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CC NY continues hot run with $7bn Siemens role

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | July 25, 2007

Clifford Chance (CC) has bagged another major M&A mandate in the US, after picking up a lead role advising German industrial conglomerate Siemens on its $7bn (£3.4bn) acquisition of clinical logistics company Dade Behring. New York M&A partner John Healy is spearheading the team for the magic circle law firm.

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International Edition

Deal Week Dispatch: 25/7/2007

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | July 25, 2007

Deal Week Dispatch brings readers an early taster of news from Legal Week's unparalleled Deal Week section, with Allen & Overy, Dentons and Gibson Dunn among the deal-doers.

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International Edition

Skadden, Baker Botts bag $50bn oil mega-merger

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | July 24, 2007

US duo Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Baker Botts have bagged plum roles on the $53bn (£25.8bn) merger of oil giants GlobalSantaFe and Transocean, it was announced yesterday (23 July). Transocean turned to Texas' Baker Botts, while Skadden is advising GlobalSantaFe, fielding teams out of its Houston, Los Angeles and Washington DC offices, as well as its New York hub. Corporate partner Peter Atkins, who is based in New York, is spearheading the team for the Manhattan law firm.

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International Edition

Shearman faces Freshfields on record Irish bid

By Charlotte Edmond | July 24, 2007

Shearman & Sterling has taken a role opposite Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as Hypo Real Estate scoops up Depfa Bank for €5.7bn (£3.86bn) in the largest-ever corporate acquisition in Ireland. Shearman is advising Depfa on the recommended bid through London corporate partner Peter King and a German team including high-profile German managing partner Georg Thoma and corporate partner Birgit Reese. Dublin firm McCann FitzGerald has also bagged a role, advising the Irish bank on local law.

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Legal Week

Shearman faces Freshfields on record Irish bid

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | July 24, 2007

Shearman & Sterling has taken a role opposite Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer as Hypo Real Estate scoops up Depfa Bank for €5.7bn (£3.86bn) in the largest-ever corporate acquisition in Ireland. Shearman is advising Depfa on the recommended bid through London corporate partner Peter King and a German team including high-profile German managing partner Georg Thoma and corporate partner Birgit Reese. Dublin firm McCann FitzGerald has also bagged a role, advising the Irish bank on local law.

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International Edition

A&O takes lead role on record £2.6bn Metronet restructuring

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | July 23, 2007

Allen & Overy (A&O) looks set for a fees windfall after landing the mandate to advise the administrator on the £2.6bn restructuring of struggling transport group Metronet.

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International Edition

Cheyne leads for Links on £8bn insurance bid

By Georgina Stanley | July 23, 2007

Linklaters senior partner David Cheyne is playing a lead role on the £8bn merger talks between UK insurance companies Friends Provident and Resolution. Cheyne is leading the Linklaters team acting for Friends Provident alongside corporate partner Owen Clay.

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Legal Week

Cheyne leads for Links on £8bn insurance bid

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | July 23, 2007

Linklaters senior partner David Cheyne is playing a lead role on the £8bn merger talks between UK insurance companies Friends Provident and Resolution. Cheyne is leading the Linklaters team acting for Friends Provident alongside corporate partner Owen Clay.

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International Edition

Herbies Paris firms up HSBC ties with €200m deal

By Charlotte Edmond | July 23, 2007

Herbert Smith has acted on its first major deal for HSBC since being appointed to its French panel earlier this year, advising the banking giant on the financing of the €218m (£146m) takeover of financial information company Fininfo by Financiere Jeulin. Paris-based corporate partner Frederic Grillier led the Herbert Smith team alongside local head of finance and HSBC relationship partner Georges Dirani.

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Legal Week

Herbies Paris firms up HSBC ties with €200m deal

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | July 23, 2007

Herbert Smith has acted on its first major deal for HSBC since being appointed to its French panel earlier this year, advising the banking giant on the financing of the €218m (£146m) takeover of financial information company Fininfo by Financiere Jeulin. Paris-based corporate partner Frederic Grillier led the Herbert Smith team alongside local head of finance and HSBC relationship partner Georges Dirani.

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