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Deal Week Dispatch: 29/8/07

Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled deals coverage, with Cleary, A&O and Ashurst among the movers and shakers
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International Edition

Weil, Ashurst tune in for NBC's Sparrowhawk deal

Ashurst and Weil Gotshal & Manges have bagged the main advisory roles on the acquisition by US media giant NBC Universal of UK pay-TV company Sparrowhawk Holdings, in a deal thought to be worth around £175m. Ashurst advised Sparrowhawk shareholders including 3i Group, Providence Equity Partners and TV impresario David Elstein on the disposal, which was announced yesterday (28 August). Corporate partner Andrew McMillan led an Ashurst team that also included competition partner Duncan Liddell, employment partner Caroline Carter and finance partner Simon Thrower.
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Legal Week

Weil, Ashurst tune in for NBC's Sparrowhawk deal

Ashurst and Weil Gotshal & Manges have bagged the main advisory roles on the acquisition by US media giant NBC Universal of UK pay-TV company Sparrowhawk Holdings, in a deal thought to be worth around £175m. Ashurst advised Sparrowhawk shareholders including 3i Group, Providence Equity Partners and TV impresario David Elstein on the disposal, which was announced yesterday (28 August). Corporate partner Andrew McMillan led an Ashurst team that also included competition partner Duncan Liddell, employment partner Caroline Carter and finance partner Simon Thrower.
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International Edition

CC stars on £2.8bn Eurotunnel debt deal

Clifford Chance (CC) has advised Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs on the sale of £2.84bn of debt in Eurotunnel, with the magic circle law firm fielding teams in both London and Paris. The City giant advised the banks on loans made to Eurotunnel's operating companies in June as part of the group's restructuring agreement made at the end of last year.
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International Edition

Wragges and Travers seal BP-Moto supply deal

Wragge & Co and Travers Smith have scored the main roles as service station group Moto Hospitality signs a multi-site fuel supply agreement with BP Oil UK. The new fuel supply deal extends Moto's longstanding commercial relationship with BP to cover up to 35 sites run by Moto, the UK's largest operator of motorway service stations.
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Legal Week

Wragges and Travers seal BP-Moto supply deal

Wragge & Co and Travers Smith have scored the main roles as service station group Moto Hospitality signs a multi-site fuel supply agreement with BP Oil UK. The new fuel supply deal extends Moto's longstanding commercial relationship with BP to cover up to 35 sites run by Moto, the UK's largest operator of motorway service stations.
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International Edition

Scots giant on track with £1bn railways role

Dundas & Wilson has won an eye-catching appointment from Transport Scotland as the main legal adviser on a railway investment programme worth more than £1bn. The appointment represents Dundas' first instruction from the body since being reappointed to the legal panel of the Scottish Executive earlier this year, although the big four Scots firm has advised Transport Scotland in the past.
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Legal Week

Scots giant on track with £1bn railways role

Dundas & Wilson has won an eye-catching appointment from Transport Scotland as the main legal adviser on a railway investment programme worth more than £1bn. The appointment represents Dundas' first instruction from the body since being reappointed to the legal panel of the Scottish Executive earlier this year, although the big four Scots firm has advised Transport Scotland in the past.
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International Edition

Debut RREEF infra fund gifts SJB plum €2bn role

SJ Berwin has bagged a plum role advising on the formation of a €2bn (£1.36m) fund by RREEF Infrastructure, the first such fund-raising made by the client in Europe. SJ Berwin funds partner Josyane Gold took the lead for RREEF - the alternative investments business of Deutsche Bank's asset management division - as it closes its Pan-European Infrastructure Fund.
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Legal Week

Debut RREEF infra fund gifts SJB plum €2bn role

SJ Berwin has bagged a plum role advising on the formation of a €2bn (£1.36m) fund by RREEF Infrastructure, the first such fund-raising made by the client in Europe. SJ Berwin funds partner Josyane Gold took the lead for RREEF - the alternative investments business of Deutsche Bank's asset management division - as it closes its Pan-European Infrastructure Fund.
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