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Simmons and LeBoeuf cook up $700m oil deal

Simmons & Simmons and LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae have taken the lead advisory roles on Shell's sale of an oil refinery in the south of France for $700m (£345m). Simmons took the lead for Shell under corporate partner Paul Exley as the fuels giant moves to sell its Berre l'Etang refinery to petrochemical group Basell. LeBoeuf advised Basell, led by Paris corporate partner Stephen Walters alongside London competition partner Peter Crowther and environmental partners Paul Watchman and Nicholas Rock.
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Simmons and LeBoeuf cook up $700m oil deal

Simmons & Simmons and LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae have taken the lead advisory roles on Shell's sale of an oil refinery in the south of France for $700m (£345m). Simmons took the lead for Shell under corporate partner Paul Exley as the fuels giant moves to sell its Berre l'Etang refinery to petrochemical group Basell. LeBoeuf advised Basell, led by Paris corporate partner Stephen Walters alongside London competition partner Peter Crowther and environmental partners Paul Watchman and Nicholas Rock.
7 minute read

International Edition

Record Spanish IPO gifts Freshfields and Linklaters roles on E4bn bank flotation

Magic circle duo Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have scooped lead roles on the biggest-ever initial public offering in Spain, the A4bn (£2.7bn) float of Catalan savings bank La Caixa.
2 minute read

International Edition

Bakers wins first securitisation role for UBS on €1.25bn RMBS

Baker & McKenzie's London finance team has sealed its first major securitisation mandate from UBS, advising the investment bank on a €1.25bn (£841m) residential mortgage-backed securitisation (RMBS).
2 minute read

International Edition

National leaders reap benefits of hot development market up north

Nabarro and Eversheds are the latest firms to secure mandates on development schemes in the north of the UK as the region increasingly becomes a hunting ground for property lawyers.
3 minute read

International Edition

Commentary: Finance lawyers all going on a summer holiday...

A handful of desperately hopeful finance lawyers are still trotting out the line about market conditions being due to the usual August dip, but one partner rather more accurately sums up the collective mood by pointing out that "my banking clients are s***ing themselves".
4 minute read

International Edition

Anglo American outsourcing drive gifts Eversheds top deal

Eversheds has tied up a lucrative instruction for blue-chip client Anglo American with the UK law firm advising the global mining company on a $450m (£223m) outsourcing deal with BT and Hewlett-Packard (HP).
2 minute read

International Edition

Wedlake Bell, DLA Piper check in on Yotel deal

Wedlake Bell and DLA Piper have taken the lead advising on the UK's first micro-hotel, Yotel, which will house 45 capsule sleeping rooms for travellers through Gatwick Airport.
1 minute read

International Edition

John Lane and Charlie Jacobs: London needs to keep its standards up

A London listing used to mean you had been signed up by a merchant bank and ticked by the London Stock Exchange as being suitable. You were a member of a rather exclusive club. While UK institutional investors would take your listing as a mark of quality assurance, they would take a large part of their comfort from the relationships they had with the bank that brought you to market. Among advisers there was a common understanding of due diligence and what to do to groom the company for listing. Very little of it was written down. Unlike the position in the US you were most unlikely to be sued if things went wrong.
4 minute read

International Edition

Bakers and Freshfields win lottery roles

Baker & McKenzie and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have advised on the selection process for the new operator of the UK National Lottery which yesterday (7 August) saw Camelot named as the preferred bidder. Freshfields has been advising long-standing client the National Lottery Commission on the selection process and evaluation of the bids while Bakers advised Camelot on its submission.
2 minute read

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