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Dentons seals IPO double with Eastern Europe energy roles

Denton Wilde Sapte has scored a lead role on two main market listings in the space of a month as energy companies Arawak Energy and Cadogan Petroleum complete their initial public offerings (IPOs).
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Strong Asian deal activity cited as Linklaters extends M&A league lead

Linklaters has climbed to the top of the global and Asia-Pacific M&A rankings by value for the first half of this year, with roles on a string of high-profile deals, putting the firm comfortably ahead of its nearest rivals. Research carried out by Legal Week data partner Mergermarket shows Linklaters advised on the greatest value of global M&A deals over the six-month period ending 30 June, with the firm acting on 121 deals with a combined value of $380.8bn (£193.6bn).
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Commentary: H1 tables - never mind value, turn up the volume

Barring an unlikely revival in big-ticket M&A in the second half of the year, the key deal leagues look likely to be remembered chiefly as the BHP/Rio tables, so complete is the grip of the £114bn mining merger bid on the key tables from Mergermarket.
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Camerons acts opposite Linklaters on $2.8bn expansion of Polish oil refinery

CMS Cameron McKenna has landed a role opposite Linklaters on the $2.8bn (£1.4bn) expansion of an oil refinery in Poland. Camerons has taken the lead for longstanding Polish client Grupa LOTOS on the extension of its Gdansk-based refinery. The top 20 UK firm fielded a team out of its City headquarters and Warsaw office to advise the petroleum company, with London-based banking and infrastructure partner Alex Doughty at the helm. Poland banking partner Dominika Uberman-Smigielska and energy partner Andrzej Blach also took roles.
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Pinsents, Wragges land £3bn MoD warship roles

National giants Pinsent Masons and Wragge & Co have taken the top roles on a deal that will see the largest warships ever designed and built in the UK. Contracts worth £3bn have been agreed between an alliance of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and four defence contractors..The Aircraft Carrier Alliance includes the MoD, BAE Systems, BVT Surface Fleet, Babcock Marine and Thales UK.
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Elite firms push into mid-market M&A as battle heats up for fewer mandates

Top City and national firms are fast building market share in corporate in response to the current downturn in deal activity, according to data obtained exclusively by Legal Week. Research by Mergermarket confirms that deal volumes are now rising at many large law firms, despite a continued fall in deal activity in the second quarter of 2008 - down globally from 3,260 in Q1 to 2,993 on announced deals in the last quarter.The pattern is repeated in Europe where 1,295 deals were announced in Q2, against 1,407 in Q1 and 1,655 in Q2 2007.
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BHP/Rio role helps power Linklaters to lead four key M&A leagues in H1

Linklaters' corporate team has put in a commanding performance in the first-half M&A rankings with the magic circle firm topping separate rankings for Europe, UK, global and Asian deals. The firm comfortably outpaced rivals in the key European M&A tables on both value and volume in the first half of 2008, with Linklaters advising on 108 deals in Europe worth E229.4bn (£182bn) and 43 deals in the UK worth E198.1bn (£157bn).The rankings, provided exclusively to Legal Week by its data partner Mergermarket, show Linklaters securing the top spot for deal activity after winning a string of major bids, including advising Belgian brewer InBev on its proposed $46bn (£23.1bn) takeover of US beer giant Anheuser-Busch.
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National duo recharge with roles on retail group's revamped panel

National law firms Pinsent Masons and DLA Piper have landed roles on the revamped legal panel of electrical retailing group DSG International (DSGi). The FTSE 250 group, which is the parent company of retail chains Dixons, Currys and PC World, has drawn up a new advisory group, with the other firms on the panel understood to be Baker & McKenzie and Linklaters.
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International firms win roles on $13bn BG bid

Allen & Overy, Australia's Mallesons Stephen Jaques and New Zealand's Simpson Grierson are advising UK energy giant BG Group on its $13bn (£6.5bn) hostile takeover bid for Origin Energy, Australia's second-largest energy company. Clayton Utz is representing Origin, which has advised its shareholders to take no action on the bid.
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City trio take centre stage on Barclays' £4.5bn capital raising

Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance (CC) and Linklaters are among a raft of firms to land roles on Barclays' £4.5bn capital raising. CC has secured the lead role for Barclays, fielding a team under corporate finance partner Guy Nor-man, while a swathe of other firms are acting for investors including the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC).
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