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DAC joins Herbies on £75m leisure complex sale

Davies Arnold Cooper (DAC) has advised Land Securities alongside Herbert Smith on its £76.5m sale of The Gate leisure complex in Newcastle to PropInvest.
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Dealmaker: Stephen Kon

Competition specialist Stephen Kon is one of SJ Berwin's leading lawyers
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NY elites lead ABN's $21bn LaSalle sell-off

Elite Manhattan firms Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Davis Polk & Wardwell have bagged plum roles on Bank of America's $21bn (£10.5bn) bid for ABN Amro subsidiary LaSalle Bank. Wachtell is representing the buyer, while Davis Polk picked up the lead role for ABN Amro on its sale of the Chicago-based bank.
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A&O bags Macquarie role on £2bn comms deal

Allen & Overy (A&O) has landed a high-profile corporate mandate advising two Macquarie infrastructure funds on their £1.9bn acquisition of UK public safety communications network Airwave 02 from Telefonica. The acquisition by Guardian Digital Communications, a company wholly owned by Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group and Macquarie European Investment Fund II, was announced yesterday and completed today (20 April).
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Holman Fenwick secures $1.3bn mining deal

Holman Fenwick & Willan has acted on a $1.3bn (£648m) energy deal for Indonesian-listed Bumi Resources, which has sold a stake in two mining companies to Tata Power. The firm's Singapore, London and Dubai offices acted on a deal in which Bumi sold a 30% stake in Kaltim Prima Coal and Arutmin Indonesia to India's largest privately-owned utility company, Tata. It is one of South East Asia's largest M&A deals in the mining sector in to date.
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Linklaters edges ahead of A&O and CC with 16% salary boost

Linklaters is to increase its associate salaries by around 16%, overtaking magic circle rivals Allen & Overy (A&O) and Clifford Chance (CC) as a pay war looks increasingly likely.
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Rival ABN bid hands trophy roles to host of top firms

A raft of European firms have secured new roles on the £40bn bidding war for Dutch bank ABN Amro.
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Commentary: A&O's LBO team finds bank balance strangely hard to find

Where does Allen & Overy's (A&O's) notoriously bank-led leveraged finance practice stand? After all, the criticism articulated of the firm's sponsor-light practice when Kohlberg Kravis Roberts relationship partner Tony Keal quit for Simpson Thacher & Bartlett was damaging back in 2005. Two years down the line, with the negotiating power of private equity borrowers growing seemingly by the week, the question of how A&O's most influential team has adapted to the market is all the more pertinent.
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Ashurst, CC lead on record-breaking CityPoint disposal

Ashurst and Clifford Chance (CC) have bagged lead roles on London's largest-ever office deal - advising on Beacon Capital Partners' acquisition of CityPoint for more than £650m.
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Wragges wins £300m public sector role

Wragge & Co has scored the latest in a string of public sector mandates by grabbing a headline role on a £300m outsourcing deal for a local council in the West Midlands.
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