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KKR, Permira and Apax storm ahead in private equity league

By Charlotte Edmond | November 07, 2007

Buy-out giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR), Permira and Apax Partners have emerged as the most lucrative clients in the sector in recent years, according to new research. Mergermarket rankings compiled exclusively for Legal Week show the private equity houses have completed the highest value of deals in Europe over the last three years.

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KKR, Permira and Apax storm ahead in private equity league

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 07, 2007

Buy-out giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR), Permira and Apax Partners have emerged as the most lucrative clients in the sector in recent years, according to new research. Mergermarket rankings compiled exclusively for Legal Week show the private equity houses have completed the highest value of deals in Europe over the last three years.

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A&O's hot streak in Holland continues

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 07, 2007

Allen & Overy (A&O) has picked up another big-ticket European mandate advising car navigation system maker Garmin on its E2.3bn (£1.6bn) hostile bid for Tele Atlas. Amsterdam corporate partners Jan Louis Burggraaf and Tim Stevens are advising the new client, alongside Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

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Commentary: Thou shalt not covet - there's just no point

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 07, 2007

Here we have it. The best private equity house clients in Europe are the following: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR), Permira, Apax Partners, Blackstone and Macquarie Bank. Some may disagree with this, but new Mergermarket rankings show that the five buy-out houses have worked on the greatest value of deals in Europe during the past three years.

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Linklaters finishes €71bn ABN mega-deal marathon

By Georgina Stanley | November 07, 2007

If Linklaters' burgeoning international network was built for anything, it is for deals such as the one that has just seen an international consortium, led by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), acquire Dutch bank ABN Amro for €71.1bn (£49.5bn) after a marathon hostile takeover battle. Recent days have seen the firm's legal team celebrating the culmination of the exhausting, touch-and-go tussle - all 400 of them.

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Legal Week

Linklaters finishes €71bn ABN mega-deal marathon

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 07, 2007

If Linklaters' burgeoning international network was built for anything, it is for deals such as the one that has just seen an international consortium, led by Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), acquire Dutch bank ABN Amro for €71.1bn (£49.5bn) after a marathon hostile takeover battle. Recent days have seen the firm's legal team celebrating the culmination of the exhausting, touch-and-go tussle - all 400 of them.

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International Edition

Beachcroft works pro bono on school project

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 07, 2007

Beachcroft has deployed a 90-lawyer team to work with property client Balfour Beatty on a pro bono project to renovate a primary school in the West Midlands. The national firm provided lawyers from its London, Manchester, Leeds and Bristol offices and raised a total of £13,000 for the project, which was designed as an alternative to a traditional staff away-day.

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International Edition

Sidley edges in to advise on $80bn 'superfund' creation

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 07, 2007

Top US securitisation practice Sidley Austin has secured a high-profile instruction to advise alongside rival Mayer Brown on the cutting-edge $80bn (£38bn) 'superfund' designed to restore confidence in the credit markets, as firms look to secure roles on the process. The fund, created by Citi, Bank of America and JP Morgan Chase, was announced at the end of last month and aims to halt a further drop in market prices by offering to buy assets from structured investment vehicles (SIVs), helping them to avoid dumping securities.

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Deal Week Dispatch: 7/11/2007

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 07, 2007

Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Ashurst, Norton Rose and Travers Smith among the movers and shakers

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International Edition

Norton Rose wins BA role opposite Slaughters

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | November 05, 2007

Norton Rose has advised opposite Slaughter and May on British Airways' (BA) new $1.7bn (£820m) debt facility agreement. Norton Rose fielded a team from its London office to act for a multinational line-up of lending banks on the multiple option facility, which was signed at the end of last month (26 October).

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