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Ontex tussle sets scene for coming restructuring wave

A raft of City heavyweights have won roles on the E1bn (£680m) restructuring battle surrounding Belgian company Ontex as advisers jostle for position ahead of the next round of workouts.
4 minute read

International Edition

New boy Baird helps A&O to secure buy-out hat-trick

Allen & Overy's (A&O's) private equity practice has been given a boost having landed mandates from buy-out giant Charterhouse Capital Partners and new clients Apax Partners and Exponent Private Equity.
2 minute read

International Edition

Bakers leads Banco Santander on $1.7bn deal

Baker & McKenzie has won a repeat instruction from the Portuguese arm of Spain's Banco Santander, advising Banco Santander Totta on a $1.75bn (£890m) bond issue.
2 minute read

International Edition

Dechert advises charity on £200m property scheme

Dechert is advising The Wellcome Trust for the first time as the charity enters into a £200m student accommodation property development scheme.
1 minute read

International Edition

US trio bag $29bn First Data buy-out

US trio Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Sidley Austin and Sullivan & Cromwell have bagged plum roles on the latest multibillion-dollar buy-out as credit card processing group First Data is taken private for $29bn (£15bn). Simpson Thacher is advising private equity giant Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) on its bid for the group, which is expected to be completed by the end of the third quarter. New York corporate partners Gary Horowitz, Sean Rodgers and James Cross are leading the Simpson Thacher team.
1 minute read

International Edition

Cleary and CC land €3.5bn Iberia airline bid

Cleary Gotlieb Steen & Hamilton and Clifford Chance (CC) have bagged lead roles advising on TPG Capital's €3.4bn (£2.3bn) takeover bid for Spanish national airline Iberia. Cleary is understood to be advising private equity fund TPG Capital - a regular client of the Manhattan firm - with London banking and finance partner Simon Jay leading the team. Spanish leader Cuatrecasas is advising TPG Capital - formerly known as Texas Pacific Group - on local law.
2 minute read

International Edition

US giants dominate M&A rankings as European market falls from 2006 high

A raft of US firms have topped the global M&A tables for the first quarter of 2007. New York firms Sullivan & Cromwell and Davis Polk & Wardwell led the field of advisers by total value of transactions over the three-month period, while Latham & Watkins and Jones Day finished top of the volume rankings.
2 minute read

International Edition

Chiomenti and Grimaldi secure lead roles on headline Alitalia stake sale

A raft of Italian firms have bagged roles on the high-profile privatisation of flagship Italian Government airline Alitalia. Leading Italian independent Chiomenti has won the prestigious role of advising the Italian Treasury on the sale of its stake in the national company, while Grimaldi & Associati is advising longstanding client Alitalia.
2 minute read

International Edition

Commentary: The City should vote Brown (but maybe not the country)

Some tax lawyers, perhaps feeling a twinge of sympathy for a time when the UK used to have manufacturing clients, are in the knocking camp but, by most City lawyers' yardsticks, you would have to call Gordon Brown's last Budget a result.
4 minute read

International Edition

Travers, Norton Rose win roles on Commerzbank's E1bn sale

City firms Norton Rose and Travers Smith have landed roles on Commerzbank's E1bn (£740m) sale of its UK asset management arm, Jupiter. The duo advised the company's management and its backer, TA Associates, on the deal, worth slightly more than E1bn, acting opposite Clifford Chance (CC).
2 minute read

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