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Ashurst Rusal contact partner joins Stephenson Harwood corporate team

Stephenson Harwood has strengthened its City corporate practice with the hire of Ashurst corporate and commercial partner Andrew Edge. Edge has been with Ashurst for 17 years and has been a partner since 2002. He recently took an English law role on Rusal's $3bn (£2bn) Hong Kong listing, which went live earlier this year.
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Magic circle trio take roles on Babcock's £1.1bn VT Group bid

A trio of magic circle law firms have won advisory roles relating to Babcock International's £1.1bn unsolicited bid for government support services company VT Group. Clifford Chance (CC), Linklaters and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer have all picked up roles in relation to the approach, which has been rejected by VT. The bid could scupper VT's own £330m attempt to take over infrastructure support services provider Mouchel Group.
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Linklaters acts for private equity house on €850m Nordic LBO

Linklaters has advised on the largest leveraged buy-out in the Nordic region since the onset of the credit crunch. A team from the magic circle law firm's London office has advised private equity house Triton on its e850m (£761.5m) acquisition of Nordic hospitals and nursing homes operator Ambea from 3i.
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A&O and Weil Gotshal bag roles on $615m crisps buyout

Allen & Overy (A&O) and Weil Gotshal & Manges have taken lead roles on the $615m (£412m) sale of Kettle Foods. US snacks group Diamond Foods is set to buy the crisp manufacturer from current owner Lion Capital in a cash deal, which was definitively agreed last month (25 February).
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Skadden heads up trio of firms on $7.2bn Merck acquisition

A trio of firms have advised on a $7.2bn (£4.8bn) deal that will see German pharma giant Merck acquire lab filter and purifier manufacturer Millipore, reports The Am Law Daily. Skadden took the lead role for Merck, fielding a team including M&A partners Peter Atkins, Hilary Foulkes and Margaret Brown, tax partner Sally Thurston, antitrust partners Frederic Depoortere, Benjamin Crisman and John Lyons, and intellectual property and technology partner Rita Rodin Johnston.
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Freshfields' Rawlinson on board as City financiers target Man Utd bid

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer London corporate head Mark Rawlinson is one of a group of high-profile City businessmen who have formed a group - dubbed the 'Red Knights' - in a bid to wrest control of Manchester United FC from current owner Malcolm Glazer. The group met at Freshfields' offices yesterday for an initial meeting to discuss the possibility of a takeover of the football club.
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Slaughters takes headline role for Prudential on $35bn AIG Asia buyout

Slaughter and May and Debevoise & Plimpton have scored advisory roles on Prudential's high-profile plans to purchase the Asian assets of American International Group (AIG) for more than $35bn (£23.3bn). The two insurance groups are in advanced discussions over the sale of US Government-controlled AIG's subsidiary AIA, with Prudential this week (1 March) confirming both the discussions and the suspension of its shares as a result.
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Field Fisher Hamburg partner duo quit to launch new business

Field Fisher Waterhouse has seen two of the founding members of its German practice leave the firm. Partners Frank Moerchen and Thomas Demmel, who helped to launch the firm's Hamburg office in 2007, are leaving Field Fisher to set up their own business. The pair will launch CORE Business Lawyers in early March. The new business will focus on corporate and real estate transactions.
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Skadden and Cleary take top roles on $12bn Coca-Cola buyout

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom has advised Coca-Cola on its $12.2bn (£8bn) deal to acquire the North American operations of its largest bottler, Coca-Cola Enterprises, reports The Am Law Daily. The deal follows PepsiCo's move in August to take control of its two largest bottlers for $7.8bn (£5.1bn).
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Gibson Dunn recruits Freshfields partner in rare City lateral hire

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has made a rare lateral hire in the City, bringing in a Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer partner. The US law firm has hired Freshfields corporate partner Jeff Roberts - marking the firm's first lateral partner appointment since May 2008.
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