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BLP, Norton Rose act on Monsoon take-private

Berwin Leighton Paisner (BLP) and Norton Rose have bagged roles acting on the £187m take-private of fashion retailer Monsoon.
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Commentary: Money seems to be the hardest word

It is a curiosity of the legal profession that, the larger the deal, the less likely the law firm is to have reached an agreement on fees. As Barclays licks its wounds after six months of chasing ABN Amro comes to nought, rumours of the overall adviser fees it will have to pay - to add insult to injury - are of epic disproportion.
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Trowers and HBJ Gateley lead £360m Coventry housing regeneration plan

Trowers & Hamlins and HBJ Gateley Wareing have advised on a £360m regeneration programme to transform a rundown area of Coventry with 3,500 new homes.
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International Edition

SJ Berwin puts Israeli pharma deal to bed

SJ Berwin has completed its first deal for Israeli drug company Neurim Pharmaceuticals, advising on the licensing of a new treatment for insomnia.
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International Edition

Dealmaker: Steven Bryan

A respected corporate infrastructure specialist and self-confessed tweakaholic, Steven Bryan is a partner at Lovells
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International Edition

Deal Week Dispatch: 10/10/2007

Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Pinsents, Freshfields and Clifford Chance among the movers and shakers
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International Edition

A&O scoops latest billion-pound M&A mandate

Allen & Overy (A&O) has scored its second high-profile corporate instruction in two days, advising a JP Morgan-led consortium on its acquisition of Southern Water from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) worth £4.2bn. The JP Morgan consortium, which also includes Australia's Challenger Infrastructure Fund and Swiss bank UBS, beat a raft of other bidders, reportedly including Goldman Sachs, to win the auction for the water supplier.
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Legal Week

A&O scoops latest billion-pound M&A mandate

Allen & Overy (A&O) has scored its second high-profile corporate instruction in two days, advising a JP Morgan-led consortium on its acquisition of Southern Water from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) worth £4.2bn. The JP Morgan consortium, which also includes Australia's Challenger Infrastructure Fund and Swiss bank UBS, beat a raft of other bidders, reportedly including Goldman Sachs, to win the auction for the water supplier.
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International Edition

A&O leads raft of firms on €4.8bn SAP deal

Allen & Overy (A&O) has advised Germany's SAP, the world's largest business management software producer, on its €4.8bn (£3.2bn) acquisition of Business Objects. New York corporate partners Eric Shube and Peter Harwich and finance partner Elizabeth Leckie worked alongside Frankfurt M&A partner Hans-Christoph Ihrig and tax partner Eugen Bogenschuetz on the deal.
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International Edition

Skadden, Jones Day connect for $1.4bn energy deal

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Jones Day have advised on the $1.4bn (£685m) acquisition of Airtricity North America by E.ON. Skadden advised regular client Airtricity on the sale of its US wind farm operations after being instructed in the first half of the year. The firm's dual-qualified European energy and project finance head Douglas Nordlinger led the team assisted by London finance partner James Healy.
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