods brand Conforama to South Africa-listed manufacturing and retail group Steinhoff International Holdings.
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Slaughters and CC take lead roles on GE's £800m Wellstream takeover

Slaughter and May and Clifford Chance (CC) have won lead roles on General Electric's £800m takeover of UK oil and gas services company Wellstream, reports The Am Law Daily. GE's takeover of the Newcastle-based company, which designs pipes used in undersea oil and gas drilling, is expected to close in the first quarter of 2011.
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DLA Piper wins role for easyJet on holiday company tie-up

DLA Piper's technology and sourcing team has landed its first role advising low cost airline easyJet on its tie-up with the Lowcostholidays group. The national firm fielded a team led by technology and sourcing partner Mark Crichard alongside associate Siobhan Mullens. The deal was completed last month (November), with the new venture due to launch in early 2011.
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Cleary and Gleiss Lutz head up EDF's $6.2bn Germany energy sell-off

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Gleiss Lutz have taken the lead roles on EDF's $6.2bn (£3.9bn) sale of its stake in German energy company EnBW, reports The Am Law Daily. Cleary advised EDF on the deal, fielding a team led by M&A partner Pierre-Yves Chabert in Paris and antitrust partner Stephan Barthelmess and M&A counsel Klaus Banke in Frankfurt.
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Hogan Lovells and Cleary advise on €4.6bn EDF refinancing deal

Hogan Lovells and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton have taken lead roles on a €4.6bn (£3.8bn) refinancing deal for energy giant EDF. Hogan Lovells advised longstanding client EDF on the transaction, which saw the company launch a tender offer for some of its existing debt securities, followed by the issue of two new series of bonds. Paris-based global head of debt capital markets Sharon Lewis led the Hogan Lovells team, assisted by senior associate Vincent Fidelle.
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Linklaters and Davis Polk lead on Pepsi's multibillion-dollar Russian acquisition

Linklaters has won a role on PepsiCo's $3.8bn (£2.4bn) acquisition of a two-thirds stake in Moscow-based food and drink company Wimm-Bill-Dann, reports The Am Law Daily. John Goodwin, the managing partner of Linklaters's Moscow office, is serving as Russian corporate counsel to Pepsi on the deal, one of the largest ever by a US company in Russia.
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DLA wins Africa role for BP on latest asset sale

DLA Piper has won a role on BP's sale of stakes in several fuel marketing businesses in southern Africa to Puma Energy for $296m (£190m), reports The Am Law Daily. The UK top 10 firm is advising Puma, which is a unit of London-based Trafigura, the world's third-largest independent oil trader.
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CC leads on €700m high-yield deal for Spanish telecoms firm

Clifford Chance (CC) has advised on a €700m (£592m) high-yield deal, representing one of the largest issuances of high-yield debt in Europe this year. The magic circle firm advised ONO, Spain's second-largest broadband, television and phone line provider, on a senior secured notes offering due in 2018. The notes are governed by New York law and are expected to list on the Multilateral Trading Facility market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
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A&O among lineup of firms advising on €6.6bn Italy telecoms refinancing

A raft of international law firms have won roles on a €6.6bn (£5.5bn) European deal that has seen Italian company Wind Telecomunicazioni secure a new bank loan and issue high-yield bonds. The deal, reportedly the largest high-yield bond issuance in Europe this year, handed roles to White & Case, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Allen & Overy (A&O), Latham & Watkins and NautaDutilh.
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