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Pinsents, Wragges and DLA among firms to win panel roles for SE boroughs consortium

A line-up of more than 20 City and national firms have been appointed to the legal panel of a consortium of London and Kent boroughs. The successful firms include Wragge & Co, Pinsent Masons, DLA Piper, Trowers & Hamlins and Dickinson Dees, after more than eighty competed for places on the panel.
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CC media team advises on deal to unite World Cup stars at O2 event

Clifford Chance (CC) has advised Australian sports financing company SEQ Futures and UK sports marketing firm Aura on a joint venture that will see a line-up of big-name footballers go head-to-head in a post-World Cup competition. The event, dubbed A:3K, will see World Cup stars including Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard, Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, Cesc Fabregas and David Villa take part in a range of skills contests in a three-hour entertainment show at the O2 Arena on 17 July.
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Walker Morris secures lead role on £778m sale of Netto to Asda

Walker Morris has taken a lead role on the £778m sale of Netto Foodstores to Asda. The Leeds-based firm advised Danish retail group Dansk Supermarked, a long-term client, on the sell-off of its Netto subsidiary to Asda, which is owned by US giant Walmart.
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Kirkland swoops once more - and this time it's personal

Kirkland & Ellis moves to dramatically bolster its London arm, two private equity partners quit a prestigious City practice, seven-figure sums are bandied around and feathers are well and truly ruffled... No, this isn't a flashback to Kirkland's much-hyped recruitment of Linklaters duo Graham White and Raymond McKeeve at the height of the credit boom in 2006. But you don't have to look too hard to see the similarities in the recruitment this month of Gavin Gordon and David Arnold, two well-regarded young partners in Ashurst's corporate practice.
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Freshfields and Ashurst take lead roles on £864m ABB bid for Chloride

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Ashurst have taken lead roles on engineering giant ABB's £864m bid for FTSE 250 power company Chloride Group. Freshfields corporate partners Barry O'Brien and Piers Prichard Jones are leading the firm's team advising ABB on the offer, which will potentially set off a bidding war with US manufacturing company Emerson Electric, whose 275p per share offer was rejected two weeks ago.
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Debevoise and Wachtell take top roles on billion-dollar Kroll sale

Debevoise & Plimpton and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have taken lead roles on Altegrity's $1.13bn (£780m) purchase of risk consultancy Kroll, reports The Am Law Daily. Debevoise advised Altegrity with a team led by M&A partner Kevin Rinker alongside finance partner Paul Brusiloff, intellectual property partner Jeffrey Cunard, employee benefits partner Jonathan Lewis, and tax partner Peter Schuur.
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SJB takes £450m buyout fund role as PE market shows signs of recovery

SJ Berwin has advised on a £450m private equity deal that has seen Phoenix Equity Partners defy market conditions to close an oversubscribed buyout fund. Phoenix is a longstanding client of SJ Berwin and the firm also advised on its last buyout fund formation in 2006. Phoenix targets the UK mid-market with a varied portfolio of investment in brands including Britain's largest branded handbag supplier Radley + Co, Thai restaurant chain Busaba Eathai and automotive supplier Andrew Page.
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BP lines up Arnold & Porter and Kirkland to defend oil leak claims

Kirkland & Ellis and Arnold & Porter are set to defend BP against the 26,000 claims the petrochemical giant says have been filed so far as a result of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. BP confirmed the appointment of the two US law firms as defence counsel, with Kirkland's team including partners Andrew Langan, Richard Godfrey and Matthew Regan. BP's defence team also reportedly includes Houston practice Andrews Kurth.
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Memery Crystal and Field Fisher advise on £114m AIM fundraising for Gulf Keystone

Memery Crystal has advised Gulf Keystone Petroleum on one of the largest Alternative Investment Market (AIM) fundraisings of the year so far. Corporate partner Nick Davis led a team from the City law firm advising long-term client Gulf Keystone on the placing of new common shares on AIM, a move that saw the oil and gas exploration and production company raise £114m.
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Vinson and Baker Botts take lead roles on $3.1bn oilfield stake sale

US duo Vinson & Elkins and Baker Botts have taken the lead roles on Statoil's $3.1bn (£2.1bn) sale of a 40% share in a Brazilian oilfield to Sinochem. China's Sinochem won a contested auction to buy the stake in the Peregrino oilfield, located offshore to Rio de Janeiro in the Campos basin.
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