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DLA helps Glasgow to victory on Commonwealth Games bid

DLA Piper is joining in the celebrations after acting for Glasgow Commonwealth Games, which this month won the race to host the international event in 2014.
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Paul Weiss teams up with Macfarlanes as Firth buy-out braves market turmoil

New York's Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has teamed up with Macfarlanes to advise private equity group Oak Hill Capital Partners on a £945m agreement to acquire aerospace parts company Firth Rixson, one of the largest private equity deals to be completed since the summer's credit turmoil.
2 minute read

International Edition

Dewey raises stock with dual Russian IPOs

Dewey & LeBoeuf has scored a role on the $955m (£467m) listing of Russian port operator Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port (NCSP) on the London Stock Exchange.
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International Edition

That failed bid for Sainsbury's: making life taste bitter

When Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom won the lead role on the Qatar Investment Authority's (QIA's) £10.6bn bid for Sainsbury's through Delta Two, the mandate was understandably seen as a coup for the US firm's City arm. But with the deal's last-minute implosion there are recriminations and some questioning of the tactics of the bidders; where did it all go wrong for what looked like one of the most daring European deals of the year?
4 minute read

International Edition

SJ Berwin moves in to Hyde Park development deal role

SJ Berwin has scored a role on the development of the prestigious London residence One Hyde Park by securing a £1bn funding facility for the process.
2 minute read

International Edition

Lovells Dubai team ties up $1bn bond deal

Lovells' Islamic finance team in Dubai has closed a $1bn (£490m) convertible Islamic bond deal, just five months after moving across from Denton Wilde Sapte to set up the office.
2 minute read

International Edition

Pinsents takes lead on £150m hospital PFI

Pinsent Masons has won the headline role on a £150m private finance initiative at a West Midlands hospital.
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International Edition

Deal Week Dispatch: 21/11/07

Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Herbies, DLA Piper and Hammonds among the movers and shakers
3 minute read

International Edition

Slaughters' Boardman wins top role on £67bn mining mega-merger approach

Slaughter & May corporate heavyweight Nigel Boardman has snared a lead role on BHP Billiton's £67bn bid for Anglo-Australian rival Rio Tinto, which would create the world's biggest mining company.
2 minute read

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Duo power up landmark bid to unite Ireland electricity market

CMS Cameron McKenna and Wragge & Co have taken the lead on a groundbreaking agreement to create a single electricity market in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
2 minute read

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