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Ashurst joins Slaughters on £1bn Countrywide sale

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | March 06, 2007

Ashurst has bagged a major role opposite Slaughter and May acting for longstanding client Countrywide on the £1bn takeover approach from US private equity group Apollo Management. Ashurst is advising Countrywide - the UK's largest estate agent - on a bid that values the group at 590p per share.

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Slaughters bags £2bn Olympic Village development role

By Charlotte Edmond | March 05, 2007

Slaughter and May has bagged a plum role advising on the £2bn development of the 2012 Olympic Village. Slaughters' corporate real estate group is acting for new client Lend Lease on the high-profile project, advising on the development, real estate and financing aspects of the Olympic development In its first instruction for the client, the magic circle firm is fielding a team headed by corporate partner James Featherby, real estate partner Dermot Rice and project finance partner Steven Edwards.

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Slaughters bags £2bn Olympic Village development role

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | March 05, 2007

Slaughter and May has bagged a plum role advising on the £2bn development of the 2012 Olympic Village. Slaughters' corporate real estate group is acting for new client Lend Lease on the high-profile project, advising on the development, real estate and financing aspects of the Olympic development In its first instruction for the client, the magic circle firm is fielding a team headed by corporate partner James Featherby, real estate partner Dermot Rice and project finance partner Steven Edwards.

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International Edition

Blackstone backs Ashurst on £1bn Tussauds deal

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | March 05, 2007

Ashurst has bagged a lead role advising on the £1bn acquisition of the Tussauds Group by private equity giant Blackstone. The City giant is advising Blackstone and its leisure parks business, Merlin Entertainments, on its £1.03bn purchase of the Tussauds Group from Dubai International Capital (DIC) Corporate partner Charlie Geffen is leading the Ashurst team, alongside associates Mark Sperotto, Gavin Gordon and David Arnold.

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Dealmaker: David Collins

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | March 05, 2007

A down-to-earth lawyer with a surprisingly poncy taste in cheese, David Collins heads Berwin Leighton Paisner's upwardly-mobile corporate finance team. He talks to legalweek.com in the latest Dealmaker column

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International Edition

Top LBO trio tighten grip but primary market slows

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 28, 2007

With the acquisition finance market slowing after a hectic 2006, leading finance partners are more eager than ever to position themselves with the select band of sponsors and arranging banks still getting deals to market. Recent months have seen established teams such as Clifford Chance (CC), Allen & Overy (A&O) and Ashurst tighten their grip on the market with the trio signing a string of a multibillion-pound deals (see table below), despite the recent struggle of sponsors to secure acquisitions in Europe.

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International Edition

White & Case heads Europe debt tables

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 28, 2007

White & Case has topped debt tables in Standard & Poor's European Collateralised Debt Obligations of Leveraged Loans 2006 Review, advising on 35 out of 67 cash collateralised loans in Europe. According to the report, the number of deals is almost three times as high as in 2005, when there were 24 deals recorded, of which White & Case acted on 12.

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International Edition

Cleary and Wachtell take lead on billion-dollar US bank deal

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 28, 2007

New York leaders Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have bagged plum roles on Spanish bank BBVA's $9.6bn (£4.9bn) acquisition of Compass Bancshares. Cleary represented long-standing client BBVA, with New York M&A partner Victor Lewkow and Washington DC financial institutions partners Jack Murphy and Derek Bush leading the team.

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Commentary: What lies beneath CC's corporate league table rankings

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 28, 2007

CC's corporate practice is certainly global, but is it ready to compete with the world's best firms? On the surface, Clifford Chance's (CC's) corporate practice looks normal. The firm might be inflated in some league tables because of bank roles and sheer mass but otherwise, it gets its fair share of top-tier M&A.

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International Edition

Walker Morris lands £235m Liverpool FC stadium project

By a:1:{i:0;s:1:" ";} | February 28, 2007

Leeds firm Walker Morris has crossed the Pennines to advise Liverpool City Council on a £235m regeneration project in the northwest that paves the way for the construction of Liverpool FC's new stadium.

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