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A&O bolsters GE links with French deal double

Allen & Overy (A&O) has scooped its second deal in the space of a week for General Electric (GE) with the City firm advising the global conglomerate on its acquisition of a majority stake in French water treatment company Idex Aquaservices. The magic circle firm is acting for GE Financial Services on the deal, which makes it the first US company to invest in the French water market.
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International Edition

Deals: Property 01/03/2007

Nabarro Nathanson real estate partners James George and John Cumpson advised Land Securities Trillium on the £439m sale and leaseback of 30 UK hotel properties from Accor. CMS Cameron McKenna corporate finance partner Louise Wallace advised Accor.
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International Edition

Deals: M&A 01/03/2007

Addleshaw Goddard has advised Barclays Private Equity on the sale of clothing retailer Phase Eight valuing the company at £51.5m. Corporate partner Simon Pilling led the team. Phase Eight has been acquired by an investor consortium composed of management, Kaupthing Principal Investments, the Tchenguiz Family Trust and retail investors Michael Rahamim, Saj Shah and Ian Findlay. Eversheds advised the investor consortium and Pinsent Masons advised management.
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International Edition

Deals: Finance 1/03/2007

Addleshaw Goddard has advised commercial property company Bruntwood on its £440m mortgaged-backed securitisation of a £669m office portfolio arranged by the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Finance partner Mark Thomas and corporate partner Michael Birchall advised. Allen & Overy securitisation partner Christian Lambie advised the RBS.
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International Edition

Gibson Dunn bags €885m Investcorp parking sale

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has taken a lead role on the €885m (£595m) sale of European parking company APCOA to Eurazeo. The US firm advised APCOA's seller, Investcorp, on the deal, which was announced last week (19 February). Eurazeo was one of a number of bidders competing for APCOA in an auction process lasting several months. Rival bidders are thought to have included UK car park operator NCP and Macquarie Bank, as well as buy-out house Bridgepoint.
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Legal Week

Gibson Dunn bags €885m Investcorp parking sale

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has taken a lead role on the €885m (£595m) sale of European parking company APCOA to Eurazeo. The US firm advised APCOA's seller, Investcorp, on the deal, which was announced last week (19 February). Eurazeo was one of a number of bidders competing for APCOA in an auction process lasting several months. Rival bidders are thought to have included UK car park operator NCP and Macquarie Bank, as well as buy-out house Bridgepoint.
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International Edition

Manhattan elite lines up for record TXU buy-out

Elite New York firms Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Sullivan & Cromwell have bagged plum roles on the $45bn (£23bn) leveraged buyout (LBO) of utilities giant TXU - potentially the largest LBO to date. Simpson Thacher is lead adviser to the bidding consortium, comprising private equity giants Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co (KKR) and Texas Pacific Group, which is being advised by Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.
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International Edition

Scots elite gear up for £1bn Firth of Forth mega project

Advisers on both sides of the border have begun jostling for position after the Scottish Executive last week announced it was to press ahead with controversial plans for a new £1bn crossing over the Firth of Forth. The project promises to be one of the biggest ever in the Scottish market and a raft of major firms have put themselves in the frame to win mandates when details of the scheme are finalised this summer.
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International Edition

Commentary: Losing AIM - three years of market boom has come to an end

Barely into 2007 and already it seems a long time since the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) was somewhere everyone wanted to be. Yet only a few months back, London's junior market was booming, driven by high investor confidence and the queue of foreign companies waiting to list. As such, a sector once derided by bluechip advisers was being actively courted by the likes of Norton Rose and Ashurst, not to mention US players such as O'Melveny & Myers and Hunton & Williams.
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International Edition

Addleshaws and Nabarros bag £400m redevelopment

Addleshaw Goddard and Nabarro Nathanson have bagged the lead roles for Peel Holdings and British Waterways on a new £400m regeneration project in Gloucester. Addleshaws advised UK property development company Peel after winning an informal tender process that included bids from several other UK firms. The national firm has worked with Peel for more than 15 years.
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