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Herbies ties up tender victory for £60bn MoD procurement project

Herbert Smith has won a competitive tender to advise the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on a new project estimated to be worth around £60bn. The firm is advising the MoD on its Future Rapid Effects System (FRES) project, which will lead to the development of more than 3,000 armoured fighting vehicles.
8 minute read

Legal Week

Simmons scores client double on back of new energy financing deal expertise

Simmons & Simmons has won two new clients on the back of its experience of a new financing structure, as the firm continues to build on its energy credentials. The firm has advised Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital on its subsidiary's $850m (£415m) purchase of oil and gas exploration company Rally Energy Group.
12 minute read

International Edition

DLA Piper, Eversheds, Addleshaws and Pinsents race ahead of national rivals in Euro M&A tables

DLA Piper, Eversheds, Addleshaw Goddard and Pinsent Masons are well ahead of their national rivals in transactional performance over the last three years, new research has shown. Bespoke data provided exclusively to Legal Week by mergermarket shows the top four firms are well ahead of their national competitors on European and UK M&A deals since 2004 by both volume and value.
1 minute read

International Edition

Herbies ties up tender victory for £60bn MoD procurement project

Herbert Smith has won a competitive tender to advise the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on a new project estimated to be worth around £60bn. The firm is advising the MoD on its Future Rapid Effects System (FRES) project, which will lead to the development of more than 3,000 armoured fighting vehicles.
2 minute read

International Edition

Simmons scores client double on back of new energy financing deal expertise

Simmons & Simmons has won two new clients on the back of its experience of a new financing structure, as the firm continues to build on its energy credentials. The firm has advised Egyptian private equity firm Citadel Capital on its subsidiary's $850m (£415m) purchase of oil and gas exploration company Rally Energy Group.
2 minute read

International Edition

Veale Wasbrough acts on landmark property sale

Bristol firm Veale Wasbrough has acted on the sale of the most expensive residential apartment ever sold in the city. The firm advised local property developers Park Properties on the sale of 18 apartments in the prestigious Bridge House building in Clifton.
2 minute read

International Edition

Commentary: Green shoots finally start to sprout in the LBO market

OK, it is not quite as grim as some banking lawyers feared at the start of September. The leveraged finance market is creaking back into life, at least compared with the total shutdown of recent weeks. October saw some debt moved on two benchmark leveraged buy-outs (LBOs) - First Data in the US and Alliance Boots in Europe - even if the banks have had to offer a lot of concessions and only move a fraction of the total. But moving again it is, while credit spreads have begun to again narrow both in the corporate bond and money markets, easing the chronic liquidity squeeze that under-pinned the gloom.
3 minute read

International Edition

Herbies bags role next to Slaughters on upcoming listing of Turkish broadcaster

Herbert Smith has landed a role alongside Slaughter and May on the upcoming London float of Turkish broadcaster Digiturk. The deal sees Herbert Smith instructed for co-ordinators and bookrunners Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse as Turkey's largest digital television company moves to complete a London listing in November. The move is expected to offer a 25% stake in the business with a value of around $550m (£270m).
2 minute read

Legal Week

Herbies bags role next to Slaughters on upcoming listing of Turkish broadcaster

Herbert Smith has landed a role alongside Slaughter and May on the upcoming London float of Turkish broadcaster Digiturk. The deal sees Herbert Smith instructed for co-ordinators and bookrunners Lehman Brothers, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse as Turkey's largest digital television company moves to complete a London listing in November. The move is expected to offer a 25% stake in the business with a value of around $550m (£270m).
15 minute read

International Edition

Trophy deal for Kirkpatrick as E430m Amcor buy-out closes

Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis' London office has completed one of its biggest-ever deals - advising on a A430m (£299m) pan-European petrochemicals transaction. The firm advised Spanish chemicals company La Seda de Barcelona on its acquisition of the European business of Australian packaging company Amcor, which includes groups in the UK, Belgium, France, Germany and Spain.
2 minute read

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