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Dentons, SJ Berwin check out £1.2bn Sainsbury's property JV

Denton Wilde Sapte and SJ Berwin have won lead roles advising supermarket giant Sainsbury's on a £1.2bn property joint venture with British Land. Dentons beat a host of panel firms to win the lead role for Sainsbury's, fielding a team under property partner Andrew Bedford and corporate partners Richard Macklin and Matthew Tinger. The joint venture is part of the store's attempts to unlock value from its sizeable real estate portfolio.
12 minute read

International Edition

Cobbetts wins top role on Qatar construction IPO

Cobbetts has bagged the lead role for Qatar-based construction and property company Panceltica as it looks to list on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM).Cobbetts corporate partner Patrick Mitchell is advising the company alongside associate Sue Johnston, with Panceltica expected to float on the market at the end of March with a market capitalisation of more than £236m.
2 minute read

Legal Week

Cobbetts wins top role on Qatar construction IPO

Cobbetts has bagged the lead role for Qatar-based construction and property company Panceltica as it looks to list on London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM).Cobbetts corporate partner Patrick Mitchell is advising the company alongside associate Sue Johnston, with Panceltica expected to float on the market at the end of March with a market capitalisation of more than £236m.
3 minute read

International Edition

Commentary: Freshfields banking push brings clarity and a dash of PR

When Ted Burke said recently there were some surprises in store for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 2008, he wasn't joking. The firm's hire of senior White & Case finance duo Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz may have come as a shock to the City community, but internally the firm says the hires represent a milestone in the long - and sometimes painful - restructuring of its finance practice.When the firm kicked off a major restructuring in 2006, it probably didn't anticipate that by cutting back in its niche finance areas it would also lose senior names from its core practice. Certainly, the departures of David Ereira and Brian Gray to Linklaters were not in the original plan.
4 minute read

Legal Week

Commentary: Freshfields banking push brings clarity and a dash of PR

When Ted Burke said recently there were some surprises in store for Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in 2008, he wasn't joking. The firm's hire of senior White & Case finance duo Maurice Allen and Mike Goetz may have come as a shock to the City community, but internally the firm says the hires represent a milestone in the long - and sometimes painful - restructuring of its finance practice.When the firm kicked off a major restructuring in 2006, it probably didn't anticipate that by cutting back in its niche finance areas it would also lose senior names from its core practice. Certainly, the departures of David Ereira and Brian Gray to Linklaters were not in the original plan.
15 minute read

International Edition

Sovereign funds to drive '08 M&A - report

Sovereign wealth funds and a rise in corporate defaults are likely to drive M&A activity over the next 12 months, according to new research published by Mergermarket. The latest Global M&A and Debt Market Outlook survey of US and European executives and advisers found 64% of respondents predicting an increase in corporate defaults. Seventy percent expected such a rise in the US, with 50% anticipating an increase in Europe over the same period.
2 minute read

International Edition

Simmons back for MoD on £13bn air force PFI

Simmons & Simmons has scored the lead advisory role for the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on a landmark £13bn private financing initiative (PFI). Simmons is advising the MoD on the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) project - one of the largest PFI projects seen in the UK to date.
2 minute read

International Edition

Magic circle duo lead €2bn GE-Santander swap

Slaughter and May and Linklaters have bagged the lead advisory roles on the agreement between Banco Santander and GE Money to swap European assets worth a combined value of around €2bn (£1.58bn). Slaughters took the lead for General Electric's finance arm as it reached a preliminary agreement yesterday to acquire Italian bank Interbanca from Santander. Linklaters led for the Spanish banking giant, which under the agreement will acquire the GE Money businesses in Germany, Finland and Austria, as well as its credit card and auto-financing businesses in the UK.
2 minute read

Legal Week

Magic circle duo lead €2bn GE-Santander swap

Slaughter and May and Linklaters have bagged the lead advisory roles on the agreement between Banco Santander and GE Money to swap European assets worth a combined value of around €2bn (£1.58bn). Slaughters took the lead for General Electric's finance arm as it reached a preliminary agreement yesterday to acquire Italian bank Interbanca from Santander. Linklaters led for the Spanish banking giant, which under the agreement will acquire the GE Money businesses in Germany, Finland and Austria, as well as its credit card and auto-financing businesses in the UK.
3 minute read

International Edition

Dentons in for Sainsbury's £1bn British Land JV

Denton Wilde Sapte and SJ Berwin have won lead roles advising supermarket giant Sainsbury's on a £1.2bn property joint venture with British Land. Dentons saw off a host of panel advisers to win the lead role for Sainsbury's, fielding a team under property partner Andrew Bedford and corporate partners Richard Macklin and Matthew Tinger. The joint venture is part of the store's attempts to unlock value from its sizeable real estate portfolio.
2 minute read

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