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A&O and Weil Gotshal bag roles on $615m crisps buyout

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Weil Gotshal & Manges have taken lead roles on the $615m (£412m) sale of Kettle Foods. US snacks group Diamond Foods is set to buy the crisp manufacturer from current owner Lion Capital in a cash deal, which was definitively agreed last month (25 February).
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Skadden heads up trio of firms on $7.2bn Merck acquisition

A trio of firms have advised on a $7.2bn (£4.8bn) deal that will see German pharma giant Merck acquire lab filter and purifier manufacturer Millipore, reports The Am Law Daily. Skadden took the lead role for Merck, fielding a team including M&A partners Peter Atkins, Hilary Foulkes and Margaret Brown, tax partner Sally Thurston, antitrust partners Frederic Depoortere, Benjamin Crisman and John Lyons, and intellectual property and technology partner Rita Rodin Johnston.
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Freshfields' Rawlinson on board as City financiers target Man Utd bid

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer London corporate head Mark Rawlinson is one of a group of high-profile City businessmen who have formed a group - dubbed the 'Red Knights' - in a bid to wrest control of Manchester United FC from current owner Malcolm Glazer. The group met at Freshfields' offices yesterday for an initial meeting to discuss the possibility of a takeover of the football club.
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Slaughters takes headline role for Prudential on $35bn AIG Asia buyout

Slaughter and May and Debevoise & Plimpton have scored advisory roles on Prudential's high-profile plans to purchase the Asian assets of American International Group (AIG) for more than $35bn (£23.3bn). The two insurance groups are in advanced discussions over the sale of US Government-controlled AIG's subsidiary AIA, with Prudential this week (1 March) confirming both the discussions and the suspension of its shares as a result.
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Skadden and Cleary take top roles on $12bn Coca-Cola buyout

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has advised Coca-Cola on its $12.2bn (£8bn) deal to acquire the North American operations of its largest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises, reports The Am Law Daily. The deal follows PepsiCo's move in August to take control of its two largest bottlers for $7.8bn (£5.1bn).
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Dealmaker: Matthew White

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Stephenson Harwood acts on $500m Indonesian airline financing

Stephenson Harwood has acted for Indonesia's largest airline, PT Lion Mentari, on the financing of seven new generation Boeing 737-900ER airliners worth $500m (£317m). The team at Stephenson Harwood was led by Singapore partner and global head of aviation Paul Ng, who joined the firm last year from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was head of the Asia asset finance and aviation practice.
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Pinsents and Freshfields take lead on buyout company's £418m listing

Pinsent Masons and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have taken lead roles on the £418m listing of restaurant entrepreneur Hugh Osmond's corporate acquisition company Horizon on the London Stock Exchange. The initial public offering (IPO), which also handed an advisory role to Morrison & Foerster (MoFo), saw Horizon start trading stock on 9 February.
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City duo open batting on launch of Royals2020 global cricket franchise

Charles Russell has won a role opposite CMS Cameron McKenna advising Hampshire Cricket on the creation of the world's first global cricket franchise - Royals2020. The new brand was launched at a press conference earlier this month (8 February) and will see Hampshire join Rajasthan Royals (India), Cape Cobras (South Africa), Trinidad & Tobago (West Indies) and Victoria Bushrangers (Australia) in the new franchise.
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Sports deal rush sees top firms put some skin in the game

The deal market may be proving unbearably slow for many so far in 2010 but, as this week's lead deal (the creation of a global Twenty20 cricket brand) helps demonstrate, involvement with sports clubs is helping law firms reap greater rewards than just box seats at stadiums. Firms including Allen & Overy (A&O), DLA Piper and Bird & Bird are just a handful of those to have won roles on a growing list of sports-related mandates since the New Year, after a spate of football club administrations and financing deals. With a number of football clubs disastrously overspending in recent years, it is workflow that advisers predict is only likely to increase.
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