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Herbies enlisted for £16bn military training PFI

Herbert Smith is in line for a fees windfall after scoring a major role advising on one of the UKs biggest private finance schemes to date.
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City giants dominate global projects league

CC, Linklaters and A&O top 2006 projects rankings as Middle East underlines status as key battleground
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A&O and Slaughters land aerospace sale

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Slaughter and May have landed lead roles on the $4.8bn (£2.4bn) sale of Smiths Group's aerospace business to General Electric…
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International Edition

Freshfields and Bakers in driving seat on F1 deal

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Baker & McKenzie have taken lead roles in the acquisition of a stake in the Formula 1 company McLaren Group by the Kingdom of Bahrain. Bakers advised McLaren, which sold a 30% stake to The Bahrain Mumtalakat Holding Company, which is wholly owned by the Middle East kingdom. Freshfields Dubai corporate partner Bruce Embley advised the holding company.
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£1.1bn biotech deal just the tonic for Simmons

Simmons & Simmons has advised Danish biotech company Genmab on its £1.1bn licensing deal with drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in one of the largest…
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International Edition

Norton Rose wins plum role on $2.5bn Nestle buy-out of Novartis' nutrition arm

Norton Rose has landed a role on Nestle's $2.5bn (£1.3bn) acquisition of the nutrition arm of pharmaceutical giant Novartis.
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Clifford Chance bags $1.9bn energy deal

Clifford Chance (CC) has advised a trio of private equity houses on the sale of oil mining equipment company Vetco Gray to GE's oil and gas division for $1.9bn (£977m).
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International Edition

Wragges bags brace with £100m computing and £50m flooring deals

Birmingham giant Wragge & Co has advised on corporate deals for two new mid-market clients.The firm has been appointed as primary counsel to Specialist Computer Holdings (SCH), the largest privately-owned technology group in Europe, after winning out in a competitive tender at the end of 2006.
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International Edition

Eversheds, DLA Piper and CC carve up £290m luxury hotel acquisition

Eversheds, DLA Piper and Clifford Chance (CC) have advised on the £290m acquisition of the Principal Hotel Group, a major chain of luxury hotels throughout the UK.
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International Edition

Deals: M&A 18/01/07

Olswang corporate partners Simon Morgan and Stephen Rosen have advised pharmaceutical company Vectura Group on its £130m acquisition of Innovata to create one of the UK's largest biotech companies. Innovata was advised by Bird & Bird corporate partner Simon Allport. Simmons & Simmons, led by corporate partner Gavin Weir and senior associate Isabella Roberts, acted for Vectura's financial adviser, Piper Jaffray.
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